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Workbook 2007
Grade 7-9
(GET)
Compiled by Jenny Lancaster, Alaistar Hay and Nicholas XXXXXX
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1. Melville koppies – Harmony in Nature
a)
b)
How do you take a spider outside without killing it?
Give 2 ways in which Iron Age man dis
turbed Melville Koppies? ( LO2 AS3)
b)
What natural materials from Melville Koppies did Iron Age
people use to build their houses and villages? (LO2 AS2)
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2. Earthworms
a)
If earthworms are animals does it have
an immune system? (LO2 AS2)
b)
Without an immune system, how does it protect itself
against infection and disease? (LO2 AS3)
10. TSSA QUESTIONS
a)
Which of the following insects have a close relationship
3. MaAfrica Tikkun
with figs? (LO2 AS2)
Grasshoppers
b)
Moths
Bees
Wasps
Is the relationship beneficial to host plant and insect?
a)
What does a caregiver do? (LO2 AS2)
b)
How is the merry-go-round used in Diepsloot? (LO2 AS2)
(LO2 AS3)
c)
Which of the following insects have a close relationship
with the Wild Peach, Kiggelaria Africana (LO2 AS2)
Bees
d)
Flies
Grasshoppers
Butterfly larvae
Is the relationship beneficial to
host plant and insect? (LO2 AS3)
11. SPIDER CLUB
a)
Which spiders in South Africa are
UBUNTU (philosophy): a concept of
cytotoxic (their venom destroys
community from Sub-Saharan Africa,
cells)? (LO3 AS2)
often summarized as humanity towards
others
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4. PPRI – The Compost Heap
b)
For each of the following questions, write the letters 3
Match the words on the left with their corresponding terms on
most correct answers in the boxes provided. You
the right by filling in the correct letter on the left. (LO2 AS3)
should use all the letters only once! (LO2 AS3)
White grub
A
Grows on organic substrates
a)
Poaching is …
Conservancies stop poaching
by …
Rove beetle
B
Beetle larva
b)
Mushroom
C
Chewing mouth part
c)
We shouldn’t use poisons in
our garden as …
Mandible
D Acidiomycete
A
… placing of snares to entrap animals
B
… education of the local population
C
… they affect the environment we live in
D
… illegal removal of indigenous plants
E
… there is always secondary poisoning
F
… regular patrols of known poaching areas
G
… removal of snares
H
… if it has been designed to kill something it is
dangerous
I
… hunting indigenous fauna with dogs
Proboscis
E
Predator
Heterotrophic
organism
F
Sucking mouth part
c)
What does a hedgehog do when it feels threatened?
5 . APES
Plants
(LO2 AS2)
d)
a)
QUESTION
b)
Name the two phyla that make up a lichen. Give and
Where do bullfrogs hibernate through the winter?
(LO2 AS2)
e)
Which mammal can fly?
(LO2 AS2)
example of each. (LO2 AS2)
9. Gauteng Conservancy Agency
“Take a good look at the pictures and think about our planet”
Locusts
c)
What are the differences between grasshopper and
locusts? (LO2 AS2)
a)
What animal was snared, killed and the fetus removed?
(LO2 AS1)
6. SANBI – Walter Sisulu National Botanical
7. Beekeepers Association
Gardens
a)
a)
Name the four things bees
gather and bring back to the
What do we benefit from plants? (LO2 AS2)
hive. (LO2 AS2)
b)
Which plant help in healing
b)
What is propolis? (LO2 AS2)
wounds? (LO3 AS1)
c)
Which of these plants can be
used to make perfume fragrances?
(LO3 AS1)
8. Free Me
d)
What is the importance of bees in
the garden? (LO3 AS2)
a)
Where do plovers lay their eggs? (LO2 AS2)
b)
Why do lizards' tail sometimes fall off? (LO2 AS2)