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GCSE OCR Combined Science B Papers 1 and 5
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#1. What are two systems which allow your body to respond to its surroundings?
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#2. True or false - A concentration gradient is a term used to explain how the moon moves in the night sky?
#3. What is the function of platelets?
#4. Match the description to the correct term. All of the individuals of a species that live in a particular woodland.
#5. Which system is responsible for ensuring the supply of oxygen and glucose to cells?
#6. What is the molecular formula for glucose?
#7. What is the cell wall made from in bacteria?
#8. Which type of white blood cell engulfs (surrounds) foreign cells in order to digest them?
#9. Place the measurement units in order from from biggest to smallest. micrometres, picometres, kilometres, metres, nanometres, millemetres ? Use British Spelling - Metres* NOT Meters
#10. What is enzyme specificity?
#11. Why does the rate of an enzyme controlled reaction increase with greater substrate concentration?
#12. Nitrogen is often found in a particular form in the soil what is this form?
#13. What is the process by which organisms remove waste from their bodies?
#14. What is the role of the cell membrane?
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#15. Which of the following are strategies organisms use to adapt to changing abiotic conditions?
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#16. Why is the Surface area : Volume ratio so important when it comes to exchange of substances?
#17. What is the role of lipase?
#18. What is the name of the chemicals that we use to transmit messages through the blood to organs?
#19. What is the part of the heart that the arrows are pointing to?
#20. Why does the rate of an enzyme controlled reaction go down as temperature increases past the optimum level?
#21. True or false - A passive process is automatic and does not require energy?
#22. The female gametes (egg cells) are adapted to their function. Which of the following are adaptations of egg cells?
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#23. What do we call animals that eat both other animals and plants?
#24. What are the monomers of fats/lipids?
#25. In some areas where there are poor soils (not enough nitrogen) carnivorous plants have adapted to get their nitrogen from which source?
#26. The drug called Digitalis slows the heart rate. Where does the drug come from?
#27. Through which process would air freshener sprayed in one corner of a room disperse?
#28. Where are relay neurones found?
#29. What is the difference between aerobic and anaerobic respiration?
#30. Electron microscopes have much higher resolution and magnification than light microscopes. What are the advantages of this?
#31. Sometimes it is not possible to measure the number of organisms in a transect, for example when measuring the distribution of plants. In this case we use an alternative measure called what?
#32. Glucose enters the body via the?
#33. How many chromosomes does a single sperm cell have?
#34. Which type of factor is pollution?
#35. Which type of factor is disease?
#36. Which of the following is part of the central nervous system (CNS)?
#37. What effects does adrenaline have on the heart?
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#38. What is the role of ribosomes?
#39. Which of these is an effector?
#40. Which term do we use to describe the relationships between species that depend on each other for resources?
#41. Which of the following is part of the central nervous system (CNS)?
#42. Respiration from animals is a source of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere - do plants also use respiration?
#43. What is the Induced Fit Model of enzyme action?
#44. Fill in the gap to complete the word equation for aerobic respiration. glucose + oxygen → ..... + water
#45. What is the Lock and Key Model of enzyme action?
#46. Growth is increased during puberty. Why is this?
#47. What groups of organisms belong to the domain - eukaryotes? ? Eukaryotes have a membrane bound nucleus
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#48. Which type of factor is air temperature?
#49. What does μm stand for?
#50. The 5 kingdoms of life are Animals, Plants, Fungi, Protists and Prokaryotes. Which kingdom do algae belong to?
#51. What is the function of plasma?
#52. What do we call animals that are eaten by other animals?
#53. What is the gap between neurones called?
#54. Which of the following is an effect stimulated by the thyroxine hormone?
#55. Which sub-cellular structures can be found in animals?
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#56. True or false - plants remove carbon from the atmosphere during photosynthesis
#57. Where does the water in lakes and rivers end up?
#58. True or false - carbon dioxide is removed from the atmosphere as it dissolves in the oceans?
#59. What is the resolution of light microscopes limited by?
#60. What is an advantage of anaerobic respiration?
#61. Palisade cells are found just below the epidermis of leaves. What is their role and how are they adapted to perform it?
#62. Urea is produced when amino acids are broken down. Which organ processes urea?
#63. Why is catalysis by enzymes important for life processes?
#64. In which part of the cell does anaerobic respiration take place?
#65. Which type of factor is water availability?
#66. What are nitrogen-fixing bacteria?
#67. Which of these is a community?
#68. By which process does water in the atmosphere become part of clouds?
#69. What is groundwater?
#70. What is the function of red blood cells (Erythrocytes)?
#71. Specialised cells have different compositions of sub cellular structures in order to perform their role. Why would specialised cells have lots of mitochondria?
#72. Is photosynthesis an endothermic or an exothermic reaction?
#73. Which of the following features are found in arteries?
#74. We sometimes use a transect to perform systematic sampling. This involves which of the following?
#75. Which of the following are waste products produced by the body?
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#76. What is meant by an active process?
#77. How many chambers does the heart have?
#78. Which of the following are 3 of the adaptations of leaves for efficient photosynthesis?
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#79. Producers are organisms which do what?
#80. Name one hormone that is released from the ovaries?
#81. If grass is eaten by a rabbit and a rabbit is eaten by a hawk. What level of consumer is the hawk?
#82. What is the role of the inferior vena cava?
#83. What is enzyme activity?
#84. Multicellular organisms are too large to allow diffusion through their cells to provide the necessary resources. Instead we have transport systems. What is the name of the transport system that uses capillaries to transport substances via the blood?
#85. Which of the following features are found in veins?
#86. Decomposers break down dead animal and plant material - what happens to the carbon inside the dead organisms?
#87. Which of the following is the source of coal?
#88. What is the definition of resolution?
#89. Which process in the body produces carbon dioxide?
#90. What do we mean by the distribution of organisms?
#91. How are cells that line the small intestine specialised?
#92. What is the word equation for photosynthesis? ? In some examples you might also see sunlight and chlorophyll above and below the arrow.
#93. True or false - volcanism removes carbon from the atmosphere
#94. Why is there a size limit to cells?
#95. What does abundance measure?
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