Common Entrance (KS3) science questions
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| What is the metric unit for MASS? | show 🗑
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| show | EARTH
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| show | SATELLITE
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| What is your approximate height: A: 1500mm, B: 15m, C: 500cm or D: 0.1km ? | show 🗑
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| What is the normal melting point of water? | show 🗑
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| Name an instrument you would use to measure temperature: | show 🗑
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| What is your approximate mass: A: 4.5kg, B: 45 000g, C: 0.01tonne or D: 150kg ? | show 🗑
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| show | 8 planets
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| show | GRAVITY
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| show | NEWTON
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| What is the unit for VOLUME? | show 🗑
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| show | AMPERE
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| show | MEASURING CYLINDER
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| Two magnets, when brought together, repel. If the pole of one magnet is SOUTH what is the other pole? | show 🗑
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| show | NORTH pole
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| show | MERCURY
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| show | INCREASE
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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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| show | STRAIN
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| What form of energy is stored in a spinning disk? | show 🗑
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| show | MOON
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| show | JOULE
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| Name an instrument used for measuring CURRENT in a circuit: | show 🗑
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| A bike waiting at the top of a hill would have what sort of energy | show 🗑
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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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| show | The BATTERY
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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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| If a guitar string is plucked harder how would the sound change? | show 🗑
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| If a guitar string is made tighter how would the sound change? | show 🗑
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| show | VOLT
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| show | 1NEWTON
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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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| Which would stretch the most A) a single spring B) two springs in parallel. C) two springs in series? | show 🗑
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| Which would have the greater volume, 1kg of water, 1kg of wood or 1kg of aluminium?. | show 🗑
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| A brick measures 5cm x 5cm x 20cm.What is the volume of the brick? | show 🗑
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| To which galaxy does our Sun belong? | show 🗑
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| show | 2 g/cm³
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| What is needed to make something change shape or change direction | show 🗑
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| show | They are the same size
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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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| show | Two bulbs in series
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| What formula is used to calculate density? | show 🗑
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| show | FORCE ÷ AREA
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| What force causes a moving car to slow down? | show 🗑
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| show | The weight would GET LESS
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| How would the weight of an object change if it were taken to the Moon? | show 🗑
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| The formula DISTANCE ÷ TIME is used to calculate what? | show 🗑
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| What word is used to describe the rainbow of colours produced by a prism? | show 🗑
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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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| show | about 100
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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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| A very light metal used to make kitchen foil and saucepans. A good conductor of heat and electricity. | show 🗑
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| show | ANHYDROUS COBALT CHLORIDE
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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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| show | CALCIUM
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| show | CALCIUM CARBONATE
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| show | CARBON
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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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| This is what happens when a gas turns to a liquid due to being cooled down. For example when steam touches a cold mirror. | show 🗑
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| What solid product be formed if carbon was heated strongly with copper oxide. | show 🗑
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| What compound is formed when copper is heated in air? | show 🗑
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| show | DECOMPOSITION
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| show | DISTILLATION
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| Is carbon a mixture, compound or element | show 🗑
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| What process of separation would you use to obtain salt from salty water (filtration, distillation or evaporation)? | show 🗑
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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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| show | GET LESS
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| show | GOLD
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| show | GRAPHITE
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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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| If some copper foil were heated strongly in air would it’s mass increase, decrease or not change? | show 🗑
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| show | INDIGESTION MIXTURE
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| When a substance cannot dissolve. | show 🗑
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| In a common industrial process, carbon is heated with iron oxide. What everyday substance is being produced? | show 🗑
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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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| show | MAGNESIUM
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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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| Name the most abundant gas in the atmosphere | show 🗑
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| What would happen to a piece of copper if it were heated gently in a tube of nitrogen gas? | show 🗑
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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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| show | RED
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| show | REDUCE (reduction)
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| show | REDUCING AGENT
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| show | RESIDUE
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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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| show | SODIUM
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| What is the chemical name for the substance we call table salt? | show 🗑
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| Name the two products formed when sodium hydroxide reacts with hydrochloric acid | show 🗑
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| show | SOLID
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| show | SOLUBLE
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| show | SOLUTE
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| show | SOLUTION
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| SOLID, LIQUID and GAS are known as this. | show 🗑
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| show | SULPHUR
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| show | SULPHUR DIOXIDE
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| show | SUSPENSION
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| What colour change would you see if water was added to anhydrous copper sulphate | show 🗑
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| Pick a substance with a pH value less than Ph7: vinegar, water, limewater | show 🗑
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| Pick a neutral oxide from this list: Magnesium oxide, water, sulphur dioxide, carbon dioxide | show 🗑
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| show | WHITE
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| show | YELLOW
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| show | ORGAN
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| show | HEART
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| show | CYTOPLASM, NUCLEUS AND MEMBRANE
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| show | 80 bpm
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| show | WRIST or NECK
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| What is the normal body temperature of a human | show 🗑
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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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| show | 9 months
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| show | CHLOROPLAST
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| What function is carried out by our bladder | show 🗑
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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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| A section from an animals liver would be best described as A: a cell, B: tissue, C: an organ or D: an organism. | show 🗑
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| show | HABITAT
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| show | LUNGS
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| show | RESPIRATION
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| show | DIGESTION
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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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| Which organ in our bodies is effected by a diet containing too much fat? | show 🗑
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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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| Which part of a plant cell is made of cellulose? | show 🗑
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| Name the waste gas produced during respiration | show 🗑
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| show | every 28 days
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| show | SPERM
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| Which part of a cell provides it with energy | show 🗑
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| show | NUCLEUS
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| show | It has to be FERTILIZED
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| show | a fertilized egg
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| show | A decay organism (Fungi and bacteria)
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| show | EAR
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| Which organ manufactures sperm in a human? | show 🗑
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| Where is the egg formed in a human? | show 🗑
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| show | PARASITE
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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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| show | FLOWER
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| Which part of the body removes soluble waste and excess water from the blood. | show 🗑
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| Which part of a plant absorbs water from the ground? Root, Flower, Stem or Leaves | show 🗑
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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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| What do we call the holes on a plant leaf where gas exchange take place? | show 🗑
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| What do we call the process by which a plant grows from a seed? | show 🗑
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| show | OXYGEN
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| show | The SUN
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| From where would the predator in an ecosystem obtain its energy? | show 🗑
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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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| What green chemical, found in plant cells, is necessary for photosynthesis to take place? | show 🗑
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| show | PLANTS
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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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