Yearly Examination, 2002-2003

Integrated Science
Class : S.1 ( ) Max. Mark : 100
Name : _______________________ Date : 16-6-2003
Class No.: ________ Time : 8:45-9:45am

Answer all of the questions on the answer sheet provided

(A) Multiple Choice (20 marks)

1. Peter measures the thickness of a sheet of paper from a book. He finds that
500 sheets of paper measure 5 cm. The thickness of one sheet of paper is
A. 0.01 cm B. 0.001 cm C. 0.05 cm D. 0.005 cm

2. Which of the following is the label for a poison?

3. What is the name of this apparatus?

A. gas jar B. measuring cylinder C. test tube D. conical flask

4. Which one is NOT a characteristic of living things?

A. can grow B. need oxygen C. can reproduce D. need carbon dioxide

5. Which of the following characteristics of human is clear-cut?

A. Height B. Pulse rate C. Weight D. Number of fingers

6. Which one is NOT a way to conserve our environment?

A. Recycle B. Reuse C. Recorrect D. Reduce

7. What is the effect of cutting down a lot of trees?

A. Increase oxygen B. Increase temperature of the Earth
C. Decrease carbon dioxide D. More animals

8. Methylene blue is added to an ox eye’s cell. What is the use of methylene blue?
A. To stain the cell B. To test the cell wall
C. To kill the cell D. To clean the cell

9. Which of the following statements about an egg is CORRECT?

A. An egg is the smallest cell. B. An egg has a tail.
C. An egg does not have any nucleus. D. An egg has a food store.
10. What is energy?
A. Energy means the ability to do work B. Energy means the amount of work
C. Energy means the time required to do work D. Energy means the need to do work
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11. An electric eel lights up in the dark. The energy comes from
A. heat energy in the body B. kinetic energy when it is swimming
C. chemical energy in the body D. nuclear energy in the body

12. Which of the following animals is a COLD-BLOODED animal?

A. Human B. fish C. dolphin D. penguin

13. Which of the following animals is an endangered species?

A. Dolphin B. Romer’s tree frog C. dinosaur D. kangaroo

14. When a student throws a ball up, it loses

A. kinetic energy B. potential energy C. heat energy D. chemical
energy

15. Which of the following steps is INCORRECT when using a microscope?

A. Adjust the mirror to reflect light.
B. Focus until the material on the slide is clearly seen.
C. Carefully lower the objective until it is just above the slide.
D. Choose an eyepiece and an objective with a high magnification.

16. Which of the following can be separated by this setup?

A. Soft drink B. Muddy water C. Sea waterD. tap water

17. Which of the following is the best definition of evaporation?

A. the change of a liquid into a gas at its boiling point
B. the change of a liquid into a gas above its boiling point
C. the change of a liquid into a gas below its boiling point
D. the change of a liquid into a gas at any temperature

18. What percentage of the Earth’s water is actually fresh, and not salty?
A. 3% B. 30% C. 75% D. 97%

19. Which of the following is NOT an example of matter?

A. Pencil B. Book C. Heat D. Water

20. When 50 cm3 of rice and 50 cm3 of beans are mixed together, the total volume of the
mixture is less than 100 cm3. The reason is that

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A. some rice is dropped on the table.
B. a grain of rice is smaller than a bean.
C. rice occupies less space than the beans.
D. some rice fills the spaces between the beans.

(B) True or False Statements (10 marks)

Write 'T' for a true statement and 'F' for a false one.
1. A luminous flame is regular in shape.
2. Usually a person’s heartbeat rate is faster than his pulse rate.
3. Plants that cannot produce flower cannot reproduce.
4. When a 10X eyepiece and a 5X objective are used, the magnification of a
microscope is 15X.
5. Plant cells usually have a large vacuole.
6. Grass is a non-flowering plant.
7. Some amphibians do not have backbones.
8. A moving object has kinetic energy. The faster it moves, the more kinetic
energy it has.
9. For a fair comparison of how various factors can affect an experimental result, we
have to control most of the variables.
10. Gases take up the volumes and the shapes of the containers.

