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@ ae NAN HUA PRIMARY SCHOOL ‘SEMESTRAL ASSESSMENT 1 ~ 2012 ‘PRIMARY 5 SCIENCE BOOKLET A 30 Multiple Cholce Questions (60 marks) Total ime for Booklets Aand B: 1 hour 46 minutes INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDDATES \Wiite your name and index number in the space provided (Do nat tun ver the page until you are told fo do so. Follow all instructions carefully Answer all questions. ‘Shade your answers inthe Optical Answer Sheet (UAS) provaca, Marks Obtained Booklet A [7 | _160_ Booklet B 140 Total 1800 ey (0) Class: Ps Date : 3 May 2012 Parent's Signature: s Section A; (30 x 2marks = 60marks) For each question from 1 10 30, four options are given, One of them is the ‘correct answer. Make your choice (1, 2,3 0r 4). Shade the correct oval (1, 2, 3.0r4) on the Optical Answer Shel 1. ABlock of meting ice i placed in a box as shown inthe diagram below. What will happen to the temperature of the air and melting ice in the box during the process of relting? Temperature of Melting ice m increases 2) Increases, Remains the same (G) | Decreases | Remains the same (@) | Decreases Decreases: 2. The diagram below shows how rainwater can be collected from the oof rain pipe of a house, 77 ‘What can the rain water collected inthe pail be used for? ‘A Watering the plants B Washing the driveway Filing up a marine aquarium (1) Aconly 2)A and B only {@)B and.c only (A ,Bandc 3. Which ofthe following 2 ‘seads is/are similar? raclerisues onStaanornormsneres ana Uaan A Both are dispersed by we. B Both are stored in 8 spore bag. © Both enable the reproduction ot plants Both are formed fram the ovules of lowers. (Cony @A ard C ony @)B and D only (@A,BandD only a 4. The diagram shows a seed of a young plant ‘Which part wil dvelog and make food fo the plant in future? (1) Fist cot (2) Seed tet. (0) Fist shoot (4) 800d coat 5. Susan wants to find out if the MSO coconut Neng H 10 slat. Sno prepares two coconuts and two basins with the same amount of water Which ofthe folowing variables is the indepehident variable? (1) The sizeof the basins 2) The size of the cocsnuts, (9) The presence ofthe husk. (4) Tho temperature of he water in the basin 6. The diagram shows # cross seetion of2 diferent lowers, Flower X and ¥. Power X Flower ¥ Which of the statement below is/are false? ‘A Both flowers can grow into fruits 8 Both plants wil receive pollen grain, Both lowers have male and female parts (1) Aand B only (@)8 and C only OA Bande. (4) None of the above 7. Wty does the mate animal produce many sperms during fertilisation? (1) To show that itis heathy, (2) To shorten the tire to frtise the egg (@) To fertie the numerous ogge inthe female (4) To increase the chance ofa sperm fetiising the e99 8. Look atthe family toe below, Kay TC) sinae | L_ Ste ee O female ‘What trai(s) has John inherited from his father? (1) Blue eyes. (2) Brown hale ©) Blue eyes, brown haie (@) Black eyes, brown hair 8. Weiming ikes tofaeauthrough tis mouthasaying that he gets more ain that way. However, Sill says that Riwakvery Realty to breathe tat way. Why does Sitreay that? (1) His hoart wit have to pump more blood, (2) His ungs need to expand bigger and he wil feel he pain (@) His mouth does not have hair to wap dust and dit particles. (4) His mouth wil get bad breath because germs can enter his mouth easily, 10. Which ofthe following are casted by the blood inthe circulatory system? AOxygen B Digested food (© Carbon dioxide D Waste products (1) A and Cony (2) B and D only G)A.C and ony, (@)A8,Canad 111. Which ofthe cyete(si below involve evaporation and condensation? a ‘Snow “water ‘Giouds River ‘Sea Water a ‘Clouds move over the land Rain Clouds are formed ‘over the sea ‘Water ened vapour Waterin the |,“ c Water inthe storage tank Water used in Clean water factories iter J+——[_biity water ()C only (@)Aand 8 only {@)Aand C only (A, Bandc 12.Study the picture below. Which ofthe following cauld be the causes of what had happened? 