Admission Number: Class: | Biology. Grade 8. 1 hour 45 minutes. First Semester Examination 2018-2019 ‘Total Marks Sunday 23 December 2018 Instructions to Candidates 1 «+ Fill in the boxes at the top of this page with your admission number and class. © This paper contains 9 questions on 16 pages. « Encirele the number of each question answered ¢ Do not use paper clips, highlighter, glue or correction fluid. + Copying will result in zero marks. Information for Candidates © The fofal mark for this paper is 100. © The marks for each question are shown in brackets (), Advice to Candidates © Read each question carefully before you start to answer it » Keep an eye on the time. sek your answers if you have time at the end. © Write your answers neatly and in good English. 3 Marked by Checked by Department of Science, Sri Lankan Imernational School Rivadh - KSAANSWER ALL QUESTIONS 1. Given below is a structure of plant cell, a) Use the letters from above diagram and complete the table 1.1 (S) Write one letter only in each box to identify the function. You may use each \etter once, more than once or not at all Table 1.1 function controls movement of substances into and out of the coll ‘exerts a pressure to help maintain the shape of the cell produces sugars using light as a source of energy withstands the internal pressure of the ceil controls all the activities of the cell Depariment of science Biology Grade 8 Page 4 of 16b) Below table shows some structural features of plant and al table by indicating whether they are present (¥ ) or abseni(*) in the plant cell and imal cell. Complete the animal cell.(first has been done for you.) (5) Structural feature Animal cell Plant cell Cell wall. x Vv Nucleus Mitochondria chloroplast Ribosomes: Cell membrane ©) Living organisms share some basic characteristics. Draw a straight line from each characteristic to its correct description. The first has been done for you. (3) Characteristic Description respiration excretion reproduction growth nutrition Departnent of science Biology Page 2 of 16 Grade 82. The photograph shows some viruses. @ @) re) (d) Bacteria and viruses ean act as pathogens. (i) What is a pathogen a Department of scence Biology Grades Page 3 of 16(ii) Give an example of a disease caused by a virus. a) (c) The table gives features of three different groups of organism. Complete the table by putting a tick (v ) in the box if the organisms in the group have the feature and a cross («) in the box if the organisms in the group do not have the feature, The first one has been done for you. (4) Group of organism Feature of organism Bacteria Fungus ncoat x have a prote alll are pathogens cell walls macle of chitin contain DNA in a nucleus Deparament of science Biology Grade 8 Page 4 of 163. The action of enzymes are often explained in terms of the “Lock and Key “Model. a) What is an enzyme GB) b) Given below is a “Lock and key model of an enzyme” ae _ (i) Use the information to explain how enzymes work to break nutrients like starch. (4) Department of science Biology Grade 8 Page 5 of 16(c) Graph shows the effect of temperature on an enzyme. leworeas 100 sab i oy 4 are “Tempertlve. (i) What is the optimum temperature of the enzyme? «@ (ii) Explain why the activity of the enzyme is greater at 35°C than at 20°C? (2) (iii) What happens to the enzyme at 60 °C? a) (iv) Explain the differences between extracellular enzymes and intra cellular enzymes? Q) Department of science Biology Grade 8 Page 6 of 16(2) Starch is digested to maltose by the enzyme amylase. According to the “Lock and key “hypothesis, which is the “key” and which is the “lock”? (1) Amylase | Mal-lose starch Amylase (Total for question= 14) 4. A student prepared some plant cells taken from an onion. She placed the cells ina few drops of distilled water. She then used a camera attached to a microscope to photograph the cells. She then added a few drops of concentrated salt solution to the cells and waited a few minutes. She then took another photograph of the same cells. photograph of cells in concentrated salt solution Department of science Biology Grate 8 Page 7 of 16(a) Deseribe the differences in the appearance of the cells in concentrated salt solution compared with the cells in distilled water. (2) (b) The student thought that the differences in the cells were caused by osmosis. What is meant by the term osmosis? Q) (c) Explain what happens to the cells in concentrated salt solution to change their appearance, @) Department of science Biology Goade 8 Page 8 of 16(d) Another student