1.

Study the food chain below. (a) Based on the graph above, both the fish and tadpoles have decreased in numbers. Label
the line graphs with 'fish' and 'tadpole' correctly in the blanks provided.
Plant -> Zebras -> Lions
(b) Only fish tank Q will show the results in the graph. Explain why this is so.
In the space provided below, draw the line graph for Zebra and label the axes to show how
the population of plants and zebras would change in a year if all the lions were killed by
hunters. 3.
Study the conditions in a pond community below carefully.

2.
A group of pupils set up two similar fish tanks, P and Q, as shown below. (a) State one way in which Plant C is useful to the pond community.

(b) What do you think would happen to Plant B after a few months.

(c) Explain your answer in (b).

4.
The diagram below show the pie charts of two communities, A and B.
The percentages in the pie charts represent the number of organisms in the each of the
Fish tank P was placed near the window and fish tank Q was placed in a dark room. community.
The graph below shows the changes in the number of fish and tadpoles in one of the fish
tanks after a week.
Based on the information from the pie charts, study the statements about the organisms in 6.
the communities carefully and state whether they are true, false or not possible to tell. The food web below represents a forest community living close to a piece of farmland.
Farmers in this farmland used insecticides without any control. As a result, there was a large
Use the Letters 'T' for true, 'F' for false and 'N' for not possible to tell to fill in the boxes scale poisoning of organisms feeding on the insects which are regarded as pests by the
provided. farmers.
(a) Community B has more populations of organisms than Community A.
(b) Community A has the same number of woodlice as Community B.
(c) The environmental conditions in habitat A are similar to habitat B.
(d) The number of woodlice is less than the combines total number of the other
group of organisms in Community A.

5.
The information about a group of organisms A, B, C, D and E, is as shown below.

A is a consumer.
B feeds on A and C.
D is eaten by A.
D is able to convert light energy to stored energy.
(a) Name the first consumer(s) to be poisoned by the toxic insects.
C eats A and D.
E is the predator of B.
(b) Will the snake population be affected by the insecticides? Explain your answer.
C is the prey of E.

7.
Complete the food web to show the relationship among the organisms, A, B, C, D and E, In a garden community, there are 4 populations of organisms, A, B, C and D. The information
described above. about these populations is as follows.
 B eats A and D.
 D is eaten by A.
 C is eaten by D and A.
(a) In the box below. DRAW a food web to show the food relationships among the 4
populations.

(b) From the food web that you have constructed above, which organism, A, B, C or D, is
both a prey and predator?
8.
The two graphs shown below provided information about the same pond.
Graph A shows how light intensity changes with changes in the depth of the pond while graph
B shows how the number of fishes found changes with the depth of the pond.
(a) Based on the graphs above, what is a possible relationship between the light intensity in
the pond and the number of fishes found.
(b) Give a possible reason for the relationship described in (a).
9.
Organisms A, B, C, D and E are found in a habitat.
Organism A is a producer.
Organisms B and E are herbivores.
Organisms C eats B, D, and E.
Organisms D is an omnivore and is both a prey and a predator.
Use the above information to construct a food web in the space below.
10.
The following table gives the condition of a certain habitat.
Temperature Humidity Amount of sunlight
20°C Damp A little
(a) Name the type of community that can be found in the habitat above.
(b)
Which organism(s) will be found in the community mentioned in part (a)?
1.
A farmer found some pests in his farm and decided to use pesticide to kill the pests. He
sprayed pesticide in the pests on a monthly basis over a period of 5 years. The graph below
shows the population of the pest over the 5 year period.
(a) From the graph, describe the change in population of the pest over the 5 year period.
_________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________
(b) Why did the population of the pest increase after 2 years despite repeated sprayings of
the pesticides?
_________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________
2. (a) Which organism obtains its energy directly from the Sun?
The diagram below shows an incomplete food web.
_________________________________________________________________________

The snake catches the lizard by burying itself in the sand until it is quite invisible with its tail
sticking out that looks like a blade of grass.

(b) Explain how this behaviour of the snake can help it eat the lizard.
(a) Use the information given to complete the food web above.
W is a carnivore.
Q is an omnivore. 5.
R feeds on T only. The diagram below shows aphids and a ladybird on a stalk of plant in a garden.
T is a food producer.

(b) How many food chains are there in the food web?

(c) If an animal which feeds in organism S only was introduced to this habitat, which organism
will show the greatest change population?