(C) Fill in the blanks (20 marks)

1. Most machines are energy (a) ____________.
2. A lift changes (b) ____________ energy into (c) ____________energy.
3. Foods and fuels are stored forms of (d) ______________ energy.
4. Sperms are made in the (e) ______________.
5. Fertilization occurs in the (f)_______________.
6. One thing that distinguishes a butterfly from a seahorse, frog, snake and duck is that
a butterfly does not have a (g) ____________ .
7. Sorting similar things into groups is called (h) . ____________ .
8. A species will become (i) if all individuals of this species die.
9. There is genetic material in a (j)___________ of a cell.
10. Sound energy is produced by the (k)______________ of an object.
11. Particles move from a place of higher concentration to a place of lower
concentration by (l) _______________.
12. An electric cooker changes electrical energy into (m)____________
energy.
13. In Hong Kong, the Water Supplies Department purifies water first by
(n)_________________ and then by (o)_______________. After that
(p)______________ is added to kill bacteria and (q)_______________ is added to
prevent tooth decay.
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14. The pure liquid that we can collect after carrying out a distillation is called
(r)_______________.
15. (s)_________________ is the material which makes up everything in the world.
16. The temperature at which a liquid boils is called (t) _______________.

(D) Matching (10 marks)

Column A Column B
1. Hair A. Happens because people want useful
or valuable parts of animals
2. Hunting B. Increase in size and
complexity
3. Vagina C. A characteristics of
mammals
4. Asexual reproduction D. Produced by moving objects
E. Sperms are deposited here
5. Growth F. Male & female sex cells are
joined together
6. Displacement can G. A characteristics of birds
H. Reproduce single-celled
7. Industrial wastes animals by dividing the cell into
two
8. Test tube rack I. To hold test tubes
J. To measure the volume of
9. Tap water an irregular-shaped object
K. Impure water
10. Boiling L. Unwanted materials that are
produced by factories
M. Change from liquid to gas

(E) Short Questions (40 marks)

1. Describe the energy change of the following:
(a) Shooting a gun (射射) (3 marks)
(b) Dynamo (2 marks) [Total : 5 marks]

2. Jimmy has finished his meal. The following picture shows what he left. Find out
TWO things that can be recycled and what they can be used to make.

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 [Total : 4 marks]

3. The diagram below shows the interdependence of three kinds of living things:
wheat, rat and owl. Wheat is eaten by rats and rats are eaten by owls.

(a) If the number of wheat increases, how will the number of rats change? Why? (2
marks)
(b) Then, how will the number of owls change? (1 mark)
(c) The wheat is grown by a farmer. He does not want the rats to eat all the wheat, so he
uses a poison(射射)to kill nearly all the rats. What will be the effect of this on the
number of owls? Why? (2 marks)
[Total : 5 marks]

4. The diagrams below show an ovum (egg) and a sperm.

(a) Which structures contain genes (射射)? (use the letters shown in the diagrams)
(2 marks)
(b) State where the ovum (egg) is produced. (2 marks)
(c) Give three differences between an ovum (egg) and a plant cell. (3 marks)
[Total : 7 marks]
5. A student sets up the apparatus below:

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(a) There are FOUR mistakes in the set-up. What are they? (4 marks)
(b) Name X and Y respectively? (2 marks)
(c) Which method should be used to purify the above muddy water? (2 marks)
[Total : 8 marks]

6. Mary wants to find out how the mouth of a container affects the rate of evaporation.
She pours the same amount of water into two containers and observes the water in
which container evaporates faster. The following diagram shows the setups of the
experiment.

(a) Is the experiment a fair test? Why? (2 marks)

(b) During evaporation, what does the water change to? (2 marks)
(c) Name two other factors that can affect the rate of evaporation. (2 marks)
[Total : 6 marks]

7. Eskimos(射射射射射) are the people who live in the Polar region. They build their houses
on the snowy ground.
(a) What solid material do Eskimos use to build their houses? The material should be
easily found in the Polar region. (1 mark)
(b) How do Eskimos obtain water? (1 mark)
(c) What is the change of states of matter when the water source is boiled? (3 marks)
[Total : 5 marks]

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