SRI LANKAN Admission Number: Class: (TERNATIONAL SCHOOL RIYADH - KSA Biology Grade 8 I hour and 45 minutes First Semester Examination 2019/20 Tuesday 24 December 2019 Total Marks Instructions to Candidates + Fill in the boxes at the top of this page with your admission number and class. + This paper contains 12 questions on 20 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 total mark for this paper is 100. «+ The marks for each question are shown in brackets (). Advice to Candidates + Read each question earefully before you start to answer it. « Keep an eye on the time. + Cheek your answers if you have time at the end. + Write your answers neatly and in good English. Examiner’s use only Name Marks | Signature Marked by (Checked by Question Marks 1 12 3 4 15 16 7 18 19 20 21 2 Ey 28 Total Department of Sciences, Sri Lankan International School Riyadh - KSA‘ANSWER ALL THE QUESTIONS QL. Yeast can respire anaerobically and is used to produce beer. (a) Write the word equation for anaerobic respiration in yeast. @ (b) Write the word and chemical equations of aerobic respiration @) (b) Describe a test you could use to identify the gas produced when yeast respires anaerobically. @)) (Total for question = 7 marks) Department of Science Grade 8 Biology Page 1 of 20Q2. (@) The table shows some of the levels of organisation within an organism. Complete the table by inserting a tick (+) to show the level of organisation of each example, ‘The first one has been done for you. 3) nucleus y circulation chloroplast leaf (b) Place the following structures in order of size from the smallest to the largest. Virus, bacteria, cheek cell, eye, stomach, @ smallest | | largest (Total for question = 6 marks) Department of Science Grade $ Biology Page 2 of 20Q3. 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. @) have a protein coat * x Z all are pathogens cell walls made of chitin contain DNA in a nucleus respire (Total for question = 4 marks) ‘Department of Science Grade 8 Biology Page 3 of 20{ Q:4 Starch is a nutrient in food. Starch is a source of energy. ] Ht were used to investigate the breakdown of | Enzymes from different parts of the digestive syster starch, Figure 10 shows the apparatus used in this investigation. | test tube 1 test tube 2 > | starch and iodine starch and iodine solution with liquid solution with liquid from the mouth from the stomach | Figure 10 The colour of the contents of each test tube was recorded every two minutes for a total of ten minutes, The results are shown in Figure 11. ‘Department of Science Grade 8 Biology Page 4 of 200 blue-black blue-black 2 blue-black blue-black 4 brown blue-black 6 orange blue-black 8 orange blue-black 10 orange blue-black Figure 11 (i) Give one reason why the contents of both test tubes were blue-black at the beginning of the investigation. (ii) Explain the results of this investigation after ten minutes. a @) (Total for question = 4 marks) Department of Science Grade 8 Page 5 of 20 BiologyQS. The following organisms can be classified into major groups. Amoeba Lactobacillus bean Mucor mosquito (a) From the list above give the name of “ (i) a bacterium. ci (Gi) a fungus, (iii) a flowering plant. (iv) an animal (b) Viruses are not included in most classification systems. (i) Give three ways in which viruses differ from other living organisms. @) (ii) Give one example of a disease caused by a virus, name the organism it infects and describe its effect on the organism. @) Disease .. Organism infected. Effect ... (Total for question = 10 marks) ‘Department of Science Grade 8 Biology Page 6 of 20Q6. A student investigated the effect of size on the movement of molecules. He cut three different sized cubes from a block of clear agar jelly. Cube A was 2 x 2 x 2 om. Cube B was 1 * 1 1 em and cube C was 0.5 * 0.5 * 0.5 em. cube A cube B cube C The student wore safety glasses and placed the cubes in a beaker of red dye solution for five minutes. He then poured the solution into another beaker, washed the surface of the cubes and dried them with blotting paper. He then cut each cube in half and examined the newly cut surfaces. Diagram 1 shows what the cubes looked like. O o Diagram 1 (a) Why did he wear safety glasses? a) @) Department of Science Grade 8 Page 7 of 20(©) Use a ruler to measure the distance the red dye has entered each cube in diagram 1. @ mm (@) G) Calculate the surface area of cube A. @) surface area =. nit . (ii) Calculate the volume of cube A. @ volume = i unit (e) The student was told by his teacher that the cubes have different surface area to volume ratios. Complete the table by putting one tick (v’) in each row to show whether the statement applies to cube A, B or C. largest surface area largest surface area to volume ratio greatest proportion of cube coloured red ‘Department of Science Grade 8 Biology Page 8 of 20(® Explain how this experiment can be used to understand the need for transport systems in larger organisms such as hymans GB) (Total for question = 14 marks) Department of Science Grade 8 Biology Page 9 of 20Q7. The diagram shows a yeast cell. c (a) @ Give the names of the following structures, Be D-... E. iF 6) (ii) Fungi store glycogen as their carbohydrate in structure C. Give another type of organism that store glycogen. wm ) ‘Department of Science Grade 8 Biology Page 10 of 20(©) A student uses this apparatus to investigate the effect of temperature on anaerobic respiration in yeast. liquid paraffin yeast in glucose solution gas bubble water bath water ‘The student uses the water bath to control the temperature of the yeast in glucose solution. He measures the rate of anaerobic respiration by counting the number of gas bubbles produced in one minute. The table shows the student's results, 40 14 Department of Science Grade 8 Biology Page 11 of 20() Plot a graph to show the effect of temperature on the rate of anaerobic respiration Use a ruler to join the points with straight lines. 6) Department of Science Grade 8 Page 12 of 20 Biology VW(ii) Explain the results obtained at 20 °C and at 52°C. @ 20°C (Total for question = 18 marks) Department of Science Grade 8 Biology Page 13 of 20Qs. The passage describes how different organisms are classified into groups. ‘Complete the passage by writing a suitable word or words in each of the spaces. Plants are multicellular organisms. They have 0 carry out photosynthesis and cell walls made of... i - They store carbohydrate a8 «0m svn OF AS SUCTOSE. Animals are also multicellular but do not carry out photosynthesis. They store carbohydrate as Bacteria are single-celled organisms. They do not have a nucleus. Instead, they contain a circular circles of DNA called other living or dead organisms but some bacteria can make their own food by and smaller - Most bacteria feed off Examples of bacteria include Lactobacillus, used in the production of from milk, and Pneumococcus, that acts as a..... causing the disease (Total for question = 10 marks) Department of Science Grade 8 Biology Page 14 of 20