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Question: Describe a human activity that has a harmful effect on aquatic environments.
Real answer: fishing, reduces population of some species etc.
Unreal answers:
-toxic waist

Question: Describe a human activity that has a harmful effect on terrestrial environments.
Real answer: clearing land, kills plants and removes animal habitat.
Unreal answers:
-Otto men - dumping rubbish
-Woodchopping [as at Easter Show] - to do this people need to cut down good trees which don't deserve that.

Question: Name an Australian plant that has been badly affected by human activity and describe how humans have affected this plant.
Real answer: red cedar, logging for valued timber has made this species relatively rare.
Unreal answers:
-Maruwana, it kan kill you a million times faster than smoke.

Question: Name an Australian animal that has been badly affected by human activity and describe how humans have affected this animal.
Real answer: bilby, introduced rabbits compete with it for food etc, their population is declining.
Unreal answers:
-The billby, we inter just rabbits which ate all tin food.
•hrino, hunting it for a sport or a trophy.
•Mountain gorilla because pouchers come and shoot them.

Question: Describe a human activity that has a harmful effect on terrestrial environments.
Real answer: burning fossil fuels, increased CO2 leads to Greenhouse warming of planet.
Unreal answers:
-Every time a rocket goes into the universe it puts a hole in the atmosphere.
-Driving cars and using lots of electricity has put to much carbon dioxide in the air and now there is an ozone layer in the planet.

Question: Primitive man fought dinosaurs. Comment on this statement.
Real answer: This was not possible as dinosaurs became extinct long before humans evolved.
Unreal answers:
-Man fought the dinosaurs because of the hugeness and angryness and now love them for there uniqueness.
-They fought them to survive to eat.
-No. We were just rats back then.
-They once fought the dinosaurs for their land.
-It would have been difficult with an spers and stone they did not own upgrade weapons.
-We did that for meat and for our tools and clothes.

Question: Explain why Australia has such unique animals.
Real answer: Australia separated from Gondwana before other animals evolved and remained in isolation for millions of years.
Unreal answers:
-Because Australia is not like other countries it has better living standards.
-They discover animals and plants are human.

Question: Explain what is meant by 'Survival of the fittest'.
Real answer: Natural selection favours those individuals which are best suited to the conditions. They are more likely to live and reproduce.
Unreal answers:
-because if you can run your in if you can't you're out.
-Survival of the fittest is eat: good exercise will and the fittest will live long.

Question: Explain how scientists use earthquake waves.
Real answer: Measurements of earthquake waves can be used to pinpoint the exact location of earthquakes and can be used to determine the internal structure of the earth.
Unreal answers:
-to generate electricity.
-for cooking food etc.

Question: Using the correct scientific term give an example of an object's tendency to resist a change in its motion.
Real answer: inertia keeps a persons body still when an aeroplane takes off, creating a feeling of being pinned back in the seat.
Unreal answers:
-Mutation makes you lurch forward when a bus stops suddenly.

Question: Man has introduced a variety of plant and animal species with drastic effects on the Australian flora and fauna. For one introduced plant and one introduced animal: name it, describe why it was introduced, what effect it has had and what has been done to control it.
Real answer: animal-cane toad introduced to eat cane beatle but it eats other things and poisons things that try to eat it. It has not been controlled. plant- prickly pear, introduced for its fruit, smothers large areas of grazing land. It has been controlled with the cactoblastus moth, whose larvae eats prickly pear.
Unreal answers:
-cane toads, they were introduced with the first fleet to overcome the wild animals.
-cane toad, it was introduced to kill all the rabbits in Qld.
-Panda bear- I'm not really sure what country it comes from originally but I think it was introduced because of money hungry politicians.
-The only way to control the cane toad is with myxomatosis.
-plant - marijuana - introduced to be smoken and enjoyed but now illegal.

Question: Life is believed to have started first in the sea. What evidence suggests that this is the case?
Real answer: The oldest and simplest fossils are of sea creatures.
Unreal answers:
-Whales.

Question: When a scientist cut the tails off mice for more than 400 generations, he found the mice STILL gave birth to babies with normal tails. a) What was he trying to show, b) Whose theory does this experiment tend to disprove.
Real answer: a) that a characteristic acquired during an animals lifetime is not passed on to future generations, b) Lamarck.
Unreal answers:
-a) He was trying to show that mice can still breed with their tales off.
-a) He was trying to see how a mouse could live without his tail, b) anyway what does mice tail got to do with evolution.
-a) That if you cut off their tails they can't give birth.

Question: Describe with a suitable example the relationship between organisms that is 'predation' (predator/prey).
Real answer: Predation involves one organism hunting ang eating another e.g. owls are predators that eat mice, their prey.
Unreal answers:
-predation = It like you don't know something but you predict it.

Question: Explain the scientific principle of inertia.
Real answer: Inertia is the resistance of an object to a change in its motion.  Heavy objects are difficult to stop or to get moving because they have a lot of inertia.
Unreal answers:
-It a disease caused by sun rays coming through the ozone hole.
-Interia is something that I have no idea what it is but I know there is an interia on a car or something.
-Inertia is the speed that light, sound, etc. travels at.

Question: Describe how Antarctica was different during the time of the dinosaurs compared to the present.
Real answer: Antarctica was joined to other continents allowing seasonal migration and had forests etc..
Unreal answers:
-Antarctica was different cause dinosaurs wern't allowed on Antarctica. now no one is.

Question: What causes the tides?
Real answer: The gravity of the moon and sun.
Unreal answers:
-The causing of tides is the sand & rocks.

Question: Why are the tides in Spring so big?
Real answer: In Spring the Sun and Moon line up to create a stronger pull in one direction.
Unreal answers:
-The tides in spring are so big is because of Birds need of water & other species need it too.
-because the moon is bigger in spring.

Question: Granite has large crystals while basalt which contains the same minerals develops much smaller crystals. Explain the difference in the way they form that causes different crystal sizes.
Real answer: Basalt forms when lava cools relatively fast producing small crystals. Granite forms when magma cools slowly underground and develops larger crystals.
Unreal answers:
-Granite = stir with water & wait for a few days, big crystals form each day.

Question: What is the main way erosion occurs?
Real answer: Water washing materials away.
Unreal answers:
-for it to be Dark after 5:30 pm.

Question: Describe oneway in which the local wetland is being damaged.
Real answer: pollution, run-off from the school, etc.
Unreal answers:
-down where the rain forest is the govements wont to put comison on it that is was what I heard. [housing commission?]

Question: Name other organs of excretion and the substance they excrete.
Real answer: skin, removes salt OR lungs, remove CO2.
Unreal answers:
-the bladder removes fieces

Question: Name the type of joint found at the knee and elbow.
Real answer: hinge joint.
Unreal answers:
-funny bon

Question: What is the largest excretory organ in the body and what is removed by this?
Real answer: skin, salt.
Unreal answers:
-the skin removes urine

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R. Neville
10/11/2007