7 Short Break Assignment

MUSCULO- SKELETAL SYSTEM
1. Give two ways in which a skeleton is useful to a mammal.
2. Which mineral salt is needed for the growth of strong bones and teeth?
3. Identify the longest bone in the human body.

4. What is a joint?
5. How is the movement of a ball and socket joint different from a hinge joint?
6. Explain how the knee is different from the shoulder joint.
7. Which joint enables you to nod your head?
8. State the uses of these parts of a joint: synovial fluid, tendons, ligaments, cartilage,
synovial membranes
9. Explain the action of the biceps and triceps when the arm is straight.
10. Give the reason why the biceps and triceps are called antagonistic muscles.
11. Explain the action of the biceps and triceps when the arm is bent.
12. State one way in which muscles are important to your body.
13. State five disorders of the skeleton.
14. What do these mean?
- Sprain
- Strain
- fractures,
- dislocations
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15. Mention the immunisable disease of the muscular-skeletal system that is water
bone.
16. Identify any one immunisable bacterial disease that attacks man’s bones.
17. Cite one deficiency disease of the skeleton.
18. How can we prevent our infants from getting such a disease?
19. Mention one disease that attacks the muscular-skeletal system and the nervous
system.
20. Identify one disease that identifies with inflammation of one’s joints.
21. Identify three diseases of the muscles.
22. Identify two good health habits one should practice to maintain the musculo-
skeletal system.
23. State two ways in which exercising is very vital to one’s health.
24. What is the importance of the following body systems?
a) Musculo-skeletal system
b) Circulatory system
c) Digestive system
d) Respiratory system
e) Reproductive system
f) Excretory system
25. What special term is given to a body structure made of specialized cells and is
meant for a specific task?
26. Give the meaning of the term body organ?
27. What do we call a group of specialized organs that work together to do s specific
function in the body?
ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM

1. Give the meanings of these terms as used in electricity.
- Atom
- molecule,
- electrons
- neutrons
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- protons
- electricity
- electric current
- current
- static electricity
- direct current
- alternating current
- hydro electricity
- thermal electricity
- geothermal electricity
- electric circuit
- electric bulb
- fuse
- switch
- voltmeter
- conductors
- insulators
2. Explain how current electricity travels from Jinja to your school.
3. In which way is geothermal electricity different from thermal electricity?

4. Describe the movement of the following when the circuit is complete: electrons,
electric current.
5. Draw a simple electric circuit and show the bulb, fuse, switch dry cell, ammeter,
and voltmeter.
6. Give the functions of these parts in an electric circuit.
a) light bulb
b) fuse
c)switch
d) dry cell
d) ammeter
e) voltmeter.
7. How is the work of a fuse similar to that of a switch?
THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM

1. Give the meanings of these words
i) Ingestion
ii) Digestion
iii) Absorption
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iv) Metabolism
v) Egestion
vi) Digestive system
vii) Alimentary canal
2. a) Where does digestion begin?
b) Name the digestive juice produced in the mouth
c) How are the teeth important in digestion?
d) Apart from the mouth where else do we have mechanical digestion taking place?
3. Mention one role of the tongue during the eating of food
4. a)Which involuntary action pushes food from the mouth to the gullet?
b) How does food move through the gullet to the stomach?
a) Why doesn’t digestion of cooked starch continue in the stomach?
14. What are enzymes?
15. Identify two conditions in which enzymes work
17. a) State three ways in which hydrochloric acid is useful in the stomach
b) Which two enzymes act on food in the stomach?

c) Identify any two substances absorbed in the stomach.
18. a) Identify two juices that work in the duodenum
19. Why aren’t vitamins and mineral salts digested but just absorbed?
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20. Give two ways in which the ileum is adapted to absorption of digested food
21. a) What are the “villi”?
RESPIRATORY SYSTEM
1. Give the meanings of the following terms.
- Respiration
- Breathing
- Inhalation/inspiration
- Exhalation/expiration
2. Where does respiration in animals take place?

3. Mention the raw materials for respiration.
4. State three products from respiration.
5. Identify the end product of respiration.

6. Give the two by products of respiration.
7. Which body system is responsible for producing energy from the food we eat?
8. What is the importance of respiration to the body?
9. How useful are the cilia in the nose?
10. Why isn’t it advisable to breathe through the nose?
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11. Why is the epiglottis considered useful in the respiratory system?
12. Why is the trachea made of rings of cartilage?
13. Where does gaseous exchange take place?
14. Explain how breathing is different from respiration?
15. Explain five things that happen as you breathe in.
16. What happens to the following during inhalation?

i) Lungs
ii) Rib cage
iii) Chest cavity
iv) Intercostals
v) Diaphragm
17. The diagram below shows the artificial breathing apparatus. Use it to answer
the questions that follow.
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What do the balloons represent?
Which body system is represented in the diagram above?
Which breathing action is represented in the diagram?
Which body system is represented in the diagram above?
18. What do the balloons represent?
19. State two health habits for maintaining the respiratory system.
GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT

The Human Reproductive System
1. Mention two primary sex characteristics common in both boys and girls.
2. Identify the secondary sex characteristics that occur in – girls only, boys only
3. How long is the gestation period of a woman?

4. Where do the following happen? Fertilization ___________implantation _____________
5. Identify three occasions when the cervix opens.
6. Mention five signs of pregnancy in women.
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7. Identify the requirements of a pregnant woman.
8. Mention four uses of the placenta during pregnancy.
9. How is the umbilical cord useful during pregnancy?
10. How different is an embryo from a foetus?
11. How are teenage pregnancies dangerous?
12. How best can school going children avoid STD’s and teenage pregnancies?
13. Write AIDS in full.

14. Suggest the possible ways of reducing the spread of AIDS.
15. Who started PIASCY?

16. State one example of a PIASCY message.
17. Why was PIASCY started?
18. What are the benefits of PIASCY?

19. Which sexually transmitted disease is
a) Viral
b) Bacterial
c) Protozoan
d) Fungal
RESOURCES IN THE ENVIRONMENT
1. Give the meaning of the following with three examples on each

- renewable recourses
- non renewable resources
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- global/common resources
- recyclable resources
- exhaustible resources
- inexhaustible resources
2. State any one reason why alloys are made.
3. List down two examples of alloys.
4. Identify ten uses of minerals to man.
5. What is the meaning of the following terms?

