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1.Name the gas used in fire extinguishers.
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2.State the eye disease which is spread by houseflies.
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3. Which part of a fish performs a similar function as the human ear?
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4.Name the male reproductive cell in flowers.
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5.Give any one way in which wood fuel can be conserved.
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What is the use of this instrument at a Weather Station?
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7.Which method of heat transfer enables a person to iron clothes using a flat iron?
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8.Why should cold water be poured on the part of the body which has been scalded or burnt?
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9.Apart from decomposition, in which other way is soil formed,?
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10.What is the importance of smoke during the harvesting of honey?
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11.State the class of lever in which the effort is between the fulcrum and the load.
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12.Give a reason why male anopheles mosquitoes do not transmit malaria parasites to humans.
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13.How can foot and mouth disease be controlled in cattle?
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14. Give one way in which farmers can improve on the supply of nitrogen in the soil without the use of artificial fertilizers.
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16.What happens to muscle Q when the arm is raised?
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17.Which intestinal worm enters the human body through bare feet?
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18. How. do plants make use of the gas given out by animals during respiration?
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19.State any one use of plane mirrors to people.
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20.Apart from helping in pollination, give one other way in which wind is useful to plants.
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21.Which part of a maize grain has a similar function as the cotyledon of a bean seed?
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22.State any one characteristic which shows that a bat is a mammal.
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23. Which blood cells carry oxygen in the body?
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24.Give any one reason why breastfeeding is encouraged for at least two years.
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25.Name any one scale in which temperature is measured.
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26The diagrams below shows two bar magnets placed close to each other. Use it to answer the question that follows.Use arrows to show what happens to the two bar magnets.
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27.Name the human body system to which the lungs, kidneys and the skin belong.
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28. Give one way in which bacteria in pit latrines are useful.
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29. Name one disease that affects the stomach because of alcoholism.
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30.Apart from the polio vaccine, name any other vaccine administered to children at 6 weeks of age.
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31.In which part of the human alimentary canal is water absorbed?
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32. What is the danger of having too much wax in the human ear?
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33. What form of energy is produced by dry cells?
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34.What form of energy is produced by dry cells?
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35.Apart from eating a balanced diet, give any
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Name the method of plant propagation shown in the diagram above.
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37. Which organs are used by both fish and tadpoles for breathing?
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38.Give any one secondary sex characteristic which is common to both adolescent boys and girls.
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39.Name the fungi which normally grows on left over foods.
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40.What happens to light rays when they meet a convex lens?
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41a. State any two ways in which vectors. spread diseases to humans.
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b. Give any two ways of preventing vectors from spreading diseases to humans.
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a. Name the parts marked Sand T
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b.What is the function of the part marked R?
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c.Give any one disease that affects the above system.
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44a.Give any two examples of non-renewable resources in the environment.
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b. State any two ways of conserving non-renewable resources.
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45a. To which group of plants do ferns and liverworts belong?
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b.How is the reproduction of ferns similar to that of liverworts?
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c. Give two other plants that reproduce in the same way as ferns and liverworts.
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46a. Name the change of state which takes place when:
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Vapour changes to liquid.
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(ii). a solid changes directly to gas
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b.Apart from causing change of state, give two other effects of heat on matter.
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a. Name the type of eclipse shown in the diagram above.
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b. Name the shadows marked P and Q
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c.What happens to a person who would be in part x during the eclipse?
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48a.which one way is each of the following elements of Primary Health Care (PHC) important to the community?
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(ii).Maternal and child health
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b. Give any two health care services which are provided through maternal and child health.
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49a.Name two systems of keeping poultry that enables a farmer to keep large numbers of birds.
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b. State any two viral diseases that can spread easily in the above systems of poultry keeping.
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50a. Give any one characteristic which is common to all invertebrates.
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b. To which group of invertebrates does each of the following animals belong?
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c. State one way in which snails may be dangerous to humans.
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a. Name the parts marked M and K.
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b. Which mineral salt helps to form part M?
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c. Give the function of the part labelled N.
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52a. State the method that can be used to separate:
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(ii).millet seeds mixed with its husks
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b.Give the importance of the following steps in cleaning clothes at home:
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53a. Write down any two examples of anti-social behaviour in our communities.
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b.State any two ways of controlling anti-social behaviour in our communities.
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54a.Apart from using solfa notation, mention any two other ways of storing sound.
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b. Name two instruments used to reproduce the sound stored by solfa notation.
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a. Name the type of clouds represented by letter A
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b. State the processes taking place at B and C
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c.What is the importance of the sun in the above diagram?
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