Thursday, July 28, 2011

GRADE 10: RESEARCH

1. Describe the human nervous system in terms of the central nervous system and the peripheral nervous system.
2. Describe the structure and function of the eye, including accommodation and pupil reflex.
3. Identify motor (effector), relay (connector)and sensory neurones and draw diagrams.
4. Describe a simple reflex arc in terms of sensory, relay and motor neurones, and a reflex action as a means of automatically and rapidly integrating and coordinating stimuli with responses.
5. Define a hormone as a chemical substance, produced by a gland and carried by the blood.
6. State the role of the hormone adrenaline in the chemical control of metabolic activity, including increasing the blood glucose concentration and pulse rate.
7. Compare nervous and hormonal control systems.
8. Give examples of situations in which adrenaline secretion increases.
9. Define and investigate geotropism and phototropism.
10. Explain the chemical control of plant growth by auxins including geotropism and phototropism in terms of auxins regulating differential growth.
11. Define and Identify, on a diagram of the skin: hairs, sweat glands, temperature receptors, blood.
12. Describe the maintenance of a constant body temperature in humans in terms of insulation and the role of temperature receptors in the skin, sweating, shivering, vasodilation and vasoconstriction of arterioles supplying skin-surface capillaries and the coordinating role of the brain. vessels and fatty tissue.in homeostasis.
12. Explain the concept of control by negative feedback.
13. Describe the control of the glucose content of the blood by the liver, and by insulin and glucagon from the pancreas.

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

GRADE 9 IGCSE

RESEARCH

All research should be saved first and will be submitted a
t the end of each SEMESTER inside the PORTFOLIO!!!

Research on the following:
1. History of the Cell Theory.
2. Cell parts that have membranes.
3. The function of the Cell Wall in Plants
4. The importance of ER in the synthesis of protein.
5. What are LYSOSOMES and why are they considered as "suicidal sacs"?
6. How can a Paramecium perform all cell processes?
7. Where would you find more mitochondria? Explain.
8. Comparison between an animal cell and a plant cell.
9. Prokaryotes.
10. New discoveries about CELL.
11. Relate the structure of the following to their
functions
• red blood cells – transport,
• root hair cells – absorption.