Tadeo Mugisha
PRE PLE SET 4/10
SCI GUIDE
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SECTION A: 50 MARKS
Questions 1 to 50 carry one mark each.
1. Name the body part of a cow that is attacked by a disease detected using a strip cup.
✓ Udder
2. State the role of the organisms found in root nodules of leguminous plants.
✓ They fix nitrogen in the soil.
3. Write down the type of germination common in plants that produce grains.
✓ Hypogeal germination.
4. State one way in which trees planted near homes protect the building from destruction by
strong wind.
✓ Trees near homes act as windbreaks, hence protecting the home from strong
wind.
Reject: windbreakers
Use the diagram below to answer questions 5 and 6.
P P
r Q
Q
300
x
R R
5. If the source of light was at R, complete the diagram above correctly.
6. Briefly explain how you can find the value of r.
✓ Since the angle of incidence is equal to the angle of reflection. Therefore, angle r
is 30°.
7. Give the importance of webbed feet to a duck.
✓ Webbed feet are used for paddling in water during swimming.
8. State the relevance of market availability when starting a livestock farm.
✓ The market serves as a center for selling farm products to generate profits. It is
where farm products are sold to generate income.
9. State the reason for controlling pests in a tuber crop garden.
✓ Pest control improves crop yields in a tuber crop garden.
10. State any one way abnormal body growth can be prevented in humans.
✓ Avoiding drug abuse / Immunization
✓ Feeding on a balanced diet / Doing regular physical exercises
11. Suggest one way how silting affects aquatic animals in water.
✓ Silting leads to destruction of water animal habitats through the shallowing of
water bodies
✓ Silting leads to death of aquatic animals.
✓ Silting blocks oxygen and food for aquatic animals.
12. State one similarity between the blood carried in the vena cava and that in the
pulmonary vein.
✓ Both the blood carried by the pulmonary vein and the vena cava move/flow
toward the heart.
13. Name the part of a mushroom that helps it to feed.
✓ Hyphae (also accept mycelium).
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14. Identify the named protective device found in the simple electric circuit.
✓ A fuse.
15. Name the state of matter in which heat travels fastest by conduction.
✓ Solids//solid state
Use the diagram below and answer the following questions 16 and 17.
16. Give the reason why part R is able to remain open 24/7.
✓ Part R is made of rings of cartilage to keep it open all the time.
17. State what happens to part S during exhalation.
✓ Part S relaxes and forms a dome shape.
18. Roughage is not digested and absorbed in the alimentary canal. State two important uses of
roughages in the digestive system of a human.
✓ Roughage eases the movement of food along the alimentary canal// Roughage
prevents constipation.
19. Write one way in which the practice of sitting upright is important to the health of a P.7 child.
✓ Prevents deformity of the backbone//Prevents back pain
✓ Prevents indigestion//Prevents neck pain
20. State the reason why a fishing rod is classified under third-class levers.
✓ A fishing rod has the effort located between the load and the fulcrum (pivot).
21. Name the breed of rabbits which supports textile industries.
✓ Angora rabbit.
22. Mention the type of skeleton formed by the cuticles in some organisms.
✓ Exoskeleton
23. Give any one process in the kidneys that leads to the formation of urine.
✓ Filtration of blood//Reabsorption of useful materials//tubular secretion//
The diagram below shows one of the properties of air. Study it and answer the following
questions 24 and 25.
glass
water
cardboard
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24. State one way in which the property of air shown above is useful to people in their daily life.
✓ Helps in sucking soda from a bottle using a straw//Helps in filling empty hollows
with air//Helps in causing cesspool emptier to suck wastes from the septic tank
✓ Helps in inflating bicycle tyres//car tyres//Helps in flying kites
25. State the main factor that can make the piece of cardboard fall off the glass.
✓ When the pressure inside the glass is greater than the pressure outside the glass.
26. Write down the importance of sunlight during the process of photosynthesis.
✓ Sunlight provides energy to plants during photosynthesis.
27. Name the eye defect that makes light rays converge behind the retina.
✓ Long-sightedness (Hypermetropia).
28. Mention any one cause of self-inflicted diseases.
✓ Poor feeding//Lack of regular body exercise
✓ Smoking//Taking excessive alcohol//Drug abuse
29. Name the degree of burns in which blisters do not form on the skin.
✓ First degree burn
30. Mention the proper term given to diseases that are prevented through the introduction of
vaccines into one's body.
✓ Immunisable diseases
31. Give any one primary sex characteristic in boys.
✓ Presence of testes//Presence of the penis//Presence of the scrotum
✓ Presence of the prostate gland
32. State one danger of living in a dirty environment.
✓ It leads to easy spread of diarrhoeal diseases
✓ It leads to easy spread of malaria since it encourages breeding of female anopheles
mosquitoes.