3.
In an area, the honey bee populations are decreasing rapidly. Sam made the following
hypothesis. Fungus X causes the honey bee to die. He observed 2 groups of honey bees,
Group A and Group B over a period of time. Group A was exposed to Fungus X while Group
B was not exposed to Fungus X.
Study the food chain below.
Plant ---> Aphid ---> Ladybird ---> Bird
(a) What data should Sam collect at the end of the experiment?
(a) Name the source of energy for the plant in the above food chain.

(b) Why do the plants grow better when there are a lot of ladybirds in the garden?
(b) What would the outcome of the experiment be if Sam's hypothesis is correct?
_________________________________________________________________________
(c) What would the outcome of the experiment if Sam's hypothesis is wrong?
_________________________________________________________________________

The graph below shows the change in the number of aphids living on the same type of plants
4. in the garden over a period of seven weeks.
The diagram below shows a food chain in a desert.
Grass ----> Ant ----> Lizard ----> Snake
(c) At a certain time, a flock of birds arrived at the garden. The population of the aphids
started to change rapidly after Week 4 as shown in the graph above. Give a reason why the
presence of the birds caused this change.

_________________________________________________________________________

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6.
A, B, C and D represent four different types of pond animals.
A and B eat pond animals only. Three tanks, X, Y and Z were filled with pond water. Two of
the four types of pond animals were placed together in the tanks. The number of each type of
pond animals were then counted over time and the data was shown by the graphs below.
(a) Based on the graphs, complete the food web below involving the four different types of
pond animals, A, B, C and D.
(b) Which of the four types of pond animal is(are) both a predator and a prey?
_________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________
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Study the food web below.
(a) Write down a food chain derived from the food web which involves four organisms in the
space below.
(b) What is the role of the maize plant in the food web?
_________________________________________________________________________
(c) A disease spreads among the maize plant, destroying most of the maize plants. How will
this affect the population of snakes?
_________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________
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8.
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The following information shows the relationship between seven organisms (A, B, C, D, E, F
and G) of a community.
 Organisms A and B are the food producer and organism C feeds on both of them.
 Organism D feeds on organisms E and F.
 Organism E feeds in organism A while organism G feeds on organism B.
 Organism F feeds on organism C and G.
(a) Construct a food web using the information above. The position of organism A and B has
already been drawn for you.
(b) How will the population size of organism C be affected if population of organism G is
(a) What does the graph show about the growth of the organism?
reduced? Give a reason for your answer.
_________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________
(b) What is the name of this process of growth which allow the specific changes in the body
(c) What is the relationship between organisms C and E?
length of the organism as shown in the graph?
_________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________
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_________________________________________________________________________
9. (c) Why is this process necessary for the organism?
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_________________________________________________________________________
The body length of an organism is observed to have changed over time. The changes are
measured and the data plotted in a graph as shown below. _________________________________________________________________________
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10.
ID 32257

The graph below shows the changes in the population size of animals, X and Y, in a certain
habitat. A group of scientists studied the relationship between these two animals and
recorded their population size annually for a period of ten years.
 organisms will either die, move away from those surroundings or (f)______________ to the
new conditions.
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2.
ID 5365

The diagram below shows a food web. [3]

(a) Identify the role of each animal, X and Y.

Write "prey" and "predator" on the correct lines below.

(i) Animal X : ______________________

(ii) Animal Y : _____________________

X was infected by a disease and the population size of X started to decrease. Put a tick ( ) in the correct boxes to show whether the statements given are 'True', 'False'
or 'Not Possible to Tell'.
(b) Would the decrease in the population size animal X affect animal Y? Explain your answer.
True False Not Possible to
_________________________________________________________________________ Tell
a) Organism A is a mango tree.
_________________________________________________________________________ b) Organism E is both a predator and prey.
c) Organism G is an omnivore.
_________________________________________________________________________
d) Organism C has a head, body and leg.
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e) Organism A gets its food from 3 other organisms.
f) If the population of organism D decreases, the
population of organism C will decrease.
1.
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Fill in the blanks with an appropriate word each. [3]

3.
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The survival of an organism is affected by the (a)________________ characteristics of the
environment, the (b)_______________ of food and the presence of other organisms. This
may be in the form of (c)_______________, which will hunt then down, another organism P, Q, R, S and T are five organisms in a community. Usinf the information given below,
competing for the same kind of food or micro-organisms like (d)_______________ which complete the food web.
cause diseases. When the conditions of the environment become (e)_______________, the
Write the correct letter P, Q, R, S and T in each circle.
S: is a food producer
S: is eaten by Q and R
P: eats T and R
Q: is eaten by R and T

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ai) What would happen to the fishes after several months?
Ans:______________________________________________________________________
4. _________.
ID 6991

The diagram below shows the conditions found in a pond community. aii) Explain your answer in (i).

