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Homework 2

This document contains a science test with questions about nutrition, energy from foods, skeletal joints, and muscles. The test has multiple choice and short answer questions testing understanding of topics like what a balanced diet includes, using experiments to compare energy in foods, identifying ball and socket joints, and explaining antagonistic muscle pairs.

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CAMBRIDGE LOWER SECONDARY SCIENCE 8: END-OF-UNIT TEST

Name ___________________________________ Date _____________

Disclaimer: This test and mark scheme have been written by the authors.

End-of-unit test
Unit 7
1 a A balanced diet should include the correct amount of energy each day.
What else should be included in a balanced diet? [1]
Proteins, carbohydrates, water, minerals, vitamins and fats
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Marcus wanted to know if cashew nuts contain more energy than pecan nuts.
• He measured 20 cm3 of water into a test tube.
• He measured the temperature of the water.
• He held a cashew nut in a flame until it started to burn.
• He held the burning nut under the test tube that contained the water.
• When the nut finished burning, he measured the temperature of the water again.

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b What apparatus should Marcus use to measure 20 cm3 of water? [1]

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measuring cylinder

c Marcus repeats the experiment using a pecan nut.


How can Marcus use his results to decide which kind of nut contains more energy? [1]

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The hotter nut after burning likely contain more enery. He burning to see when the nut is getting
hotter before he compares the temperature
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2 The food that we eat affects our health.
a Explain why fats and oils should be included in a balanced diet. [1]

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Fat is a source of fatty acids, which the body cannot make itself. Fat helps the body absorb vitamin A,
vitamin D and vitamin E.
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b Explain why eating too many fatty foods can harm a person’s health. [2]

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too much saturated fat can cause cholesterol to build up in your arteries

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3 The diagram shows a ball-and-socket joint.


The joint is between the bone at the top of the leg, and the hip bone.

a What kind of movement can happen at a ball-and-socket joint? [1]

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Move in a complete circuit

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b Name one other place in the human body where there is a ball-and-socket joint. [1]

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shoulders

c The skeleton also has hinge joints.


A pair of antagonistic muscles moves the bones at a hinge joint.
Explain why a pair of muscles is needed to move the bones. [2]

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One muscle or group of muscles will bend one part of a joint while a different muscle or muscle
group will pull it back to its original position
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