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P6 GAP™ – TOPICAL REVISION ICE 9: HEAT ENERGY & WATER CYCLE – ANSWER BOOKLET

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Q21 On hot days, the bridge will gain heat from the sun to expand and
increase in volume. The gaps allow space for the bridge to expand,
preventing it from buckling and becoming damaged.
Q22a Keeping the material the same ensures that the heat conductivity of
the materials is kept the same and does not affect the time taken for
the water in each container to boil. This ensures that there is only one
changed variable, which is the surface area of the hot plate in contact
with the containers, that affects the results, ensuring a fair test.
b Choose: Glass B.
Use data: Glass B has a larger volume of water.
Explain data: Thus, the water in glass B needs to gain more heat
from the hot plate to boil and would take a longer time to boil.
Q23ai Iron is a better conductor of heat than glass. Thus, the iron conducts
heat from the boiling water in container T to the cooler surrounding
air faster, causing its temperature to be lower.
aii The type of material has a greater effect on the temperature of water.
The difference in the temperature of the water in containers R and T,
which are made of different materials, is greater than the difference
in the temperature of the water in containers T and U, which have
different thicknesses.
b Choose: Container S.
Use data: The temperature of the water decreased the least.
Explain data: This shows that container S is the poorest conductor of
heat and would conduct heat from the warmer surrounding air to her
cold drink the slowest.
Q24 Water in the muddy water gains heat from the warmer surrounding
air to evaporate and form water vapour. The warmer water vapour
rises and comes into contact with the cooler underside of the lid/
inner surface of the glass bottle, loses heat to it, and condenses to
form water droplets. The water droplets slide down the sides of the
bottle and drip down to be collected as clean water.
Q25a The gravitational force acting on the water droplets will cause the
water droplets to drip downwards towards animal B’s head.

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b The rough outer body covering increases the exposed surface area
of animal B’s body in contact with the surrounding air. More water
vapour can lose heat to the rough outer body covering and
condense to form more water droplets.
Q26a Use data: The mask was taped across Doctor John’s nose bridge and
cheeks.
Explain data: Thus, the warmer water vapour that he exhaled was
unable to escape through the top of the mask and could not come
into contact with the cooler inner surface of his spectacle lenses to
lose heat to them and condense to form water droplets.
b The spectacle lenses gained heat from the warmer surrounding air in
the outdoor garden to become warmer. Thus, the warmer water
vapour that Doctor Peter exhaled would lose heat slower to the inner
surfaces of his spectacle lenses and condense slower to form less
water droplets.
Q27 The water gains heat from the warmer trapped air to evaporate. This
causes the warmer trapped air to lose heat to the cooler water and
decrease in temperature.

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P6 GAP™ – TOPICAL REVISION ICE 10: PLANT CYCLE – ANSWER BOOKLET

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Q12a As the intensity of light increases, the size of the stomata increases
until a maximum size of 5 units.
b Advantage:
The leaf can take in more carbon dioxide for a faster rate of
photosynthesis to make more food.

Disadvantage:
The leaf will lose more water through the stomata as water vapour.
Q13 Z, Y, X, W
Q14a The layer of oil on the water in each set-up ensures that the water in
the beakers would not evaporate. This ensures that any decrease in
the amount of water in each set-up is only due to the roots of the
plants absorbing water and not due to evaporation.
b Use data: There was the most amount of light shining on the plant in
set-up C.
Explain data: Thus, the plant in set-up C trapped the most amount of
light and absorbed the most amount of water through its roots to
carry out the fastest rate of photosynthesis.
Q15a No. The seed starts absorbing water at stage A to germinate.
b Yes. In the first 5 days, seedling X has not developed true leaves and
does not trap sunlight for photosynthesis to make food. Instead, it
relies on the food provided by the seed leaf for respiration to release
energy to survive.
Q16 As the food-carrying tubes were removed, food made by the leaves
could not be transported past positions S and T down to the roots.
Additionally, there were more leaves between positions S and T as
compared to between positions R and S. Thus, more food made by
the leaves between positions S and T was transported through the
food-carrying tubes to fruit Q to be stored, causing fruit Q to grow
bigger than fruit P.
Q17a The water plant trapped light from the lamp for photosynthesis and
released oxygen. Thus, there was more oxygen collected in the air
space over time, which displaced the water in the syringe, causing
water level X to move down.
b Faster

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P6 GAP™ – TOPICAL REVISION ICE 11: HUMAN & PLANT REPRODUCTION – ANSWER BOOKLET

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Q11a No. The ovaries are still functioning normally and will continue to
produce and release the mature eggs. However, the sperms
deposited in the vagina cannot reach the egg in the fallopian tube to
fuse with the egg in the process of fertilisation. This prevents
fertilisation from taking place and there would not be any fertilised
egg to develop into a baby.
b Similarity:
Both involve the male reproductive cell fusing together with the
female reproductive cell.

Difference:
Fertilisation in humans takes place in the fallopian tube while
fertilisation in plants takes place at the ovary of the flower.

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