1A To’ much rainwater Oi spillage from ships. C Too much algae in the sea D Release of industrial wastes in the sea. (8) And 8 only (2) G andD only @)B,C ana only (4)A,8, Cand 0 13.tn a farm, Plant X is polinated only by butterfies. Recently, the farmer found thatthe caterpitars are eating the leaves of his vegetabies, In order te protect his vogetsbles, the Tarmer sprayed pesticide to. kil the caterpilars. ‘Which graph below correctly shows the population of Plant X after the farmer has started spraying pesticide to kill the caterpilas? (1) Population of (2) Population of Prant x Plant x LL, Time (Population of (4)Population of Plant x. Plant x Tike Tie 4.Michael prepares the setups as shown below, He hypothesises that "hg odod for seed fiyenninate to become seedings. He wants {0 lest his hypothesis by using the set-up below. ‘Two days later, the seeds in both beakers germinated. He repeated the ‘experiment and got the same results. Which of the fllowing explains why his experiment faled to lest his hypothesis? (1) Thore was too much oll in Beaker 8. (2) Both beakers ‘contain water with dissolved oxygen, {G) There was too mich dissolved oxygen in Beaker A (4) The olin Beaker 8 contained dissolved oxygen for the green bean ‘seeds to germinate 15, The table below records the characteristics of four lowers, A,B, C and O. Flower Petals a Sia Cato + ‘age i canted ae oe a ¢ ‘age geste | — een D =a bright oles | scented. Which fower is mos kel to he polnated by wind? (ya 28 @c @o 16,which one of the folowing descriptions about the Ihumansis correct? sual organs of Tesies ‘Ovaries [They etize ne ovaries. They receive the 2995. (Q) | Thay produce spems. They produce eggs. 1G) | They store a few male sperms. | There is only one egg in each Ty | There are to testes reach | There only one ovarv in ‘male each female i 17.Which ofthe following characteristics can be a result of both heredity and fenvionmental conditions? A Obesity 8 Shor fingernails Height 1 Detached ear lobes ()Acniy (@)Aand C only @) Band D only (A,B and C only s Study the diagram betow careful Umbitical Foetus cord Which ofthe following statements about the developing foetus are true? ‘At does not need focd and water. B itis developed froma fertised egg, Itis developing in the laopian ube of ts mother, D itcaries genic iterascn Rom both its parents (1) A and ¢ only (2) 8 and D only G)A.Cand D only (8) B,C and D only 19. The table below shows the mixture of gases we inal from the surrounding air Nivogen | Oxyoer Carbon | Other gases Dioxide 78%, 2% 03% oa What is the muture of gases when we exhale from our body? Nivogin—[ Oxygen | Gavbon Dioxide | Other gases 78%. 15%. 5.85% ERI (| 7a 15% ‘03% 6.97% for ——s0%. 21% 583% 23.17% bey “s0% ——} 21% 0.03%. 28.97% 20.The diagram below shows How blood is circulated in our body. C (tothe rest ofthe body) ~ 1 (from the lungs) A (tothe tings) << — - 8 (from the rest ‘ofthe body) Which one of the falling rows correctly shows the amount of oxygen in ur biood at A, B, Cand D Bieod with tess oxygen fo ‘Cand De res Band C a Aga ¢ 7 an ‘Rand 6 - ” 21.The diagram below shows how food ‘the human body. Food ‘Surounding ‘alr and vad Which systems do X, ¥ and Z represent? Exhsled System X|_ System ¥_[ System Z T_[Cicatory | Respiratory_|— Digestive @_| Digestive —[ Respiratory | Circulatony )_| Cireviatory | Digestive | Respiratory (@)_[- Digestive | Ckeslatory | Respiratory 22. Which ofthe fooving appactusalbws Alvin to see te sign &) behind ‘him without turning hi head? A © laa 8 Mior im ee wow Le ew vn — we © Minor p——— «| vice: LE ey weer es aeoy Bee coy (8) Cand D only (4) Band D ony 23. A metal tin is placed between 2 clear red plastic sheot and a screen as shown in the dlagram below. Clearred . plastic — Screen Toren PH f J etal ti Which of the folowing images willbe seen on the screen?” o ® os Edge te Black coeenl * Edge of eo “ ‘Edge of eaaned — ‘ereen Black 24. Bomice walked pasta It treat lamp from A to E on a dark night as shown in the diagram below Street - lamp TIT ~ a © 3 Which ofthe following graphs shows the likely changes in the length of Bemica's shadow when she waked pastthe lt street from A to E? 0 @ Length of Lenght shadow soda SpE retin EE Pebion o Length of, Length of shadow shadow Potion PoEiton 25. Peter fled four identical beakers with some tap water. Then he heated the beakers of tap water with four identical Bunsen bumers. He recorded the time taken for each baaker of water to bol inthe table beiow. roe Sel 2 Zz Sle min | mia | min | min in | c= aecfere 100°C [ “E30 | sc [too Set [arc wc ave ar a —s What could nave resuited inthe difference inthe length of time required to boll the water inthe various beakers? (1) There were ctferent amounts of water in the beakers, (2) The water in the beakers have diferent boing points (@) The water inthe beakers have diferent inal temperature, (@) Different amounts of water inthe beakers had changed from liquid slate fo the gaseous state. 