Test 2 Term 1

Question 1

What is photosynthesis

Answer 1

The process used by green plants to make their own food

Question 2

What do plants use to make their food?

Answer 2

Sunlight
Carbon Dioxide in the air
Water in the soil

Question 3

What makes plants leaves green?

Answer 3

Chlorophyll

Question 4

How do plants get energy?

Answer 4

Chlorophyll takes energy from the sun.
It changes water and Carbon Dioxide into sugars
Sugars give the plant energy

Question 5

What does the plant do with it’s energy?

Answer 5

Grows

Builds roots, stems, branches, leaves, flowers, fruit

Question 6

How do we know plants are producers?

Answer 6

It makes it’s own food.

Question 7

Name the 7 life processes:

Answer 7

M - Moving
R - Reproducing
S - Sensing the environment

F - Feeding

B - Breathing
E - Excreting
G - Growing

Question 8

Explain Herbivores

Answer 8

Eat only plants

Cow, Sheep, Horses, Rabbits, Snail, Giraffe

Question 9

Name Africa’s 3 Big 5 herbivores

Answer 9

Rhino, Buffalo, Elephant

Question 10

What is the most dangerous herbivore?

Answer 10

Hippopotamus - 70kg of grass at night

Question 11

What are our smallest herbivores?

Answer 11

Insects - eat seeds, wood, nectar.

i.e. Aphids suck nectar out of leaves

Question 12

Explain Carnivores

Answer 12

Meat eating animal

Lion, Cheetah, Tiger, Wolf, Crocodile, Eagle, Shark, Spider

Question 13

Explain Omnivores

Answer 13

Eat plants and animals

Humans, Chickens, Pigs, Chimpanzee, Dog, Baboon

Question 14

What is a scavenger?

Answer 14

Feed on carcasses and left overs of dead animals

Jackal, Hyena, Vulture, Dung Beetle

Question 15

What is a food chain?

Answer 15

Sequence of who eats what.
Animals are linked to plants by the food they eat.

Starts with a plant
Animal eats plant
Another animal eats the 1’st animal
Arrows show the links

Question 16

What is reproduce?

Answer 16

Produce their own young.

Question 17

What is a sequence

Answer 17

Put in order

Question 18

What is development?

Answer 18

The process of maturing or changing.

Question 19

What is a life cycle?

Answer 19

Series or sequence of changes in the life of a plant or animal.

Question 20

What is generation

Answer 20

Plants or animals at the same stage of their life cycle

Question 21

Name the small five animals?

Answer 21

The Elephant Stew
The ant lion
The rhinoceros beetle
The buffalo weaver 
The leopard tortoise

Question 22

Name the big five animals?

Answer 22

Elephant 
Lion 
Buffalo 
Leopard 
Rhinoceros