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“Fostering and empowering society in building and serving the nation”
Subject
: Biology
Date
:
Topic/s
: Characteristics of a Living
Thing
Class
: MS7-____
Name
:
Duration : 40 minutes
SCORE
CHARACTERISTICS OF A LIVING THING
(Continual Assessment)
Direction: answer the questions on the spaces provided.
1
For
Examiner’s
Use
Respiration is one of the characteristics of living things.
Define the term respiration.
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(a)
[2]
Define the term species.
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(b)
[2]
Table 2.1 shows the names of vertebrate groups and some of their characteristics.
Place a tick in the boxes to show if the characteristic is commonly present in that group.
The characteristics of the fish group have been done for you.
Table 2.1
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(c)
A student was investigating the growth of plants and their sensitivity to changes in light
intensity. Table 2.2 shows their results.
Table 2.2
Calculate the mean growth of the plants at a light intensity of 20 arbitrary units.
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(d)
[1]
Fig. 2.1 is a photograph of a lion.
Fig. 2.1
Lions are mammals and have the scientific name Panthera leo.
(i)
State one feature visible in Fig. 2.1 that identifies the lions as a mammal.
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(ii)
[1]
State the genus of this mammal.
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(iii)
State three characteristics of a living thing.
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[Total: 15]
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