Ans:______________________________________________________________________
_________.

b) More fishes were then added to the pond and Plant B, together with half the number of
plants C were removed. Explain the effect this had on the fishes in the pond.

Ans:______________________________________________________________________
__________

__________________________________________________________________________
_________.
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 5.
ID 6989

Study the food web given below.

The following statements are based on the food web above. Indicate whether each statement

is true (T), false (F) or not possible to tell (N) using a tick ( ).

Statements T F N a) Without removing the glass plate, what must be present to keep the animals and green
plants alive for the longest possible time?
(i) D is a snake.
(ii) F feeds on animals only. Ans:______________________________________________________________________
(iii) A is the only plant in this food web. __________

(iv) There are six food chains in this web. __________________________________________________________________________

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b) Explain your answer in (a).

6.
ID 7318 Ans:______________________________________________________________________
__________
The diagram below shows some aninals and green plants in a sealed aquarium.
__________________________________________________________________________
__________
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7.
ID 7317
Sheena studied the feeding habits of 3 different animals, P, Q and R. The animals were
placed in separate well-ventilated cages and were given a sufficient supply of water.
Cabbages and meat were given to the animals as food. She observed the changes and
recorde the feeding habits of the animals in the table below.

Animal Mass of cabbages (g) Mass of animal (g)

Start of experiment End of experiment Start of experiment End of experiment
P
40 30 90 90
Q
60 60 40 20
R
80 60 50 30

a) What would Sheena observe of P, Q and R if only meat was given to them over 2 week?

Ans:______________________________________________________________________
__________

__________________________________________________________________________ (a) At which stage of the life cycle is the mosquito most harmful to man?
__________ Explain Why.

b) P, Q and R are related in a food chain. Complete the food chain below. _____________________________________________________________

Plant → ________________ → ________________ → ________________ _____________________________________________________________

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(b) Suggest a way in which the population of mosquito can be reduced drastically.

_____________________________________________________________
8.
ID 8061
_____________________________________________________________
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The diagram below shows the life cycle of the mosquito.

9.
ID 8066

Study the food web and answer the questions below.

 Look at the food web below carefully.

a) Which organism(s) is/are both a prey as well as a predator?

Ans:______________________________________________________________________
_________.

b) Based on the above food web, state 2 possible reasons why spraying insecticides on the
food producer reduces the population size of the eagle.

(i):________________________________________________________________________
(a) How many food chains are interconnected in the above food web? _________

____________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________
_________.
(b) If all the mice were killed, would the population of tree be affected? Give reasons to
support your answer. (ii):________________________________________________________________________
________
____________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________ _________.
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(c) If you want to reduce the population of spiders in a shortest period of time, how would you
change the population size of two other organisms in the above food web?

____________________________________________________________ The food web below shows seven populations of organisms living in a community.

____________________________________________________________
View | Questions/Comments | Errors? (a) Based only on the food web above, fill in the table below with the appropriate letters, A, B,
C, D, E, F and G.
Type of organism Letter(s)
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i Food producer
ID 6692
ii Herbivore
 iii Carnivore
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(b) Using the following information, add in organism H in the food web above.
12.
(i) Organism H is an omnivore. ID 23740
(ii) When the population of Organism H increases, the population of Organism decreases.
(iii) When the population of Organism H decreases, the populations of Organism A and C Study the following diagram of a mangrove ecosystem carefully.
increase.

11.
ID 23731

The food web below shows a field community.

(a) Explain the role of decomposers in the mangrove ecosystem.

(a) List the food sources of the lizard. _________________________________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________

(b) Write down a food chain that involves only 4 organisms. _________________________________________________________________________

(b) What is the role of the sun in the mangrove ecosystem?

