Pearson GCSE Combined Science Biology Foundation
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| Which term describes organisms, such as plants or algae, that make their own food? | show 🗑
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| Why can plants and algae make their own food? | show 🗑
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| show | (consumers)
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| show | (herbivores/primary consumers)
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| Which term describes animals that kill and eat other animals? | show 🗑
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| show | (food chain/food web)
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| show | (ecosystem)
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| Which scientific term means all individuals of the same species living in a particular area? | show 🗑
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| show | (quadrat)
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| Fifty daisy plants have been found in a 10 m2 sample of a 100 m2 lawn. Estimate the total population of daisies in the lawn. | show 🗑
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| Which term measures the dry mass of all living tissue in an organism? | show 🗑
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| show | (light/Sun)
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| Which term describes any living part of an ecosystem? | show 🗑
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| show | (producers)
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| show | (to environment by heating)
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| How do you calculate the efficiency of energy transfer between trophic levels? | show 🗑
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| Name two resources that plants need from their environment. | show 🗑
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| show | (pollution/pollutant)
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| show | (belt transect)
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| Give two examples of abiotic factors that affect organisms. | show 🗑
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| show | (abiotic factors)
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| show | (photosynthesis)
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| How could a reduction in light intensity affect primary consumers in a community? | show 🗑
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| show | (predator/any consumer apart from primary)
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| show | prey
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| Which term describes environmental harm caused by the build-up of substances? | show 🗑
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| Which fieldwork technique uses a quadrat to find out about the distribution of organisms across a habitat? | show 🗑
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| During the last 10 000 years, temperatures in the Arctic have risen. Suggest how this may have caused the extinction of woolly mammoths. | show 🗑
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| Which term describes the struggle between organisms for a limited resource such as food? | show 🗑
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| Which term describes living factors in a community that affect other organisms? | show 🗑
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| Is predation an abiotic or biotic factor in ecosystems? | show 🗑
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| Which term describes the struggle between organisms for a limited resource? | show 🗑
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| show | (any suitable example, such as: mates, nesting space, food, water)
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| show | (any suitable example, such as: light, water, nutrients)
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| show | (biodiversity)
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| show | (predator–prey cycle)
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| You might expect the number of predators to drop in an area if their preferred pre y species declines in number. Suggest why this drop may not occur. | show 🗑
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| The malaria protist causes harm when it infects a human. Which term describes t his relationship between the malaria protist and human? | show 🗑
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| show | (anything suitable, such as: gets nutrients, multiplies in number)
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| show | (mutualism)
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| show | (non-indigenous/ non-native)
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| show | (nutrients)
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| show | (increases rate of growth)
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| show | (decrease in number of species)
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| show | (fish farming)
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| show | (by predation/competition)
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| How can fish farming increase the biodiversity of wild fish communities? | show 🗑
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| Which term means protecting species or their habitat? | show 🗑
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| Which term means planting new trees in a large area where trees were cut down? | show 🗑
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| How can planting trees increase animal biodiversity? | show 🗑
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| show | (non-indigenous/non-native)
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| What has been added to water that has undergone eutrophication? | show 🗑
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| What effect does eutrophication have on plants and algae? | show 🗑
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| show | (decrease in number of species)
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| Much of the salmon sold in supermarkets comes from fish grown in pens or pools. What is this method of production called? | show 🗑
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| show | How can a species introduced to an area reduce biodiversity? (by predation/competition)
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| show | (reduced capture of wild fish for humans to eat)
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| Which term means protecting species or their habitat? | show 🗑
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| Which term means planting new trees in a large area where trees were cut down? | show 🗑
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| show | How can planting trees increase animal biodiversity? (provides more food/habitats)
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| show | What is food security? (enough food for everyone)
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| show | (can all be killed by one pest/pathogen)
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| show | (needs more land than growing food crops)
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| show | (climate change/pollution/eutrophication)
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| show | (e.g. to replace fossil fuels/reduce carbon emissions/reduce problems of climate change)
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| show | (less room for growing food crops)
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| In the water cycle, which physical process causes liquid water to change into water vapour? | show 🗑
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| Which process in plants takes water from the soil and passes it to the air? | show 🗑
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| show | (condensation)
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| Give one reason why water is important to animals. | show 🗑
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| show | (any one suitable, e.g. carbon, nitrogen)
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| show | (evaporation)
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| show | (transpiration)
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| show | (condensation)
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| What is potable water? | show 🗑
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| show | (desalination/distillation)
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| Name one group of organisms that includes decomposers. | show 🗑
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| show | (carbon dioxide)
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| show | (any suitable carbon-containing compound, e.g. sugars, fats, proteins, DNA)
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| show | (photosynthesis)
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| show | (decomposer)
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| show | (decay/decomposition)
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| Which process in living organisms adds carbon to the atmosphere? | show 🗑
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| show | (combustion)
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| show | (photosynthesis)
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| show | (any two groups that are producers, e.g. plants, algae)
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| Why do fertilisers added to fields affect plant growth? | show 🗑
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| Name one problem caused to the environment by spreading too much fertiliser on fields. | show 🗑
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| Which name is given to bacteria that convert nitrogen from the air into nitrogen compounds? | show 🗑
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| Name one alternative to using powdered fertiliser that a farmer could use to improve crop growth. | show 🗑
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