Cambridge Lower Secondary monthly test
SCIENCE Year 7
16TH December 2023
60 minutes
Topics
Chapter: 3 Habitat and Environment (Full topics)
Chapter: 9 Energy transformation (Full topics)
You must answer on the question paper.
No additional materials are needed.
INSTRUCTIONS
Answer all questions.
Use a black or dark blue pen. You may use an HB pencil for any diagrams or graphs.
Write your name, centre number and candidate number in the boxes at the top of the page.
Write your answer to each question in the space provided.
Do not use an erasable pen or correction fluid.
You should show all your working in the booklet.
INFORMATION
The total mark for this paper is 35.
The number of marks for each question or part question is shown in brackets [ ].
Result
Out of 35
This document has 4 pages.
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1. This cactus lives in a hot and dry desert. [5]
a) The cactus has long roots that spread out in the sand.
(i) Suggest how the roots help the cactus survive in the hot and dry desert.
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(ii) Explain one other way the cactus is adapted to living in the hot and dry desert.
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b) Complete the food chain for these organisms
The kangaroo rats are eaten by snakes.
The cactus is eaten by kangaroo rats.
Desert foxes feed on snakes.
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2. The following sentences describe the working of fuel burning power station. Fill the
blanks from the given choice in order to make it sense. [5]
Kinetic, Furnace, Fossil fuels, High pressure, Steam, Electric
Fuel-burning power stations burn ………………………………… such as coal, oil or natural gas
in………………………………..This heats water in a boiler to produce ……………………………………. It is
used to spin turbine which attached to a generator. The magnets in the generator spin
within the wire coil and this transforms the ……………………………… into ……………………………....
3. The Sankey diagram of a filament bulb is shown below Answer the following questions.
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a) Calculate the percentage efficiency of the bulb (2)
Percentage efficiency =………………………………………………………
b) Name the useful and wasted energy that you find from the Sankey diagram. (1)
Useful : ………………………………………………
Wasted : ………………………………………………
c) Explain why an electric heater is nearly 100% efficient? (2)
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4. Organisms are linked together in feeding relationships known as food chain. [5]
Grass Antelope Cheetah
The food chain given has three trophic levels
a) What happens to the biomass as it passes along a food chain? Give reason. (2)
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b) Explain how DDT negatively affects food chain. (3)
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5. The graph shows the growth of human population. [5]
a) Why has the human population increased so much? (1)
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b) Explain any two positive effects on the environment caused due to population growth. (2)
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c) Explain any two negative effects on the environment caused due to population growth. (2)
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6. Drag and drop these labels to match the energy chains to the correct devices. [6]
Electrical, Sound, Light, Kinetic, Heat, Strain, Chemical, Potential, Wind
Wasted
Electrical Heat
Wasted
Light Heat
Wasted
Strain Sound
7. Draw a Sankey diagram based on the following information about an electrical buzzer. It
is powered by batteries that provide 30 J of chemical energy. 5 J of energy are lost as
heat as the electricity passes through the wires of the circuit. The buzzer produces 5 J
of sound; the rest is wasted as heat energy. [4]
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