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Give two ways the barn owl is suited for catching small animals.
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(ii) Draw a line from each animal below to the word that describes it.
Draw only two lines.
4 marks
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Why do the young barn owls need feathers?
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(c) Barn owls build nests in farm buildings. Mice eat wheat seeds.
(i) Many old farm buildings have been knocked down so that houses can be
built on the farmland.
Give one reason why this has caused the number of barn owls to
decrease.
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(ii) Suggest one reason why farmers like to have barn owls on their farms.
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3 marks
maximum 7 marks
Q2. The drawings below show four living things found in a wood.
not to scale
(a) (i) Complete the food chain for these four living things.
1 mark
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(b) On one oak tree, there were two types of caterpillar.
not to scale
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1 mark
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1 mark
maximum 5 marks
Q3 The information below was taken from the label of a can of baked beans in
tomato sauce.
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(a) A healthy diet contains a number of groups of substances. The nutritional
information lists some of these.
Give one group of substances, needed for a healthy diet, which is missing
from the nutritional information.
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1 mark
(b) (i) Which food, shown in the list of ingredients, provides the most protein in this
can?
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1 mark
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1 mark
(c) (i) Name one food, shown in the list of ingredients, which provides fibre.
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1 mark
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1 mark
Maximum 5 marks
Q4. The diagram shows a section through the human female reproductive system.
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(a) (i) How often are eggs normally released in the female reproductive system?
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1 mark
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1 mark
The embryo attaches to the lining of the uterus. Here the embryo
(c) The diagram below shows a baby growing in its mother’s uterus.
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(i) What is the function of the amniotic fluid?
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1 mark
(ii) Through which part can harmful substances, such as nicotine, pass from the
mother’s blood to the baby’s blood?
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1 mark
(iii) Give one other harmful substance which may be passed from the mother’s
blood to the baby’s blood.
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1 mark
(d) When the baby is born it is pushed out of the mother’s body.
What happens in the wall of the uterus to push the baby out?
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1 mark
Maximum 8 marks
Q5. (a) Diagram 1 is a simplified drawing of bones and muscles in a left leg viewed
from the outer side.
(i) Muscle A contracts. What effect does this have on the leg?
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1 mark
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(ii) Muscles are found in antagonistic pairs. Write the letters of the pair of muscles
which control the bending and straightening of the leg at the knee.
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1 mark
(iii) When one muscle of an antagonistic pair contracts the other muscle does not
relax completely, but maintains some tension.
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1 mark
(b) Diagram 2 shows the elbow joint. Tissue X covers the ends of the bones at
the joint.
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2 marks
(c) Tendons are shown in diagram 1 and ligaments are shown in diagram 2. Ligaments
can stretch much more than tendons.
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1 mark
(ii) Explain why it is necessary that tendons hardly stretch at all when a muscle
contracts.
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1 mark
Maximum 8 marks
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Q6. Michelle added some universal indicator solution to four liquids.
pH chart
pH 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
colour of universal
liquid pH
indicator solution
milk green
rain water 5
bleach 11
2 marks
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1 mark
(c) Michelle measured the pH of some milk stored at room temperature for five days.
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(i) Write the axis label for the graph at X.
(ii) Use the graph. How does the pH of the milk change over the five days?
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1 mark
maximum 5 marks
Q7. The pH scale shown below is used to measure how acidic or alkaline a solution is.
The graph below shows how the pH of the liquid in Barry's mouth changed as he
ate a meal.
(a) (i) Use the graph to give the pH of the liquid in Barry's mouth before he started
to eat.
pH ..................
1 mark
(ii) What does this pH tell you about the liquid in Barry's mouth before he started
to eat?
1 mark
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(b) Look at the graph above.
What happened to the pH of the liquid in Barry's mouth as he ate the meal?
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1 mark
(c) Barry chews special chewing gum after each meal. The chewing gum neutralises
the liquid in his mouth.
an acid an alkali
an indicator a solid
1 mark
Maximum 4 marks
Q8. The list below shows properties that different elements can have.
• magnetic
• can be compressed
(a) Which two properties from the list above make aluminium suitable for saucepans?
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2 marks
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1 mark
(ii) a lot of oxygen gas can be pumped into a very small container?
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1 mark
Maximum 4 marks
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Q9. (a) The table below shows information about five elements.
