Common Entrance (KS3) science questions
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| What is the metric unit for MASS? | show 🗑
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| Name the third planet from the sun? | show 🗑
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| show | SATELLITE
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| show | 1500mm
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| show | 100°C
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| show | THERMOMETER
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| show | 4500g
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| show | 8 planets
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| show | GRAVITY
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| What is the unit for force | show 🗑
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| show | CUBIC CENTIMETRE (cm³)
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| What is the unit for current? | show 🗑
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| Name an instrument you would use to measure the volume of a liquid: | show 🗑
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| show | SOUTH
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| show | NORTH pole
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| Which planet is nearest to the sun? | show 🗑
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| What happens to the current through a component if the voltage is increased? (INCREASE, DECREASE or NOT CHANGE) | show 🗑
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| What happens to the current in a circuit if the resistance is increased? A: increase, B: decease or C: stay the same | show 🗑
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| show | CHEMICAL
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| What form of energy is in a stretched elastic band | show 🗑
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| show | KINETIC
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| show | MOON
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| Name the metric unit for ENERGY | show 🗑
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| show | AMMETER
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| show | GRAVITATIONAL
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| When coal burns chemical energy is converted to light energy and …?…. Energy | show 🗑
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| show | UPTHRUST
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| An electric torch is switched on. Where does the energy come from that lights the bulb? | show 🗑
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| What name is given to the bending of light. | show 🗑
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| What name is given to the kind of switch that can be closed using a magnet. | show 🗑
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| show | It would sound LOUDER
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| show | The pitch would increase /sound higher
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| What is the unit for voltage ? | show 🗑
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| You hold a mass of 100g in the palm of your out-stretched hand. With what force does the mass press on your hand? | show 🗑
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| Which would stretch the least A) a single spring B) two springs in parallel. C) two springs in series? | show 🗑
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| show | Two strings in SERIES
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| show | 1 kg of WOOD
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| show | 500 cm³
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| show | The MILKY WAY
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| A brick measures 5cm x 5cm x 20cm and has a mass of 1000g. What is the DENSITY of the brick? | show 🗑
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| What is needed to make something change shape or change direction | show 🗑
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| A man on a parachute is falling at a steady speed. Which is the larger force: Gravity is pulling him down or air resistance pushing up? | show 🗑
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| show | PRESSURE
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| show | DENSITY
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| What is the normal density of water? | show 🗑
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| Which will have more resistance, a single light bulb, or two bulbs in series or two in parallel? | show 🗑
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| show | MASS ÷ VOLUME
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| What formula is used to calculate pressure? | show 🗑
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| What force causes a moving car to slow down? | show 🗑
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| How would the weight of an object change if it were taken to the Moon? | show 🗑
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| show | The mass would STAY THE SAME
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| show | SPEED
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| show | SPECTRUM
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| What do we call the splitting of light caused by a prism? | show 🗑
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| What is the name of the force that slows down a man falling by parachute? | show 🗑
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| What is the approximate percentage of oxygen in the atmosphere? | show 🗑
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| show | 78%
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| Approximately how many elements are there? | show 🗑
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| What kind of liquid has a pH value less than pH7. | show 🗑
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| show | ALKALINE
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| show | ALUMINIUM
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| To show if a liquid contains water you could add it to what blue chemical? | show 🗑
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| show | ANHYDROUS COPPER SULPHATE
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| What name is given to the smallest part of an element? | show 🗑
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| show | BLACK
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| A piece of apparatus that burns gas and is used to heat apparatus. | show 🗑
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| Ca is the symbol for which chemical element? | show 🗑
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| show | CALCIUM CARBONATE
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| Name a non-metallic element that conducts electricity | show 🗑
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| What gas would be formed when carbon reacts with magnesium oxide? | show 🗑
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| show | CARBON DIOXIDE and WATER
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| A way of separating a mixture of coloured dyes or pigments such as found in ink. | show 🗑
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| Is water a mixture, compound or element? | show 🗑
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| show | CONDENSE (condensation)
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| show | COPPER
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| show | COPPER OXIDE
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| What kind of reaction takes place when calcium carbonate is heated strongly to form lime? | show 🗑
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| show | DISTILLATION
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| show | ELEMENT
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| show | EVAPORATION
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| show | FILTRATE
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| show | FILTRATION
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| A substance has a melting point of -218°C and a boiling point of -183°C. Is it a solid liquid or gas? | show 🗑
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| If copper sulphate were heated would it’s mass gain, get less or not change? | show 🗑
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| Name a dense, yellow metal that is often used to make jewellery. | show 🗑
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| A form of carbon. The black substance inside pencils (the pencil lead). | show 🗑
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| show | H2O
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| show | HYDROGEN
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| Two liquids that will not mix together (like oil and water) | show 🗑
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| show | INCREASE
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| Pick an alkaline substance from: lemon juice, indigestion mixture, water, vinegar | show 🗑
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| show | INSOLUBLE
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| show | IRON
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| show | LIMEWATER
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| A substance has a melting point of -39°C and a boiling point of 357°C. Is it a solid liquid or gas? | show 🗑
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| Name an element that burns with a bright white flame | show 🗑
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| show | MAGNESIUM OXIDE
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| show | MALLEABLE