26, Kimberly was holding a motal spoon with a cube of ice ae chown. After ‘some time, she felt thatthe spoon was cold Which ofthe following corecty explains why Kimberly felt that the spoon was cold? (1) The spoon lost hea tothe ice and to her fingers (2) The spoon gained heat froin the ice and from her fingers {@) The spoon lost hea to the lee and gained heat fram her finger (@) The spoon gained heat from the ie and lst heat to her fingers, 27.Three identical pieces of ice were subjected to different conditions as shown in the diagram below, Tap water ‘completely rec thalorges tithe to the shortest time. ()AB.C B)BAC BCA CAB 28. Study the table below. a al r Ch} a a eS wee es ‘Arrange the three pieces ofa according to the time they take to melt Statements ‘Object A | Onject [Object] Breaks info pioces v x v when dropped ‘Can be seen through x x v Can be scratched wiha x T % plastic ruler Wich of the folowing can these throe objects be? ‘Object ‘Object “Orjact € {| Geramic tie Metal euler | Glass bot (2)_|— Geramic tie [Paper baa Gis bottle ‘G) |. Glass bot Paper bag, Ceramic le (1 Glass bole Plastic bottle Paper bag 18 29, The lenses of spectades are either maid of glass or plastic. Parents usually prefer to have plastic lenses for their chidren's spectacles. What'afe te possible reastne? ‘A Plastics tighter thay glass, B Plastic is waterproof but glacs fe not C Plastic does not break as easily a8 glass. D Plastic is more fexble than glass. () Aand C only (@)B and D only @)8, Cand D only @A8.Candd 30.1he diagram below shows a plant that giows in a mangrove swamp, What ace the f [A Takes in aie 8 Makes food CC Holds the plant fmty Tokes in water and dssolvad mineral salts (1) Aand B only (2)Cand D ony (3) A.C and D only (4)B,¢ and D only @ ae NAN HUA PRIMARY SCHOOL ‘SEMESTRAL ASSESSMENT 12012 PRIMARY 5 SCIENCE BOOKLET B 14 Open-ended questions (40 marks) Total Time for Booklets A and B: 1 hour 45 minutes INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES 41. Witte your name and index number in the space provided. 2. Do not tum over the page Until you are told to do so. 3, Follow all insttctions careful 4. Angier all questions, 5. Wiite your anawer in this booklet. Marks Obtained Section B 140 Name: _ co) Date : 3 May 2012 Parent's Signature: ‘Section B: (40marks) ‘Wie your answers to question 31 to 4. ‘The number of marks alecated is shown in brackets [ atthe end of each question or part question 31, Josef set up an experiment as shown inthe diagram below. He wanted to Collect some liquid inthe bow! after an hour Plastic wrap Be Pot Warm water mised with rod food colouring 4) What is the colour of the liquid collected in the bowl? Put a tick in the appropriate box. " Ty clearwater [] Redt-cotored water 'b) Explain how the qu is collected in the bow in the setup above. [2] 6) Josef colécted 30:mi ot nquia after an hour. What can ne do to me set. ‘upto increase the amount of quid he can colect in an hour? [1] ‘Score 32.The diagram below shows Al's family ree from his paternal side of his family. Study itcaretully and answer the questions that follow. im C= Ow x dimple: i a eee ere i 'b) Circle his grandmother in the family tree shown above. o separa cheaters mtn ene ws 3 33. A group of pupils st up an experiment a shown in the diagram below to find out whose lungs can hold tha most ai, Amount of watarletin 800+ the plastic ote (mt) Prastic, lube ate plastic toto Water Each pupil took a deep breath and exhale as much as he or she could into the plastic tube. The graph below shows the results they abtained. 