Q1.
Heart Rate
Jim uses a sensor to measure his heart rate before he starts running.
He starts running and measures his heart rate every five minutes.
After his run, he draws a graph.
Graph to show Jim’s heart rate
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Use the graph to help you answer these questions.
(a) What is Jim's heart rate before he starts running?
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(b) What happened to Jim's heart rate in the first five minutes that he was running?
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(c) Describe Jim's heart rate between points X and Y on the graph.
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Q2. Playing Football
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(a) Some children are playing football. They take their pulse rates before and after the
game.
What does pulse rate measure?
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(b) The children’s pulse rates increased during the game.
Explain why their pulse rates increased as they ran.
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(c) The children sit down and rest after the game.
Predict what will happen to their pulse rates over the next 10 minutes.
The children’s pulse rates will ..............................................................
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Q3. The heart
(a) Denise uses a stethoscope.
She listens to Joe’s heartbeat before Joe exercises.
As soon as Joe stops exercising, Denise listens again. Joe’s heartbeat is louder.
Describe one other change in Joe’s heartbeat straight after exercise compared with
before exercise.
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(b) Denise and Joe collect information from four adults. The table shows what they find
out.
Exercises Eats a Smokes Cleans teeth
Adult
regularly balanced diet regularly regularly
Which TWO adults are most likely to have healthy hearts?
Write A, B, C, or D.
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Q4. Keeping warm and healthy
(a) Look at the picture showing the inside of the human body.
(i) Put a cross, X, on the organ in the picture that pumps blood around the body.
(ii) Name the organ that pumps blood around the body.
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(b) Hassan knows that some activities can affect our pulse rates.
Tick TWO boxes below to show the two activities that would increase pulse rate the
most.
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having a rest eating fruit
writing a letter playing football
going for a walk drinking water
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(c) Tick ONE box to show the usual units of measurement for pulse rate.
beats beats per second
beats per minute beats per hour
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(d) Hassan is interested in how temperature affects pulse rate.
He measures the pulse rates of 6 children sitting in the playground on a cold day.
He then measures the pulse rates of the same 6 children after they have sat in a
warm classroom for 10 minutes.
Hassan records his results in the table below.
Children
A B C D E F
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Pulse rate in cold
72 68 76 75 67 70
playground (units)
Pulse rate in warm
80 75 82 80 70 75
classroom (units)
Describe ONE thing Hassan did in his investigation so he could be sure of his
conclusion.
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(e) Use the table to write a conclusion for Hassan’s investigation.
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Q5. Investigating pulse rate
(a) Jo and Sabia are finding out about pulse rate and exercise.
Their teacher tells them two ways they can measure pulse rate.
Method 1: Method 2:
Feel the pulse in your wrist and count Use an electronic sensor to measure
the beats in a minute. the pulse rate.
Jo says, ‘Method 2 is better because it gives results more quickly.’
Give ONE other reason why method 2 is better at measuring pulse rate than
method 1.
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(b) Jo and Sabia plan an investigation. Their plan is shown below.
Plan
1) Record resting pulse rate.
2) Run for 2 minutes.
3) Record pulse rate again.
4) Rest for 10 minutes.
5) Repeat the test for skipping, dribbling a football and jumping.
Write a question Jo and Sabia could use their plan to investigate.
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(c) Jo exercises and Sabia records Jo’s pulse rate.
Why is it important that the same person does all the exercises during their
investigation?
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(d) The table below shows their results.
Jo’s pulse rate (beats per minute)...
Exercise
after exercising for 2
before exercise.
minutes.
running 72 163
skipping 72 165
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dribbling a
70 155
football
jumping 75 152
What was Jo’s pulse rate after skipping for two minutes?
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(e) Which graph shows what will happen to Jo’s pulse rate if she runs at the same
speed for 15 minutes, starting from rest?
Tick ONE box.
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Q6. Animal heart rates
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(a) Some children found out about the heart rate of some fully grown animals.
Fully grown Average mass Average
animal of animal heart rate
(drawings not to scale) (kg) (beats per minute)
3000 35
elephant
68 70
human
7 130
cat
4 205
rabbit
0.5 400
squirrel
Use the table to answer the next three questions.
(i) Which fully grown animal has the fastest average heart rate?
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(ii) What is the average mass of a fully grown cat?
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(iii) What is the average heart rate of the fully grown animal whose mass is 4 kg?
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(b) Describe the relationship between the mass of the animal and heart rate shown in
this table.
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(c) This dog has a mass of 30 kg.
Predict the heart rate of this [Link] the table to help you.
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