- Fossils,
- fuels,
- fossil fuel
6. List ten examples of fuels.
7. Give the meaning of environmental degradation.
8. Mention the causes of environmental degradation.
9. Outline one cause of environmental degradation.
10. Ruby uses a polythene bag for shopping while Grace uses a basket made of reeds.
Which one of the two girls is environmentally friendly?
11. Support your answer above.
12. Trevor uses a bicycle when going to school as Joshua uses a motor-cycle.
Which one of the two men is a problem to the environment?
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13. A certain woman uses a tractor for ploughing her garden while another woman uses
oxen for the same purpose. Which one of the women is environmentally friendly?
14. Write the 5R’s in full.
5. PLANT KINGDOM
1. List down the seven characteristics of living things
2. Mention four differences between plants and animals.
3. How are non flowering plants different from living things?
4. Identify the two major groups of plants

5. Explain these terms.
- Spore producing plants
- coniferous plants
6. How are mosses ferns and liverworts different?
7. The diagram below shows a certain plants
8. Name the plant above.

9. Where do we commonly find the above plants?
1. How is the reproduction in bean similar to that of a pine?
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2. Explain how coniferous plants differ from other non-flowering plants
3. Study the list and answer the questions mosses, beans, conifers, and liverworts,
Which two plants would you group together?
Give the reason for your answer above.
4. Which one of the above plants produces flowers?
5. Name the plant in the diagram.
How does it reproduce?

6. If part q produces spores name it.
7. Identify type of roots marked j
8. How is a mushroom similar to a fern in terms of reproduction?
9. How are animals different from plants in terms of feeding?
10. Why are plants classified as living things?
11. What is the green pigment in leaves called
12. How useful is the above mentioned pigment?
13. Explain what flowering plants are.
14. Mention the two systems of a flowering plants.
15. How is an axillary bud different from a terminal bud?
16. How important is the axillary bud on the flowering plant.
ROOTS
17. Mention the three types of roots
18. Give the meanings of these a) primary roots b) secondary roots
c) adventitious roots
19. List examples of a) primary roots, b) secondary roots, c) adventitious roots
20. Draw diagrams showing the following.
Tap roots, fibrous roots, adventitious roots, prop roots, buttress roots,
clasping roots, aerial roots, stilt roots, breathing roots
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21. Mention four differences between monocotyledonous and dicotyledonous
plants.
22. Identify three uses of roots to plants.

23. How does man make use of plant roots?
24. By which process plants roots absorb water and mineral salts from the
ground?
25. What is osmosis?
STEMS
26. The diagram below shows a sugarcane stem.
27. Name parts labeled a, b, c,

28. Give three uses of stems to plants.
29. Identify ways in which roots are useful to man.
30. Mention four types of stems

31. Give the meanings of upright stems, climbing stems, creeping stems,
underground stems.
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32. Give examples of upright stems
33. What are climbing stems?
34. Why do some plants climb others?
35. Give three ways in which plants climb others.
36. Identify these methods of climbing
37. Mention five examples of climbing plants.

38. What are creeping plants?
39. Give two examples of plants that have got creeping stems.
40. What are underground stems?

41. Cite the four main groups of underground stems.
42. What is a bulb?

43. Give three examples of bulbs.
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44. On the given diagram, show the fleshy storage leaves, foliage leaves, scale
leaves, stem, and adventitious roots.
45. Give the function of the given parts.
46. What is a rhizome?
47. Mention two examples of rhizomes.
48. Which type of roots do underground stems have?

49. Identify the types of root system that an onion has.
50. What are corms?
51. Mention four examples of corms.
52. What are stem tubers?

53. Mention two examples of stem tubers
54. State three characteristics of underground stems.
LEAVES
55. The diagram below shows a leaf.
56. Mention two types of leaves.

57. What is a simple leaf?
58. Name the simple leaves in the diagram.
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59. What is a compound leaf?
60. Mention three examples of compound leaves.
61. Draw a leaf and show these: main vein, lamina, leaf stalk, leaf margin, apex,
62. What is leaf venation?
63. Mention the two types of leaf venation.
64. Identify the type of leaf venation that plants which undergo hypogeal
germination have.
65. Which types of plants have got network leaf venation?
66. Draw leaves showing network and parallel venation.
67. Identify ways in which roots are of importance to plants.
68. Explain photosynthesis
69. State the end product of photosynthesis.
70. List down the by-products of photosynthesis.
71. Mention four requirements of photosynthesis.
72. Give the two raw-materials of photosynthesis.
73. State two conditions needed in order for photosynthesis to take place.
74. How do the following benefit from photosynthesis?

Plants ________________________ animals _______________
75. What is transpiration?
76. Mention the factors that affect the rate of transpiration,
77. Explain how each of the following affect the rate of transpiration,
- temperature
- wind
- sunlight
- humidity
- size of the leaf
78. Mention three ways in which plants reduce the rate of transpiration.
79. Why do some plants shed off their leaves in the dry season?
80. What special name is given to such trees?
81. Give the reason why some plants grow more leaves in the wet season.
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82. What name is given to trees that never shed off their leaves however dry it
is?
FLOWERS
83. What is a flower?

84. Give two ways in which flowers are vital to a flower.
85. How does man benefit from flowers?( give four)
86. Draw a flower and show these parts

anther heads, stigma, style, filament, petals, sepals, flower stalk,
87. What is pollination?
88. How is self pollination different from cross pollination?
89. What are agents of pollination?

90. Mention three agents of pollination.
91. Give four ways in which wind pollinated flowers are different from insect
pollinated flowers.
92. Give four ways in which flowers are adapted for self pollination.
93. Identify three special adaptations of flowers to cross pollination.
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94. Explain how a pawpaw plant prevents self pollination.
95. Explain what happens immediately after pollen grains land on the stigma.
96. What do the following turn into after fertilization?
Ovary, ovules, petals, anthers and stigma

97. What do we call a group of these, sepals, petals
SEEDS
98. What is a seed?
99. Mention the types of seeds.

100. Give four examples of each of the following groups of seeds:
Monocotyledonous seeds
Dicotyledonous seeds
101. Draw a bean seed and show these parts: cotyledon, testa, micropyle, hilum,
plumule, radicle,
102. Give the functions of the above mention parts.
103. Draw a maize grain and show these parts: radicle, plumule, cotyledon, style
scar, stalk scar,
104. Give the functions of the above mentioned parts.
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105. What is seed germination?
106. Identify the requirements of seed germination.
107. Mention the two main types of germination,
108. Apart from epigeal and hypogeal germination, mention one other type of
germination.
109. Explain these types of germination:
Epigeal germination
Hypogeal germination
FRUITS
110. What is a fruit?
111. Identify the two major groups of fruits
112. Explain these: succulent fruits
Pomes
Drupes
berries
113. What is pericarp?
114. Give two examples of each these:
Pomes
Drupes
berries
115. Why is an avocado called a drupe?

