END OF SEMESTER TWO ASSESSMENT

ACADEMIC YEAR (2023-2024)

SCIENCE

Student’s Name: _______________________________

ASSESSMENT INSTRUCTIONS

MYP Year 3 – Grade 8

Exam Duration: 120 minutes.

Total number of questions: 14

Section: A B C
Total number of pages (Including this cover sheet and all blank pages): 10

Read all the instructions carefully.

Make sure you answered all questions.

Use an unerasable pen. Using a correction pen is prohibited.

Write with clear and readable handwriting. Answer detailed answers in complete sentences.

Assessment Criteria
Maximum Achieved Checked Revised
Criterion (A)
Grade Grade by by
Criterion A: 8

Control Committee

Command Terms:

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 Command Definition
Term
Select Choose from a list or group.

Explain Give a detailed account including reasons and causes.

Provide an answer from a number of possibilities. Recognize and state briefly a
Identify
distinguishing fact or feature.

Apply Use knowledge and understanding in response to a given situation or real circumstances.

Break down in order to bring out the essential elements or structure. To identify parts
Analyze
and relationships, and to interpret information to reach conclusions

Label Add a title, labels or brief explanation(s) to a diagram or graph.

Obtain the answer(s), usually by extracting information. Little or no calculation is

Write Down
required. Working does not need to be shown.

Outline Give a brief account or summary.

Predict Give an expected result of an upcoming action or event.

Offer a considered and balanced review that includes a range of arguments, factors or
Discuss hypotheses. Opinions or conclusions should be presented clearly and supported by
appropriate evidence

Describe Give a detailed account or picture of a situation, event, pattern or process.

(Level 1-2)
Select the word or term that answers the question or completes the sentence.
1. A tube that connects the kidney to the bladder is called ___________ .
a. Urethra
b. Ureter
c. Blood vessel
d. trachea

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 2. Urine is stored in the ___________ .
a. urethra c. bladder
b. ureter d. kidney

3. Identify the correct order in which urine is processed until it leaves the body.
a. kidney – bladder – ureter – urethra
b. ureter- kidney – urethra – bladder
c. kidney – ureter – bladder – urethra
d. bladder – ureter – kidney - urethra
4. Identify the organ shown in the figure below.
a. Bladder
b. Hypothalamus
c. Kidney
d. Ureter

5. Which of the following systems is a part of the excretory system?

a. Urinary system
b. Integumentary system
c. Respiratory System
d. All of the above
6. The kidney filters wastes from the ____________ .
a. blood c. lungs
b. intestine d. skin

7. Identify the urinary disorder that causes an involuntary release of the urine.
a. Urinary tract infections
b. Kidney stones
c. Kidney disease
d. Bladder control problems

8. Identify the system that removes excess salt and water as sweat.
a. Urinary system
b. Integumentary system
c. Respiratory System
d. Digestive system
(Level 3-4)

9. Apply your knowledge about the respiratory system to write down the names of the missing organs,
structure or function in the table that follows.

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 Organ Name Structure and Function
a. nose __________________________________________________________________
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b. It is a tubelike passageway that receives air, food, and liquids from the mouth or
____________ the nose.
c. larynx __________________________________________________________________
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d. Windpipe, a tube made up of cartilage rings that allows air to enter the lungs.
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e. Bronchi __________________________________________________________________
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f. branches out of bronchi and are narrower from it.
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g. are microscopic sacs that look like bunches of grapes and is the place where gas
____________ exchange takes place.
e. diaphragm __________________________________________________________________
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10. Identify the word from the box that completes each sentence.

Veins - systemic circulation - capillaries - ventricles -

atrium - arteries - coronary circulation

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 a. Vessels that take blood away from the heart are ______________________ .
b. ________________ are tiny blood vessels that deliver supplies to all body cells and take away
waste materials.
c. Vessels that brings blood towards the heart are ____________________ .
d. ____________ is the upper chamber of the heart.
e. The lower two chambers of the heart are called the ______________________ .
f. The network for arteries and veins that supply blood to heart cells is the ___________________ .

(Level 5-6)
11. Use the figure below to answer the questions.

Analyze the figure above. Explain where this process happens and discuss what number 1 and 2 represent.

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12. Use the figure to answer the following questions.

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a. Describe thoroughly the path of blood from the time it enters the heart at point 1 till it goes back to
the heart again at point 6.
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b. Outline the chemical reaction that takes place when the blood reaches the body cells.
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c. Identify the 2 types of circulation observed in the figure.

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(Level 7-8)
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13. Use the diagram below to answer the questions that follow.

Figure A

a. Label step B in the figure then analyze the process taking place to discuss what happens in steps A
and B.
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b. Discuss and predict what may happen to the human body if urine did not go through step B in the
figure.
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14. The diagram below represents the difference between a healthy air sac and an infected air sac in a patient
who has severe infection with Corona Virus. Predict how the infection in the lungs ends up with side
effects on the heart and weakening of the heart muscle.

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Criterion A: Knowing and understanding Achievement Level: /8
At the end of year 3, students will be able to:
i. describe scientific knowledge
ii. apply scientific knowledge and understanding to solve problems set in familiar and unfamiliar situations.
iii. analyze information to make scientifically supported judgments.
Achievement
Level descriptor Task-Specific Clarification Questions Checked Revised Level
level by by achieved
0 The student does not The student does not reach a ______
reach a standard indicated standard indicated by any of the
by any of the descriptors descriptors below.
below.
The student is able to: The student: Q1: (0-2)
i. recall scientific ☐ recalls the properties and Q2: (0-2)
knowledge. functions of different organs of the Q3: (0-2)
1–2 excretory system. Q4: (0-2)
Q5: (0-2)
Q6: (0-2)
Q7: (0-2)
Q8: (0-2)

The student is able to: The student:

i. state scientific ☐ state scientific knowledge about Q9 ____
knowledge. the structure and function of
3–4 iii. apply information to respiratory system organs.
make scientifically ☐ apply information about
supported judgement. circulatory system to make Q10 ____
judgement selecting the correct
terms.
The student is able to: The student:
i. outline scientific outlines scientific knowledge Q11 ____
knowledge. about respiration to discuss the
5–6 iii. interpret information to process of gas exchange.
make scientifically interprets information about
supported judgments. Q12a ____
blood circulation in order to Q12 b ____
describe the pathway of blood and
the process that takes place at every Q12 c ____
organ.
The student is able to: The student:
ii. apply scientific ☐applies previous knowledge
7-8 knowledge and and understanding about filtration Q13 a ____
understanding to solve to analyze and discuss the effects
problems set in familiar of any dysfunction in this process. Q 13 b ___
and unfamiliar ☐analyzes information to discuss
situations. and predict how corona virus
iii. analyze information to Q14 ____
attacking respiratory system leads to
make scientifically
heart problems.
supported judgments.

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