Grade 10 · CAPS

Grade 10 Animal Tissues

Life Sciences practice questions and a worked example

Grade 10 Animal Tissues is part of the CAPS Life Sciences curriculum, covering the four basic tissue types found in animals — epithelial, connective, muscular and nervous tissue — and how each tissue's structure relates to its function, such as squamous epithelium lining blood vessels or cartilage providing flexible support. Learners work through questions that identify these tissues from diagrams and descriptions. The practice questions below are drawn from ReClass's own question bank, based on real Grade 10 CAPS assessments, giving learners a chance to work through animal tissue questions in the same style they will meet in a test.

Worked example

2.1 The diagrams below show animal and plant tissues. 2.1.2 Describe the structure and location of tissue. (a) W

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Thin, flat, single layer of cells lining blood vessels/mouth/lungs.

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1.2.7 Give the correct BIOLOGICAL TERM for the following description: Connective tissue that reduces friction between bones.

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    1.2.2 Give the correct biological term for a specialised cell in ciliated columnar epithelial tissue which produce mucus.
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    1.2.7 Give the correct biological term for connective tissue containing a dense network of collagen fibres.
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    1.3.1 Indicate whether each of the statements in COLUMN I applies to A ONLY, B ONLY, BOTH A AND B or NONE of the items in COLUMN II. Tissue that joins bone to bone
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    1.3.4 Indicate whether each of the statements in COLUMN I applies to A ONLY, B ONLY, BOTH A AND B or NONE of the items in COLUMN II. Contains bone cells in hard matrix

Common mistakes

  • Mixing up ligaments (join bone to bone) and tendons (join muscle to bone).
  • Confusing squamous epithelium (thin, flat — lines blood vessels) with columnar epithelium (long, elongated — lines the gut).
  • Not recognising nerve tissue as a distinct tissue type from connective tissue when classifying a described structure.

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Aligned to CAPS Grade 10 Life Sciences — Animal Tissues. Curriculum source: CAPS for the FET Phase, Department of Basic Education.

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