END OF SECOND TERM EXAMINATION

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Objectives

1. The part of the banana plant used in c. Protoplasm

reproduction is called d. Cell membrane
a. Sucker 8. The organelle which occupies the
b. Rhizome largest portion of a plant cell is the
c. Stem a. Chloroplast
d. Tuber b. Mitochondrion
2. Which of the following pairs of c. Nucleus
structures are present in animal cells? d. Vacuole
a. Mitochondrion and chloroplast 9. One of the characteristics of solid is that
b. Cell wall and mitochondrion a. Its particles are tightly packed
c. Vacuole and nucleus b. It assumes the shape of the
d. Nucleus and chloroplast container it occupies
3. Which of the following statements c. It has no fixed volume
about a plant cell is correct? d. Its particles can easily be separated
a. Does not have nucleus 10. The component of a living cell
b. Contain large vacuoles responsible for respiration is
c. Is surrounded by cell membrane a. Chloroplast
only b. Mitochondrion
d. Does not have a definite shape c. Nucleus
4. Which of the following diseases is d. Vacuole
spread by a mosquito? 11. Which of the following processes
a. Blindness involve a change in the state of matter
b. Cholera from liquid to solid?
c. Dysentery a. Evaporation
d. Elephantiasis b. Freezing
5. Which of the following structures c. Melting
contains cellulose? d. Sublimation
a. Cell wall 12. Which of the following processes
b. Cell membrane involves the solid state of matter?
c. Chloroplast a. Boiling
d. Mitochondrion b. Condensation
6. The space occupied by matter is its c. Evaporation
a. Area d. Melting
b. Mass 13. Which of the following life processes is
c. Volume not performed by all living things?
d. Weight a. Excretion
7. The part of a living cell which is semi- b. Photosynthesis
permeable is c. Reproduction
a. Cytoplasm d. Respiration
b. Nucleus
14. Plants are different from animals c. Gases have fixed volumes
because they d. The particles of solids are regularly
a. Have protoplasm arranged
b. Have chlorophyll 21. Mosquito pupa breathes through tubes
c. Are able to respire called?
d. Are able to reproduce sexually a. trachea
15. Which of the following is true about all b. siphon
matter? Matter has c. lungs
a. Volume and fixed shape d. gills
b. Volume and mass 22. Which of the following properties is/are
c. Mass and indefinite volume common to both liquids and gases?
d. Density and fixed shape a. Fixed shape
16. One characteristic which is not common b. Fixed shape and fixed volume
to all living things is the ability to c. No definite shape
a. Grow d. No definite shape and no definite
b. Move about volume
c. Respire 23. The three states of matter are
d. Respond to stimuli a. Water, liquid and gas
17. The process which takes place in all b. Earth, liquid and gas
living cells is c. Solid, liquid and air
a. Digestion d. Gas, liquid and solid
b. Fertilization 24. Which of the following is not a
c. Photosynthesis characteristic of all living things?
d. Respiration a. Transpiration
18. Which of the following statements b. Growth
about the states of matter is correct? c. Reproduction
a. Molecules in a solid are disorderly d. Feeding
arranged 25. When a piece of candle is heated, it
b. Solids are highly compressible changes from
c. Liquids have definite form and a. Liquid to gas
volume b. Solid to flame
d. Molecules in a gas move faster than c. Solid to liquid
those in a liquid d. Solid to gas
19. The substance that sublimes when 26. Which two parts of a living cell make up
heated is the protoplasm?
a. Baking powder a. Nucleus and vacuole
b. Camphor b. Nucleus and cytoplasm
c. Common salt c. Cell membrane and cell wall
d. Sugar d. Mitochondrion and chloroplast
20. Gases are more compressible than 27. The food substance found in yam is
solids because a. Carbohydrate
a. Solids have harder surfaces b. Oil
b. There are wider spaces between c. Protein
gas molecules d. Vitamin
28. Excess carbohydrate in the human body d. Tar
is stored as 35. By the end of digestion, lean meat is
a. Amino acid turned into
b. Fatty acid a. Amino acids
c. Glycogen b. Fatty acids
d. Glucose c. Glycerol
29. Digestion of protein begins in the d. Glucose
stomach and ends in the 36. Which of the following does not play
a. Large intestine any part in digestion?
b. Small intestine a. Mouth
c. Appendix b. Rectum
d. Caecum c. Pancreas
30. Which of the following vegetable crop is d. Stomach
cultivated for its leaves? 37. What structure links the mouth with
a. Carrot the stomach? The
b. Lettuce a. Duodenum
c. Okro b. Oesophagus
d. pepper c. Ileum
31. Which of the following structures takes d. Trachea
part in human digestion? 38. Digestion is the process by which food
a. Caecum is
b. Kidney a. Broken down into tiny pieces in the
c. Larynx mouth
d. Pancreas b. Moved through the alimentary
32. Which of the following substances canal
breaks down fat into tiny droplets c. Broken down to produce energy,
during digestion? water and carbon dioxide
a. Bile d. Broken down into forms which can
b. Gastric juice be easily absorbed
c. Pancreatic juice 39. The following practices are cultural
d. Saliva practices in crop production except
33. Digested food substances are absorbed a. Mulching
into the blood stream in the b. Pest control
a. Kidneys c. Weeding
b. Liver d. Nursing
c. Stomach 40. The ability to do work is
d. Ileum a. Force
34. Which of the following substances is a b. Pressure
digestive juice? c. Energy
a. Blood d. Speed
b. Bile
c. Sweat
 Section B

