8D Quick Quiz

On your answer sheet, write in or circle the correct letter for each question.

8Da 3 A garden measures 10 m by 5 m. A 1 m2

1 The five groups of vertebrates are: sample is taken and found to contain two
dandelion plants. What would you estimate
A chickens, dolphins, eagles, turtles.
the population of dandelion plants to be
B mammals, reptiles, penguins, worms, in the garden?
bacteria.
A 2 B 45 C 50 D 100
C amphibians, birds, reptiles, mammals,
fish. 4 What is a person who studies habitats
D fish, amphibians, mammals, snakes, called? 8
insects. A a lumberjack B an ecologist
C an echinoderm D a physicist
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2 All arthropods have:
A four legs and two eyes.
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B bodies divided into five sections.
C jointed legs. 1 What is this piece of equipment called?
D a ‘fleshy pad’. A a pooter
B a shooter
3 Seeds are:
C a sweepnet
A made by flowering plants and conifers.
D a Tullgren funnel
B made by certain kinds of animal.
C only found in apples.
D made by excretion.
4 Plants can move water to their leaves in: 2 Use the key to work out what bird
A straw vessels. B xylem vessels. this is.
C dermatic vessels. D leaf vessels. A European jay B kite
C puffin D wood duck
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1 Which three things are all physical
environmental factors?
A light intensity, temperature and oxygen
concentration
B number of predators, temperature and
food supply
C number of plants, number of predators
and number of prey organisms
D number of dead organisms,
temperature and oxygen concentration Feet have claws. go to 2
1
Feet are webbed. go to 3
2 Which sampling technique would you
use to find small animals in leaf litter
Has a hooked beak. Kite
or in a soil sample? 2
Does not have a hooked beak. European Jay
A pond dipping
Has stripes on its beak. Puffin
B tree beating 3
Has no stripes on its beak. Wood duck
C a sweepnet
D a Tullgren funnel
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3 Some smaller plants that grow in woods 4 Three resources that a species of rabbits
have big leaves. This is because: needs to survive are:
A there is not much light and bigger A food, oxygen and carbon dioxide.
leaves can trap more light. B food, water and a mate.
B they need to provide shelter from the C water, light and carbon dioxide.
rain for small animals. D oxygen, carbon dioxide and shelter.
C less rain gets through the trees and the
big leaves help to absorb more rainwater. 8De
D they have got more room to spread out.
1 Which of the following is a producer?
4 Here is a list of things found in a
8 particular habitat.
A blue tit B cow
C mushroom D rose bush
D
blackbird rotting log snail 2 In science, what is a ‘consumer’?
bracken plant rock tree
A Someone who watches Watchdog on
Which of these things form a community? television.
A the rock and the rotting log B An animal that eats other organisms.
B the rock, the log, the bird and the snail C A plant that does not need to eat
C the bird, the snail, the bracken plant anything.
and the tree D A plant that starts a food chain.
D all of them 3 This diagram shows the number of
organisms in a food chain. Which of the
8Dd following food chains does it represent?
1 What does the word ‘distribution’ mean?
A Where organisms are found in a habitat.
B The total number of organisms living in
a habitat.
C The different species that live in a habitat. A grass → rabbit → fox
D The different tribes that live in a habitat. B grass → sheep → tick
2 Which of these things do plants C oak tree → caterpillar → bird
compete for? D lettuce → slug → bird
oxygen water heat light 4 The numbers of organisms in a food chain
A all of them B only oxygen can be shown using:
C oxygen and heat D water and light A a number chart.
B a triangle of numbers.
3 Which of these things will not cause the
number of rabbits in a population to C a pyramid of numbers.
decrease? D a square of numbers.
A There are more lettuces for rabbits
to eat.
B More rabbits are eaten by foxes.
C Less rabbits produce offspring.
D More rabbits catch a fatal disease.

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