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This document is a first terminal examination for Biology for SS1 students at Scripture Union International Secondary School for the 2024/2025 academic session. It includes multiple-choice questions, sub-objective questions, and theory questions covering various topics in biology such as classification, characteristics of living things, and the scientific method. Students are instructed to answer all questions within a duration of 2 hours.

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This document is a first terminal examination for Biology for SS1 students at Scripture Union International Secondary School for the 2024/2025 academic session. It includes multiple-choice questions, sub-objective questions, and theory questions covering various topics in biology such as classification, characteristics of living things, and the scientific method. Students are instructed to answer all questions within a duration of 2 hours.

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SCRIPTURE UNION INTERNATIONAL

SECONDARY SCHOOL
Km1 Eket-Etinan Road, Camp of Favour, Scripture Union Road, Ikot Abia, Okon-Eket

FIRST TERMINAL EXAMINATION


2024/2025 ACADEMIC SESSION

Subject: BIOLOGY Class: SS1 Duration: 2 hours

Name of
Student___________________________________________________________________

Instruction: Answer all questions in section A by choosing the correct options


lettered A-D.
SECTION A: OBJECTIVE

1. Biology can be simply defined as (A) study of plant (B) study of animals
(C) study of plants and animals (D) study of making enquiry
2. All these are branches of Biology except (A) vertinary doctor (B) anatomy
(C) botany (D) zoology
3. Which is the correct arrangement of these groups used in classification in
order of hierarchy? (A) genus, family, species, order, phylum, class
(B) specie, genus, family, class, phylum, kingdom
(C) kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species
(D) phylum, order, family, class, species, genus
4. Which of these is a reason for classifying living things?
(A) for easy reference, study or research
(B) to know living and non-living things
(C) to identify the structure of animals
(D) to verify the respiration process of organism
5. Virus is seen as being on the borderline between living and non-living
things when outside the living cells it forms ___ (A) crystal (B) living
things (C) protein coat (D) microscope
6. The protist that shows both plant like and
animal like features is (A) protozoa (B)
diatoms (C) euglena (D) protophyta
7. Amoeba moves by ______while paramecium
moves by________(A) pseudopodia and cilia
(B) flagellum and cilia (C) plasmodium and
flagellum (D) cilia and whip

8. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of living things?


a) Reproduction
b) Growth and development
c) Photosynthesis
d) Response to stimuli
9. Which of the following is an example of a response to stimuli?
a) A plant growing towards the light
b) A person sweating on a hot day
c) A bird migrating to a warmer climate
d) All of the above
10. The basic unit of life is the:
a) Cell
b) Tissue
c) Organ
d) Organ system
11. The highest level of organization in a multicellular organism is the:
a) Cell
b) Tissue
c) Organ
d) system
12. Which of the following is an example of an organ system?
a) The heart
b) The skin
c) The digestive system
d) The muscle cell
13. The science of classifying organisms is called:
a) Biology
b) Ecology
c) Taxonomy
d) Genetics
14. The binomial nomenclature system uses two names to identify an organism: the genus and the:
a) Species
b) Family
c) Order
d) Phylum
15. Organisms that lack a nucleus are called:
a) Eukaryotes
b) Prokaryotes
c) Viruses
d) Fungi

16. The first step in the scientific method is:


a) Formulating a hypothesis
b) Conducting an experiment
c) Making observations
d) Analyzing data
17. A testable explanation for a scientific problem is called a:
a) Theory
b) Law
c) Hypothesis
d. fact
18. Animals are:
a) Autotrophic
b) Heterotrophic
c) Both autotrophic and heterotrophic
d) Neither autotrophic nor heterotrophic
19. The process by which plants convert sunlight into energy is called:
a) Respiration
b) Photosynthesis
c) Excretion
d) Reproduction
20. Plants have cell walls made of:
a) Cellulose
b) Chitin
c) Protein
d) Lipid

SECTION B; SUBOBJECTIVE
1. The binomial nomenclature system was developed by______

2. The scientific name for humans is________

3. The taxonomic category that comes after phylum is__________-


4. Virus is made up of coiled strand of________ enclosed within a protein coat

5. Bacteria reproduce by ___________

6. Some bacteria and fungi are beneficial to humans because they______


7. The cell walls of fungi are made of_______
8. Fungi reproduce asexually by _______
9. Mushrooms and moulds are examples of______
10. _____ makes up the largest group in the plant kingdom
SECTION C (THEORY)
Answer any three (3) questions

1. (a) List and explain the four levels of organization of life


(8marks)
(b) list and explain one advantage and one disadvantage of complexity in
higher organisms (2marks)
2. (a) Make a short note on a named protist “Euglena”
(2marks)
(b) state three (3) characteristics of an animal like Euglena
(3marks)
(c) make a well labelled diagram 8cm-10cm long of an” Amoeba”
(4marks)
(D)An Amoeba moves by the means of ______________
(1mark)

3. (a) list 4 different phylum in kingdom Animalia


4marks
(b) Enumerate the steps of scientific method

2marks

(c) In a tabular form list 2 structural difference between crustaceans,

Insect and Aranchinda

4marks
4. List and explain the ten (10) characteristics of living things

(10 marks)

5. (a) List the five kingdoms living things are classified under
(21/2 marks)
(b) Why is virus not classified into any of these five kingdoms
(11/2 marks)
(c) State two (2) economic importance of bacterial
(2 marks)
(d) Give two (2) differences each between plants and animals
(4 marks)

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