Han Chiang High School

E First Semester Mid-Term Test, 2020

STUDENT’S
NAME

SCHOOL
CLASS NUMBE
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Combined Science 0653

March 2020
CE1 80 minutes

Candidates answer on the Question Paper.

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READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST

1. This question papers consists of 2 parts

Part A: 30 Objective questions (60%)
Part B: 7 Structure questions (40%)
2. Answer the part A in OMR paper provided.
3. Answer all Part B questions and write your answer clearly in the
space provided in the question paper.
4. If you wish to cancel any answer, neatly cross out the answer.
5. This paper consists of 20 pages.

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 This document consists of 20 printed pages.
A) Objective questions (60%)

1. Which part of a plant cell contains starch grains?

A. Cell wall
B. Chloroplast
C. Nucleus
D. Vacuole

2. The graph shows the effect of temperature on the rate of an enzyme-controlled

reaction. Where on the graph has all the enzyme been denatured?

A. 1
B. 2 and 3
C. 3 and 4
D. 5

3. A boy is playing a game with a

dog. Which characteristic shown by the boy and the dog is a characteristic of all living
organisms?
A. Each can hear sound made by the other
B. Meat is an important part of what they eat
C. There is hair on their bodies
D. They are able to move

4. The diagrams represent four similar animal cells immersed in blood plasma. The
black dots represent molecules of dissolved oxygen. Which cell will have oxygen
molecules diffusing into it most rapidly?

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5. Which nutrient, when deficient in the diet, causes a lack of haemoglobin in red blood
cells?
A. Calcium
B. Iron
C. Vitamin C
D. Vitamin D

6. Which leaf tissue has specialized cells that surround stomata?

A. Epidermis
B. Palisade mesophyll
C. Phloem
D. Xylem

7. The table shows the results of three food tests carried out on the same food sample.
Which nutrients are present in the food sample?

A. Protein, reducing sugar and starch

B. Protein and reducing sugar only
C. Reducing sugar and starch only
D. Starch only
8. What are possible harmful effects of deforestation?

9. The diagram shows a speed-time graph for a car. Which row describes the motion of
the car at 15s and at 35s?

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10. A cube of aluminium has sides of length 1.0cm. Compared with this cube, which
statement about a cube of aluminium with sides of 2.0cm is correct?

A. It has the same density

B. It has the same mass
C. It has twice the density
D. It has twice the mass

11. Why is it important to conserve fossil fuels?

A. Producing them causes pollution
B. They are difficult to dig out of the ground
C. They are expensive to manufacture
D. They are non-renewable

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12. Three students make statements about the differences between elements, compounds
and mixtures. Which students are correct?
Student 1 All elements exist only as atoms and not molecules
Student 2 Compounds contain at least two elements
Student 3 Mixtures consist only of compounds
A. 1 only
B. 2 only
C. 3 only
D. 1, 2 and 3

13. Element X has a nucleon number of 40. The electron arrangement of element X is
2,8,8. Which statements about element X are correct?
1 It has 40 neutrons in its nucleus
2 It has 2 electrons in its outer shell
3 It is unreactive
4 It is in Group 0 of the Periodic Table
A. 1 and 2
B. 1 and 3
C. 2 and 4
D. 3 and 4

14. The table shows information about four different compounds. Which compound
contains ionic bonds?

15. Which diagram shows how a mixture of dyes in a food colouring are separated?

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16. Which statement describes oxygen molecules at room temperature and pressure?
A. They are closely packed and move around slowly
B. They are closely packed and vibrate about a fixed position
C. They are loosely packed and move around rapidly
D. They are loosely packed and vibrate about a fixed point

17. Which piece of equipment can be used to measure exactly 21.6 cm3 of dilute sulfuric
acid?

18. The diagram shows the composition of clean air. What are X and Y?

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19. The equation represents the reaction of aluminium with sulfuric acid. What are the
correct values of x and y?

20. Which statement is correct?

A. The mass of a bottle of water at the North Pole is different from its mass at the
Equator
B. The mass of a bottle of water is measured in newtons
C. The weight of a bottle of water and its mass are both measured in kilograms
D. The weight of a bottle of water is one of the forces acting on the bottle

21. Which substance in the table has the lowest density?

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22. Some water is poured into four tubes of different cross-sectional areas. Which tube
holds the largest volume of water?

23. An object travels 6.0 km in 2 minutes. What is its speed?

A. 0.050 m/s
B. 3.0 m/s
C. 50 m/s
D. 3000 m/s

24. A speed/time graph is plotted for the journey of a car. Which graph shows that the car
is travelling at a constant speed?

25. An object with mass 5.0kg is dropped. The acceleration of free fall is 10m/s 2. What is
the weight of the object?
A. 0.50 N
B. 2.0 N
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C. 5.0 N
D. 50 N

26. Which row correctly compares the separation of molecules in different states of
matter?

27. A bowl contains some warm water. The water evaporates from the bowl. Which row
describes where the evaporation occurs and the effect of the evaporation on the
temperature of the water left in the bowl?

28. There is water in a beaker on a laboratory bench. On a hot day some water evaporates.
What happens to the volume and what happens to the mass of the water in the beaker?

