S3 BIOLOGY AND HEALTH SCIENCES WORK, TERM3, 2023-2024

Instructions
Attempt all questions in section A
…. / 100Marks
Attempt any three questions in section B
Section C is compulsory

Section A: Attempt all questions (55 marks)

1. All life maintaining processes take place in living cell/tissues. Suggest two substances
which enter cells and other two substances which are secreted in the cell and passed out.
(4 marks)
2. The word equation below represents photosynthesis

(a) Name the gas X. (1 mark)

(b) Name substance Y. (1 mark)
(c) What is the main source of energy for photosynthesis? (1 mark)
(d) Chlorophyll is used to trap energy in the plant. What colour is chlorophyll? (1 mark)
(e) What happens to the oxygen that is formed during photosynthesis? (1 mark)

3. Copy and complete the table below. (3marks)

Type of carbohydrate Two examples

Monosaccharides
Disaccharides
Polysaccharides

4. (a) Write STI and HIV in full (2 marks)

(b) Why is abstinence the most effective method of protection against STIs and HIV?
(2 marks)
5. A student bought a biscuit and carried out several food tests on it. The following results
were observed.

Benedict’s test: yellow and finally orange colour.

Biuret test: No colour change.
Iodine test: a blue-black colour.
(a) What two types of food are present in the biscuit? (2 marks)

(b) Using the results given above, give one reason to explain why a biscuit is not balanced
meal. (1 mark)
(c) Eating this kind of biscuit regularly may lead to some one becoming overweight.
Explain why. (2 marks)

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6. Use the diagram below to answer the following questions. (4 marks)

Organism Two observable features ( characteristics)

7. The diagram below shows the transport of water through the flowering plant.

(a) Identify the process taking place at: (2 marks)

(i) A (ii) B
(b) What name is given to the vessel labelled C. (1 mark)
(c) State one feature of root hairs that helps the process taking place at A. (1 mark)

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8. The diagram below shows an alveolus and an associated blood capillary.

(a) In which organ is the alveolus located in human body? (1 mark)

(b) Observe the diagram and identify a letter where the highest rate of diffusion of carbon
dioxide will occur. Why? (2 marks)
9. Match the following in column A with column B. (5 marks)

Column A Column B
Sources Sites for storage of sugars
Sinks Where sugars are synthesized in a plan
Sieve plate Present in phloem vessel
Translocation Contain few number of stomata
Xerophytes Transportation of manufactured organic food

10. “Without joints and antagonistic muscles, it would be impossible for humans to
move”. Do you agree or disagree? Give a reason to support your answer. (3 marks)

11. Where in the human skeleton do we find the following joints. (3 marks)

Type of joint Location in human skeleton

Ball and socket joint

Hinge joint

Immovabe joints

12. (a) Define the term immunity. (1 mark)

(b) What does your body do in order to fight against diseases? (2 marks)

13. Write true or false on each statement. (3 marks)

(a) Active movement of materials such as ions requires energy
(b) Gaseous exchange at the alveolus occur by active transport
(c) Active transport take place against the concentration gradient.
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14. The figure below represents a feeding relationship in an ecosystem.

(a) Identify two producers in the above diagram. (2 marks)

(b) To which trophic level does grasshopper, aphid and hare belong? (1 mark)
(c) Name one organism in the diagram above that belongs to the same trophic level you
have answered in (b) above. (1mark)
(d) Which two organisms in the diagram can be described as consumers of last order?
(2 marks)
Section B: Attempt any three questions (30 marks)
15. (a) What causes malaria? (1 mark)
(b) Why is malaria classified as an infectious disease? (1 mark)
(c) How is malaria transmitted from one person to another? (2 marks)
(d) State two methods of preventing malaria in a home which are: (6 marks)
(i) Biological method
(ii) Physical or mechanical method
(iii) Chemical method
16. The diagram below shows a human urinary system. Use it to answer the questions
that follow.

(a) Which letter represents each of the following parts. (4 marks)

(i) Urethra
(ii) Urinary bladder

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 (iii) Ureter
(iv) Renal artery
(v) Renal vein
(vi) Aorta
(vii) Vena cava
(viii) Sphincter muscle
(b) Outline the pathway taken by urine from the collecting ducts up to where it is
discharged from the human body. (4 marks)
(c) Explain why excretion is necessary in humans. (2 marks)

17. (a) Give the meaning of the following terms (4 marks)

(i) Active site
(ii) Enzymes
(iii) Substrate
(iv) Enzyme - substrate complex
(b) Describe six properties (characteristics) of enzymes (6 marks)

18. (a) What do you understand by the term contraception? (2 marks)

(b) Suggest only two examples of each of the following categories of birth control methods.
(i) Natural methods (2 marks)
(ii) Physical or mechanical methods (2 marks)
(iii) Chemical or hormonal methods (2 marks)
(iv) Surgical or permanent methods (2 marks)

19. Students in senior two carried out the following tests to investigate the presence of
starch, reducing sugars and proteins in a given food sample. Using the table in the format
below, copy and complete the procedure and observations if all the results obtained by the
students were positive.
PROCEDURE OBSERVATION DEDUCTION

(2marks) The solution changes Starch is present

from brown to blue –
black
(3marks) (2marks) Reducing sugars
are present

Put 1cm3 of a solution of egg white in a (3mark) Proteins are

test tube. present
Add 1 cm3 of sodium hydroxide solution.
Add 1cm3 of 1% copper (ii) sulphate
solution and shake gently.

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Section C: This section is compulsory (15 marks)
20. An experiment was carried out by a group of students to investigate a physiological
process which occur in plants and animals. The setup of the experiment involves a beaker
containing two solutions separated by a membrane.

(a) Which solution is hypertonic? (2 marks)

(b) Which solution has more water potential? (2 marks)
(c) In which direction will the water molecules move by osmosis? (2 marks)
(d) Explain your answer in (c) above (4 marks)
(e) What name is given to the membrane separating two solutions A and B? (2 marks)
(f) Which alternative setup can you design to replace this but in the same experiment?
(3 marks)

“A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step”

GOD bless the work of your hands.

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