1.
Animals
(a)
Some children are reading a book about an octopus.
Some animals have sharp claws to catch hold of their prey.
Which feature of the octopus helps it to catch hold of its prey?
Use the book to help you.
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1 mark
(b)
How does changing colour to match the rocks help the octopus to protect itself?
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1 mark
(c)
The key below can be used to identify some animals.
Use the information in the key to help you circle the animals in the box below that
do not have a skeleton inside their bodies.
Circle all the correct answers.
terrapin
dogfish
dog whelk
jellyfish
slow worm
earthworm
2 marks
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(d)
Use the key to write three facts about a terrapin.
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2 marks
2.
Brine shrimps
(a)
Joanne is watching 5 brine shrimps in a container.
She has covered the container to make one half dark and one half light.
How many brine shrimps were in the dark after 30 seconds?
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1 mark
(b)
Amy and Rebecca planned to investigate whether brine shrimps prefer to
swim in the light or the dark.
Amy’s Plan
Rebecca’s Plan
Step 1
Put 1 shrimp in one dish.
Put 10 shrimps in one dish.
Step 2
Watch the dish for
5 minutes.
Watch the dish for 1 minute.
Record the amount of
time the shrimp was
in the light.
Count how many shrimps
were in the light every 10
seconds.
Compare the amount of
time the shrimp spent in
the light with the time
spent in the dark.
Compare the number of
shrimps seen in the light
with the number out of
sight in the dark.
Step 3
Step 4
Look at Amy’s plan.
What measurements should Amy compare to decide whether shrimps
prefer light or dark?
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1 mark
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(c)
Look at Rebecca’s plan.
How did Rebecca work out how many brine shrimps were in the dark each time
she looked?
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1 mark
(d)
Look at Amy’s and Rebecca’s plans.
(i)
Which do you think is the better science plan?
Tick ONE box.
Amy’s
(ii)
Rebecca’s
Explain why.
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1 mark
3.
Vegetable Patch
(a)
Kami sees all of the things below while he is working in his vegetable patch.
Tick FIVE boxes to show which of these things are living.
2 marks
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(b)
Kami grows cabbages in his vegetable patch. Some of the cabbages
are eaten by snails. Some of the snails are eaten by birds called thrushes.
Write a food chain to show this information.
Use arrows in your food chain.
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2 marks
(c)
A cabbage has many leaves.
Tick ONE box to show why leaves are important to a cabbage plant.
The leaves...
attract insects.
anchor the plant in
the ground.
collect pollen.
produce new
material for growth.
1 mark
(d)
Kami cuts a cabbage in half. The leaves on the outside of the cabbage are dark.
The leaves on the inside are a pale yellow colour.
Which statement best explains why the leaves on the inside are paler?
Tick ONE box.
The leaves on the inside of the cabbage get...
less light.
less water.
more minerals.
more air.
1 mark
4.
Woodlice
(a)
The children decided to find out which conditions woodlice prefer.
They prepared a box which gave woodlice a choice of four different sections
labelled A, B, C and D.
They carried out a fair test.
They placed 20 woodlice in the centre of the box.
The woodlice could move around easily.
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Plan of box, showing conditions
A
dry soil
plenty of light
B
dry soil
no light
C
damp soil
plenty of light
D
damp soil
no light
After 20 minutes the children counted how many woodlice were in each section.
They did the investigation two more times.
Why did they carry out their investigation three times?
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1 mark
(b)
They recorded their results in a table.
Number of woodlice in the different sections
A
B
C
D
First time
1
1
5
13
Second time
2
2
5
11
Third time
2
0
4
14
Look at the information in the table.
Which conditions do woodlice prefer?
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1 mark
(c)
The children wanted to find some more woodlice.
In which of these habitats would they be most likely to find woodlice?
Tick TWO boxes.
on a playground
under a rotting log
on a flower
in the sea
under a stone
on sandy soil
2 marks
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(d)
Shrews eat woodlice.
