SIR APOLLO KAGGWA SCHOOLS

PLE PREP TEST VII 2017

PRIMARY SEVEN
BASIC SCIENCE AND HEALTH EDUCATION
Time allowed: 2 hours 15 minutes

Index No.

Candidate’s Name: __________________________________________________

Candidate’s Signature: ______________________________________________

School Name: _____________________________________________________

Read the following instructions carefully: FOR EXAMINER’S USE ONLY

1. The paper has two sections: A and B

2. Section A has 40 questions (40 marks)

3. Section B has 15 questions (60 marks) FOR EXAMINER’S USE

ONLY
4. Answer ALL questions. All answers to both Sections A

and B must be written in the spaces provided. Qn. No MARK SIGN

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5. All answers must be written using a blue or black ball
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point pen or ink. Diagrams should be drawn in pencil.
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6. Unnecessary crossing of work may lead to loss of marks.
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7. Any handwriting that cannot be easily read may lead to
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loss of marks. 44 – 46
8. Do not fill anything in the boxes indicated; 47 – 49

For Examiner’s use only. 50 – 52

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SECTION A: 40 MARKS
Questions 1 to 40 carry one mark each
1. Name the body sense that helps to tell the taste of sugar in tea.

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2. Give one reason why farmers mulch their gardens.

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3. Why does a fish die when removed out of the water?

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4. How does refrigeration prevent milk from going bad?

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5. Use the diagram to answer the questions that follow.

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6. How useful is such type of feet to this group of birds?

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7. What is the role of sunlight during photosynthesis?
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8. How is the use of a vent pipe different from that of a screen?

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9. Where does the tsetse fly lay its eggs?

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10. Give the importance of the garden tool below to a crop farmer.

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11. What physical process changes ice to gas?

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12. Give one disadvantage of friction in machines as a nuisance force.

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13. Give the use of a fuse in an electric circuit.
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14. Study the diagram and answer the questions that follow.

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North pole.
Name the pole of the magnet marked X.
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15. Identify the property of magnets shown above.

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16. Apart from bats, name one vertebrate that makes echoes in the
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17. Identify any one sex offence common in schools today.

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18. Give one danger of sharing a room with potted plants at night.

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19. Why are electric wires fixed loosely on the poles during their connection?

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20. Name one insect pest that attacks root crops.

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21. Calculate the density of an object whose mass is 10gm and volume 40cc.

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22. Apart from wearing shoes, suggest one other way of preventing hookworm
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23. How useful are tendons at a joint?

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24. Name one insect that protects itself by stinging apart from bees.

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25. What is the gestation period of an ewe?

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26. Give one health reason for ironing clothes.

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27. The diagram shows a part of a flowering plant.

Name the importance of part Y to a pumpkin.

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28. Name one human activity that results into air pollution.

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29. Besides using a child health card, how can you identify a child who has been
immunized against tuberculosis?

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30. Write one natural method of controlling rats in a home.

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31. How is a housefly useful in a home during the larvae stage?

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32. Give one importance of PIASCY messages at school.

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33. State one activity family members can do to promote personal hygiene.

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34. How is lightening formed during a thunderstorm?
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35. Why is an approaching plane seen before the sound is heard when it is
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36. How can you separate a mixture of sugar and powder of steel wire?

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37. Give the importance of a health survey to the government.

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38. How important is a stretcher in carrying out first aid?

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39. Give the role of the part marked Q to the eye of a dog.

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40. Why should a baby who has swallowed jik when washing be made to vomit?

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SECTION B
Questions 41 to 55 carry four marks each.
41 (a) What is germination?
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(b) Identify the type of germination undergone by ground nuts.

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(c) Besides water and air, give one other condition necessary for seed
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(d) What type of leaf venation does a ground nut have?

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42. The diagram shows the internal structure of a bird’s egg.

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(b) Besides protection, give one use of part x to an egg.

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(c) Why may a fertilized egg fail to hatch?

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43. (a) Give any two problems an adolescent girl who gets pregnant may face
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(b) Identify any two groups of people who are vulnerable to AIDs.
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(i) Storage of semen Carbon dioxide
(ii) Welding metals rare gases
(iii) Making electric bulbs Oxygen
(iv) Preservation of drinks Carbon monoxide
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45. (a) Identify any one common drug of dependence.

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(b) Give one reason why people commonly abuse drugs.

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(c) State any two dangers of drug abuse to:
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46.(a) How is a strain different from a sprain?

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(ii) Bones

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(c) Give one health habit that helps to keep the skeletal system in healthy
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47. The diagram shows a domestic appliance. Use it to answer questions

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a) Name part C.

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(b) How does part B work?
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(c) Name any one material used to make part A.

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(d) Give one use of the instrument above at home.

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48. (a) Name one natural component of soil.

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(b) A part from weathering, give one way how soil is formed.

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(c) What role do earthworms play in soil formation?

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49. The diagram shows a natural process in our environment. Use it to
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(a) Use arrows to show the relationship between the organisms numbered from
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(c) What is the scientific name given to organisms labeled 3?
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50. (a) What are inexhaustible resources?

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51a) To which group of vertebrates does a tadpole belong?

