2017 ICAS Science Paper C
2017 ICAS Science Paper C
2017
Read the instructions on the ANSWER SHEET and r,n ,n your
NAME. SCHOOL and OTHER INFORMATION.
Use .a pencil Do NOT use a coloured penci1 or a pen.
Rub out any mistakos completely.
1. Sue wants to make coloured eggs by dyeing the eggshells with plant juice.
The diagram shows the eggshell colours that some plant juices produce.
Which plant juices should Sue mix to dye the eggshells purple?
2. Echoes are produced when sound waves bounce off solid objects. Bats use echoes to determine the
distance between them and objects in their surroundings.
A bat sends out a series of high-pitched sounds. The times il look for sound waves t o reach some objects
and bounce back to the bat are recorded in the table.
The table lists some sounds and the emotion each expresses.
Sound Emotion
·wraa' fear
pant-hoot excitement
One chimpanzee makes pant-hoot and lip smack noises when seeing another chimpanzee.
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(B) 5
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7. Each planet in the Solar System spins on its axis while it moves around the Sun, just like Earth. The time it
takes a planet to spin one full rotation on its axis is called a day.
The table lists the approximate duration of a day on different planets in the Solar System.
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How many planets have a day thal is longer than a day on Earth?
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Dylan can select only one extra piece of equipment to carry out this invest1gation.
9. A car travelling at 60 km per hour leaked oil onto the road. An oil drop fell onto the road every second,
making this pattern on the road:
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Later, the car travelled at 90 km per hour. What did the oil drop pattern on the road look like
at this speed?
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Veronica realised that she had made an error in recording the data.
(A) Day 1
(B) Day 2
(C) Day 3
(D) Day 4
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11. This is a photograph of the sole of one of Bernie's shoes.
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dog
dolphin
human
Which of these mammals can hear a sound with a frequency of 50 000 Hz?
(A) bat and dolphin only (B) bat, cat and dolphin
(C) bat. cat and dog (D) bat, cat, dog and dolphin
13. When one gear turns another gear, the gear with more teeth will rotate more slowly than the gear with fewer
teeth. The two gears will tum in opposite directions.
(A) clockwise and faster than gear X (B) clockwise and slower than gear X
(C) anticlockwise and faster than gear X (D) anticlockwise and slower than gear X
The diagram represents the relationship between plants and animals living on a sugar cane farm in
Australia.
KEY
A � B
A is food for B
cane toad
grasshopper
weevil
sugarcane
plants weeds
15. A key allows users to identify an object, such as an animal or a plant, using the characteristics of the object.
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16. Igneous rock and sedimentary rock are two types of rocks. Igneous rocks form when hot liquid rock below
Earth's surface cools and hardens. Sedimentary rocks form when existing rock pieces and sediment are
pressed together.
Alex used chocolate to demonstrate the formation of rocks of different types, using these steps:
2. Take the container out of the hot water and Jet the
chocolate cool.
17. Kate's teacher gave Kate some hydrochloric acid and a rock. She told Kate that some rocks will react with
hydrochloric acid to produce carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide is a gas that has no colour or smell.
rock
How can Kate find out whether this rock produces carbon dioxide?
germ starch
steeping
separation conversion
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i:=J product
Which of these steps does NOT produce feed products?
19. Megan made a musical instrument using some elastic bands and an empty shoe box. The elastic bands
all had different lengths and thicknesses. When she plucked them, each band made a sound with a
different pitch.
shoe box
elastic band
Megan was investigating whether the thickness of an elasti c band affects the pitch of the sound
it produces when plucked.
20. Jack wrapped a measuring tape around his fingers several times, as shown.
(A) 3.5
(B) 2
(C) 1.5
(D) 1
21. The graph summarises the average monthly rainfall for the years 1961-1990.
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Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Month
Which of the following periods had the lowest average amount of rainfall?
22. Matter can change from one state to another by heating or cooling. The diagram shows the changes of state
for a substance.
gas
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Iodine is a purple solid at room temperature. When
placed in a warm container. it fills the container with
a purple gas without melting.
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23. Rapid eye movement (REM ) sleep is a stage during sleep when the eyes of the sleeping person move rapidly.
The graph represents the hours of REM and non-REM sleep for people in different age groups.
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KEY
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• Non-REM sleep
8 • REM sleep
How many hours more than the 19-30 year age group does the 0-5 month age group spend sleeping per day?
wall
Which diagram shows the shadow produced by the cylinder on the wall?
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(A) A flower with a height of 34 cm when fully grown must be a tall flower.
(B) A flower wilh a height of 15 cm when fully grown must be a short flower.
(C) A flower with a height of 20 cm when fully grown must be a short flower.
(0) A flower with a height of 23 cm when fully grown must be a medium flower.
26. Places on the surface of Earth are given a location using coordinates called latitude and longitude. These
coordinates locate places by their distance from the Equator and the Prime Meridian.
One complete revolution of Earth occurs once every 24 hours. The planet is divided into 24 time zones one
hour apart.
