Welcome to your Science primary 0846 paper 1 October 2015
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Study the diagram and answer the questions that follow.
There are food chains in the jungle
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(a) Which one is a producer?
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(b) What does the impala eat?
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(c) What is eaten by the scorpion?
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(d) Choose the word that describes the baboon in the food chain.
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(e) The baboon also eats ticks.
Choose the correct arrow (à) to show that the baboon eats the tick.
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2 The teacher makes a model of the Sun and Earth.
The lamp in the model is the Sun.
The ball in the model is the Earth.
The Letter D represents Day
The Letter N represents night
(a) Choose the right image which represents day and night.
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(b) The teacher uses the model to show how day becomes night. Choose what she does to the model.
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3 Ahmed and Lily are playing a game. They are trying to identify different objects without looking at them.
They have a bag with an object inside the bag.
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(a) They try to guess what the object is using their hands. What sense are they using?
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(b) Complete the sentence.When they guess what the object is this is called a……………….
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(c) They are allowed to look and see if they have guessed correctly. What sense are they using?
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4 Angelique has a sound meter. (a) Choose the correct thing she measures.
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(b) Here is a picture of a piano keyboard.
Angelique pushes key A and key B.
She uses the same force each time.
Choose the correct sentence
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(a) What is the name of process A in the diagram?
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(b) What is the name of process B in the diagram?
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(c) What is the name of process C in the diagram?
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(d) What is the name of process D in the diagram?
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6 Materials are chosen for certain purposes because of their properties. Glass is used to make windows.
This is because glass is colourless.
Complete each of the following sentences about the uses of materials.
Choose from the list of properties.
attracted to a magnet - not attracted to a magnet
brittle (breaks easily) - flexible (bends easily)
not poisonous poisonous - insoluble in water soluble in water
Strong- weak
a good electrical conductor - a poor electrical conductor
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(a) This bridge is made from steel.
This is because steel is…………….
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(b) This bar magnet is made from steel.
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(c) This food box is made of plastic
This is because plastic is…………..
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(d) This T-shirt is made from cotton
This is beacause.......
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(e) This cable is made using copper wire.
This is because copper is……………
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7 Mike investigates friction.
he puts a block on three different surfaces
he sticks a piece of string and a plastic cup to each block
he puts one marble in each cup
he adds more marbles until the blocks move
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(a) Here are Mike’s results.
surface 1 = 5 marbles
surface 2 = 6 marbles
surface 3 = 2 marbles
Choose the correct one
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(b) Complete the sentences. The surface with the most friction is surface
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The smoothest surface is surface……………….. because it takes……marbles to move the block.
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8 Mia makes a series circuit.
Mia makes different series circuits.
She uses the same size batteries.
She uses the same size lamps.
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(a)choose the correct answers
When its 1 battary and 2 lamps
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When its 1 battary and 2 lamps
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When its 1 battary and 3 lamps
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(b) Choose a circuit diagram for 1 battery and 3 lamps.
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(a) Complete the sentences.
The……………..protects the brain
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The………….protects the lungs.
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(b) Muscles are used to make bones move.
What happens to your biceps muscle when you bend your arm?
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(a) Choose the pictures that have energy because they are moving.
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(b) Describe how the animal in the first picture can increase its movement energy
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(a) Safia pours the same volume of water into each dish.
Choose the apparatus she uses to measure the volume accurately.
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(b) Jamila puts the dishes in areas with different temperatures. She measures the temperature of each dish.
What equipment does she use?
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(a) Look at the shadow. Choose the correct description of the object.
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(b)Carlos moves closer to the source of light. What happens to the size of the shadow? choose the correct answer
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(c) Carlos stops moving. The intensity of the light is increased. What happens to the size of the shadow? choose the correct answer.
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13 Humans can have positive and negative effects on the environment. A new road is being built near your school.
Choose the effects are positive or negative.
creates jobs
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14 Aiko investigates the time it takes sugar cubes to dissolve in water. This is what she does in her first experiment.
adds 100 cm3 of water to a beaker
adds one sugar cube to the water
stirs the water and sugar cube with a glass rod
measures the time it takes for the sugar cube to dissolve.
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(a) What piece of equipment does she use to measure the time?
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15 Many plants have flowers.
(a) Which twoparts of the flower attract insects?
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(b) Complete the sentence. Pollen fertilises the ovum. This produces
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16 Gabriella wants to separate a mixture of salt and sand. The diagram shows the steps she uses. They are not in the correct order.
(a) Put the steps in the correct order.
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(b) Which solid substance is on the filter paper in step E?
