Subject : Science

Austin Heights Private and International School

Year Group : YEAR 7

WORKSHEET Worksheet No. : 1

Name : Class : 7A Week No. :

1. What environmental factors might affect an earthworm living in a lawn?

2. What environment factors might affect a plant growing on a mountain top?

3. Name a biotic factor that could affect the number of rabbits in the ecosystem.

4. Name another abiotic factor, besides those provided by the Sun, which can affect the growth of the plants.

5. In this chapter, you will read about the following animals: roe deer, stoat, ptarmigan, lung fish, swallow, mountain
goat, fur seal, and cuttlefish. For each one, construct a food chain from the information given. Say what kind of
consumer the animal is, whether it is an herbivore or a carnivore, and whether it is prey and/or predator neither.

a. Roe deer – fox feeds on roe deer, roe deer feeds on grass.

b. Stoat – rabbit feeds on grass, stoat feeds on rabbits.

c. Ptarmigan – eagle feeds on ptarmigan, ptarmigan feeds on plants.

d. Lung fish – lung fish feeds on snails, snail feeds on plants, crocodile feeds on lung fish.

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 e. Swallow – insect feeds on plants, sparrow hawks feeds on swallow, swallow feeds on insects.

f. Mountain goat – wolf feeds on mountain goat, mountain goat feeds on plants.

g. Fur seal – shrimps feeds on algae in plankton, killer whale feeds on fur seal, fur seal feeds on shrimps.

h. Cuttlefish – crab feeds on sea snail, dolphin feeds on cuttlefish, sea snail feeds on algae, cuttlefish feeds on
crab.

6. How could you use a quadrat to see how the plants in a particular area change over a year?

7. Why are large leaves not used inside the trap?

8. What is the purpose of the cloth cover on the end of tube B inside the pooter?

9. What adaptations does the tawny owl have that allow it to detect, approach and attack its prey?

10. Why should the owl kill its prey quickly?

11. What adaptations do you think a mouse may have to help it survive a predator’s attack?

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12. In what ways are plants adapted to survive winter conditions?

13. How do the adaptations of a roe deer help it to survive in the winter?

14. In what ways are the features of a plant living in water different from a plant living on land?

15. What might happen if living organisms that emit light energy also produced a large amount of heat energy?

16. How does the field of vision of an herbivore compare with that of a carnivore?

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