Elevise
  • Home
  • GCSE Maths
  • GCSE Science
  • Membership
Back to OCR Gateway Biology Paper 2 Specimen (set 1) Home

Paper 2 H - SAMPLE SET 1 Q21

21) Strokes are a type of cardiovascular disease.
​One cause of a stroke is an artery in the brain bursting.
Picture
(a) (i) When a person has a stroke, why are arteries more at risk of bursting than veins? [1]

(ii) How are arteries adapted to try and prevent them bursting and causing a stroke? [1]

(b) Strokes can have many risk factors.
Scientists are trying to investigate whether the risk of having a stroke is increased by pollution.
They looked at data from 28 different countries, involving six million people.
They looked at the number of people who had a stroke soon after an increase in pollution.
They compared this to the number of people who had a stroke after no increase in pollution.
​This formula was used to produce a risk factor:
Picture
The graph shows their results.
Picture
(i) If the risk factor for a pollutant was 1.00, what conclusion could the scientists make? [2]

(ii) Which pollutant is least likely to be a risk factor for a stroke? [1]

(iii) The risk factors calculated by the scientists are quite small.
However, they still think that pollution is an important factor in strokes.
How did the nature of the data they used help to convince them of this? [2]

​​​(Total for Question 21 = 7 marks)
Show Answers
Home
GCSE Maths
GCSE Science
Membership
Tuition
United Kingdom
[email protected]
  • Home
  • GCSE Maths
  • GCSE Science
  • Membership