Biology Revision for Summer Exams

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Year 8 Biology Revision for Summer Exams

Date of Exam:

Period 2 Date TBC in Venue: TBC

What to revise:

Page numbers refer to

your Science textbook (Exploring Science: How Science Works 8)

Food and

Digestion

The different classes

of food (fats, protein, etc) Pages 8 and 9

What is a balanced

diet? Pages 10 and 11

The human digestive

system. Learn how to label the different parts. Page 14

What is digestion and

where does it take place? Pages 14 and 15, Pages 16 and 17

What are enzymes? Pages

15 and 16

Where does digested

food enter the blood? Page 18

How does digested food

enter the blood? Pages 18 and 19

What are villi? Page

18

Breathing and

Respiration

Can you label the

different parts of the lungs? Page 30

Where does gas exchange

take place? Page 30

How are the alveoli

adapted to do their job? Page 30

How smoking damages our

lungs. Page 31

We need oxygen for

respiration. What is respiration? Page 19, Page 23

What is anaerobic

respiration? Page 29

The importance of

exercise. Page 25, Page 27

What is the function of

red blood cells? Page 25

Microbes and

Disease

Bacteria, fungi and

viruses. What do they look like? Pages 36 and 37

How can microbes be

useful to us? Pages 38 and 39

Microbes can cause

disease. Learn the names of two diseases caused by bacteria, two

diseases caused by fungi and two diseases caused by viruses. Page 40

How are diseases

spread? What is an infectious disease? Page 41

How can we stop disease

spreading? Page 43

How do our bodies

protect us from disease? Page 44

White blood cells and

what they do. Page 44

Breathing and

Respiration

Can you label the

different parts of the lungs? Page 30

Where does gas exchange

take place? Page 30

How are the alveoli

adapted to do their job? Page 30

How smoking damages our

lungs. Page 31

We need oxygen for

respiration. What is respiration? Page 19, Page 23

What is anaerobic

respiration? Page 29

The importance of

exercise. Page 25, Page 27

What is the function of

red blood cells? Page 25

Microbes and

Disease

Bacteria, fungi and

viruses. What do they look like? Pages 36 and 37

How can microbes be

useful to us? Pages 38 and 39

Microbes can cause

disease. Learn the names of two diseases caused by bacteria, two

diseases caused by fungi and two diseases caused by viruses. Page 40

How are diseases

spread? What is an infectious disease? Page 41

How can we stop disease

spreading? Page 43

How do our bodies

protect us from disease? Page 44

White blood cells and

what they do. Page 44

Food & Digestion

Respiration

Microbes & disease