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Term 2 Gr.10 ASSIGNMENT 2023 Marking Guideline Final

This document provides the marking guidelines for an assignment on the history of life on Earth. It outlines the questions asked in the assignment and the correct answers that would be awarded marks. The questions cover topics like extinct organisms, periods in Earth's history, mass extinctions, constructing graphs from data, fossilization processes, and methods of dating fossils. The marking guidelines are broken down question by question with detailed explanations of what earns marks for each answer component.

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Term 2 Gr.10 ASSIGNMENT 2023 Marking Guideline Final

This document provides the marking guidelines for an assignment on the history of life on Earth. It outlines the questions asked in the assignment and the correct answers that would be awarded marks. The questions cover topics like extinct organisms, periods in Earth's history, mass extinctions, constructing graphs from data, fossilization processes, and methods of dating fossils. The marking guidelines are broken down question by question with detailed explanations of what earns marks for each answer component.

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LIFE SCIENCES GRADE 10: 2023

Assignment Term 2: History of Life on Earth


Marking Guidelines
QUESTION 1
1. A – Brookesia perarmata 
1 B – Varanus komodoensis 
C – Abronia gramenia 
D – Cyclura lewisi  (4)
1.
2
1.2.1 Organism A = Serval/Leptailurus serval
Organism B = Cheetah/Acrinonyx fabatus
Organism C = Sand cat/Felis margarita (3)
1.2.2. Felis  (2)
Note: Must start with a capital letter, must be only 1 word. Look at the
learner’s answer for Organism C.
(9)
QUESTION 2
2. Gondwanaland  (1)
1
2. (a) Cynognathus  (1)
2
Mesosaurus  (1)
(b) Africa, India, Antarctica (Any Two) (2)
2. Land masses were once joined and over time had split apart.  (1)
3
(Continental drift had taken place)
(6)
QUESTION 3
3. 4600 million years / 4.6 billion years  (1)
1
3. Palaeozoic 
2
Mesozoic 
Cenozoic  (3)
3. 542  - 251
3 = 291 Million Years  (4)

1
3. C - Cambrian explosion  (2)
4
3. The dinosaurs became extinct at the end of the Mesozoic era  (During
5 Cretaceous Period) This means that there was less predation / less
competition/ More available ecological niches. (2)
(12)

QUESTION 4
4. Mass extinctions are when large number of species become extinct/die out 
1 over a short period of time.  (2)

4. End Permian  (1)


2
4. Volcanic eruptions  (1)
3
4.
4

Mark allocation:
Criteria Description
Type (T) Bar Graph 
Title (C) BOTH variables (Genera and Mass
Extinction) 
Labels: X- and Y-axis (L) Correct labels for both 
Scaling (S) Correct scale for Y-axis

2
Equal spacing and width of bars 
Plotting (P) 1 Bar plotted Correctly 
5 Bars Plotted Correctly 
TOTAL 6

If axes transposed: marks lost for axes


If wrong graph: marks lost for type and Plotting
(6)
(10)

QUESTION 5
5. 2  4  3  1  (Mark position of numbers) (4)
1
5.  The dead organisms are covered quickly by sediment
2
therefore they are not eaten 
 The oxygen content of the water is low  thus preventing bacterial activity
therefore little / no decomposition of tissue 
 Sediment is present  so organism is easily covered  Any 2 x 2 (4)
5. Uplifting of the rock (quakes) / erosion  (1)
3
5.  Don’t have resistant body parts, e.g. shells or bones / Soft bodies rot and
4 do not easily form fossils. 

 May be eaten, scavenged, decay / bacterial action or weathered down


before  it can be fossilised.
 Die in areas where sedimentation / burial is not likely e.g. treetops. 
Any 2 (2)
5. Radiometric Dating 
5
Relative Dating  (2)
(13)
TOTAL: [50]

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