Answer all questions

SECTION A (20 MARKS)

1. Flammable materials like alcohol 7. If an acid has been splashed on your
should not be dispensed or used skin, wash out with?
near________ A. Soap
A. An open space B. Oil
B. B. A sink C. A paper towel
C. C. An open flame D. Plenty of water
D. D. Another student 8. What is the name of characteristics
2. If laboratory fire erupts, where organisms get rid of waste?
immediately_______ A. Respiration
A. Inform your teacher B. Reproduction
B. Take the fire extinguisher C. Nutrition
C. Open the windows D. Excretion
D. Throw water on fire 9. What does sensitivity explain as one of
3. What should you do if you don’t the characteristics of organisms?
understand the lab procedures? A. Taking in and using food
A. Figure it out by yourself B. To sense, detect and respond to
B. Try several methods until one changes
works C. How to easily gain energy
C. Ask the technician before you D. How living things glow and
proceed develop
D. Skip some steps to next step 10. A change in organism's environment
4. You are heating a substance in a test that causes it to react is known
tube. Always point the as______?
tube__________ A. Stimulus
A. Towards yourself B. Response
B. Towards other classmates C. Reaction
C. Away from all students D. Development
D. Towards your lab's partner 11. All living things re made up of?
5. You re heating a glass on flame of fire A. Skin
and now you want to pick it up. What B. Muscle
should you use? C. Cells
A. Use a paper towel D. Chlorophyll
B. Touch the end that looks cooler 12. The use of oxygen in the breakdown of
C. Use tongs molecules to create energy produces
D. Pour water on it carbon dioxide and water. This process
6. Longhair in the laboratory must be? is called?
A. Cut short A. Respiration
B. Held away from the experiment B. Digestion
by one hand C. Elimination of waste
C. Tied back or kept entirely out D. Excretion
of the way with a rubber band 13. You should always carry the
or hair pin microscope by__________________?
D. Avoided A. Arm and base
 B. Arm and body tube B. Vertebrates
C. Arm only C. Mammals
D. The objectives D. Invertebrates
14. A microscope is an instrument that? 18. Organisms that have backbone are
A. Makes far away objects look called?
closer A. Animals
B. Decreases the sizes of smaller B. Mammals
objects C. Invertebrates
C. Increases the size of smaller D. Vertebrates
objects 19. Which of the following is feature that
D. Makes smaller objects appear can be used to classify plants?
larger A. Type of stem
15. The ___________ of the microscope B. Leaf length
would show you the most zoomed in C. Texture of the leaf
image. D. All of above
A. Stage 20. Plants get energy from ___________
B. Low power objective lens while animals get energy from?
C. High power objective lens A. The sun; dead stuff respectively
D. Medium power objective lens B. Photosynthesis; food from their
16. When scientists group objects environment respectively
according to their characteristics, they C. Photosynthesis; soil
call this process_____? respectively
A. Grouping D. Water; plants respectively.
B. Analysing
C. Classification
D. Species
17. The ____________ kingdom can be
divided into two groups; those with
backbone and those without backbone
repressively.
A. Animal

SECTION B (50 MARKS).

1. A. Mention three subjects that make up science
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_____________________________________________ (3 marks)

B. Define biology __________________________________________

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2. A. What is a biology laboratory? _______________________________________

_________________________________________________________(1 mark)

B. List only five laboratory rules

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_________________________________________________________ (5 marks)

3. Explain only two reasons why a stone is not regarded as a living organism?
(i)________________________________________________________________
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(ii)_______________________________________________________________
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___________________________________________________________(4
marks)

4. A. describe a cell
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______________________ (2 marks)

B. what does it mean by multicellular organisms?

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________________________________ (1 mark)

C. Explain the two functions of plasma _________________________________

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________________________ (4 marks)

D. Distinguish between plant cell and animal cell

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_____________________________________________________ (2 marks)

Study the figure bellow and use to answer the questions that follow.
5. A. Name the apparatus ________________________________ (1 mark)

B. Name the parts labelled A and B

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__________________________________________(2 marks)

C. What is the function of the part labelled C

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____________________________________________________ (2 marks)

You have been given a leaf on your desk. Please study it carefully and use it to answer
questions that follow.
6. A. what special name is given to this leaf being studied?
_________________________________________________________ (1 mark)

B. If you have been asked to draw that leaf, what rules would you follow/use
when drawing it? Give only three rules.
(i)________________________________________________________________
(ii)_______________________________________________________________
(iii)_______________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________(3 marks)

B. draw the leaf given and calculate its magnification

(6 marks)
7. Explain only two features that can be used to classify plants.
(i)._______________________________________________________________
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(ii)_______________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________ (4 marks)
8. In four paragraphs, explain four importance of studying biology
(i)________________________________________________________________
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(ii)_______________________________________________________________
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(iii)_______________________________________________________________
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(iv)_______________________________________________________________
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___________________________________________________ (8 marks)