CAPE OF GOOD HOPE NURSERY & PRIMARY SCHOOL

BEGINNING OF TERM TWO EXAMINATIONS 2024

PRIMARY SEVEN
SCIENCE
Time allowed: 2hrs 15minutes
Candidate’s name: _______________________________________________
Index number: ____________________________________________________
Read the following instructions carefully.
1. This paper has two sections A and B. Section A has 40 questions and
section B has 15 questions.
2. Answer all questions. All the working for both sections A and B must
be shown in the spaces provided.
3. All working must be done using a blue or black ball point pen or ink.
Any work done in pencil will NOT be marked except drawings and
diagram.
4. Unnecessary changes in your work and handwriting that cannot be
easily read may lead to loss of marks.
5. Do not fill anything in the table indicated “For examiners’ use only”
and the boxes inside the question paper.
FOR EXAMINER’S USER ONLY

EXAMINER’S
SECTION MARKS
REMARKS

TOTAL
 SECTION A: 40 MARKS
1. Name the element of weather that helps crop farmers to carryout
winnowing.
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2. Mention any one fungal disease that affects the human skin.
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3. How is culling important in poultry management?
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The diagram below is of a fishing rod. Study and use it to answer
questions 4 and 5.

4. Name the class of levers to which the fishing rod belongs.

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5. On the diagram above, label the load.
6. Why is it not advisable to keep potted plants in a room where
people live?
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7. Give any one disorder of the human digestive system.
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8. Why is the filament of an electric bulb coiled?
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9. In which part of an onion plant is food stored?
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10. State one way in which the fish benefits from its slippery body.
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11. How is the function of the cotyledon in the maize grain different
from that in a bean seed?
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12. Give any one way in school children benefit from a school
garden.
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13. What is the importance of giving a person who has drunk paraffin
fluids like milk to drink?
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14. State the best way of preventing childhood immunisable
diseases.
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15. Name the type of chicken purposely kept for egg production.
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16. Which vector spreads yellow fever to people?
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17. State any one use of soap in promoting personal hygiene.
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18. Give any one example of a sea mammal.
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19. How does painting help to prevent a metallic object from
rusting?
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20. State any one way of increasing the volume of blood in the
human body.
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21. In which one way are air sacs (alveoli) able to carry out gaseous
exchange?
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22. State any one other way in which distillation is useful to people.
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23. State any one factor to consider before sorting clothes for
washing.
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24. How does a candle manufacturer benefit from bee keeping?
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25. Apart from preventing teenage pregnancy, give one other
reason why school girls are advised to abstain from sex.
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26. State the importance of moulting to an insect.
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27. What is the function of the ureter in the kidney?

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28. How does buoyancy(upthrust) force affect the weight of objects
in water?
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29. How is a chameleon important to human beings?
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30. Give any one breed of goats kept for milk production.
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The diagram below shows a condition during the flow of electricity

along electric wires. Study and use it to answer questions 31 and 32.

31. Identify the electrical condition shown above.

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32. Write any one cause of the above condition during flow of
electric current.
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33. Why is it not advisable to stop petrol fire using water?

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34. State any one way in which colostrum is important to a newly

born calf.
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35. What would you do to the garden where planted seeds failed to
germinate?
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36. Why does a clay-made charcoal stove use less charcoal than a
metallic one?
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37. State any one habit that helps to promote oral health.
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38. What is the importance of a chimney on a kitchen?
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39. State any one reason why clay soil is used for pottery.
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40. By what does heated butter change to oil?
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SECTION B (60 Marks)

41. The diagram below is of an equipment used in bee keeping. Use
it to answer the questions that follow.
a) Name the equipment in the diagram above.
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b) How is the above equipment useful to a bee keeper?

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c) What activity in bee keeping involves the use of the above
equipment?
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d) Give any one reason why honey does not go bad yet it is food.
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42. a) State any two drugs that can cause addiction.

i) ______________________________ ii) ______________________________
b) Mention one body organ which is affected by drugs.
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c) How can one avoid the drugs mentioned in (a) above?

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43. a) Which part of a fertilized egg develops into a chick?

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b) Why is an eggshell porous?
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c) Give one reason why some chicken lay eggs that have soft shells.
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d) How do layers (in poultry) contribute to the health of people in a
community?
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44. If the mass of the cuboid below is 48g. Find the density of the
cuboid.

45. The diagram shows a boy using a metallic bar to raise a bag of
coffee. Use it to answer the questions.

a) Which type of machine is he using?

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b) What can he do to lift the sack more easily?
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c) Name the force that slows movement in moving parts of a
machine.
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d) How is the force in (c) useful in our daily life?
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46. a) What is teenage pregnancy?

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b) Apart from failure to have safe delivery, give two other dangers of
teenage pregnancy.
i) _________________________________________________________________
ii) ________________________________________________________________
c) How can a school prevent teenage pregnancies?
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47. The government of Uganda has stopped the use and manufacture
of polythene bags.
a) Give two reasons why this was done.
i) _________________________________________________________________
ii) ________________________________________________________________

(b) Apart from polythene bags, mention two other pollutants of the
environment.
i) ______________________________ ii) ______________________________

48. The following are processes that lead to hearing in humans.

Arrange them in their correct order.
a) The cochlea changes the vibrations into nervous impulses.
b) The pina receives sound vibrations and directs them to the
eardrum.
c) Vibrations are transmitted through the ear ossicles to the inner ear.
d) Message are sent through the auditory nerve to the brain for
Interpretation.
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49. a) Explain in one sentence how the following can happen;

(i) how electricity can be used to make magnets?
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(ii) how magnets can be used to produce electricity?
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b) The diagrams below show ways of making temporal magnets.

Name them;
i) ______________________________ ii) ______________________________

50. The diagram shows a baby who received immunization.Show the

immunizable sites for;
i) DPT Vaccine ii) Measles Vaccine iii) BCG iv) Polio Vaccine

51. a) Identify two materials that can be used to make the soil fertile.
i) _________________________________________________________________
ii) ________________________________________________________________
b) Mention any two human activities that can the soil lose its fertility.
i) _________________________________________________________________
ii) ________________________________________________________________

52a) Write PHC in full

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b) State any one principle of PHC

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c) Which element of PHC is promoted by eating food rich in a
balanced diet?
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d) How useful is a dust bin put in a classroom?
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53. a) Which bone joins the pelvis and tibia?

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b) Explain briefly the following:
i) Voluntary muscles
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ii) Involuntary muscles
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c) Give one use of muscles in the body.

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54 a) Give the role of each of the following during digestion.
i) Saliva
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ii) Tongue
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b) State two characteristics of enzymes.
i) _________________________________________________________________
ii) ________________________________________________________________

55 a) Mention any two causes of soil erosion.

i) ______________________________ ii) ______________________________
b) How can soil erosion be controlled in hilly areas?
i) ______________________________ ii) ______________________________

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