Biology  by Bradford
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C3.1 Integration of body systems: grass skirts

22 quick questions on integration of body systems, 17 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

  1. SnipA runner cuts one strip off the bottom of their team’s sheet.
  2. Answer as a pairBack at the table, they write the answer on the strip. No books.
  3. Get it checkedThe checker reads it against the key: you, or a student holding it.
  4. 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.
  1. Coordinates balance and skilled movement
  2. Integrating centre inside the vertebrae
  3. Bundle of sensory and motor fibres
  4. Carries impulses from receptors to the CNS
  5. Carries impulses from the CNS to muscles
  6. Pathway for a rapid involuntary response
  7. Muscle or gland that responds
  8. Night-time pineal hormone that aids sleep
  9. Readies the body for fight or flight
  10. Brain area that controls the pituitary
  11. Master endocrine organ below the brain
  12. Shoot growth bending towards light
  13. Ability of a whole that its parts lack
  14. Brain region for conscious thought
  15. Connector in spinal grey matter
  16. Sets heart and breathing rates
  17. Detects blood pH or CO₂ levels
  18. Gut's own neurons that drive peristalsis
  19. Phytohormone promoting cell elongation
  20. Root-made hormone that boosts shoot growth
  21. Gas that spreads fruit ripening
  22. Exports growth regulator from plant cells

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