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Welcome to your Conquesta Olympiad. When you have decided which of the answers is correct, scratch out the letter in
the matching square on your answer sheet. Example:- If the answer to question 4 is c, then scratch out the letter c in the
square containing c next to the number 4 (see example 1 below). If you’ve made a mistake and b should have been the answer,
neatly cross out the mistake and then scratch out b (see example 2 below).
Example 1:- 4. a b c d Example 2:- 4. a b c d
1. Which of these best describes the term 5. Which of these organisms are not found in a
‘biodiversity’? wetland habitat?
(a) All the animals and plants (a) Reeds. (b) Storks.
in their different habitats. (c) Meerkat. (d) Dragonflies.
(b) All the different types of
animals found in a 6. Which statement is incorrect?
habitat. (a) Herbivores eat plants.
(c) All the different types of (b) Carnivores eat the animals that eat plants.
plant species found in a (c) Omnivores eat plants and animals.
habitat. (d) Scavengers hunt and kill prey every day.
(d) All the different types of plants and animals found
in a grassland.
2. Which of these is not an example of a habitat?
(a) Sea. (b) Desert. (c) Zoo. (d) Forest.
Imagine how difficult it must be to live on rocks being
pounded by waves all day and all night. All living and non-living things depend on each other.
3. Which animals in the pictures below live on, or 7. Living things depend on their environment for ......
near rocks? (a) air, water, soil, food and shelter.
(a) Jellyfish. (b) Sharks. (b) air, water, community and recreation.
(c) air, water, soil and adaptation.
(d) air, water, soil and reproduction.
The honey badger loves to eat honey. It can use its
strong claws and teeth to break open beehives.
(c) Mussels. (d) Schools of fish.
8. Why does the honey badger not get stung by
bees?
(a) It has strong claws and teeth.
(b) It has a very thick skin which bees cannot
4. How is the giraffe adapted to live pierce.
successfully in a savannah? (c) It emits a very bad odour that repels bees.
(a) They have long necks in order to (d) It scares the bees away with its fierce claws
store water. and teeth.
(b) They have long necks which enable
them to eat a lot of grass. 9. Animals without a backbone are
(c) They have very long necks which classified as ......
are an adaptation to feed on leaves (a) vertebrates.
high in the treetops. (b) exoskeletons.
(d) They have very long and powerful (c) invertebrates.
necks to help them break tree (d) vertebra.
branches.
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Different parts of a vertebrate have
their own unique functions.
15. Which part of the skeleton is
responsible for connecting
the legs to the body?
(a) Shoulder blades.
(b) Backbone.
(c) Pelvic (hip) girdle.
(d) The tibia (shin bone).
10. Which of these is a list of arthropods? 16. Choose the correct
(a) Lobsters, crabs, bats and centipedes. statement.
(b) Shrimp, crayfish, scorpions and spiders. (a) The ribs protect the lungs
(c) Lobsters, butterfly, termites and mice. and the stomach.
(d) Lobsters, crabs, bats and ticks. (b) The ribs protect the lungs
and the heart.
11. Which statement is incorrect? (c) The ribs protect the lungs
(a) All insects have exoskeletons. and the liver.
(b) All insects have segmented bodies. (d) The ribs protect the lungs
(c) Insects have three main body parts – a head, and the kidneys.
thorax and an abdomen.
(d) All insects have six or more legs. 17. The ‘spinal cord’ is the ......
(a) backbone which keeps the body upright.
Strawberry plants use a runner to make new plants. (b) nerves that connect the brain to the body.
(c) spine made up of bones called vertebrae.
(d) cartilage between the vertebrae.
The brain is the most important
part of the body, but it is very
soft and susceptible to damage.
18. Which part of the skeleton
protects the brain?
(a) Forehead.
(b) Skull.
(c) Backbone.
(d) Trachea (windpipe).
12. What is this process called? There are different types of structures.
(a) Germination. (b) Reproduction. 19. What type of structure is the skeleton in the
(c) Growth. (d) Seed dispersal. picture at the top of this column?
(a) Frame. (b) Shell. (c) Solid. (d) Rigid.
A bird drinks nectar from
a flower, and brushes 20. Which statement is not true about structures?
against the internal parts (a) A structure is something
of the flower as it drinks. that holds or supports.
The bird will then fly to (b) A frame structure consists
another flower, where the of parts joined together.
same process happens. (c) A shell structure is usually
13. What does the bird do to the next flower? curved and hollow.
(a) Disperses the flower. (d) All structures are man-made structures.
(b) Fertilises the flower.
(c) Germinates the flower. Plants make their own food by a process called
(d) Pollinates the flower. photosynthesis.
21. To do this, plants need ……
14. Flowers have male and female parts. (a) carbon dioxide, water and air.
What is the name of the female part? (b) water, carbon dioxide and sunlight.
(a) Anther. (c) nutrients, nitrogen
(b) Ovary. and sunlight.
(c) Stamen. (d) water, carbon
(d) Petal. dioxide and wind
energy.