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1. (a) The diagrams below are illustrations of two cells labelled A and B. study the diagrams
carefully and answer the questions that follow.

i. Name each of the parts labelled I, II, III and IV

ii. Which of parts named in (i) is the same as the parts labelled VI and IX in cell B?
iii. Which of the cells is a plant cell?
iv. Give two reasons for the answer in (iii)
v. Tabulate two differences between the parts labelled I and IV

(b) The diagram below is an illustration of the human digestive system.

i. Name the parts labelled I, II, III and IV.

ii. State one function of each parts labelled V and VI
iii. Name the part where the digestion of protein starts
iv. Identify the parts where:
a. Absorption of end products of digestion take place
b. Reabsorption of water takes place
c. Egestion takes place
2. (a)i. What is matter
ii. With the aid of diagrams, briefly describe the arrangement of particles in the three states of
matter.
iii. Give three similarities between plant cell and animal cell
iv. What organelle in the cell contains the deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)?
v. In what two ways is food useful to the body?

b. i. Give two differences between plants and animals

ii. Explain why solids are not easily compressible
iii. Define the following:
a. Evaporation
b. Condensation
c. Sublimation

iv. state three characteristics which are common to all living things

v. Give two characteristics of liquid.

3. (a)i. State one function of each of the following components of a typical cell.

a. nucleus

b. chloroplast

c. mitochondrion

(b) i. Explain the following terms as associated with living organisms.

ii. multicellular

iii. unicellular

(c) i. What are digestive enzymes?

ii. Give one enzyme each associated with the digestion of;

a. Protein
b. carbohydrate

(d) i. Give three ways of conserving water

ii. State three domestic uses of water

iii. list two examples of metal.

4. (a) i. What is the water cycle?

ii. List four main stages of the water cycle

iii. Briefly describe how clouds are formed.

(b)i. Name the stages in the life cycle of a mosquito?

ii. Explain how the female anopheles mosquito transmits malaria to humans

iii. State one chemical method of controlling mosquitoes.

iv. Identify three principles of crop production

(c) i. What is peristalsis?

ii. Define indigestion

iii. State three causes of indigestion

v. List the end products of digestion which are absorbed into the blood steam

(d) i. Give one role of the hydrochloric acid in digestion.

ii. Alidu argues that the water we use today is the same water that was used by the
ancient Greeks centuries of years ago. Briefly explain why Alidu is right.

iii. Give two differences between unicellular and multicellular organisms

iv. list three diseases associated with the human digestive system.