Test

term 1

Name

 Class

1 Answer the questions about living things.

(a) What are the life processes of living things?

(b) Why are animals consumers?

2 Complete the text about cells.
Some living things have only one cell. These are (a)
organisms. Other organisms are made up of many cells. We call them
(b)
. Cells take in nutrients and reproduce by
(c)
into two again and again.

3 Match the sentences.

(a) Cells
(b) Tissue
(c) Organs
(d) Systems
(e) An organism

work together to form an organism.

group together to form tissue.
groups together to form organs.
is a living thing.
work together to form systems.

4 Complete the chart about living things.

Name

Kingdom

Living things in this kingdom

are: Unicellular / Multicellular

Bacteria

Monera

Unicellular

Protist

Unicellular or multicellular
Fungi
Plant
Frog

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5 Underline the mistakes. Write the correct sentences.

We can classify plants as flowering plants or ferns.

We can classify plants as flowering and

non-flowering plants.
(a)

Flowering plants can be classified as angiosperms or cnidarians.

(b)
Angiosperms have strong roots, leaves, a stem and flowers. The plants
seeds develop inside the flower, but they cant produce fruit.
(c)

Gymnosperms have very simple roots, a stem and long, thin leaves.
(d)
Ferns and mosses seeds develop in cones.
(e)
Algae have large leaves called fronds.

(f )
6 Classify the reproduction words.
stamen stolons

ovary anther tubers pollen pistil ovule style

spores stigma filament

Sexual reproduction

Female part

Male part

ovary

stamen

Asexual reproduction

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7 Read
and write arachnids, insects, crustaceans or myriapods.

Answer the question.

crustaceans live in water.

(b) Myriapods
have many pairs of legs.
(a) Most

(c) 
have two body parts: an abdomen and a
cephalothorax, and four pairs of legs.
(d)

exoskeletons are very hard.

(e) Spiders and scorpions are examples of

(f ) 
to the thorax.

have three pairs of legs which are attached

(g)

have five pairs of legs including claws.

(h) What group do arachnids, insects, crustaceans and myriapods

belong to?

8 Complete the animal fact files.

This is a sponge.

(a) Animal:

(b) Animal class:

(c) Habitat:
(d) Nutrition:

(e) Reproduction:

(a) Animal:
(b) Animal class:
(c) Habitat:
(d) Nutrition:

It reproduces by

(e) Reproduction:

budding.

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9 Write the names of the four stages of the digestive process. Order the
sentences.
(a) N
 utrients from the digested food pass through the walls of the small
intestine and are absorbed into the blood.


Absorption

(b) The teeth chew the food into small pieces, and salivary glands
produce a liquid called saliva.

(c) Waste that our body cant use passes to the large intestine and
leaves our body through the anus.

(d) Muscles in the stomach walls work with gastric juices that also come
from the stomach walls. The muscles mix the bolus to break it down,
and the gastric juices turn it into a thick liquid.


10 Complete the sentences about the excretory system.

renal arteries

The (a)
blood to the kidneys.
The (b)

take the

filter the blood.

The cleaned blood returns to the circulatory

system along the (c)
.
Urine travels down the (d)
into the (e)
.
Urine goes into the (f )
and out of the body.

11 Answer the question.

What is respiration?

12 Complete the text about the heart.

chambers

The heart has four (a)

. The upper chambers are called
(b)
and the lower chambers are called (c)
The sound of the heartbeat is made during the processes of systole and
(d)
.

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