Biology by Bradford
B3.2 Transport: grass skirts
20 quick questions on transport, 13 of them at standard level, each answered in a word or two. Print a sheet for each team, a key for the checker and a tick sheet, then tape the sheets to the board and race.
How it runs
- SnipA runner cuts one strip off the bottom of their team’s sheet.
- Answer as a pairBack at the table, they write the answer on the strip. No books.
- Get it checkedThe checker reads it against the key: you, or a student holding it.
- Back for the nextA tick earns the next strip. Wrong? Back to the table to try again.
The questions on this sheet
The checker’s key, with every answer, prints with the sheets.- Narrow vessel with a wall one cell thick
- Thick-walled vessel leaving the heart
- Valved vessel taking blood to the heart
- Space inside a vessel where blood flows
- Pressure wave felt at the wrist or neck
- Dead, hollow tube carrying water
- Strand of xylem and phloem in a stem
- Pore in a capillary wall for fast exchange
- Stretch and recoil to keep pressure up
- Fatty plaques narrowing an artery
- Value from −1 to +1 showing link strength
- Polymer stiffening walls against tension
- Negative pressure drawing water up xylem
- Plasma forced out of capillaries
- Thin, leaky tube returning excess fluid
- Blood passes the heart twice per loop
- Right-atrium cells that start each beat
- Flap between upper and lower chambers
- Mitochondria-rich cell that loads sap
- Push upward from active mineral uptake