Download Grade 8 Nov EXAM Review Sheet - Nelson Heights Middle School

Grade 8 Nov EXAM Review Sheet
The following review questions are meant to provide a guide on which you can base your studying
and review for the November Exam. You DO NOT have to complete written answers to all questions
- instead, answer only questions you do not already have an understanding of. Spend your time
reviewing the questions you don't know. The format you choose to use to demonstrate you have
completed the guide is up to you - written answers, concept map, flash cards are all acceptable. This
study guide is due the day of your exam. Good Luck!
CELLS AND SYSTEMS
1) What are the 6 characteristics of living things?
2) Is a virus living or non-living? Explain your answer.
3) Give an example of 2 structures that are different but have similar functions.
4) What are the functions of:
A. Circulatory system
B. Respiratory system
C. Excretory system
D. Nervous system
E. Digestive system
5) What is the function of:
A. Cell membrane
B. Cell wall
C. Cytoplasm
D. Nucleus
E. Vacuoles
F. Mitochondria
G. Chloroplasts
6) What structures do plant cells have that animal cells do not?
7) Why can’t the individual cells of a multicellular organism live on their own? Explain.
8) What is the function of a cell’s selectively permeable membrane?
9) Use a Venn diagram to compare and contrast diffusion and osmosis.
10)Sketch and label a diagram of an animal cell.
11)Sketch and label a diagram of a plant cell.
12)Describe the path of the cheeseburger through your digestive system and the mechanical and
chemical digestion that occurs to the food as it is broken down (in detail).
13)List the organs that are involved in these systems:
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
Circulatory
Excretory
Digestive
Nervous
Respiratory
14)What is the function of the following:
A. Small intestine
B. Microvilli
C. Large intestine
D. Gall bladder
E. Liver (2)
F. Kidneys
G. Pancreas
H. Heart
I. Alveoli
J. Ureters
15)Why is increasing the surface area within the small intestine important?
16) Explain what happens when you inhale.
17) Describe the path of oxygen from when it enters your mouth to the blood.
18)What is special about alveoli? Why is this characteristic important?
19)What process is used to move gases from the lungs into the blood and vice versa?
20)Describe the path that blood follows from when it first enters the right atrium until it returns to
the right atrium.
21)What are the 2 adaptations that capillaries have for exchanging gases and nutrients? What is
your blood made up of?
22)What are 4 waste products that are removed from your body?
23)What diseases can be detected in urine?
24)Explain how messages are transmitted in the nervous system.
25)Draw a Venn diagram to show the differences and similarities between the central and
peripheral nervous systems.
26)What is the difference between your somatic nervous system and your autonomic nervous
system? Give and example of what each would respond to.
27)Sketch a neuron and label the dendrites, axon and cell body.
28)Give an example of how nutritional research on cells, organs, or body systems has brought
improvement to human health.
29)What are 3 diseases caused by smoking?
30)What is atherosclerosis?
31)What is a stomach ulcer and what causes it?
32)WHMIS Symbols and meanings.