_________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________

(c) A large amount of pesticides was sprayed by the National Environment Agency to control (c) Complete the following food chain using only organisms shown in the diagram.
the populations of pests that are destroying the plants. Will the eagle population be affected
by the pesticides? Explain your answer.
_________________________________________________________________________

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13.
ID 23846 14.
ID 23852
The diagram below shows the food relationship within a pond community.
Melvin is a farmer. He found that his crops were badly affected by a certain kind of pest.
However, his crops were also visited by honey bees which are considered useful.

The graph below shows the number of honey bees that visited his crops from 8am to 8pm on
a certain day.

(a) Based on the food web, arrange the following organisms in the pyramid shown below. The
pyramid is a diagram which shows the population sizes of the organisms in a community.

(a) When would be the best time to spray the crops with pesticide to get rid of the pests but at
the same time minimise the number of honey bees being killed?
_________________________________________________________________________

(b) The farm was located next to a river as shown in the diagram below.

(b) How would a decrease in the population of C affect the population of E? Explain your
answer.
_________________________________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________________________ Explain how spraying pesticide might lead to water pollution.

_________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________ Q Y and Z
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R X and Z

15. She counted the number of animals at the end of each week for two weeks. She did not see
ID 23953 any dead animals in the container and she recorded her results in the graphs below.

Study the food chain shown below.

Wheat plant --->grasshopper --->sparrow ---> python

(a) A lot of chemical was sprayed on the wheat plants to get rid of weeds at a farm. In the
long run, the chemical was found to be greatest in the python. Explain how this has happen.
_________________________________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________________________

(b) What would be the immediate effect on the populations of the plants, the grasshoppers (a) In the experiment above, what is the significant of providing food for the plant-eater?
and the pythons if all the sparrows are dead by a sudden cause of disease? Draw 3 lines in _________________________________________________________________________
the graph below and label them correctly to show the change in the populations of the plants,
the grasshoppers and the pythons. _________________________________________________________________________

Jill put the same number of animals X, Y, Z and water plants in another container. She left the
container for a month.

(b) Which animal would have the least population size? Explain how ut happened.
_________________________________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________________________

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17.
ID 23824
16.
ID 23954 In year 2000, Helen discovered and noted the locations where three species of plants, X, Y
and Z, were found on an island as shown in Diagram A.
Jill put three different types of animals, X,Y and Z into containers P, Q and R as recorded in Helen returned to the same island in 2002 and noted the locations of the three species of
the table below. Only one of the animals is a plant-eater. Jill also placed water plants as food plants again as shown in Diagram B.
in each of the three containers.
Container Types of animals
P X and Y
Helen calculated the percentage increase for each species of plants between 2000 to 2002 (a) State the method of dispersal of fruit/ seed for each of the following plants:
and recorded her findings in the graph below. X
Y
Z

(b) Helen observed that Plant X had been reproducing much better than Plants Y and Z over
the years of her observations and that observation was even more significant after the
buildings were built on the island.

Explain how have the buildings on the island could have affected the rate of reproduction of
Plants Y and Z on the island.
_________________________________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________________________
When Helen returned to the same island in 2004, tall buildings were built as shown below.
_________________________________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________________________

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18.
ID 23826

The pie chart below shows the population size of each organism, P, Q, R and S, in a certain
Helen observed that there were more plants and they were growing nearer to each other. community.
Helen calculated the percentage increase for each plant species from 2004 to 2006 and
made a comparison with the old data on the graph as shown below.
(a) Write down a food relationship involving organisms P, Q, R and S.
_________________________________________________________________________

(b) When the population of organism S was wiped out suddenly by a type of disease, state
the effect(s) on each of the other organisms.
_________________________________________________________________________ (a) State two characteristics of living things that are shown in the above flow chart.

_________________________________________________________________________ Characteristic 1 : ___________________________________________

_________________________________________________________________________ Characteristic 2 : ___________________________________________

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(b) Which of the followings statements about Farmer Tan rears his ducks are true? Tick(√)
the appropriate boxes.
19. Tick (√
ID 24008 i Ducklings weighing 1 kg will be fed Type X grains.
ii Ducklings weighing 2 kg will be fed both Type X and Type Y grains.
The following flow chart shows how Farmer Tan rears his ducks.
iii Ducks that lay unhealthy eggs are sold.
iv Ducks that are kept for laying eggs weigh more than 3.5kg.
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20.
ID 24098

Study the food chain shown below

P ----> Q ----> R ----> S

The graph below shows what happens when the population of organism S increases. Identify
the correct graphs for the respective organisms by writing the letters P. Q. R and S beside the
line graphs in the boxes provided.
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