Year 7 Science

What does the cognitive verb 'describe' mean?

• to give a detailed account of the features of something

• to provide evidence

• to provide a calculation

• to present one or more sides of an issue

Which is the best description of the word classification?

• arranging similar things together into a group

• a category that something is put in

• arranging living things into groups according to their observed similarities

• the process of classifying something

Which statement about food chains is true...

• show how each living thing gets food, and how nutrients and energy are passed from creature to creature

• starts with animal life and finishes with plant life

• only works for land animal not aquatic animals

• does not show us connections between predators and prey

What is the purpose of a dichotomous key?

• to determine who the first and second order consumers are

• to help us find the top order consumer

• identify different organisms, based on their observable traits

• to show the flow of energy from producer to comsumer

Can I use this dichotomous key to identify a vertebrate?

• Yes

• No

Where is the abdomen located on this insect?

• The legs

• The middle segment

• The top segment

• The bottom segment

Which one would be the secondary consumer?

• Tiger

• Herbivore

• Insects

• Snake

What is a producer?

• an organism that generates its own food

• obtains energy from other consumers

• located in the middle level of the food chain

• a third order consumer

What is a decomposer?

What is an introduced species?