Living Things

Question 1

Identify the two groups that all things can be classified into

Answer 1

Living

Non-living

Question 2

Identify reasons for classification

Answer 2

So your Able to identify thing easier

Question 3

Discuss and give examples where classification is used

Answer 3

Library’s
Stores
Schools

Question 4

Outline the characteristics of living things

Answer 4

Movement
Respiration
Sensitivity
Growth
Reproduction
Excretion
Nutrition

Question 5

What’s the difference between a branching key and a go to key?

Answer 5

Branching shows branches with yes and no question while a go to key is just a list of yes and no questions

Question 6

Identify the features of a dichotomous key

Answer 6

Have yes/no questions
Don’t use reality every terms
Ask about physical features

Question 7

What types of questions are asked in a dichotomous key?

Answer 7

Yes/no questions

Question 8

Identify relative terms that should not be used when when constructing a dichotomous key

Answer 8

Size

Age

Question 9

Identify the two main groups of microorganisms

Answer 9

Beneficial

Harmful

Question 10

Identify some human diseases caused by bacteria and fungi

Answer 10

Whooping cough
Tetanus
Athletes foot
Mycoses

Question 11

Discuss the impacts on continually using anti-bacterial disinfectants

Answer 11

It will kill all the harmless and necessary bacteria and open your self up to other problems

Question 12

Give examples of benefits harmless bacteria have

Answer 12

They keep the digestive system healthy
Help lower ones risk to get colon cancer
Kills bad bacteria

Question 13

Identify the five groups of vertebrate and features of each

Answer 13

Birds-feathers,beak
Fish-gills
Amphibians-cold blooded,carnivores
Reptile-col blooded
Mammal-warm blooded,tetrapods

Question 14

Identify the five groups of plants

Answer 14

Gymnosperms
Ferns
Algae
Bryophytes
Angiosperms

Question 15

Different environs found across the earth?

Answer 15

Rainforest
Desert
Forest
Moorland
Urban
Aquatic

Question 16

Describe Australian environments

Answer 16

Desert-dry,little rain,little vegetation
Tropical rainforest-trees,high temp and humidity
Suburban-little vegetation
Marine-lots of water and aquatic animals

Question 17

Describe some adaptations an organism might need to survive a environment

Answer 17

Sharp claws
Nocturnal
Exoskeleton
Venom

Question 18

Adaptations plants have

Answer 18

Thick outer coating
Waxy cuticle
Dropping leaves in drought
Small leaves
Thin leaves

Question 19

Define adaptation

Answer 19

A feature of an organism that helps it to survive within a given environment

Question 20

Define angiosperm

Answer 20

A group of plant

Question 21

Define beneficial

Answer 21

Good, helpful

Question 22

Define characteristics

Answer 22

A feature or quality belonging to a person,place or thing

Question 23

Define dichotomous key

Answer 23

A tool to help scientists identify objects and organisms

Question 24

Define excretion

Answer 24

The process of eliminating or expelling waste matter

Question 25

Define invertebrate

Answer 25

An animal lacking a backbone

Question 26

Define organism

Answer 26

An individual animal, plant or single-celled life form

Question 27

Define respiration

Answer 27

The process by which plants and animals convert energy into a form that can easily be used by cells

Question 28

Define microorganism

Answer 28

A microscopic organism

Question 29

Define vertebrae

Answer 29

Has possession of a backbone