Mock 1

Question 1

What do carbohydrates provide?

Answer 1

Energy.

Question 2

What does fat provide?

Answer 2

Energy and insulation.

Question 3

What does protein provide?

Answer 3

Growth and repair.

Question 4

What is malnourishment?

Answer 4

Unbalanced diet.

Question 5

What does malnourishment lead to?

Answer 5

Being overweight or underweight and diseases.

Question 6

What can cause type 2 diabetes?

Answer 6

Eating too much sugar and fat.

Question 7

What does type 2 diabetes do?

Answer 7

Makes the person unable to control the sugar levels in their blood.

Question 8

How do you control type 2 diabetes?

Answer 8

With a balanced diet, exercising and monitoring blood sugar levels.

Question 9

What happens when a person consumes more energy than they use?

Answer 9

It turns into fat.

Question 10

Why is exercising healthy?

Answer 10

Use up more energy and have a lower blood pressure.

Question 11

What is metabolic rate?

Answer 11

The rate that all the chemical reactions in the cells in the body are carried out.

Question 12

What do you need for a higher metabolic rate?

Answer 12

More energy.

Question 13

What is Cholesterol?

Answer 13

A substance that our body creates from fat that we consume in our diet.

Question 14

What can too much cholesterol increase the chance of?

Answer 14

Cardio-Vascular diseases.

Question 15

What are some examples of cardio-vascular diseases?

Answer 15

Strokes and heart attacks.

Question 16

Where is the central nervous system?

Answer 16

The brain and spinal cord.

Question 17

What are receptors?

Answer 17

Cells that detect stimuli.

Question 18

What are neurones?

Answer 18

Nerve cells.

Question 19

What is a relay neurone?

Answer 19

A neurone in the central nervous system that carries the impulse from a sensory neurone to a motor neurone.

Question 20

What is a motor neurone?

Answer 20

A nerve cell that transmits a nerve impulse from the central nervous system to an effector.

Question 21

What is an effector?

Answer 21

A muscle or gland that brings out an response.

Question 22

What are synapses?

Answer 22

The junctions between nerve cells.

Question 23

What are plants sensitive to?

Answer 23

Light, moisture and gravity.

Question 24

What do their roots grow towards?

Answer 24

Moisture and the direction of the force of gravity.

Question 25

What is an example of a plant hormone?

Answer 25

Auxin.

Question 26

What does auxin affect in the shoots?

Answer 26

It increases cell growth which causes the root to curve towards the light.

Question 27

What does auxin affect in the roots?

Answer 27

It slows cell growth which causes the root to curve away from the stimulus.

Question 28

How are drugs tested?

Answer 28

Laboratory tests using cells, tissues and live animals. Human volunteers.

Question 29

What happened to babies if their mother took thalidomide during pregnancy?

Answer 29

They were often born with limb abnormalities.

Question 30

What was thalidomide originally used as?

Answer 30

A sleeping pill.

Question 31

Why was thalidomide banned?

Answer 31

Because of the abnormalities it caused in babies.

Question 32

What are pathogens?

Answer 32

Micro-organisms that cause infectious diseases.