OUTREACH SCHOOLS EXAMINATIONS BOARD

BEGINNING OF TERM II EXAMINATION 2024

P.4 INTEGRATED SCIENCE
Time Allowed: 2hours 15 Minutes
Pupil’s Name: …………………………………………..……………………
Class: …………………………………….………………………………………
School Name: ………………………………………………………………….
Read the following instructions carefully: FOR EXAMINERS’

1. This paper has two sections: A and B

USE ONLY
2. Section A has 40 questions (40 marks)
Qn. No. MARKS EXR’S
3. Section B has 15 questions (50 marks)
No.
4. Answer all questions. All the working for both sections
1 - 10
A and B must be shown in the spaces provided.
11 – 20
5. All working must be done using a blue or black ball
21 – 30
point pen or ink. Any work done in pencil will NOT be 31 – 40
marked except drawings and diagram. 41 – 43

6. Unnecessary changes in your work and handwriting 44 – 46

that cannot be easily read may lead to loss of marks. 47 – 49

7. Do not fill anything in the table indicated 50 - 52

53 - 55
“For examiners’ use only” and the boxes
TOTAL
inside the question paper.

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 SECTION A:
1. Name the sense organ for feeling.
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2. What name is given to a habitat for a rabbit?
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3. Mention one type of family.
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4. Give the importance of the garden tool below.

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5. What is the use of window on a living house?
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6. Which disease is spread by infected female anopheles mosquito?
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7. How does a caterpillar protect itself?
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8. Which food value is mainly got by eating the food stuff below?

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9. What is seed germination?

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10. State any one man made change in the environment.
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11. Which component of air takes 0.03% in the atmosphere?
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12. State any one layer of the soil profile.
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13. Give one immunisable disease which causes lameness.
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14. What is the importance of windows on a living house?
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15. Name the best soil for growing crops.
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16. Write one item used to clean our home.
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17. Suggest one way of keeping food safe.
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18. Mention one common accident at home.
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19. How are nimbus clouds friendly to a crop farmer?
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20. State the use of a granary to a farmer.
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22. Identify one way of making water clean.
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23. Give one reason for giving first aid.
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24. How do fish move in water?
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25. How is a dustbin useful at school?
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26. State one danger of rats at home.
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27. Complete the 4Fs germ path below.

Feaces Food Fingers

28. State one way of making soil fertile.

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29. How are spiracles useful to an insect?
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30. Give one deficiency disease.
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31. How is a clinical thermometer important to doctors?
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The diagram below shows a leaf. Use it to answer questions 32 and 33.

32. Name part marked Q.

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33. Mention the main use of leaves to a plant.
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34. Give a reason why a sugar cane is not called a stem tuber.
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35. Why do we sleep under a treated mosquito net?
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36. Why do people eat food?
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37. How is electricity useful at home?
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38. Apart from white ants, identify another example of useful insects.
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39. In the space below, draw one item used to clean the body.

40. Why do bees visit flowers?

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SECTION B:
41. a) What is soil?
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b) Mention two types f soil.
i)_____________________________ ii)__________________________
c) State one use of soil people.
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42. a) What is harvesting as used in crop growing?
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b) In which season is harvesting mostly done?
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c) Mention any two methods of harvesting.
i)__________________________ii)___________________________________
43. a) Write ORS in full.
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b) State one cause of dehydration.
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c) Give any two substances used to make ORS.
i)____________________________ ii)_______________________
44. a) Complete the life cycle below.

Nymph
b) Name the type of life cycle shown above.
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c) Give any one insect with such life cycle shown above.
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45. a) What do we call living organisms which spread germs?
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b) State any two places where germs are mostly found.
i)__________________________ ii)_____________________________
c) Name the instrument used by doctors to see germs.
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46. a) What is air?
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b) Write any two components of air.
i)_________________________ ii)_____________________________
c) Name the part of air plants use to make starch.
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47. Match the following parts with their uses.
Stems make food for the plant
Roots for reproduction
Leaves absorb water from the soil
Flowers holds branches and leaves

Stems _________________________________________________
Roots _________________________________________________
Leaves _________________________________________________
Flowers _________________________________________________
48. The diagrams below show road signs.
M N

a) Name road signs marked M and N.

i) M____________________________________________________
ii) N ____________________________________________________
b) Why should road sign marked M be put on busy roads?
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c) Identify any one colour of road sign marked N.
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49. a) What is sanitation?
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b) Write down two ways you can keep your home clean.
i)______________________________________________________________
ii)______________________________________________________________
c) Mention any one disease which can break out in a home due to
poor sanitation.
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50. a) Give any two basic needs of people.
i)__________________________________________________________
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 b) State any one role of a father at home.
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c) Name the type of family where we find children, grandfather,
uncle and aunt.
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51. Use the diagram below to answer the questions.

a) Name the part marked;

P ______________________________________________________
Q ______________________________________________________
b) How useful is part R to a bean seed?
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c) Name one condition necessary for seeds to germinate.
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52. a) In the space below, draw one item people use to fetch water
from the tap.

b) Identify any two natural sources of water.

i)__________________________________________________________
ii)_________________________________________________________
c) How useful is water at your school?
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53. a) What are wild animals?
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 b) State any two examples of wild animals.
i)__________________________________________________________
ii)_________________________________________________________
c) Identify any one danger of wind animals to people.
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54. a) Write two types of weather.
i)__________________________________________________________
ii)_________________________________________________________
b) Identify the weather instrument used to measure rainfall
received.
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c) Name any one item used to harvest rain water.
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55. a) State any two characteristics of living things.
i)______________________________________________________________
ii)______________________________________________________________
b) Give any two examples of living things.
i)__________________________________________________________

ii)_________________________________________________________

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