SB7 Practice Questions (9-1 Specification).

Scroll down to the bottom for the mark scheme.

Q1. For a woman to become pregnant, a sperm must fertilise one of her eggs. At the time
the egg is released, the body temperature rises slightly. A woman wanted to become pregnant. She
measured her body temperature each day for 28 days, starting on the first day of her menstrual cycle.
The chart she kept is shown below.

(a) (i) What was the total number of days that the body temperature of the woman
was below 37.0 °C?
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 (ii) On which day was an egg probably released from her ovary?
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(iii) Suggest how the woman could accurately determine her body temperature.
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(b) During the 28 days the ovary of the woman released two different hormones, A and B.
The table shows some of the roles of these hormones.

(i) Name hormone A.

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(ii) Name hormone B.

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(iii) How do these hormones travel from the ovary to the uterus?
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(iv) Give two female secondary sexual characteristics.

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Q2.
Humans need to balance the input and output of water in their bodies.

The diagram shows the various sources and average (mean) volumes of input and output of water.
(a) Give the name of the process by which water balance in the body is maintained.
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(b) Use the diagram to calculate the percentage of water input that comes from respiration.
Show your working.
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(c) A person moves from a cold place to a hot place.

Explain how this would affect the volume of water the person loses in sweat and the volume of water
the person loses in urine.
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Q3.

The human kidney removes urea from the blood.

(a) Name two other substances the kidney removes from the blood.
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(b) The diagram shows a simple kidney machine that uses dialysis to remove urea
from the blood.

Dialysis allows small molecules to be removed from the blood. This is done by
passing the dialysis solution over the tube containing the blood. The small molecules
move from a region of high concentration to a region of low concentration.
(i) Give one way in which dialysis is similar to diffusion.
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(ii) Give one way in which dialysis is similar to osmosis.

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 (iii) Describe how the kidney machine removes urea from the blood.
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(iv) Another function of the kidney machine is to maintain normal blood glucose
concentration.

Suggest how the concentration of glucose in the dialysis solution helps to

maintain a normal glucose concentration in the blood.
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(v) Describe two processes that take place in the kidney but not in the kidney
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(c) Kidney failure can be treated by transplanting a healthy donor kidney into the
patient.
(i) The procedure involves connecting two blood vessels and a tube to the
transplanted kidney.

Name the two blood vessels and the tube.

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(ii) Suggest why the transplanted kidney is placed in the lower abdomen instead
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Q4.
The graph shows the percentage of the population with type 2 diabetes and the mean body mass of the
population, from 1990 to 2000.
 (i) Use information from the graph to describe the correlation between type 2 diabetes and body mass
shown from 1993 to 2000.
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(ii) Suggest how a change in body mass may cause a person to develop type 2 diabetes.
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Q5.
People with diabetes insipidus are unable to produce enough of the hormone ADH.

In a medical study, the ADH levels in the blood of eight people were measured.

Four of the people, A, B, C and D, do not have diabetes insipidus.

The other four people, E, F, G and H, have diabetes insipidus.

The results are shown in the tables.

(i) Calculate the mean ADH level in the people without diabetes insipidus.
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(ii) Suggest why there is a wide range of ADH levels in the people without diabetes insipidus.
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(iii) Complete the sentence by putting a cross ( ) in the box next to your answer.
ADH is a hormone released into the blood by the
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A corpus luteum

B collecting duct

C pituitary gland

D glomerulus

(iv) Suggest a symptom of diabetes insipidus.

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Mark Scheme
Q1.

Q2.
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Q4.
 Answer Acceptable Mark
answers
(i) A description accept positive
including the correlation ORA
following points:
• as mean mass
increases so does
the percentage of
population with type
2 diabetes (1)
• correct readings
from the graph to
illustrate the
comparative point (1) (2)
(ii) A suggestion linking
two of the following:
• increasing body
mass leads to over
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weight / obesity
• don't respond to
insulin / reference to
insulin resistance

Q5.