Elementary Science.—Syllabus No. II.
(You should answer six questions.)
1. Describe with the aid of a drawing the various structures seen by means of a pocket lens in a section across the middle region of a grain of wheat.
2. How would you measure the rate of transpiration of water from a small plant or a leafy stem?
3. How can it be shown that the root responds to external influences of moisture, light and gravity?
4. Give a brief account of the function of the green leaf in the nutrition of plants.
5. Compare by drawings the leaves of broad bean and garden pea. Then discuss the means by which the two plants obtain mechanical support.
6. When the bulb of a thermometer is placed in a jar of soaked and germinating seeds, what temperature change is observed? Explain the cause of this.
7. Describe experiments which show in what respects the air is affected in composition by passing through the lungs.
8. Describe with the help of drawings the structure of the flowers of the hazel or willow and show how they are adapted for cross-pollination.
9. What is meant by root pressure, and how would you demonstrate it? Illustrate your answer by drawings.
10. What are the conditions of the soil which make it a suitable medium for healthy root-action and vigorous plant growth? Conversely under what conditions of soil would the plant fail to thrive or die?
Board of Education
(South Kensington).
General Biology.
Section I. of Stage I.
(You are permitted to answer only eight questions.)
1. Write what you can of the habits of the common House Fly and of the common Clothes Moth; draw figures of their appearance at different stages of the life-history.
2. Where and when do you find Frog’s eggs? Of what use is the jelly with which they are surrounded?
3. How does the Tadpole swim, and how does the Frog swim? How does the Frog jump, and how does it catch a fly?
4. Contrast the characters of the mouth (including teeth if present) in the Frog, Bird, Cat, Rabbit and Sheep.
5. Describe the characteristic modes of locomotion in the Bird, Dog, Rabbit and Bat, and point out any peculiarities of the skeleton which are related to these habits.
6. Describe the heart of the Sheep, and account so far as you can for any differences you can point out between the various chambers.
7. In what way are bees useful to flowers? Explain in any one example you choose what happens when a bee visits the flower.
8. Describe the roots of a pea or bean. What importance do you attach to the different parts you mention?
9. What is starch? How would you show whether or not it was present in a leaf? What conditions are necessary in order that the leaf may produce it?
10. Describe the fruit of either the Sycamore or the Poppy, and explain the uses of the different parts in dispersing the seed.
11. Describe how you would proceed in arranging an experiment to enable you to study the germination of a seed. Give a brief account of the process of germination of any seed you may select.
12. Describe and sketch the specimen provided, and explain, as far as you can, the use of the different parts.