A –7 59 no brown
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1 mark
Cr Cu C Co Ca
1 mark
(c) How many atoms of iron and oxygen are there shown in the formulas for FeO and
Fe2O3?
FeO
Fe2O3
2 marks
maximum 5 marks
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Q10. (a) Methane can be a gas, a liquid or a solid. In the diagram below, arrows P, Q,
R and S represent changes of state.
The boxes on the right show the arrangement of particles of methane in the three
different physical states.
Each circle represents a particle of methane.
(i) Draw a line from each physical state of methane to the arrangement of
particles in that physical state.
Draw only three lines.
1 mark
evaporation? ............................................................
melting? ...................................................................
2 marks
(b) Methane is the main compound in natural gas. The scale below shows the
melting point and the boiling point of methane.
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Methane has three physical states: solid, liquid and gas.
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1 mark
(ii) The formula of methane is CH4. The symbols for the two elements in methane
are C and H.
element C .............................................
element H ............................................
2 marks
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1 mark
Maximum 7 marks
Q11. (a) The table below shows the melting points of four metals.
melting point,
metal
in °C
gold 1064
mercury –37
sodium 98
iron 1540
(i) Which metal in the table has the highest melting point?
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1 mark
(ii) Which metal in the table has the lowest melting point?
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1 mark
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(c) 5 g of gold is melted and all of it is poured into a mould to make a pendant as
shown below.
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1 mark
(d) The table below shows how the four metals react with oxygen when heated in air.
reaction when
metal
heated in air
gold no change
slowly forms a
mercury
red powder
bursts into flames
sodium
straight away
very slowly turns
iron
black
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1 mark
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1 mark
Maximum 6 marks
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(a) What evidence in the diagrams shows that a chemical reaction has taken place?
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1 mark
(b) The reaction between iron and copper sulphate is a displacement reaction.
(i) Give the name of the orange metal visible after one week.
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1 mark
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1 mark
(iii) Joanne poured the green solution into another test tube. She added some
copper pieces to the solution.
yes no
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1 mark
calcium potassium
zinc lead
1 mark
maximum 5 marks
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Q13. (a) Draw a line from each circuit symbol below to the correct name.
Draw only four lines.
3 marks
Give the name of the part that is the energy source for the circuit.
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1 mark
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In the table below, tick a box to show whether circuit 1 and circuit 2 are series or
parallel circuits.
Tick only two boxes.
series parallel
circuit 1
circuit 2
1 mark
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1 mark
maximum 6 marks
(i)
1 mar
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(ii)
1 mark
(iii)
1 mark
(i)
1 mark
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(ii)
1 mark
maximum 5 marks
The more turns of wire around the iron nail the stronger
the electromagnet becomes.
(a) (i) Give the one factor she should change as she investigates her prediction.
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1 mark
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(ii) Give one factor she should keep the same.
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1 mark
(iii) Describe how she could use the paper-clips to measure the
strength of the electromagnet.
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1 mark
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1 mark
(c) (i) Which size paper-clips would Alex use to make her results more
accurate?
Tick the correct box.
1 mark
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1 mark
maximum 6 marks
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Q16. Tom tries on four types of footwear in a sports shop.
(a) (i) When Tom tries on the footwear, which one sinks into the carpet the most?
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1 mark
(ii) When Tom tries on the footwear, what is the same for each type of footwear?
Tick the correct box.
1 mark
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(b) The drawing below shows a snowshoe.
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1 mark
(c) Choose the correct word from the list to complete the sentence below.
between the skate and the ice is less than when he is walking on a carpet.
1 mark
Maximum 4 marks
diagram 1
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(a) Which angle of reflection was not measured accurately?
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1 mark
diagram 2
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Use the graph to answer the questions below.
(i) When the angle of refraction is 20°, what is the angle of incidence?
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1 mark
When light passes from air into glass, the angle of incidence is
(c) On diagram 2, draw a line to continue the refracted ray as it leaves the glass
block.
1 mark
maximum 4 marks
Q18
The table below gives information about the planets of the Solar System.
They are listed in alphabetical order.
(Data obtained from The Guinness Book of Astronomy, Patrick Moore; published by Guinness 1992)
(a) Explain why Neptune and Pluto are the coldest planets.
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1 mark
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(b) Explain why there could be no liquid water on the surface of:
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(c) On which planet would the time between sunrise and sunset be shortest?
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(e) Give the name of the force which keeps the planets in their orbits.
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1 mark
Maximum 6 marks
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