116. What are dry fruits?
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117. Identify the two groups of dry fruits.
118. What is seed dispersal?

119. Give four reasons why seed dispersal is important to plants.
120. Mention the agents of seed dispersal.

121. Identify two characteristics of seeds dispersed by wind, water, animals,
explosive mechanism.
TROPISIMS
122. Explain what ‘tropisms’ means.
123. Mention five examples of stimuli that plants respond to.
124. Give the meanings of these terms, phototropism, geotropism, hydrotropism,
chemotropism, haptotropism, thermotropism,
125. Fill in the blanks in the table below.
Tropism stimulus
Hydrotropism ______________________
__________________________ touch
Phototropism ________________________
___________________________ gravity
___________________________ heat
126. P6 class did this experiment with their teacher. They covered a plant in a box
as shown in A and after three days it appeared as in B.
What was the experiment about?
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127. Why did the plant bend as shown in B?
128. Anita placed her potted plant as sown in M and after a few days it was
appeared as in N
What was her experiment about?

129. How do plants respond to such a tropism?
130. Which type of tropism do carnivorous plants respond to?
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8. BACTERIA AND FUNGI
BACTERIA
1. What are bacteria?

2. Mention four characteristics of bacteria.
3. Identify the places where bacteria are found.

4. Explain the meanings of these:
- aerobic bacteria
- anaerobic bacteria.
5. How do bacteria feed?
6. Explain how bacteria reproduce.
7. Mention any three conditions necessary for bacteria to multiply.
8. Why do we say that bacteria are ‘microscopic’?

9. Mention the types of bacteria.
10. Identify examples of each of the following types of bacteria.
- Rod shaped bacteria
- spiral shaped bacteria
- spherical shaped bacteria
- comma shaped
11. Identify ways in which bacteria are useful in the environment.
12. How are bacteria useful to man?
13. Explain how bacteria are useful to ruminants.
14. Identify three ways in which bacteria are harmful to man.
15. State 15 examples of bacterial diseases
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16. Suggest five ways of curbing the dangers of bacteria
17. What are antibiotics?

FUNGI
18. What are fungi?
19. Mention the characteristics of fungi.
20. How do the most fungi reproduce?

21. How is the reproduction of a mushroom different from that of yeast?
22. Explain how mushrooms feed.

23. Why don’t toad stools make their own food?
24. State five examples of fungi.
25. Draw a mushroom and show these parts; cap, gills, hyphae, ring, stipe.
26. How are the following useful to a mushroom? Gills, hyphae

27. How are mushrooms similar to ferns in terms of reproduction?
28. Explain how mushrooms are different from ferns.
29. How are mushrooms useful to man?
30. Which fungus is used in the manufacture of the antibiotics?
31. Mention the fungus used in brewing beer.
32. How useful is yeast to bakers?
33. State any two dangers of fungi.
34. Identify five fungal diseases that attack man.
35. Which fungal S.T.D. is commonly regarded as a yeast infection?

36. Mention any three diseases that affect crops.
37. Suggest four ways of reducing the harmful effects of fungi.
38. Give two ways in which bacteria are similar to fungi.
39. State two ways in which bacteria are different from fungi.
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40. Study the diagram below and answer the questions that follow
Name the parts labeled a, b, c, d, e.
41. Under which kingdom of living things is this organism grouped?

42. How does it get its food?
43. Explain how it reproduces.
44. Give the uses of parts labelled a, b, e.
6. MATTER AND HEAT

1. What is matter?
2. Mention three properties of matter.
3. Give the meanings of these items

- molecule
- atom
4. Mention the three states of matter.
5. The diagram below shows different states of matter.
Name the states of matter A, B, C

6. What do you understand by solid state?
7. Mention the characteristic of solids.
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8. How is cohesion force different from adhesion force?
9. Why are solids said to have a strong cohesion force.
10. Give examples of the application of cohesion and adhesion.
11. Mention the characteristics of liquids.
12. Give six examples of liquids.
13. Which states of matter takes the shape of the container.
14. What do you understand by gaseous state?
15. Give the characteristic of gases.
16. State three examples of gases in the air.
17. Why don’t gases have a definite shape in volume?
18. Mention examples of items in the gaseous state.
19. What is heat?
20. Mention the types of sources of heat.
21. What are sources of heat?
22. List down three examples of each of these:

- natural sources of heat
- artificial sources of heat
23. Mention three effects of heat on matter.
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24. How is heat different form temperature?
25. What name is given to the device used to measure temperature?

26. In which units is temperature measured.
27. Identify the two scales for measuring temperature?
28. Mention four types of thermometers.
29. Mention two differences between clinical thermometer and other thermometers.
30. What is the function of the clinical thermometer?
31. Study the diagram of the thermometer below and answer the questions that follow.
Name the thermometer shown in the diagram.
Identify the parts labelled a, b, c, d, e
32. Give the uses of parts labelled a, b, c

33. Why do you think part e is made up of glass?
34. Why is a clinical thermometer marked 340C to 420C
35. How useful is mercury in a clinical thermometer?
36. Give four reasons why mercury is used in a clinical thermometer.
37. State any two reasons why water is not used in a thermometer.
38. Why is a wall thermometer called so?