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(d) Name one animal that belongs to the same family with tadpole.
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52. a) Apart from kidney, name one other excretory organ protected by the
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54a) Give the importance of pulley at school besides pulling up or down the
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(b) Calculate the effort needed to lift a load of 200N using a single movable
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 P.7 Science PLE PREP 7 Marking guide 2017 30. Using cats to eat rats/ some
1. Tasting / sense of taste. communities hunt and eat them.
2. To conserve soil moisture/ soil
fertility/control erosion/ weeds 31. The maggots help to reduce the volume
3. The gills dry out in the free dry air. of faeces (break down faeces) in a pit
4. Prevents the bacterial from latrine.
multiplying / keeps bacteria dormant 32. To prevent children from dropping out
5. Parrots/ wood peckers of school / prevent them from STDs/
6. For climbing trees prevent early marriages / early
7. Provides sunlight (heat) energy pregnancies.
8. A vent pipe takes out bad smell / stale 33. Bathing/ washing clothes / brushing
air from the pit while a screen helps to their teeth/ ironing clothes / grooming
trap house flies. hair and nails
9. It hatches its eggs inside the abdomen 34. Friction between clouds / discharge of
and lays the larvae in the soil. electrons from one charged cloud to
10. To dig rocky soil / To harvest root another/ discharge of electrons from
crops / To narrow the garden clouds to the earth or positively
11. Sublimation charged objects on earth
12. Slows the speed of machines / causes 35. Light travels faster than sound./ speed
wear and tear / cause unnecessary of light is faster than speed of sound.
heating in machines 36. Using a magnet to attract the iron
13. To protect electric appliances from powder.
damage in case of a surge / power 37. To help for social services
outage. 38. To transport (carry) casualties who
14. North pole can’t walk
15. A magnet is stronger at the poles. 39. To form images
16. Whales / Dolphins 40. It may lead to damage of other body
17. Rape / Defilement/ Abortion/ Sodomy/ SECTION B
Lesbianism. 41. –
18. Leads to competition for oxygen since a) Development of a seed into a seed
plants also use it for respiration at ling
night. b) Epigeal germination
19. To leave room for contraction on cold c) Warmth / Optimum / right
days/ To prevent breaking of wires due temperature
to contraction during very cold weather. d) Reticulate / network venation
20. Potato weevils. 42. –
21. D = M = 10g = 1 = 0.25g/cc a) (i) chalaza / twisted albumen
V 40cc 4 (ii) Germinal disc/ embryo
22. Washing hands after using the latrine / b) To give shape / To allow gaseous
toilet washing fruits and vegetables exchange as it is porous.
before eating. c) If the air space is blocked / embryo
23. Tendons join muscles to bones. dies / the embryo fails to get air and
24. Wasps / soldier ants / blank ants moisture/ when the egg is cracked.
25. 5 months / 150 days 43. –
26. To kill parasites / germs / remove odour (a) Forced marriage / early marriage / may
(bad smell) get STDs/ may suffer social stigma/
27. To produce / store pollen grains. rejection by parents or boy friend / may
28. Bush burning / poor waste disposal risk abortion / die in course of delivery.
/release of industrial wastes / dumping (b) Distant truck drivers / business men/
of chemicals/exhaust fumes from traders/ street kids/ soldiers in front line
driving vehicles. areas / policemen on duty away from
29. Checking the scar on the right upper home / street sex workers/ prostitutes.
arm 44. (a) – Storage of semen - Nitrogen
(b)Welding metals - Oxygen

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 (c)Making bulbs – Rare gases b) Urine
(d) Preservation - Carbon dioxide c) Scabies/ Eczema / Ring worms / skin
45. –(a) Alcohol /tobacco / Mirra / cancer
Marijuana/ Khat/ Opium/ Cocaine d) Eating a balanced diet / bathing
(b)To feel happy / warm/ join peer groups / regularly/ avoid bleaching / tattooing /
wrong adverts / feel mature. piercing the skin.
(c) (i) brain damage / personal neglect / loss
of job
(ii)Loss of family income / spouse abuse / 53. (a) glass envelop / glass bulb / globe
family neglect (b) Oxygen supports burning so it would
46. – (a) Strain is a torn or overstretched burn off the filament
tendon while sprain is a torn or over (c)To increase the surface area for healing /
stretched ligament / strain affects electrical resistance.
muscles while a sprain affects joints. (d)Nitrogen / neon / argon / xenon / krypton
(b) (i) cramp / spasm/ tear of muscles /
cuts 54. (a) Drawing curtains / taking up
(ii) crack / fracture building materials
(c)Eating a balanced diet / physical (b) E = L / E = 200N / E = 100N
exercises. MA 2
47. – (c) Friction / pull of gravity.
a) Vacuum seal 55. (a) A way of keeping food free from
b) Prevents heat loss or gain by radiation germs or contamination.
c) Wood / plastic / rubber
(b) Refrigeration / deep frying /
d) To keep hot things hot or cold ones
cold.
pasteurization/ canning / tinning /
48. (a)Bacteria / earth worms/ termites / bottling.
living organisms
(b)Decomposition of organic matter
(c)They aerate the soil / their droppings
make soil fertile
(d)Loss of soil fertility due to over use
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(a) Grass – Grass hopper Bird
snake
(b) Food chain
(c) Primary consumers
(d) They make food / purify air / give
Oxygen
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a) Resources that can not be used up
b) Afforestation / re-afforestation /agro-
forestry
c) It retains heat and looses it slowly
because it is an insulator of heat
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a) Amphibians
b) They control malaria by eating the
larvae
c) A tadpole uses gills while the adult
uses lungs or moist skin.
d) Newts / Salamanders / blind worms/
cecallians
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a) Lungs