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27. The chemical formula for water 1s Hp and can be represented by the following diagram:
The chemical formula tor carbon dioxide is C02 and can be represented by the following diagram:
Methane, the main gas found in natural gas, has the chemical formula CH,.
28. When a surface receives sunlight, the angle at which the sunlight strikes the surface affects the amount of
heat the surface receives.
sunlight
sunlight
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warm less warm
The angle at which the sunlight strikes a location on Earth's surface changes as Earth moves around the
Sun during a year. This causes the different seasons at a location on Earth.
Warm air is less dense than cold air and tends to rise. When warm air containing water vapour rises and
cools down, the water vapour condenses onto small particles floating in the air. Eventually a cloud forms.
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Pour some Place ice cubes on Take the lid off Put the lid with the ice
boiled water into a the lid of the and quickly squirt in on it, back on top
container and container for a some hairspray. of the container.
swirl it to few minutes. Watch the cloud form.
heat up the sides.
30. What will happen to the cloud formed when the lid is taken off after step 4?
31. Tara poured some waler into a measuring cylinder and then tilled the measuring cylinder as shown.
(A) 20
(B) 30
(C) 35
(0) 40
The table outlines the energy content in one serving of some different foods.
Plants need light, water and nutrients to grow. Plants normally get their nutrients from the soil.
Ben wanted to investigate what is needed to sprout and grow cress seeds. He put some cress seeds on
paper towels in a bowl near the window. For ten days he added a small amount of water each day to keep
the paper towel wet.
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Day 1 Day5 Day 10
34. Whal does Ben need to do to find out whether light affects the sprouting?
The diagram shows the movement of Venus, Earth and the Moon in relation to lhe Sun.
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(A) Earth is in orbit around the Moon and Venus is a satellite of lhe Sun.
(B) The Moon is in orbit around Earth and Earth is a satellite of Venus.
(C) Earth is a satellite of the Moon and the Moon is in orbit around Venus.
(0) The Moon is a satellite of Earth and Venus is in orbit around the Sun.
36. Our skeleton consists of bones that give our body shape and allow us to move. The bones are moved by
muscles. Tendons and ligaments are connective tissues.
tendon
bone
muscle
ligament
Michelle read that bread dough needs yeast and warmth to rise.
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She left each measuring cylinder for 24 hours and recorded how high each piece of dough rose.
37. To find out the effect of the presence of yeast on how much the dough rises, which two cylinders can
Michelle compare?
(A) Wand X
(B) X and Y
(C) WandY
(D) Wand Z
38. Michelle read that the more yeast added. the higher the dough will rise; the higher the temperature, the
higher the dough will rise.
Michelle then set up another cylinder, V, with the same amount of dough and 6 g of yeast added. She kept it
at 20 •c for 24 hours, and recorded the height of the dough.
(A) The dough in V will rise the highest among all cylinders.
(B) The dough in Wand V will rise the same amount
(C) The dough in X will rise higher than that in V.
(0) The dough in V will rise higher than that in Y.
The diagram shows how much water is needed in producing various amounts of different types of food.
40. The volume of an object is equal to the volume of water it displaces when the object is fully underwater.
Frank placed a block in a measuring cylinder that contained some water, as shown.
ml ml
He then added another, smaller block.
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The volume of the larger block is twice
the volume of the smaller one.
(AJ 10 ml (B) 20 ml
(C) 25 ml (D) 30ml
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Pred cting/Concluding Use informat on provided to identify the electric circuit that will work
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5 A 87
6 ObseNing/Mea-x1ring· Determine a length using a ruler A / 69
Pred cting/Concluding Interpret information provided in a table
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7 B 88
8 Investigating Identify the piece of equipment needed to canry out a particular experiment A / 64
9 Reasoning/Problem sol, Predict an oil drop pattern based on the speed of a car c A 57
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Identify the incorrect data that had been entered in a table c ,· 92
11 ObseNing/Measuring, Identify a pattern that is the mirror image of another A / 73
12 ObseNing/Mea-x1ring· Interpret information presented in a column graph B / 68
13 Reasoning/Problem sol, Determine the direction and re!ative speed of a gear c / 58
14 Interpreting Identify a relationship in a food web c / 90
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Use a key to classify a caecifian D ,· 80
16 Predi cting/Concluding Match steps in a demonstration with steps in a description of a natural proc�s A / 62
17 Investigating Identify the best way to carry out an investigation B / 66
18 Interpreting Identify the relationship between elements of a flov,:chart D / 65
19 Investigating Identify factors that make a test fair D / 72
20 ObseNing/Mea-x1ring· Determine the average width of a number of objects B ,· 61
21 Interpreting Identify a specified value range in a line graph c / 93
Interpreting Use informat on provided to identify a describt:d physical change
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Interpret ng Interpret sector bar graphs D
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24 Reasoning/Problem sol, Predict the shape of the shadow that a given object will cast c D 48
25 Predicting/Concluding Apply information in a table to a range of living things D I B 32