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| show | METHANE
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| Is air a mixture, compound or element? | show 🗑
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| The particle formed when two or more atoms chemically join together. | show 🗑
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| What kind of liIs the oxide of hydrogen acidic, alkaline or neutral? | show 🗑
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| What do we call the reaction between sodium hydroxide and hydrochloric acid. | show 🗑
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| show | NITROGEN
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| show | NOTHING
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| What gas will relight a glowing splint? | show 🗑
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| What is the pH value of pure water? | show 🗑
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| show | pH SCALE
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| show | PINK
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| show | PURPLE
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| If Litmus indicator was added to a liquid of pH 5 what colour would it go? | show 🗑
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| show | REDUCE (reduction)
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| show | REDUCING AGENT
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| The solid remaining in the filter paper after filtering. | show 🗑
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| What common name is given to the chemical called sodium chloride? | show 🗑
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| What solid chemical is formed when iron is added to siver nitrate solution | show 🗑
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| Which element has the symbol Na? | show 🗑
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| show | SODIUM CHLORIDE
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| show | SODIUM CHLORIDE AND WATER
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| A substance has a melting point of 113°C and a boiling point of 445°C. Is it a solid liquid or gas? | show 🗑
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| This is how we describe a substance that can be dissolved | show 🗑
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| If some salt is dissolved in warm water the salt is called the A: solution, B: solute, C: solvent ? | show 🗑
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| show | SOLUTION
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| show | STATES OF MATTER
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| show | SULPHUR
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| show | SULPHUR DIOXIDE
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| Flour is insoluble in water. When flour is shaken with water it will form a A: solution B: suspension C: filtrate | show 🗑
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| What colour change would you see if water was added to anhydrous copper sulphate | show 🗑
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| show | VINEGAR
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| Pick a neutral oxide from this list: Magnesium oxide, water, sulphur dioxide, carbon dioxide | show 🗑
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| What colour is magnesium oxide | show 🗑
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| What colour is sulphur? | show 🗑
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| Is a kidney best described as A: a cell, B: tissue, C: organ or D: organism? | show 🗑
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| What organ in our body contains valves | show 🗑
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| Name THREE features that would be found in ALL living cells. | show 🗑
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| show | 80 bpm
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| show | WRIST or NECK
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| show | 37 °C
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| show | LARGE VACUOLE, CHLOROPLASTS and CELL WALL
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| To which group of animals does a FROG belong? | show 🗑
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| How long does it take a human embryo to develop in the uterus? | show 🗑
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| In which cell structure does photosynthesis take place? | show 🗑
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| show | Stores URINE
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| show | Pulse INCREASES
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| Enzymes help which process take place in our body? | show 🗑
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| show | TISSUE
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| show | HABITAT
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| Which organ in a mammal puts oxygen into the blood? | show 🗑
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| What is the name of the process that releases energy in a cell? | show 🗑
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| What do we call the process of breaking down food? | show 🗑
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| What is the approximate mass of a new born baby? A: about 100g, B:about 1kg, C: about 4kg, D: about 12kg | show 🗑
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| show | PROTEIN
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| show | HEART
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| What organ in a human allows nutrients to pass from the mother's blood to the blood of an embryo? | show 🗑
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| show | CELL WALL
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| Name the waste gas produced during respiration | show 🗑
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| show | every 28 days
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| What cell contains the male gamete used to fertilize an egg? | show 🗑
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| Which part of a cell provides it with energy | show 🗑
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| show | NUCLEUS
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| What has to happen to an egg before it can start to develop into a baby? | show 🗑
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| show | a fertilized egg
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| What is a saprophye? | show 🗑
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| What organ is responsible for hearing and balance? | show 🗑
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| Which organ manufactures sperm in a human? | show 🗑
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| show | OVARY
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| What kind or organism lives on or in another living creature? | show 🗑
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| show | IODINE
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| Where in the mother’s body does the embryo develop? | show 🗑
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| Name the products of photosynthesis | show 🗑
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| show | LEAVES
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| Which part of a plant is where the seeds are made? Root, Flower, Stem or Leaves | show 🗑
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| Which part of the body removes soluble waste and excess water from the blood. | show 🗑
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| show | ROOT
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| When does photosynthesis take place in a plan, During the day, during the night or all the time? | show 🗑
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| Which kind of blood vessels carry oxygenated blood away from the heart? | show 🗑
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| What is the name of the process taking place when pollen lands on the stigma of a plant? | show 🗑
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| show | STOMATA
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| What do we call the process by which a plant grows from a seed? | show 🗑
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| Name a gas released by plants during photosynthesis | show 🗑
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| From where do the producers in a food chain obtain their energy? | show 🗑
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| show | From another ANIMAL
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| The first organism in a food chain is always what? (Producer or consumer) | show 🗑
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| Taking cuttings, budding, forming tubers and runners are all examples of what process? | show 🗑
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| What biological process releases oxygen into the atmosphere? | show 🗑
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| show | CHLOROPHYLL
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| What type of food do herbivores usually eat? | show 🗑
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| show | top of the STAMEN (anther)
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| show | ENZYME
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| What type of nutrient is provided by starch and sugar? | show 🗑
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| show | OVUM (egg)
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| show | NOCTURNAL
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| show | DECIDUOUS
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