g5 t1 - life & living structure

Question 1

What is a habitat?

Answer 1

a place or environment where plants and animals NATURALLY live and grow

Question 2

What are the 2 main types of habitats?

Answer 2

1. land habitats e.g. forest, grassland, deserts
2. aquatic habitats (water) e.g. swamps, lakes, rivers

Question 3

What is a herbivore?
give examples

Answer 3

an animal that only eats plants
e.g. springbok, giraffe, cow

Question 4

What is a carnivore?
give examples

Answer 4

an animal that only eats meat i.e. other animals
e..g hyena, lion, tiger, wolf

Question 5

What is an omnivore?
give examples

Answer 5

an animal that eats plants AND meat
e.g. ignuana, squirrel, honey-eater

Question 6

What is a decomposer?
give example

Answer 6

an creature that eat small bits of dead plants and leftovers
e.g. worms, snail, ant

Question 7

What is interdependence?

Answer 7

when 2 or more living things relate to each other (rely on each other) i.e. plants and animals NEED each other to SURVIVE

Question 8

Explain how plants and animals in a habitat depend on one another
(examples of INTERDEPENDENCE)

Answer 8

• some plants need animal to distribute their seeds
• animals EAT plants for food
• animals need plants for shelter/PROTECTION
• plants depend on other plants to grow
• plants depend on animals for nutrition because dung FERTILISES the soil
• animals need plants for OXYGEN to breath

Question 9

What resources do living things depend on their environment for?

(habitat resources - usually non-living things)

Answer 9

• air
• water
• soil
• food
• shelter & a place to birth their young
• places to hide from danger (protect)

Question 10

What is an exoskeleton?

Answer 10

shell or hard covering on the ouside of an animal
(remember the X for exit to get OUTside )

Question 11

What is an endoskeleton?

Answer 11

skeleton found iNside an animals body

Question 12

What is an invertabrate?

Answer 12

an animal that does NOT have a backbone made out of bone

Question 13

What is a vertabrate?

Answer 13

an animal WITH a backbone (on the inside of their body)

Question 14

What is the purpose of a vertebrate’s skeleton?

Answer 14

• hard bones form a strong frame to SUPPORT the body
• give the body SHAPE
• PROTECT the soft organs inside the body

Question 15

What is a vertebrate’s skeleton made of?

Answer 15

bones

Question 16

What is cartilage?

Answer 16

a TOUGH and FLEXIBLE substance that allows bones to RUB together SMOOTHLY without causing pain

Question 17

Where in the body is cartilage found?

Answer 17

joints
ears

Question 18

Give examples of animals with exoskeletons

Answer 18

spider
cockroach
crab
ants
lady bird

Question 19

Give examples of animals with endoskeletons

Answer 19

bird
dog
fish
frog
lizard

Question 20

What is a frame structure?

Answer 20

a structure that holds and supports, that consists of parts joined together
e.g. human skeleton made of many bones joined by cartilage & tendons, covered in muscles and skin

Question 21

What is a shell structure?

Answer 21

a curved structure that is HOLLOW
to protect things inside it

Question 22

Name the bone labelled 1

Answer 22

skull

Question 23

Name the bone labelled 2

Answer 23

clavicle
(collar bone)

Question 24

Name the bone labelled 3

Answer 24

sternum
(breastbone)

Question 25

Name the bone labelled 4

Answer 25

humerus

Question 26

Name the bone labelled 5

Answer 26

ulna

Question 27

Name the bone labelled 6

Answer 27

radius

Question 28

Name the bone labelled 7

Answer 28

spine (backbone or vertebral column)

Question 29

Name the bones labelled 8

Answer 29

ribs

Question 30

sName the bone labelled 9

Answer 30

pelvis (hip bone)

Question 31

Name the bone labelled 10

Answer 31

femur

Question 32

Name the bone labelled 11

Answer 32

tibia

Question 33

Name the bone labelled 12

Answer 33

fibula

Question 34

Name the bone labelled 13

Answer 34

tarsals (ankle bone)

Question 35

Name the bone labelled 14

Answer 35

scapula (shoulder blade)

Question 36

What are the 3 main bones in your arm?

Answer 36

humerus (biggest, upper arm bone) radius (outside forearm) ulna

Question 37

What are the 3 main bones in your leg>

Answer 37

fibula tibia (shin bone) femur (biggest, thigh bone)

Question 38

what is the name for your collar bone?

Answer 38

clavicle

Question 39

what is the name for your shoulder blade?

Answer 39

scapula

Question 40

what make a vertebrate animal able to move?

Answer 40

JOINTS between their bones (with cartilage in the joints) MUSCLES attached to the skeleton

Question 41

Name the main parts of the knee joint labelled in the picture

Answer 41

1. femur (thigh bone) 2. patella (knee cap) 3. ligament

Question 42

Name the main muscles in your arm that allow your elbow to bend

Answer 42

1. bicep 2. tricep

Question 43

What is a muscle?

Answer 43

tough elastic tissues that pull our bones when we move

Question 44

what is a tendon?

Answer 44

tough cords that attach our MUSCLES to our bones

Question 45

what is a ligament?

Answer 45

there are bands that connect BONES TO BONES and help strengthen the joints

Question 46

What is biodiversity

Answer 46

is the VARIETY of plants and animals on Earth

Question 47

What is a producer in a food chain?

Answer 47

a plant that makes it's own food

Question 48

what is a primary consumer in the food chain?

Answer 48

an animal that eats producers (plants) = usually herbivore (or omnivore)

Question 49

what is a secondary consumer in the food chain?

Answer 49

eats primary consumers so is usually small a carnivore (or omnivore)

Question 50

what is a top consumer in the food chain?

Answer 50

eats secondary consumers

Question 51

Which muscle in your arm "contracts" and pulls the radius bone to BEND your elbow?

Answer 51

bicep

Question 52

Which muscle in your arm "contracts" and pulls your ulna bone to STRAIGHTEN your elbow

Answer 52

tricep