Woodlice eat rotting leaves.
Complete the food chain for woodlice, leaves and shrews.
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1 mark
5.
Butterfly garden
(a)
This diagram shows the life cycle of a red admiral butterfly.
pupa
caterpillar
on nettle leaf
butterfly
eggs
red admiral
butterfly
John wants to get rid of all the nettles in the school wildlife area.
This will affect the red admiral butterfly.
Give TWO different reasons why nettle plants are important in the life cycle of
the red admiral butterfly.
(i)
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1 mark
(ii)
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1 mark
(b)
Some birds eat caterpillars.
Use the diagram to help you complete the food chain below.
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bird
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1 mark
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6.
Soil
(a)
Children put four different types of soil into funnels.
They poured 300 cm³ of water on to each soil.
They measured how much water passed through in five minutes.
Look at the picture.
Which soil allowed the least water to pass through it?
Tick ONE box.
1 mark
(b)
Clay has small particles and does not let water through easily.
Sand has larger particles and lets water through easily.
The table shows the four types of soil they tested.
Which type of soil was put in each funnel?
Complete the table by writing the letter for each funnel?
soil
funnel
all clay
mostly clay, some sand
mostly sand, some clay
all sand
1 mark
(c)
The children showed their results on a graph.
The graph shows how much water each type of soil let through in five minutes.
300
250
200
volume
of water 150
in cm³
100
50
0
soil A
soil B
soil C
soil D
small
stones
soil type
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The children then poured 300 cm³ of water onto small stones in a funnel.
Draw a bar on the graph to predict the volume of water which will pass through
the small stones in five minutes.
1 mark
(d)
Marram grass grows in very sandy places.
Explain how the long roots of the marram grass help it to survive in very sandy
places.
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1 mark
7.
Woodland survey
(a)
Sam and Peter measure around the trunks of ten oak trees.
They measure five trees growing close together and five trees growing in open
space. The trees are all the same age.
Here are their results.
sizes of tree
trunks close
together (cm)
sizes of tree
trunks in open
space (cm)
101
318
67
190
80
320
32
400
96
350
The range of measurements for tree trunks growing close together was
32–101 cm.
What was the range of measurements for tree trunks growing in open space?
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1 mark
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(b)
Use the information in the tables. Compare the size of tree trunks growing close
together with the size of tree trunks growing in open space.
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1 mark
(c)
Trees need light to help them grow.
How do trees use light to help them grow?
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1 mark
(d)
Name TWO other things that trees need to take in to help them grow.
Light and .......................................... and .............................................
2 marks
(e)
Peter finds lots of fungi under a tree.
Write true or false next to each sentence about fungi below.
One has been done for you.
Fungi are living things.
true
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Fungi can grow.
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Fungi can reproduce.
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1 mark
8.
Hedgehogs
9
bramble bush
(a)
hedgehog
slug
Look at the picture.
Which part of the hedgehog’s body helps stop foxes from eating it?
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1 mark
(b)
The bush makes food material in its leaves.
The hedgehog’s food includes slugs.
The two sentences above describe the same life process.
Which life process?
Tick ONE box.
growth
movement
excretion
nutrition
sensing
none of these
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1 mark
(c)
The hedgehog gives birth to young. This shows that it reproduces.
Which of the following shows that the bush also reproduces?
Tick ONE box.
New leaves grow in spring.
Leaf buds open in spring.
Leaves fall in autumn.
Seeds are dispersed in autumn.
1 mark
(d)
This graph shows how the mass of a female hedgehog changes in one year.
Graph showing change in mass of female hedgehog
10
900
800
Mass 700
(g)
600
500
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun
Jul
Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec
Time (months)
Look at the graph. It shows that the hedgehog lost weight when she
hibernated (slept) through the winter.
It also shows when she gave birth.
In which month does the graph show that the hedgehog gave birth?
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1 mark
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