Chapter 5 Living Things In Their Environment

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Section A: True or False. Put ‘T’ for a true statement or ‘F’ for a false statement in each box below.

1. Green plants can make their own food.

2. Living things have different natural homes. This is called variation.

3. Living things are interdependent of each other.

4. If a certain kind of living things becomes extinct, other living things will not be affected.

5. Each day, there are changes on light intensity, temperature and humidity.

Section B: Multiple Choices

1. Which of the following combination is incorrect?

Organism Habitat
A Camel Desert
B Lion Grassland
C Penguin South Pole
D frog sea

2. Which of the following characteristic helps polar bears to live in their habitat?
A. Thick fur to trap heat and keep it warm
B. Blue eyes to contrast with its white coat
C. Small ears as it is quite quiet on the polar ice.
D. A good sense of vibration

3. Which of following is daily adaptation?

A. Migration of birds
B. Deciduous trees
C. Hibernation
D. Nocturnal hunting
Look at the following experiment and answer questions 4-6:

4. What is the aim of the experiment?

A. To study the activities of cockroaches
B. To study the reactions of cockroaches to changes in the environment
C. To study the feeding bait of cockroaches
D. To study the reproduction of cockroaches

5. Which of the following variable should be compared at the end of the experiment?
A. The number of cockroaches
B. The amount of food left
C. The activities of the cockroaches
D. The number of dead cockroaches

6. Which of the following variables should be kept constant in the experiment?

I) The weight of food
II) The number of cockroaches
III) Temperature

A. (I) and (II) only

B. (I) and (III) only
C. (II) and (III) only
D. (I), (II) and (III)
Section C: Answer the following questions

1. How do the following animals adapt to their habitat?

Animal Habitat Adaptation
Penguin

Bat

Panda

2. What is the habitat of each of the living things shown below? Choose the correct word and write
it down in the appropriate space.

forest river ocean desert the Poles

3. Explain why some animals hibernate.

4. What does nocturnal mean? Give one example of nocturnal animal.

5. Name one adaptation that is essential for nocturnal animals.

6. The diagram shows a food web:

a. Write down two different food chains that are parts of this food web.

1.

2.
b. Select one food chain from question a. and redraw the food chain in the box provided

and label the food chain with the following words:

Producer, consumer, herbivore, carnivore, predator, prey

c. Name two animals that are competing food with owls.

d. Suppose all the owls catch a disease and die.

Write down two effects that this would have on the food web. Explain your answer.
1. Link the 6 words with their meaning. The first one is done for you.

environment u when animals sleep through the winter

hibernate v the things in your surroundings

migration x the place in which a plant or animal lives

adapted y when animals escape the winter by going to a warmer climate

habitat z able to survive and live in their surroundings

fox Woodland food web

2. This picture is called a owl

………………………..

weasel

3. Mark 2 producers on the

picture with a  rabbit

vole
hedgehog

4. Mark 4 carnivores with a X

worm
5. Mark 4 herbivores with a *
grass
snail Oak leaves
 6. Write a 3 stage food chain from the picture

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7. Write a 4 stage food chain

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8. What gives the energy to all the plants and animals in the picture?

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1. What kind of adaptation does the lion have?

Identify the boxes below and put them into the correct boxes on the diagram.

Powerful legs to help it Sharp claws to grab Large, sharp teeth to

run fast. prey. rip flesh.

Forward-facing eyes to Sandy-coloured fur.

spot prey. helps to camouflage it
Identify the boxes below and put them into the correct boxes on the diagram.

Eyes on the side of its Powerful hind legs help it

head so that it can see to run fast.

Sandy coloured fur for Large ears to hear

camouflage. danger.