investigated the appearance of red blood cells in distilled water and in concentrated salt solution, Use your knowledge of osmosis and the structure of red blood cells to describe and explain what the red blood cells would look like (i) In distilled water @ (ii) In concentrated sait solution. Q) 5. A student carried out an experiment to show the effect of diffusion in different sizes of jelly cubes. The cubes have different volumes, total surface area and also surface area /volume ratio.as shown in the table below. Surface area of Surface area to Length of side | Volume of cube /em* of cube/om (length width» cube/em’(length volume ratio. height) ___| width of one side)6 ee a7 1 (a) Complete the table, (3) Department ofscience Piotogy Grade 8 Page 9 of 16(b) Which tube would be the first to turn colorless? explain (2) (c) Unicellular organisms can take materials in and out through diffusion but multi Cellular organisms need specialized systems explain? ) (d) Write three factors other than surface area/volume ratio that affects the rate of diffusion? GB) (Total for question= 12 ) Department of science Biology Grade 8 Page 10 of 166. Complete t following table. Plants have cell walls made Of,.......ss/000secsseees cecssuthey store carbohydrate as the insoluble compound called .....-.-.. or sometimes as the SUgar.........s.ssseteesseessessseePlants make these substances as a result of the process called. Animals on the other hand ,store carbohydrate as the compound . Both animals’ and plants’ cells have nuclei, but the cells of bacteria lack a true nucleus, having their DNA in a circular chromosome. They sometimes also contain small rings of DNA called .. which are used in genetic engineering, Bacteria and fungi breakdown organic matter in the soil. They are KNOWN AS ce cseeeeveseeeereeeeee cossssesseesee-Some bacteria are pathogens which means that they (Total for question = Department of science Biology. Grade 8 Page 11. of 167. The diagram shows a c10ss section through a teat, layer A fF layer} layer B \ \ Bach part of the leaf is adapted for specific function (a) Name each part of the leaf and explain how it helps the leaf in photosynth Layer Layer B.... LayerC . Department of science Biology Grade 8 Page 12 of 16(b) Water lilies float on the surface of ponds. Structure D is found on the upper surface of a water lily rather than the lower surface. Suggest a reason for this adaptation (Total for question =10) 8. The diagram shows a section through the root of a plant. “xylem ~ ~~ phloem Deparment of science Bialogy Grade 8 Page 13 of 16(a) Name two substances that are transported in xylem ) (c) Draw and label a root hair cell in the following space ©) (d) What are the four main factors that affect the rate of transpiration? (4) (c) Write two differences between the xylem tissue and phloem tissue? @) (Total for question =13) Department of seience Biology Grade 8 Page 14 of 169, Underline the most suitable answer i. By which process water is lost fiom the leaves A .Active transport B Osmosis C. Diflusion D Photosynthes s through the cells of a plant, as the water travels from ii. In which order does water pas the roots to a leaf? ‘A, Mesophyll cells—»root hair——rroot cor B, Root cortex —rroot hair—exylem —> mesophyll cells. C. Root hair —-»mesophylll cells —rroot cortex—e xylem. D. Root hair —»root cortex—»xylem—» mesophyll cells. —»xylem. Which graph shows most clearly what will happen to the rate of transpiration as humidity increases? rale of cot \rongpiration zanspiraion anviity vaity ce Db ralo of ae tate of ansplration | transpiration Thamidiy rity Biology Grade 8 Department of science Page 15 of 16iv. What is transported in the phloem and what is the direction of transport? A, Starch up and down B, Starch, up only . Sucrose, down and up. D. Sucrose, down only y. How do carbon dioxide and oxygen move in and out of the mesophyll cell? A. Active transport B. Diffusion. C. Transpirati D. Respiration. vi. The diagram shows water and sugar molecules on either side of a partially permeable membrane parfially permeable membrane © sugarmolecute © watermolecue » What happens during osmosis? A More sugar molecules pass through the membrane from X to ¥ than frorn ¥ to X B_ More sugar molecules pass through the membrane trom ¥ to X than from X to ¥ More water molecules pass through the membrane from X to ¥ than from Y to X. D_ More water molecules pass throught the membrane from ¥ to X than frem X lo Y, (Total for question ~6) TOTAL POR THE PAPER +100. Department of sclence Biology Grade 8 Page 16 of 16