PLEROMA INTERNATIONAL HIGH

SCHOOL
SUMMER half-term TEST
SUBJECT: BIOLOGY DURATION: ONE HOUR CLASS: YEAR 7
MINUTES
NAME: ______________________________________________________________________.

SECTION A: Answer all questions. Circle the correct option.

1. Which of the following cells is the B. Eight. D. Ten.
smallest? 8. One of the following is not a fungus.
A. Bacterium. C. Plant cell.. A. Toadstool. C. Mushroom.
B. Animal cell. D. B. Yeast. D. Alga.
Mushroom. 9. Which of the following is a microscopic
2. What instrument is used to see a microbe, fungus?
such as a yeast cell? A. Yeast. C.
A. Telescope. C. Periscope. Mushroom.
B. Microscope. D. B. Toadstool. D. Mold..
Stethoscope. 10. How often do the fungi mushroom and
3. Like all living things what are toadstool grow in a year?
microorganisms made up of? A. Certain times. C. All the
A. Cell. C. Cell wall. time.
B. Reproduction. D. Nucleus. B. Rare times. D. Some
4. Microorganisms made of only one cell are times.
called 11. What kind of organism are single-celled
A. double-celled. C. triple- fungi?
celled. A. Large organisms. C. Small organisms.
B. plant cell. D. single- B. Little organisms. D. Microscopic
celled. organisms.
5. Which of the following is not a 12. When single cells of microorganisms begin
microorganism? to reproduce what would be formed?
A. Microscopic fungus. C. A. Buds. C. Boards.
Protozoon. B. Spikes. D. RNA.
B. Alga. D. Plant. 13. Where can we safely grow
6. Where can we find microorganisms? microorganisms?
A. Everywhere. C. A. In the laboratory.
Somewhere. B. In a Petri dish contain alga jelly.
B. Certain places. D. Nowhere. C. In a Petri dish containing agar jelly.
7. Each bacterium is made up of how many D. In bread.
cells? 14. Agar jelly contains what substance that
A. One. C. Four. enables microorganisms grow on it?
 A. Water. C. Nutrients. A. Food chain. C. Food web.
B. Oil. D. Chicken. B. Food line. D. Food wind.
15. Where does energy from food come from? 19. A common predator is
A. Chicken. C. The Sun. A. lion. C. termite.
B. Plants. D. Animals. B. earthworm. D. acacia tree.
16. One of these is not a producer. 20. One of these is a herbivore.
A. Grass. C. Acacia A. Acacia tree. C. Cheetah.
tree. B. Sheep. D. Aardvark.
B. Banana tree. D. Chicken.
17. An organism that feeds on the producer
in a food chain is called
A. primary consumer. C. primary
producer.
B. secondary consumer. D. tertiary
consumer.
18. If there are two consumers feeding from a
producer, what is likely formed?
SECTION B: Answer all questions.
1. The diagram below shows Emerald a. What does this describe?
taking rice for lunch. (2 marks each.) _____________________________.
b. Which is the producer?
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c. Where does the energy Emerald gets
originally come from?
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d. What is Emerald in this diagram?
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e. What organism here produces its
own food?
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2. The diagram below demonstrates what happens on the African plains. Use the following image to
answer the following questions. (2 marks each.)
a. The above diagram describes
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b. Draw out four food chains from the above
diagram.
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c. Draw a simple food web from the above diagram.
d. Mention two producers in the diagram above.
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e. Give two herbivores in the food web above.
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3. This is an image of yeast cells. If you look
closely you can see little buds growing out of
some of the cells. (2 marks each.)
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a. What does this tell you about the yeast
cells?
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b. What kind of organism are yeast cells?
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c. Mention three other microorganisms.
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d. When do we begin to see yeast cells?
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e. Most of the time the fungus is only a
tangle of
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SECTION C: Answer any two questions.

1. Draw a food web using all or some of the following organisms: (10mks)
Grass yam goat hen man lion

2. Consider the following questions. (2 marks each.)

a. Give two examples of fungi that are not microscopic.
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b. Whenever we see a mushroom have we seen the entire fungus? Why is that?
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c. “The toadstool forms the entire body of the fungus.” Is this a true statement? Why?
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d. Where are the two likely places do the very tiny threads of fungus grow?
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e. How do we see the very tiny threads of fungus?
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3. Answer the following questions. (2 marks each.)
a. What is ecology?
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b. What does energy transfer mean?
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c. What is a food chain?
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d. What is food web/
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e. Are micro-organisms part of a food chain?
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