00} 400 James May At Eunioe €@) Arrange in order with the pupil having the largest lang capacity to the pupil vith emallet hung capacity ) Explain how this setup is able to measure their ung capacity. [1], 2 a [ Score eA 24 Stody the diagram below, Draw the light rays to show how light travels go that Cindy can see hersetf ln the rier. 2 23 35, The setup below shows a model ofa solar watar heater: A water pump is Used to circulate the water nthe setup. “The plastic bottle and plestic tube are ited with cold water, The metal ray 's lefin the sun for 30 mmnutes while the plastic bole Keptin the shade, 4) Explain how the weter in the plastic bottle becomes hat after 30 minutes. ) 'b) Wat isthe purpose o puting styrofoam around the plastic bottle? [17 ©) His hind suggests that he increases the numberof exis on the tay without changing the length ofthe plastic tube to make the water heat Up faster. Do you agree wih his fiend? Explain your answer. [1] [= 2 96, Roger set up the experiment below. All the variables. used were the same except for the clarty of the water. He shone a fight through the water Sample in each beaker and observed the amount of light tat passed through with a datalogger Setup A Setup 8 lacs beaker ‘Woter sample A Glass beaker ‘Water sample 8 White paper Tripod Datatogger He recorded the amount of ight detected inthe table below. cna ora] | detects (un) Seip 18 2) What is the aim of tis experiment? nm b) Which water sample, A oF B, shouldbe Use o gioW™'is water plants? Explain your answer io) =D 2s a {7. The diagrams below show a rain tree at wo diferent times. Bird's nest femn Year: 2009 Year: 2010 Inthe year 2010, a Bia's nest fem was found growing on the rain tree, 8) How doas the Bis nest fom reproduce? o ») Decribe how the Bids nest fern goto the ran toe? m ©) Explain why the Bic's nest fern has an advantage tit grows on the rain tree. 1 26 38. Charlene visited her uncle's farm, She savy her uncle transplanting some young mango trees o another part ofthe farm as shown below. Prot B 1a) What would happen to the young mango trees if they were not transplanted from Plot Ato Plot B in two months? Tt ) Explain your answer in (2) nm ‘Seore 39, Tim studied the percertage of males and females hatched from the eggs of a certain species of cocodiles af diferent temperatures. His results are shown inthe graph below. % hatched _~ Key 100- OMate Female 80+} 50 aot 20 a rr 2) What is the relationship between the percintage of males hatched and the temperature? ty “> Temperature ec) ) Based on results inthe graph above, give a reason why this type of crocodile isnot suitable to vein Singapore? fo} [= : 2 40. Figure 4 and 2 showhow gases are transported in the circulatory system ‘ofa tadpole and a human respectively, = tenor A eat test ‘body. body F t Figure + (Fapok) Figure 2 oman) 2) Stale one iterence between the drecton af fw of blood ia a tadpole onin homan, ‘it by State one diference between tie gases found in the blood Hlowing at A ‘and 6. 1 2» 41. Alvin conducted an experiment to measure the amount of ight that can pass through six aiforent materials. He used a datalogger lo Jo 30 cH: Material A Datatogger He recorded the resuls in the table below. “Amount of ght that passed through the materials, | i AE . Materials AB CDE F Based on the results given in the bar chart above, answer the folowing ‘questions, Read the statements and lickin the appropriate boxes Delow. (3) ‘Statements True] False [Not possible 10 tall Watefial allows ore fight te pase through than Material F ‘Material A-has a lighter chadow than Material 6 ‘Material E fe darker io colour than Materat D. [ Mataral As abte to parialy Bock ight seal E could be a ner. Taterai ie opaque 1 30 42, Carrie wanted to investigate i the time taken for heat to travel from one nd of 8 rod to the olher end would be affected Dy is thickness, ‘She used thioe rods of eifaron! thickness but ofthe same tength. She put 2 fing of wax around one end of each rod, and then heated the other end of each red as showr below, rough fa as vomed-l | reece seed oh —~ Wax 2) What st dependont vr nis oxpernent? " ») Winat would happento:thewax when ore'end ofthe rod was heated by aheshot water? Broantvour answer rh ©) Her classmates told her‘that if was not a fairest. Do you agree witt ‘ther? Explain your reason. pi ” a 43. Jeryl wanted to test the strength of two materials, A and B, withthe setup ene Sting Table jt ‘Weights were added unit the material bent. He recorded his findings in the lable below, Tate Weight hung ti material bent (9) x eta 5 0 2) Which materials the svonger material? mn ) Jen wants to make a made! aeroniane.to comoete in a model ‘2exoplane fling comgetiion thal fequius the mooeraeroplane to stay rnewallsioruneongesistine, Could the results of the experiment bove help Jery! decile which material is more