✓ Leads to bad smell//Leads to lung cancer//Leads to air borne diseases
✓ It worsens bronchitis/asthma and pneumonia.
Signs of a dirty environment
Stagnant water//poor disposal of rubbish//poor disposal of human waste
Bad smell in the environment//High level of dust in the air.
Accumulation of industrial wastes in the environment
33. Identify the skin disease characterized by loss of feeling and deformed toes and fingers.
✓ Leprosy
34. Write any one example of an irreversible physical change.
✓ Tearing of a cloth//Breaking of an egg//grinding of grains
35. State one effect of drug under dose on the body of an individual.
✓ Drug under dose leads to drug resistance by the body.
✓ Makes germs resistant to drugs
36. Give a reason why the symbol drawn below is put on poles that carry electric wires.
✓ To create awareness of the dangers of electricity to people.
37. Name the type of teeth that are compared to wedges in the way they perform their function.
✓ Incisor teeth
38. State the way in which umbra shadows are formed.
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✓ Umbra shadows are formed by the total obstruction of light rays by an opaque
object.
39. State one condition that can make a 35-year-old man vulnerable.
✓ When he is sick. (Reject the rest)
40. Write one advantage of using a foot-operated tippy-tap over a hand-operated tippy-tap.
✓ A foot-operated tippy-tap prevents recontamination of hands compared to a hand
operated tippy tap.
✓ A foot-operated tippy-tap uses less water compared to a hand operated tippy tap
SECTION B
41. Use the diagram below to answer the questions that follow.
D
F
B
(a) Give the function of the following parts in the electric circuit.
B: To produce electricity.
F: To break or complete the circuit at the user's wish.
(b) Name the mineral used to make Part D.
✓ Wolframite (Reject wolfram)
(c) Give the energy change that occurs at Part D when the circuit is complete.
✓ Electrical energy changes to heat energy, then to light energy.
42. (a) Besides evaporation, name one other physical change that occurs in the water cycle.
✓ Condensation
(b) State the way in which the process you have stated in (a) above is useful
in the water cycle.
✓ Condensation helps in the formation of nimbus clouds.
(c) Give a reason why areas near water bodies receive a lot of rainfall.
✓ Areas near water bodies experience a higher rate of evaporation and
condensation.
(d) Mention one way in which rainfall supports plant growth.
✓ Rainfall provides water that plants use for photosynthesis.
✓ Provides water for seed germination
✓ Provides water that softens the soil making nutrient absorption easy.
43. (a) State any one role played by wetlands in our environment.
✓ Source of fish/water.
(b) State any one way humans destroy the environment.
✓ Through deforestation//Through swamp drainage
✓ Through dumping plastics//Through improper disposal of wastes
✓ Through bush burning//Through pollution//Through overfishing
✓ Through urbanization
(c) Mention any two ways of protecting the environment.
✓ Afforestation//Reforestation//Conserving swamps and wetlands
✓ Through recycling non-biodegradable materials
✓ Through using renewable energy resources/renewable resources
✓ Through reducing plastic use//Through reusing plastics
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✓ Through reducing the use of artificial fertilizers
44. Complete the table:
DISEASE CAUSE MODE OF TRANSMISSION
Trachoma bacteria housefly
Sleeping sickness protozoa tsetse fly
Malaria protozoa Anopheles mosquito
rabies virus Dog(reject rabid dog) it is a description
45. Arrange the following sentences to form the correct sequence of how the heart works:
(a) The deoxygenated blood is pumped from the heart to the lungs through the pulmonary
artery, where it releases carbon dioxide and picks up oxygen.
(b) The oxygenated blood is then pumped from the heart to the rest of the body through
the aorta.
(c) The deoxygenated blood from all parts of the body enters the heart through the vena
cava.
(d) The oxygenated blood from the lungs returns to the heart via the pulmonary vein.
Correct order
(a) The deoxygenated blood from all parts of the body enters the heart through
the vena cava.
(b) The deoxygenated blood is pumped from the heart to the lungs through the
pulmonary artery, where it releases carbon dioxide and picks up oxygen.
(c) The oxygenated blood from the lungs returns to the heart via the pulmonary
vein.
(d) The oxygenated blood is then pumped from the heart to the rest of the body
through the aorta.
46. (a) Give the reason why joints in the skull do not require synovial fluid.
✓ The bones that form the joints of the skull do not support movement (they are
fixed joints).
(b) State the reason why people are not immunized against HIV
✓ HIV is not controlled through immunization//HIV/AIDS is not an immunisable
disease.
(c) Name the movable joints located at each of the following sites:
Ankle – gliding joint (also accept: sliding)
Neck – pivot joint
47. Use the diagram below of the human ear to answer the following questions.
(a) Name the part marked D.