39. How useful is a wall thermometer?
40. How important is the Sixth thermometer?
41. What is the other name given to the Six’s thermometer.
42. Mention any two thermometric liquids used in the Six’s thermometer.
43. Why is alcohol used in the Six’s thermometer?
44. Why do we have to shake the thermometer before using it on another person?
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45. Give two places on the body where the clinical thermometer in placed when taking
readings.
46. Why is it put in such places when taking readings?
47. Study the diagram:
Y Z
melting
Identify the states of matter X, Y, Z
48. Name the processes 1, 2, 3
49. Which types of changes are indicated in the diagram?
50. Which form of energy enables 1 to take place?
51. Give the meanings of these terms
- evaporation
- condensation,
- melting
- freezing,
- sublimation
52. Why are gaps left between railway lines during the construction?
53. What would happen if gaps were not left between railway lines?
54. Identify the reason why electric wires appear saggy in hotness
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55. Identify the type of weather according to the wires in the pictures.
56. Why are bicycle made of steel hollow tubes?
57. Give the reason why iron sheets are corrugated.
58. Draw diagrams to show that:
Solids expand when heated
Liquids expand when heated
Gases expand when heated
59. Explain what heat transfer is.
60. Identify the suitable term to mean heat transfer in, solids, liquids, gases.
61. Give two ways in which heat travels through matter.
62. How is heat transfer in convection in liquids and gases different from that in
radiation?
63. State the three processes of heat loss or gain?
64. Explain what conduction is.
65. Give three ways man makes use of conduction in his daily life.
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66. What do we call the materials that allow heat to pass through?
67. Give two examples of such materials
68 . What are insulators of heat?
69. How are insulators of importance to man?
70. What is convection?
71. In which two states of matter does heat travel by convection?
72. State four ways in which the concept of convection applies in reality
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28. What process of heat transfer enables heat to circulate freely in a room?
29. Which process enables smoke to rise in a chimney?
30. Draw any one diagram showing convection.
31. What do you understand by the term radiation?
32. What is a vacuum?

33. Draw diagrams showing radiation
79. How does heat travel from the earth to the green plants in the gardens?
80. Explain how heat travels from a candle to your hands?
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81. The diagram below shows Joan boiling water.
By which process does heat reach the Joan?
82. How is heat able to reach the water at the top?
83. Explain how heat is passes through the pan.
84. The diagram below shows a thermos flask.
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Name the parts labeled a and b
85. Why isn’t such a device commonly used in rural areas?
86. Why are most cars in the tropical region coloured white?
87. Identify the reason why Arabs in deserts put on white tunics.
88. Carsten washed a white shirt and Rodney washed a black one then they hang them
out to
dry at the same time. Whose shirt dried later?
90. Why are people advised to paint their houses with bright colours?
91. Why is a Stevenson’s screen painted with white?
92. Give the reason why a first aid box should be painted with bright colours?
2. SOUND ENERGY
1. Explain how sound is produced.

2. Give the meaning of the term vibration.
3. Identify four ways in which sound is important.
4. Explain how sound moves from the church bell to people’s ears in their homes.
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5. In which state does sound travel fastest?
6. Give the reason for your answer given above.
7. Name the state of matter in which sound travels slowest?
8. Why can’t sound travel through a vacuum?
9. Give the meaning of the term pitch.
10. Identify six factors that affect pitch.
11. State three determinants of pitch in the following instruments.
- String instruments
- wind instruments
- percussion instruments
12. Three girls blew air into same sized bottles with different levels of water.
Why did the bottles produce different pitches of sound?
13. Study the diagram below and answer the questions that follow.
Which will produce the highest pitch?
Give the reason for your answer above.
Under which group of musical instruments do the bottles belong?
14. Explain what happens to the pitch when a bottle half filled with water is
replaced by water of the same amount.
15. The diagram below shows a certain musical instrument. Use it to study the
questions that follow
Why do the strings produce different pitches when they are plucked?
16. Which string will produce the highest pitch?

18. Identify the string that will produce the lowest pitch.
19. Give the reason for your answer above.
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20. Explain how useful the sound box is on such an instrument.
21. Give the importance of the hole on the sound box.
22. Identify the units for measuring frequency.

23. Study the pictures of drums
Which drum will produce the lowest pitch?

25. How do drums produce sound?
26. Identify the factors that determine the pitch of drums.
27. What is volume?
28. Give the meaning of the term ‘amplitude’.
29. What determines volume of sound?
30. How does amplitude determine volume of sound?
31. In which units is volume of sound measured?

32. Give the meaning of the term echo.
33. What causes an echo?
34. Mention one factor affecting the formation of echoes.
35. How are echoes useful in nature?
36. Give the importance of echolocation to bats.

37. Explain how echoes are used by the following groups of people.
- Sailors,
- pilots,
- health workers
38. How useful is the device called sonar to sailors?
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39. In which three ways can echoes be a nuisance?
40. How can echoes be reduced in cinema halls and theatres?
41. Give the reasons why sound should be stored.
42. Mention seven examples of devices on which sound should be stored.
43. Identity five methods of storing sound.

44. Give seven methods of reproducing stored sound.
45. Outline five devices on which sound can be stored.
46. Name the organ that detects sound.

47. Identify the three regions of the ear.
48. In four steps, explain how we hear.
49. Study the diagram of the ear and answer the questions that follow.
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Name the parts labelled with letters.
50. Apart from hearing, how else are the mammalian ears important to the
animals?
51. How useful are the ears to a deaf person?

52. What happens when sound waves reach the eardrum?
53. How useful is the eardrum in the ear?
54. What special name is given to the three small bones in the ear?
55. In which way are the ossicles of use in the ear?
56. Which part in the ear is responsible for body balancing?

57. Mention two parts in your ear that are not responsible for hearing.
58. How useful are the hairs in the ear important?
59. How is the function of the pinna different from that of the auditory canal?
60. What special name is given to the cells that produce ear wax?
61. Apart from trapping dust and other foreign bodies, give one other use of ear
wax.
62. How dangerous is too much wax in the ear?
63. Explain how excess wax is removed from the ear.
64. Mention four diseases of the ear.
65. State any three examples of ear defects.
66. Suggest five ways of caring for the ear.
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67. Why is it dangerous to insert sharp objects into the ear?
8. What are conductors of electricity?
9. Silver is the best conductor of electricity, give the reason why it is not used to make
electricity cables.
10. Why are electric cables commonly made of aluminium?
11. Mention four examples of materials that conduct electricity.
12. If electric wires are metallic and so are the pylons, why doesn’t electricity
shock people who touch the pylons?
13. Identify two examples of materials used to insulate pylons.
14. Give the reason why wood is commonly used to carry overhead cables
instead of metallic pylons.
15. How are conductors of electricity useful in mans daily life?

16. Why does the human body conduct electricity?
17. Why isn’t it advisable to put out electricity fires using water?
18. What first aid would you administer to a person who has been shocked by
electricity?
19. Explain what insulators of electricity are.

20. Mention three examples of materials that are insulators of electricity.
21. Give any two uses of insulators of electricity.

22. Why is distilled water said to be a poor conductor of electricity
23. What is a short circuit?

24. Identify any three situations leading to a short circuit.
25. Mention seven causes of short circuits.
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26. What happens when two live wires get into contact?
27. Suggest six ways of minimizing short circuits.
28. List down four ways in which short circuits are a danger.
29. Identify four signs of short circuits.
30. Why should electrical repairs be done by skilled people?

