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1 Respiration is one of the characteristics of living things.

State the names of three other characteristics of living things.

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[Total: 3]

2 All living organisms have the same characteristics.

Two of these characteristics are movement and nutrition.

State three other characteristics of living organisms.

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[Total: 3]

3 Sensitivity is one of the characteristics of all living organisms.

Define the term sensitivity.

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[Total: 2]

4 Energy is used to maintain body temperature.

State three other uses of energy in humans.

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[Total: 3]
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5 Didinium is a predatory ciliate. A video recording was made of one Didinium feeding on a
Paramecium.The photograph shows a sequence of still photographs taken from the video.

Complete the table by putting a tick (✓) by each characteristic of life that can be seen in the
still photographs from the video .

excretion nutrition

growth reproduction

movement respiration

[1]

[Total: 1]

6 All living organisms show the same seven characteristics.

State four of the characteristics of living organisms.

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[Total: 4]
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7 The plant Mimosa pudica has leaves that fold in when touched.

This demonstrates movement and which other characteristic?

A excretion
B growth
C nutrition
D sensitivity
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[Total: 1]

8 Define the term growth.

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[Total: 2]

9 Define the term excretion.

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[Total: 3]
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10 Keys can be used to identify a species.

The diagram shows drawings of six different birds and their names.

Use the key to identify the birds in the diagram.

Complete the table by writing the letters of the birds A to F in the correct box.

key letter of bird

(a) beak is longer than the head go to 2

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(b) beak is shorter than the head go to 3

(a) beak curves upwards C

2
(b) beak does not curve upwards go to 4

(a) top part of the beak is hooked over the bottom part of the beak go to 5
3
(b) top part of the beak is not hooked over the bottom part of the beak E

(a) top part of the beak is shorter than bottom part of the A
4
(b) beak has a large projection above the beak B

(a) head has a stripe F

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(b) head does not have a stripe D
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name of bird in diagram letter of the bird in the key

Ammodramus bairdii

Buceros rhinoceros

Pandion haliaetus

Haliaeetus leucocephalus

Rynchops niger

Recurvirostra avosetta

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[Total: 5]
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11 Diagram 1 shows a key that identifies nine genera of invertebrates that have jointed legs.

diagram 1

Diagram 2 shows one of the animals described in the key.

diagram 2

Use the key in diagram 1 to identify this animal.

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[Total: 1]
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12 Diagram 1 shows four arthropods.

diagram 1

Diagram 2 is a dichotomous key for the arthropods shown in diagram 1.

Complete the dichotomous key by writing suitable statements in:

• box 2 to identify species B

• box 3 to separate species C and A.

diagram 2
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[2]

[Total: 2]

13 Describe one way in which all vertebrates differ from arthropods.

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14 State two features of birds, other than the beak, that can be used to classify them as birds.

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[Total: 2]

15 Crustaceans are one group of arthropods.

State the names of two other groups of arthropods.

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[Total: 2]

16 Some students were studying the activity of yeast. They made a fact file, as shown in the diagram.

State the kingdom in which yeast is classified.

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[Total: 1]

17 State the name of the group of organisms that produce milk to feed their young.

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[Total: 1]

18 State the name of the large group of organisms that includes insects, arachnids, crustaceans and
myriapods.

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[Total: 1]
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19 The green turtle, Chelonia mydas, is a species of marine animal that is harmed by plastic waste.

The photograph shows a green turtle swimming past a plastic bag in the Pacific Ocean.

Turtles are classified as reptiles.

State one feature shown by all reptiles that is not found in amphibians.

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[Total: 1]
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20 The Hawaiian happy-face spider, Theridion grallator, is found on several of the Hawaiian islands.
Some of the spiders have a very distinctive pattern on their bodies as shown in the photograph.

State one feature, visible in the photograph, that identifies T. grallator as an arachnid.

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[Total: 1]