Q1.

The drawings below show a stoat, a weasel and an American mink.

          The stoat and weasel are British wild animals.

Mink are from America.

          stoat                                                        weasel

           

                        American mink

(a)     They all hunt and eat rabbits.

          1 000 American mink were set free into the British countryside in 1998.

(i)      What happened to the numbers of rabbits in the countryside?

They eat all the rabbits.

1 mark

         Give a reason for your answer.

1 mark

(ii)     How did this affect the stoats and weasels that lived in the countryside?

There wont be any wild rabbits left to eat

1 mark

(b)     Stoats, weasels and American mink all hunt and eat rabbits.
Complete the sentence below.

          The stoats, weasels and American mink are all predators and the rabbits are

their prey
1 mark

(c)     (i)      Give the name of one other wild animal in Britain that hunts for small
animals such as rabbits.

A fox
1 mark

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 (ii)     The American mink were not hunted by other animals in the British
countryside, but many of the mink died.

         Suggest two different reasons why the mink died.

1. they couldn’t find any rabbits as they evolved to be able to escape.

1 mark

2. they couldn’t digest them properly

1 mark

(d)     Stoats, weasels and mink are all mammals.

          Give one way you tell from the drawings that they are mammals.

They have fur

1 mark
maximum 8 marks

Q2.
The drawing below shows part of a farmland food web.

 
                                                                         not to scale

(a)     (i)      Which living thing in the web is an insect?

Grasshopper 1 mark

(ii)     Farmers spray their plants with insecticide to kill insects.

Suggest how insecticide on the plants gets into the insects.

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 When the insects eat the plants they die

1 mark

(b)     From the food web above, give the names of one predator and its prey.

predator foxes

prey of this predator partridges

1 mark

(c)     Why are the plants in the food web called producers?
Tick the correct box.

They loose their leaves They make food by

in the autumn.   photosynthesis.  

They have very They have very

long roots.   small flowers.  
1 mark

(d)     The drawing below shows how partridges sit close together and all face outwards.

          Give one reason why sitting close together like this helps the partridges to survive.
Because it makes them look bigger than they really are 1 mark

(e)     Partridges lay their eggs in nests on the ground.

(i)      The eggs are the same colour as the ground.

Why can this help partridges to survive?
So the predator doesn’t see the egg 1 mark

(ii)     Why could laying eggs on the ground result in fewer partridge chicks?
Because it is easier for the predator to reach1 mark
maximum 7 marks

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