✓ Eustachian tube
(b) Mention one way in which the
C A bones marked C are important
in the process of hearing.
✓ Bones marked C amplify
B sound vibrations.
(c) Identify one fluid found in part
B:
✓ Perilymph / Endolymph
D
(d) State the way in which part A
48. (a) Write down one example of a scavenger bird. similar to the optic nerve of the
✓ Marabou stork // Vultures // Crows eye in terms of their function.
(b) Mention two characteristics of birds of prey. ✓ Both part A and the optic
✓ They have sharp hooked beak for tearing flesh nerve transport impulses
✓ They have strong curved talons for holding their prey (nerve signals) to the brain
for interpretation.
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✓ They have a strong sense of sight to spot their prey at a distance
(c) State the importance of scavenger birds to the environment.
✓ They clean the environment by feeding on abandoned flesh (reject carrion).
49. (a) Mention the way in which breastfeeding helps to boost the baby's
immunity.
✓ Breast milk contains antibodies that boost the baby's immunity.
(b) Give a reason why breast milk is considered a complete food for a baby.
✓ Breast milk contains all food values needed for proper growth of the baby.
(c) State any one disadvantage of breastfeeding.
✓ The HIV-positive mother may infect her baby through
breastfeeding//Breastfeeding is time-consuming for employed mothers.
(d) Identify the recommended age for weaning a baby.
✓ 6 months // Six months
50. The diagrams below show two cooling containers. Container A is plastic, and container B is
metallic. Use it to answer the following questions.
A B
hot water
(a) Identify the container that cools the water faster.
✓ Container B
(b) Give a reason to support your answer in (a) above.
✓ Metals are good conductors of heat.
(c) Identify the process/method of heat transfer that enables the water in the above
containers to cool
✓ Conduction
(d) State one importance of heat transfer by radiation in the environment.
✓ Helps in drying harvested crops
✓ Helps in evaporation of water in water bodies during transpiration
✓ Helps people to get warmth from the sun.
51. (a) Mention the principle on which an electric bell works.
✓ Electromagnetism
(b) State the way in which the following parts are useful on an electric bell:
(i) Gong - To produce a sound when hit by the hammer
(ii) Battery - To produce electricity
(c) Identify one energy change that occurs in an electric bell when in use.
✓ Electrical energy changes to sound energy
52. (a) Give the meaning of the term a chemical change.
✓ A chemical change is an irreversible change that involves chemical reaction.
(b) State any one characteristic of a chemical change.
✓ A chemical change is irreversible
✓ A chemical change forms a new permanent substance
✓ A chemical change involves a chemical reaction.
(c) Give any one way in which chemical changes are important in the environment.
✓ Burning helps in cooking food
✓ Burning reduces the volume of wastes in the environment
✓ Decomposition helps in the formation of humus that improves soil fertility.
✓ Respiration provides energy to organisms
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✓ Burning of coal helps in the production of heat, which is used to generate thermal
electricity.
✓ Burning of bricks in a kiln makes them hard and strong.
✓ Fermentation helps in making alcohol//cheese//yoghurt
✓ Fermentation helps in making biogas
(d) State any one way in which a chemical change is similar to a biological change.
✓ Both are irreversible//both form new substances.
53. (a) Mention any two activities carried out on a school health parade.
✓ Checking on learners with long finger nails.
✓ Checking on learners with uncombed hair.
✓ Checking on learners with unbrushed teeth.
✓ Checking on dirty body//Checking on dirty uniforms
(b) How does a school health parade help to promote good health of pupils?
✓ By educating pupils about the danger of poor personal hygiene.
(c) Name any one member of a school health committee.
✓ A learner// A teacher//School nurse//health prefect
54. Match the term in A with its meaning in part B
(a) Volume: Loudness or softness of sound.
(b) Pitch: Highness or lowness of sound.
(c) Frequency: Number of vibrations per second.
(d) Echo: Reflected sound.
55. Use the diagram below to answer the questions that follow.
(a) Name the bad habit in poultry taking place in the above diagram.
✓ Egg eating
(b) Apart from the above vice, give one other example of bad habits developed in poultry.
✓ Cannibalism//Feather pecking//Egg hiding
(Reject toe pecking, skin pecking, and vent pecking as they are forms of
cannibalism.)
(c) State any one way in which poultry vices affect the sales and expenditure records of a
farm.
✓ Egg eating reduces the number of eggs sold, leading to losses//Cannibalism
reduces the number of birds on the farm, causing financial losses
(d) Mention the way in which the practice of making laying nests dark helps to control egg
eating.
✓ It reduces the exposure of eggs to the birds//It lowers the visibility of eggs,
preventing birds from pecking at them.
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