Revision Quiz 10
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  1. How are cactus plants adapted to live in dry habitats? (lesson 10a)
  2. Name 4 ways to collect small animals. (4a)
  3. What should you do with small animals after they have been collected and observed? (10a)
  4. In which season do trees grow new leaves? (10b)
  5. Explain how hedgehogs and squirrels survive the winter. (10b)
  6. How do birds such as swallows and martins survive the winter? (10b)
  7. What is a) a herbivore, b) a carnivore, c) a producer? (10c)
  8. Complete this food chain: Grass --> grasshopper --> ? (10c)
  9. What do we call several food chains linked together? (10c)
  10. Name 3 types of microbe. (10d)
  11. In experiments looking at microbes, how and why is broth sterilised? (10d)
  12. Why do freezers stop food from going bad? (10d)
  13. Microbes that rot away dead things are called -----------. (10e)
  14. What conditions do the microbes in a compost heap like best? (10e)
  15. What do we call rubbish that rots away naturally? (10e)

ANSWERS

  1. Their leaves are sharp spines. They store water inside their thick stems.
  2. Pooters, sweep nets, tree beating and pitfall traps.
  3. Return them unharmed to where they were found.
  4. Spring.
  5. They eat a lot before winter and build up a layer of fat. They then find a quiet spot and sleep through the winter (hibernate).
  6. They fly to warmer climates (migrate).
  7. a) An animal that eats plant, b) an animal that eats other animals, c) A green plant that gets its energy from the Sun.
  8. --> field mouse --> owl.
  9. A food web.
  10. Bacteria, fungi, and viruses.
  11. It is heated to high temperature in a pressure cooker. This kills any microbes there at the start.
  12. Microbes do not grow at low temperatures.
  13. Decomposers.
  14. Damp, warm with oxygen available.
  15. Biodegradable.