suitable in making the roplane? Give a reason for your answer a ‘So0re 2 44, Emest wantedlto find out if fhe number of feaveg would afect the amount ‘of water the ptant tates in. he prepavea tne apparalus below to help him ‘conduct the experiment 2 similar balsam plants with 10 similar leaves each - 2beakers ‘500 ml of water 100 mal of of 2) Emest hiad some problems coming up with the steps to conduct the ‘experiment. Write down the steps for Emest to alow him to conduct 9 fair test. Number your steps, BI 'b) Based on his expesimont, he found out that the plant with more leaves took in more water, Would such plants be able fo survive in an ‘cavironment with very Ele rainfall for example the Sahara Dasort? Give a reason for your answer a End of Paper Score B a BAM PAPER 2012 SeHOOL + NAN HUA SUBJECT: PRIMARY SclENCE TERM: SAL a = ee ee Ee Es Sapa a}clear water bythe warm waterin the pot will evaporate to form water vapout. Th water vapour raises up to touch the plastic wrap ,the vater vapour loses heat tothe plastic wrap and condonse to form water droplets. The water droplets sccumulate and dripped into the bow ‘le could heat upthe water to 100%, a2}a)one. > {Al grandfather pas the characteristic to his father an his father passed itto nim, Pre 1803 poet 33)a)Eunice , May, James, Al ‘when the pupils exhale, the exhaled air will accupy the space in the plastic bottle, pushing te water out ofthe plasticbattle.The one with the least ‘mount of water in thebottle has the largest ung capacity. u indy 35)a)The cold water will go through the plastic tube and gain heat from the imetal tay and go through the water pump and at the same time the metal tay ill gan heat from the sun and after 30 minute of repeating this process the ‘water oil hot bythe Styrofoam is 2 poor conductor of heat to reduce the heat toss ofthe heat water to the surrounding. ‘)¥es. When the nunber coils on the tray are increase there fs more contact surface between the tubes and the tray 0 the water in tubes wil gain heat aster '36)a)To find out ifthe carity of water affects the amount of light that passes through i. b)Water sample A. Tye fully submerge plant can still use the chlorophy/l to tray ight photosynthesis as light can pass tarough the water. 37 at reproduce by spores. )A spore another Bird Nest form was carried by the wind tothe brunch of ‘the rain tee the new Bird's nest fern grew from the spore that landed on the The Bird's nest fern will get more sunlight compared to growing on the ground 38)a)They wil not grow healthily ‘yThe young plants wil be overcrowded and they would need to compete for space, water-and suight. 0. a9) The Percentage of hates hatched deneate as the Yomperetue inaesse: age 2 cankin bi ths Hype of emCOMiIES can ony SHAVE JA at LOK renge Of AEMISMIATE beeen 2c 38% however, the Jenqeratne ANSE Wh singapore ie hisher Adien can reach ac Wah aS 22°% hence is hot quivabie for sat WEE OF CISCodile to Wwe: Om, oR 38 Ja)the young mdngo trees will not grow wel, ‘The young plants would face the problem of overcrowding. The would ‘complete for space, nutrients, water and sunlight, 40}0)The flow of blond in the tad poe isin one direction but the flow of blood inhuman is two directions. ‘Blood at A is low in oxygen but blood at ay igh in oxygen, aaa RE romance coarse [sete 42)a)The time taken forthe wax to melt. 'b)The wax would melt. The rod will gain heat from the hat water. The wax will gain heat trom the rod and mek (Yes. lia far test there should only be one independent variable which is the thickness ofthe rad. The materials ofthe reds were changed too and that can affect the result as well. 43)a)Material A )No. The mode! plane has to be made ofa ight material fori to be able to stayin the air the longest. A strong material may not necessarily be ight, 444)3)1)Add 200ml of water into one beaker. 2)Add 25mLof of into the beaker. '3)0ut the plant with 10 leaves in the same beaker: ‘a)Repeat steps 1-2 forthe second beaker. 'S)Remove 5 leaves from the other plant and place it inthe second beaker. )Record the amount of water lef in both beakers everyday for days. 7yThe Beaker with the lesser water shows that the plant has taken in more water. )No. Plants with many leaves will mot survive as they wil water to taken in. jot have enough pone 3 io

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