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CARIBBEAN EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL CARIBBEAN SECONDARY EDUCATION CERTIFICATE@ EXAMINATION

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Proficiency

hour 15 minutes

08 JUNE 2016 (p.m.)

READ THE FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY. This test consists of 60 items. You will have t hour and I 5 minutes to answer them. 2

In addition to this test booklet, you should have an answer sheet.

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Each item in this test has four suggested answers lettered (A), (B), (C), you are about to answer and decide which choice is best.

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On your answer sheet, find the number which corresponds to your item and shade the space having the same letter as the answer you have chosen. Look at the sample item below.

(D). Read each item

Sample Item

Which of the following diseases is due to a dietary deficiency?

(A) (B) (C) (D)

Malaria Diabetes

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Influenza Anaemia

The correct answer to this item is "Anaemia", so (D) has been shaded.

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If you want to change your answer, erase it completely before you fill in your new choice.

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When you are told to begin, turn the page and work as quickly and as carefully as you can If you cannot answer an item, go on to the next one. You may retum to that item later.

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Figures are not necessarily drawn to scale

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DO NOT TURN THIS PAGE UNTIL YOU ARE TOLD TO DO

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-2Which of the following features is used to classify a group of organisms as Class

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Insecta?

(A) (B)

Size

(c)

Colour Number of segments

Shape

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(A)

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affected by abiotic factors which determine where they become established. Which of the following options describes some of these determining factors?

(A)

Sunlight availabilitY, soil PH,

(B)

Parasitism, commensalism,

(c)

mutualism Sediment size, shaPe and colour

(D)

Deforestation, slash and burn,

minerals

x Eleanor collected 13 snails in a 25 cm 25 cm quadrat. What is the density of the snail population in a I m2 area?

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Living organisms, such as plants,

shifting cultivation

Item 4 refers to the following diagram of a food web'

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Trophic Level

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