31. Identify two methods of producing electricity.
32. What is an electric cell?
33. Explain the two types of electric cells.
34. How is a primary cell different from a secondary cell?
35. Identify two examples of primary cells.

36. In which way is a wet cell different from a dry cell?
37. How useful are the following in a simple cell.

- Dilute sulphuric acid,
- carbon rod,
- zinc plate
38. Identify the two factors that affect the working of a wet cell.
39. Explain what an electrolyte is.
40. Cite any three examples of electrolytes
41. Give one advantage of the dry cell over the wet cell.
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42. Give the uses of the following in a dry cell,
- carbon rod,
- electrolyte paste,
- ammonium chloride paste,
- zinc can,
- brass cap.
43. Identify the non-metallic conductor in the dry cell.
44. What causes the leaking of the dry cells as they work?
45. Apart from the dry cell, give one other example of a primary cell.
46. State two examples of secondary cells.
47. How useful is a car battery on a car?
48. Which device charges the car battery in a car?
49. What is a light bulb?

50. State the function of the following parts of a light bulb:
- brass cap
- sealing tube
- coiled filament
- lead wires
- glass envelope
- nitrogen/argon
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51. Mention two energy changes in a light bulb as it works.
52. Why is the filament of a light bulb coiled?
53. Mention the alloy used to make the filament of a light bulb.
54. From which mineral is the above mentioned alloy obtained?

55. How is the filament of the light bulb adapted to its function?
56. Mention the metal used to make the coiled filament.
57. Why is the glass envelope usually made of transparent glass?

58. How is the filament adapted to its function of producing light?
59. Mention two energy changes that occur in light bulb when the circuit is
complete.
60. Identify the two gases commonly used in the incandescent bulb.
61. Why isn’t oxygen used in the light bulb?
62. Mention the type of gas commonly used in light bulbs.
63. State the function of the following parts of torch.

- switch
- bulb
- dry cells
- concave reflector
- cover and spring
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64. Mention any three conditions in which the torch may fail to light.
65. Why isn’t a fuse necessary in a torch?
66. Explain how the coiled filament is similar to a fuse.
67. How are the above mentioned different?
68. Tabithe has a torch that uses 3 dry cells, what is the total voltage of her
torch?
69. Work out the total voltage in Alvin’s radio that uses five dry cells.
70. How many dry cells are needed in a circuit that uses the following number of
dry cells?
71. What do the following colours represent in the three pin plug?
Green blue red
72. List three examples of appliances that must be earthed.

73. Why should the above appliances be earthed?
74. How are these important in a three pin plug?

a) Earth wire
b) live wire
c) Neutral wire
75. Give the importance of these as used devices.
a) Microphone
b) Loud speaker
c) Generator
d) dynamo
e) electric motor.
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76. Give three ways of increasing the power output of a generator.
77. Why is an electric motor taken to be the reverse of a dynamo?
78. How are these transformers useful in electricity?

a) Step-up transformer,
b) Step-down transformer.
79. Give two differences between direct current and alternating current.
80. In four steps, explain how electricity is managed in Uganda.
81. Identify ten uses of electricity.
82. Mention five advantages of using electricity over other forms of energy.
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CROP HUSBANDRY
1. Give the meanings of these terms:
a) Crop
b) Crop husbandry
2. Identify the groups of crops commonly grown by farmers.
3. Briefly explain the following groups of crops:
a) Legumes
b) Cereals
c) Fruits
d) Vegetable crops
e) Root crops
4. What are cereal crops?
5. Mention five examples of cereal crops.
6. Which food value is obtained from cereals?
7. Why are people advised to feed on unpolished cereals these days?
8. Give the meaning of the term ‘legume’.
9. Mention two characteristics of legumes.
10. Outline five examples of legumes.
11. Why is a ground nut plant referred to as a legume?
12. The diagram below shows a root of a plant.
13. Which group of plants have got such structures on their roots?
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14. Name structures marked k
15. Identify the function of part k
16. Which organisms are found in part marked k?
17. How useful are the above mentioned organisms?
18. Why should a farmer inter change his crops with legumes when practicing
crop-rotation?
19. How are legumes important in crop growing?
20. What are fruits?
21. Mention ten examples of fruits.
22. Which food value is commonly obtained from fruits?
23. How is fruit growing an advantage to then community?
24. Briefly explain what vegetables are.
25. Give examples of the following fruits:

a) Leafy vegetables
b) Fruit vegetables
c) Root vegetables
26. Identify two food nutrients obtained from eating vegetables.
27. Explain these:

i) Root crops
ii) Root tubers
28. Mention five examples of root crops grown in Uganda.
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29. In which way are the following crops propagated?
i) Cassava
ii) Sweet potatoes
iii) Carrot
iv) Beet roots
v) Turnips
vi) Radishes
vii) Parsnips
30. What do you understand by the term ‘food path’?
31. Explain the following types of food path:
a) Village food path
b) Town food path
32. What is the first stage of the village food path?
33. Mention six stages of the village food path.
34. Identify the last stage of any food path.

35. Outline three phases of land preparation.
36. In which season do most Ugandan farmers plant their crops?

37. Give the name and function of the following garden tools.
38. Identify the reason why farmers should select good seeds when preparing to
plant new crops.
39. Explain what planting means.

40. Row planting:
a) Meaning
b) Advantages i)
ii)
c) disadvantages
broadcasting
a) Meaning
b) Advantages i)
ii)
c) disadvantages i)
ii)
41. Mention eight ways in which farmers care for the crops in their gardens.
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42. What is gap filling?
43. State three examples of crop growing practices that:

a) Increase plant population in the garden.
b) Reduce plant population in the garden.
44. Give the reason why plants should be given reasonable spaces when planting.
45. Why is it important to water crops?

46. What reason would you give to farmers facing shortage of rain?
47. Explain what weeding means.
48. Weeds can be grouped into perennial and annual weeds. Explain each:
a) Perennial weeds
b) Annual weeds
49. Give examples of each of the above weeds.
50. How are weeds a disadvantage to :

a) Crops in the garden
b) Farmers
51. State any four uses of weeds
52. Suggest any six ways of controlling weeds.
53. Outline five ways of weeding.
54. How can weeds be controlled mechanically?
55. State ways of controlling weeds chemically.
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56. Explain what thinning means.
57. In which four ways is thinning an important aspect of crop husbandry?
58. What is pruning?
59. State any two examples of tools used by farmers when pruning their crops.
60. Mention four ways in which pruning is beneficial.
61. What is staking?
62. State two ways of staking crops in the garden.
63. Identify five examples of crops that should be staked in the garden.
64. Give four ways in which staking is of importance.
65. Why is it important for farmers to apply manure in their gardens?
66. State three methods of applying manure.
67. Identify the types of manure.
68. What is mulching?
69. Give ways in mulching is useful.
70. Explain how mulching:

a) Controls soil erosion
b) Controls weed growth
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c) Maintains soil fertility
d) Retains moisture in the soil
71. Mention five examples of materials that can be used as mulches.