29. What is osmosis?

A. The movement of salt across a cell wall
B. The movement of salt across a partially permeable membrane
C. The movement of water across a cell wall
D. The movement of water across a partially permeable membrane

30. Which row shows the effects of deforestation?

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Section B (Subjective Questions - 40%)

1. (a) Fig. 1.1 shows two cells.

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 (i) Identify structures R and S, as shown on Fig. 1.1. [2
marks]
R ________________________________________________________________
S ________________________________________________________________

(ii) Cell Q is a plant cell. State two pieces of evidence from Fig. 1.1 that support this
statement. [2
marks]
1. _______________________________________________________________
2. _______________________________________________________________

(b) Complete the word equation for photosynthesis. [1 mark]

[Total: 5
marks]

2. Table 2.1 gives some data about the planets Earth, Mars, Mercury and Venus.
Table 2.1

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(a) Use data from Table 2.1 to state which planet has the greatest volume. [1
mark]

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(b) Use data from Table 2.1 to calculate the density of Mercury. Show your working
and give the units of your answer. [3
marks]

density = _______________________ units ______________________

(c) A space probe of mass 50kg descends through the atmosphere on Venus. The
probe is slowed down by the atmosphere much more than it would be by the
resistance of the Earth’s atmosphere.
Use data from Table 2.1 to explain this in terms of difference arrangement of the
molecules in the atmosphere. [2
marks]
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[Total: 6
marks]

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3. Fig. 3.1 shows a boy throwing a ball up in the air. The ball moves vertically upwards,
then falls down and the boy catches it.

Fig. 3.2 shows a graph of the motion of the ball from the time it leaves the boy’s hand
until he catches it.

(a) On Fig. 3.2, label with a letter X a point when the ball is moving upwards.
[1
mark]

(b)(i) Use Fig. 3.2 to state how much time passes from when the ball is thrown to
when it is caught. [1
mark]

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 (b) (ii) Use Fig. 3.2 to describe the motion of the ball between 3.0s and 4.0s. [2
marks]

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(c) The ball has a mass of 0.62kg. Calculate the weight of the ball. Gravitational field
strength, g = 10 N/kg [1
mark]

weight = _________________ N

[Total: 5
marks]

4. (a) Air is a mixture of elements and compounds.

(i) Describe the difference between an element and a compound. Use idea about
the atoms they contain in your answer. [2
marks]
element
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compound
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(ii) Name one common pollutant in air. State one adverse effect of this pollutant.
[2
marks]
pollutant _______________________________________________________
effect __________________________________________________________

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 (b) Iron nails rust when they are not protected from the air.
(i) Identify two substances in clean air required for iron to rust. [2
marks]
____________________________ and ____________________________________
(ii) Suggest one change that increases the rate of rusting of an iron nail. [1
mark]
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[Total: 7
marks]

5. (a) The process used to produce refinery gas, gasoline and gas oil from petroleum is
shown in Fig. 5.1.

(i) Name this process. [1

mark]

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(ii) The petroleum is changed in this process. No new chemicals are made. Name
this type of change. [1
mark]

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 (iii) Petroleum is a mixture of different compounds. State what is meant by the
terms mixture and compound. [2
marks]
mixture
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compound
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[Total: 4
marks]

6. (a) Fig. 6.1 shows an aircraft accelerating along the airport runway. The aircraft, fully
loaded, has a total mass of 205 000kg. The diagram shows four forces, labeled P, Q,
R and S, acting on the aircraft as it moved along the runway before taking off.

Fig. 6.1
(i) State two forces from P, Q, R and S that are equal and opposite while the aircraft
accelerates along the airport runway. [1
mark]
____________________________ and __________________________________

(ii) State which force from P, Q, R and S is the result of a gravitational field acting on
the mass of the aircraft and give the name of this force. [2
marks]
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(iii) On the axes below, sketch a distance/time graph for the aircraft as it moved along
the runway from rest to take-off. [1
mark]

[Total: 4
marks]

7. (a) Vitamins are needed in small quantities as part of a balanced diet. One vitamin is
vitamin C.
(i) State what is meant by the term balanced diet. [1
mark]

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(ii) State why we need vitamin C in our diet. [1

mark]

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(b) A student does an experiment to find if temperature affects the vitamin C content
of a citrus fruit juice.

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The fruit juice is freshly made and then 10cm 3 samples of the juice are stored for four
days at the temperatures shown in the table.

At the start, a 10cm3 volume of fruit juice contains 5mg of vitamin C.

Table 7.1 shows the average mass of vitamin C in each 10cm 3 sample of juice at the
end of the four days.

Table 7.1

(i) Describe the effect of increasing temperature on the vitamin C content of the
juice. [1
mark]

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(ii) Suggest an explanation for the effect you described in (b)(i). [2

mark]

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(iii) When the experiment was repeated in different parts of the world, the initial
masses of vitamin C in the 10cm3 samples were found to be very different.

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 Suggest and explain a reason for this observation. [2
marks]

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(iv) Many new mothers feed their babies on formula milk which is made up with
warm water and given to the baby from a bottle. Using the information in
Table 7.1 suggest why boiling water should not be used to make up formula
milk. [2
mark]

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[Total: 9
marks]

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Prepared by Ms. Ghoy Jia Pei Checked by Ms. Ng Jo Han

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