Year 7 Biology End of Topic Test Revision

The study of the relationship of plants and animals with their natural environment is called:

• zoology.

• botany.

• biology.

• ecology.

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Which of the following lists only substances which are part of the non-living (abiotic) environment?

• Plants, water, sunlight, minerals

• Oxygen, green plants, water, sunlight

• Water, sunlight, soil, bacteria

• Water, carbon dioxide, sunlight, oxygen

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True or false – There are more carnivores than there are herbivores.

• True

• False

An ecology student trying to estimate the number of Bobtail lizards in the Yanchep National Park in November 2021 would most correctly be described as studying:

• ecology.

• a habitat.

• a chain.

• a population.

Within a pond are millions of organisms of different kinds. These organisms together form:

• a species.

• a community.

• a food chain.

• a population.

On the edge of a paddock there is an area of long grass with grasshoppers, lizards which sun themselves on a pile of rocks and a pair of insect eating birds, which nest in a gum tree.  Which of the following is NOT a member of the community?

• Rocks

• Insect eating birds

• Lizards

• Grasshoppers

Space A the Spinifex on the diagram is best described by the term:

• producer.

• consumer.

• carnivore.

• sunlight.

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Plants are necessary for rabbits to survive.  The rabbits are food for foxes and so foxes need rabbits to survive.  If the grass was destroyed, the fox population would:

• decrease.

• increase.

• remain unchanged.

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If the number of first order consumers increased dramatically, the plant population would probably:

• decrease.

• also increase.

• stay the same.

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Matter would be tied up in a complex organic compound and would not be available for re-use in an ecosystem, if it were not for the activities of:

• carnivores.

• producers.

• decomposers.

• consumers.

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