72. State five disadvantages of mulching.
73. What is a crop pest?
74. Mention examples of the following groups of pests:

a) Vermins
b) Bird pests
c) Rodent pests
d) Insect pests
75. Mention the garden pests that attack the following crops:
76. What are post harvest pests?
77. State one example of a storage pest that attacks maize.
78. State ten ways of controlling crop pests.
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79. Identify natural ways of controlling pests in the garden.
80. How can farmers control garden pests without using chemicals?
81. State one biological method of controlling pests.
82. List three examples of crop pests that are destroyed by the following pests.
a) Aphids
b) Cutworms
c) Squirrels
d) Birds
83. Mention the diseases that attack the following:
a) Sweet potatoes
b) Carrots
c) Cassava
d) Sugar cane
e) Beans
f) Maize
g) Wheat
h) Sorghum
i) Ground nuts
84. Identify the types of germs that cause crop diseases.
85. Identify the crops that are affected by the following:
a) Wilting
b) Blights
c) Streaks
d) Mosaics
86. State six way of controlling crop diseases.
87. State one crop affected by each of the following diseases.

a) Ratoon stunting disease
b) Panama wilt disease
c) Cigar end rot
d) Smuts
e) mosaics
POULTRY AND BEE KEEPING

POULTRY KEEPING
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1. Explain these terms
-Poultry -poultry keeping - hen -cock - cockerel -capon -pullet -chick
-incubation -incubator -layers -broilers -dual purpose birds -brooding
brooder -culling -moulting.
2. Why do some people prefer keeping chicken to other animals?

3. Identify five benefits of rearing chicken.
4. What is the difference between a cock and a hen in terms of
a)behavior b) structure
5. Draw a chicken and show these parts –comb –wattle –nape –breast –belly
Shank –spur.
6. Mention four uses of feathers to birds.
7. Identify the four types of feathers.
8. Draw a quill feather and show -quill –shaft –after shaft, vanes.
9. Where on the bird do we find the feathers?
10. What is a type of chicken?
11. Mention three types of chicken.
12. State the types of f chicken breeds.
13. State the difference between exotic chicken breeds and the local ones.
14. Give reasons why some farmers choose to rear local chicken to exotic chicken.
15. Why does Simon a farmer choose to keep exotic chicken to local chicken?
16. Give four reasons why chicken should be fed very well.
17. Why should poultry feeding apparatus be kept clean?
18. Give the reasons why poultry feeding trough should have a spinning handle?
19. Draw the digestive system of a bird and how the gizzard.
20. Mention the systems of poultry keeping.
22. Identify the requirements of a poultry house used for deep litter system.
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23. How useful are these in a poultry house –perches –laying nests –litter –feeding
troughs.
24. Identify the following diseases in chicken: -bacterial –protozoan –viral.
25. Draw an egg and show the yolk, albumen, egg shell, air space, germinal disc, shell
membrane.
26. State the advantages and disadvantages of natural and artificial brooding -
incubation.
27. What is record keeping?
b) Mention the types of records that are kept by poultry farmers.
c) State ways in which farm records can be of importance to a poultry farmer.
BEE KEEPING
1. Give the meanings of the following terms
Apiary, colony,solitary insects, apiculture,social insects,bee hive.
2. Mention five characteristics of a queen bee.
3. What does aqueen bee use for laying eggs?
4. How useful is the queen bee in abee hive.
5. State the characteristic of drone bee.
6. How useful is the drone bee in abee hive.
7. Why are drones killed by the workers and removed from the hive after mating.
8. Which type of bees makes a buzzing sound when flying?
9. State any five roles of worker bees in the hive.
10. Identify one role of a worker be out of the hive.
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11. State the characteristics of worker bees.
12. Why are worker bees regarded as sterile bees?
13. Why do worker bees die after stinging their victims?
14. What enables worker bees to carry pollen from the flowers to their hives?
15. Give the meaning of the word swarming.
16. Identify any reasons why bees swarm.
17. Where does the queen lay its eggs?
18. What special name is given to the larvae of bee?

19. How is propolis useful in a hive?
20. Mention two examples of each of the following hives.

a) Modern hives
b) Traditional hives.
21. State two advantages of modern hives over tradition hives.
22. Give the advantage of the top bar hive over other hives.
23. How useful is the queen excluded in a modern hive.
24. Give the meaning of the term sitting a hive.
25. Identify any two qualities of a good place for putting a hive.
26. What is stocking a hive?
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27. State three ways in which farmers can stock a hive.
28. Identify the three occasions when a bee keeper should visit a hive.
29. What is harvesting honey?

30. Why should the harvesting of honey be done in the evening?
31. Mention the requirements of a person ready to harvest honey.
32. Give the function of each of those items to honey harvester.
33. How useful is a smoker to a honey harvester.
34. Mention one condition when the feeding of bees is necessary.
35. Briefly explain how one can feed bees.
36. Cite four examples of bee pests. Or enemies.
37. Why do bees visit flowers?
38. What do you understand by extracting honey?
39. State any three methods of extracting honey.
40. Give the uses of the following as gotten from bee hives.
Honey,
bee wax
pollen,
propolis.
41. Mention four ways in which bees are useful to man.
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Which food valve is obtained from honey, pollen?
42. State any two examples of products got from bees wax.
KEEPNG CATTLE
1. Mention three types of cattle.
2. What is a breed of cattle?
3. Mention three types of breeds of cattle.
4. Name five exotic dairy breeds of cattle.
5. Identify five exotic beef breeds.
6. Give four examples of local breeds of cattle.
7. Identify four differences between local breeds of cattle and exotic breeds of cattle.
8. What is breeding as used in cattle keeping?
9. Mention four types of breeding as used in cattle.
10. Define these terms

a) Heat period
b) insemination/service
c) Artificial insemination
d) natural insemination.
11. Mention two advantages and disadvantages of natural insemination.
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12. Advantages and disadvantages of artificial insemination.
13. Explain the meaning of these

a) Dehorning
b) castration
c) deworming
d) Vaccination
14. What is steaming up?
15. Give advantages of steaming up cattle.
16. What is parturition(meaning)
17. What is the meaning of colostrums?
18. Give advantages of colostrums.
19. What is milking?
20. State the two methods of milking cattle.
21. Explain each of the above mentioned methods
22. In four steps explain how one can obtain clean milk.
23. How are the following useful on a dairy farm?

a) Strip cup
b) lactometer
24. Suggest four methods of preserving milk.
25. Explain these:
a) Whole milk
b) Processed milk
c) Homogenized milk
d) Pasteurized milk
e) Skimmed milk
f) Fortified milk
g) Condensed milk
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h) Powdered milk
26. Write U.H.T. in full as used in preservation.
27. Apart from milk, identify any other food stuff preserved using pasteurization.
28. Why is Louis Pasteur remembered in Science?
29. Name any five examples of milk products.

