Pearson GCSE Combined Science Biology Foundation
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| Why can plants and algae make their own food? | show 🗑
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| show | (consumers)
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| Which term describes animals that eat plants or algae? | show 🗑
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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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| Which scientific term means all the organisms and the environment they interact with? | show 🗑
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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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| show | (50 100 / 10 = 500)
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| show | (biomass)
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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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| Which energy transfer is least useful for organisms? | show 🗑
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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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| Which method can be used to study the distribution of organisms (how they are spread) in a straight line through an ecosystem? | show 🗑
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| show | (any two from: light, water/rainfall, space, nutrients, warmth/temperature, carbon dioxide/oxygen concentration)
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| Which term describes the non-living factors of an environment, such as temperature, light intensity and water availability? | show 🗑
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| For which process in plants is light intensity an important factor? | show 🗑
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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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| Which term describes animals that are killed and eaten by other animals? | show 🗑
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| show | (pollution)
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| show | (belt transect)
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| show | (any sensible suggestion, such as: mammoths over-heated, plants on which mammoths fed became extinct)
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| show | (competition)
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| Which term describes living factors in a community that affect other organisms? | show 🗑
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| show | (biotic)
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| Which term describes the struggle between organisms for a limited resource? | show 🗑
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| Give one example of a limited resource that animals might struggle with each other for. | show 🗑
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| Give one example of a limited resource that plants might struggle with each other for | show 🗑
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| show | (biodiversity)
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| Which cycle describes the relationship in population size of a secondary consumer and the animal species that it eats? | show 🗑
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| show | (the predators start to eat a different prey)
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| show | (parasitism)
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| How does the malaria protist benefit from being inside a human? | show 🗑
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| Which term describes a close relationship between two species that benefits both species? | 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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| show | (increases rate of growth)
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| Eutrophication of rivers and lakes can decrease biodiversity. What does this mean? | show 🗑
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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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| How can a species introduced to an area reduce biodiversity? | show 🗑
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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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| 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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| 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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| How can a species introduced to an area reduce biodiversity? | show 🗑
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| How can fish farming increase the biodiversity of wild fish communities? | show 🗑
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| show | Which term means protecting species or their habitat? (conservation)
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| show | reforestation)
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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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| Give one example of human-induced environmental change. | show 🗑
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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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| show | (transpiration)
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| In the water cycle, which process causes water droplets to form in clouds from water vapour in the air? | show 🗑
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| Give one reason why water is important to animals. | show 🗑
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| Name one material, other than water, that cycles through ecosystems. | show 🗑
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| show | (evaporation)
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| Which process describes how plants absorb water from the soil and release it into the air? | show 🗑
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| Which process causes the formation of clouds of water droplets from water vapour in the air? | show 🗑
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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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| Name one carbon compound found in living organisms. | show 🗑
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| show | (photosynthesis)
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| show | (decomposer)
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| show | (decay/decomposition)
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| show | (respiration)
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| show | (combustion)
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| show | (photosynthesis)
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| Name two groups of organisms that carry out the biotic process that removes carbon from the atmosphere. | show 🗑
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| show | Why do fertilisers added to fields affect plant growth? (contain nutrients)
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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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| show | (any suitable, e.g. spread manure/animal waste, crop rotation)
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