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Processes & Cycles

Junior High 8 questions
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What processes & cycles means

You learn how living things and natural materials move through simple cycles and processes. This helps you understand everyday events such as rain, breathing, food breakdown and plant reproduction.

What you will practise

  • Identify evaporation in the water cycle.
  • Match digestion steps to the correct organ.
  • Recognise pollination as pollen transfer.
  • Link simple cycles to changes in nature.

Before you start

You should already know basic parts of plants and animals. It also helps if you can name common materials, organs and simple weather changes.

Not confident yet? Work through Science in Everyday Life first.

Worked example

One question from this skill's own question bank, shown with its full working.

Question

In the water cycle, water vapour rises from the sea mainly by

  • evaporation
  • condensation
  • precipitation
  • infiltration
Answer: evaporation

Working: The sun heats surface water, turning it into vapour that rises into the air.

Common mistakes to avoid

  • Confusing evaporation with rain. Remember evaporation is water changing to vapour before rising.
  • Starting starch digestion in the stomach. It begins in the mouth with saliva.
  • Mixing up pollination and fertilisation. Pollination comes first and moves pollen to the stigma.
  • Treating cycles as one-time events. Learn the order of each stage carefully.

Curriculum and exam alignment

Ghana GES Basic 7 to 9 syllabusBECE

This topic normally appears in Junior High School Integrated Science as part of life processes and environmental change. It supports BECE-style questions that test simple scientific terms, sequences and natural cycles.

Curriculum notes are a general guide to where this work normally sits. Always check the syllabus your school or examination body is currently using.

Related skills

Other Integrated Science Booster skills in Science, at the same point in the course.

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Exams that assess processes & cycles

Junior High work on this skill feeds directly into these exam papers. Each page lists the Science topics that appear on it.

BECEBECE practice questionsFree BECE practice across the subjects at this stage, with worked answers.GESGES practice questionsFree GES practice across the subjects at this stage, with worked answers.

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