30. Fill this table with cattle diseases.
Viral Bacterial protozoan
8.SCIENCE AT HOME
1. We learn Science at school and then apply it in our homes. Explain ten ways in
which we apply the science learnt in our homes.
2. Give four ways in which we can make dirty water safe for use at home.
3. Outline the steps taken to make water fit for use with the following:
a) Decanting
b) Filtration
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c) Distillation
4. Why isn’t water prepared by filtration good for drinking?
5. Apart from making water clean for use, how else is filtration
6. Study this: water filtration
Name x___________ y__________________

7. List down any three materials that can be used to filter water.
8. Explain what decantation of water means.
9. Why should we boil water for drinking?
10. Give the reason why boiled water is good for drinking.
11. Apart from boiling, how else can water be made safe for drinking?
12. Explain how chlorination makes water safe for drinking.
13. Mention four examples of chemicals used to treat water.
14. Give the reason why distilled water is safe for drinking?
15. Why isn’t distilled water good for drinking?
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16. Explain what water contamination means.
17. State ten ways in which water gets contaminated
18. Outline six examples of water impurities.
19. What special term is given to diseases that spread through drinking contaminated
water?
20. State ten examples of such diseases mentioned above.
21. Why should we wash clothing? Give three reasons.
22. Outline the steps that should be taken one if one is to wash clothes well.
23. Give the importance of each of the following steps when washing clothing.
a) Sorting
b) Soaking
c) Washing
d) Rinsing
e) Wringing
f) Drying
24. Why should clothes be ironed?
25. Briefly explain how salt can be made from local materials.
THEME: Human Health
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11. FOOD AND NUTRITION
1. Give the meanings of the following terms:
Food _____________________________________________________________________
Nutrition _________________________________________________________________
Feeding __________________________________________________________________
Food values/nutrients ________________________________________________________
A balanced diet _____________________________________________________________
2. Identify three reasons why people eat food.
i) ____________________________________________________________________
ii) ___________________________________________________________________
iii) ____________________________________________________________________
3. Explain four ways in which food is useful in ones body.
i) _______________________________________________________________________
ii) _______________________________________________________________________
iii) ______________________________________________________________________
iv) ____________________________________________________________________
4. Mention four reasons why people should eat a balanced diet.
5. List down the seven classes of food in a balanced diet.
6. Write the following in full as regards food and nutrition:

3G’s i) _________________________ ii)_______________________________
iii)___________________________
5H’s i) _________________________ ii)_____________________________
iii)_________________________ iv)_______________________________
v) ______________________________
7. The table below shows foods, their uses and their related deficiency diseases. Fill it
correctly.
Food value Uses Sources Deficiency

disease
Proteins i) promote growth Milk, eggs, fish, beans,

ground nuts, soya
ii)repair worn out beans, peas, beef,
tissues chicken,
kwashiorkor
iii) essential in the
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formation of enzymes
and hormones
Carbohydrates Provide energy cassava, yams, sweet

potato, irishpotato,
Jam, honey, wheat, i)__________
rice, sorghum , maize
8. What are vitamins?
9. How are vitamins useful in one’s body?
10. Fill in the table below correctly.

Vitami Uses Sources Deficiency
n
A Proper eye sight i)_________________ Poor night vision
B1 ii)__________________
B2 iii)__________________
iv)________________
Beriberi
B1 _____________________ i)___________________
ii)___________________
iii)____________________
iv)_________________
B2 Pellagra
_____________________
C Promotes healing of Fresh fruits Scurvy
wounds
D Helps in the absorption Sunshine

of calcium i)___________________
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ii)___________________
iii)__________________
iv)________________
E -Boost immune system
-antioxidant
-reproductive cell
formation
K Promotes healing of Poor clotting of blood
wounds
11. Explain what mineral salts are.
12. How are mineral salts useful in one’s body?
13. List down six examples of mineral salts that are very essential for the proper
functioning of the body.
14. Why are mineral salts grouped under protective foods?
15. Explain these terms:

a) Malnutrition
b) Deficiency disease
16. What causes Kwashiorkor?
17. List down five signs and symptoms of a child with kwashiorkor.
18. What advice can you give to a mother whose baby has got kwashiorkor?
19. What causes marasmus?
20. Identify one other term that can be used to mean marasmus.
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21. List down five signs and symptoms of marasmus.
22. How best can one treat a child with marasmus.
23. Mention one sign and symptom of each of the follow:

Anaemia
Goitre
Scurvy
Rickets
24. What is breastfeeding?
25. Why is breast milk considered the best food for babies?
26. Give the reasons why breast milk is of advantage to the following:
a) Baby
b) The mother
c) The family
27. List down the disadvantages of breastfeeding to:
a) The baby
b) Mother
28. What is bottle feeding?
29. Mention four situations in which bottle-feeding is necessary.
30. List down four disadvantages of bottle feeding.
31. Explain what vulnerable groups of people are.

