The British International School of Phnom Penh
Year 2020 – 2021
Key Stage: 3 Level: 2
Year: 9
BIOLOGY
Topic: Chapter 6 Classification and variation:
Instruction:
Watch the video lesson.
Read your book/handout on page numbers 86-93. Then answer the questions that follow.
Use a different sheet of paper for your answers. FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS.
Please refer to your book CHECKPOINT SCIENCE for question #1.
1) Identify one adaptation in each of the living things shown in Figures 6.1 to 6.4 that helps it to survive in its
habitat. (4 marks)
The Cell walls have hair, called Cilia, which it uses like oars to row itself through the water.
Passion flowers have a distinctive arrangement of stigmas, stamens, petals and sepals to
attract a range of pollinators including bees, wasps. hummingbird and bats.
A starfish doesn’t have a head, but it has a brain in the form of a ring, near the mouth. Each
arm has tiny suckers to help it move along the seafloor and feed on mussels.
It has an extra digit in it’s hand used for digging structures for burrowing through the soil.
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2) In a key about fish, the species are identified by the length of their bodies and by their body mass. (2 marks)
Is this reliable?
Explain your answer.
No, this is not reliable. Some species of fishes have the same length as some species of fishes. Although some species are
smaller and some are longer, it is totally unreliable. For mass, anyone can have mass. Two fishes from two species can
have the same mass.
3) Make a spider key for the four animals in Figure 6.6. Look carefully at the animals. Choose a feature they have all
got in common to put at the top of the key. (Please draw. )
(6 marks)
Try to use this:
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4) Identify the molluscs a-f in Figure 6.7 using the numbered key on page 90. In case, write down the number
of each statement you used to make the identification. (5 marks)
EXAMPLE:
A is a freshwater limpet. B is Bithynia.
1a, 2b, 3a 1b, 2b, 3b, 4a, 5a, 6a, 7a
C is a pond snail. D is a ramshorn snail.
1b, 2b, 3b, 4a, 5a, 6a, 7a
1b, 2b, 3b, 4a,
E is a sebra mussel. F is a freshwater mussel.
1a, 2b, 3b, 4b, 5b, 6b, 7a
1a, 2b, 3b, 4b, 5b, 6b, 7a
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5) Make up a numbered key to identify the arthropods in Figure 6.8 (page 92). Begin by separating the butterfly, which
has six legs, from the others. (Hint: Use the number of legs)
(3 marks)
EXAMPLE:
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