Topics on the Grade 9 biology exam, November 2009
As well as knowing the information on the following topics you should be able to draw appropriate graphs using data provided, do simple calculations and answer questions from passages of text.
- Blood; composition, functions and circulation
- Structure of the heart, blood vessels and diseases of these.
- Chemical makeup of food, energy content of food.
- Digestion of food, digestive system, teeth.
- Photosynthesis, growing plants in a greenhouse.
- Greenhouse effect, acid rain, ozone layer.
- Classification
- Ecology
- Diffusion, osmosis, active transport