32. List down five examples of vulnerable groups of people.
33. Why are pregnant women called vulnerable groups of people?
34. Why do pregnant women need the following:

a) Carbohydrates
b) Proteins
c) Calcium
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d) Iron
e) Vitamins
35. What is the best food for babies?
36. What is weaning?
37. Why should weaning babies be given mashed foods?
38. Give the reasons why weaning children should be given food many times a day.
39. Give the reason why breast feeding mothers should take plenty of the following:
a) Fluids
b) Calcium
c) Proteins
40. Who is a sick person?
41. Why are the sick considered as vulnerable people?
42. Give the importance of the following to the sick.
a) Plenty of fluids
b) Vitamins and mineral salts
c) Proteins
43. Why should the elderly be given plenty of foods rich in proteins?
44. Give the reason why the elderly should be given well done meat.
45. Why do the elderly usually suffer from indigestion as constipation?
46. Explain what food taboos are.
47. Mention five examples of food taboos.
48. Identify any three disadvantages of food taboos.
49. Why should malaria victims take plenty of leafy vegetables?
50. Why are girls and women advised to take plenty of foods rich in iron in their
menstruation periods
10.ACCIDENTS AND FIRST AID

1. Give the meanings of the following terms.
a) Accident
ii) Casualty
iii) first aid

iv) first aid box
v) first aid kit
vi) first aider
vii) burns
viii) scalds
ix) degrees of burn
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x) fever
xi) convulsion
xii) fainting
xiii) foreign body
xiv) near drowning
xv) drowning
xvi) sprain
xvii) strain
xviii) fracture
xix) dislocation
2. Mention six causes of accidents at school, on the way, and at home.
3. List down seven common accidents likely to happen at home on the way, and at
school.
4. Mention the qualities of a good first aider.
5. Point out four responsibilities of a first aider.
6. Why should we give first aid to casualties?
7. Give the main reason for giving first aid to casualties.

8. Write these in full as used in accidents and first aid
i) A.B.C.
ii) 3B’s
iii) C.P.R.,
9. How is a first aider different from a first aid kit?
10. Outline ten examples of items found in a first aid box.
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11. Give the uses of the following when giving first aid.
Gauze, plaster, bandage, pair of scissors, safety pin, antiseptics, painkillers
12. Give any three functions of a first aid box.
13. Why is a first aid box usually painted white?

14. Mention seven common places where we find a first aid box.
15. Give the meaning of the term fainting.

16. Identify the major cause of fainting.
17. List down seven conditions or situations that lead to fainting.
18. Briefly explain how first aid is administered to a person who has fainted.
19. In four steps, explain the first aid given to someone who has fainted.
20. Give the reason why a fainting victim should be made to lie on the back with
the head lower than other parts?
21. Why should we give a sweet drink to a person recovering from fainting?
22. Why should the person be put in a recovery position when recovering from
fainting?
23. Mention any two diseases that can easily lead one to fainting.
24. How is near drowning different from drowning?
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25. Why is it advisable to give first aid to a nearly drowned victim?
26. Why shouldn’t we give first aid to a drowned victim?
27. Mention seven places where near drowning can occur.
28. Briefly explain the first aid administered to a near drowning victim.
29. In four steps, list the procedure of giving first aid to a person that has nearly
drowned.
30. Suggest six ways of preventing accidents related to near drowning and
drowning.
31. How is a fever different from a convulsion?
32. When do we say that one has got a fever?
33. Mention any seven diseases that present with fevers.
34. Briefly explain how one can help a victim with a fever.
35. In four sentences, list down the steps taken to help one with a fever.
36. How is tepid sponging useful to someone with a fever?
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37. Briefly explain how first aid is administered to a convulsing victim.
38. Explain the above issue in four steps.
39. Why do we put a hard object for example a spoon across the convulsing
victim’s mouth?
40. Why is it dangerous to make a convulsing victim drink anything for example
herbs?
41. What causes convulsions?
42. How are burns different from scalds?
43. Explain how burns are similar to scalds.
44. List down fie causes of burns.
45. Mention six causes of scalds.
46. What is the general first aid for burns and scalds?
47. Explain the meaning of ‘degrees of burns’.
48. List down the three degrees of burns.
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49. Explain each of the following.
First degree burn,
second degree burn,
third degree burn
50. Why should plenty of fluids be given to victims of burns and scalds?
51. Give the reason why things like sugar, ghee, cow dung should not be put on a
burn.
52. Suggest seven ways in which we can minimize accidents related to burns and
scalds.
53. What first aid do u give to a person who is nose bleeding?
54. Mention two causes of nose bleeding.
55. Outline the procedure of giving first aid for a nose bleeding victim.
56. Give the meaning of ‘foreign bodies’ as used in first aid
57. Mention seven examples of foreign bodies that get into our bodies,
58. Point out five examples of natural body openings through which foreign pass
to get into our bodies.
59. What first aid do you give to someone with dust in the eye?
60. Outline the procedure to follow when administering first aid for foreign bodies
in the eye.
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61. Explain how you can assist someone with the following materials in the ear.
Insect, stone.
62. What advice would you give to a mother whose infant has pushed a bead in
one nostril?
63. What advice would you give to your friend who has got a foreign body in one
nostril?
64. In which way can one help an infant that has got food stuck in the throat?
65. How can you help your friend that is choking on pop corns?
66. In which way can you as a P6 pupil help an adult that is choking on food?
67. What is the meaning of ‘choking’?
68. Suggest ways of preventing accidents related to choking.
69. How can we protect children from getting accidents associated with foreign
bodies?
70. How is a sprain different from a strain?
71. Identify four causes of sprains and strains.
72. List down four signs and symptoms of sprains and strains.
73. Outline the steps taken when administering first aid for sprains and strains.
74. Explain what a dislocation is.
75. Mention the causes of dislocations.
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76. Identify the signs and symptoms of a dislocation.
77. List down the steps taken when helping a victim with a dislocation.
78. What is a fracture?
79. Mention the two major types of fractures.
80. Draw diagrams showing the following types of fractures.

Simple, compound
81. Write brief notes on these,
greenstick fracture
comminuted fracture.
82. Mention the causes of fractures.
83. Outline four signs and symptoms of fractures,
84. Explain how first aid for the following fractures is administered.
Open fracture
Closed fracture
85. How useful are the following when giving first aid.
Splints
Bandage
Arm sling
Tourniquet
86. Briefly explain how first aid for a snake bite is given.
87. Explain the above procedure in four steps.
88. What is the major aim of providing first aid to a snake bite victim?
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89. Why do we tie a pressure bandage between the bitten part and the heart
when giving such first aid?
90. Why should snake bite victims be reassured a quick recovery?
91. Why is it advisable for a dislocated victim to prevent further movement?
11. SANITATION
1. What is sanitation?
2. Mention five element s of sanitation
3. How is proper disposal of faeces and urine very important in a home?
4. What do we use of the proper disposal of faeces?
5. What is a latrine?
6. Mention three types of latrines.
7. Identify six characteristics of an ordinary conventional pit latrine.
8. Why should a conventional pit latrine have the following :

a) walls and doors
b) roof
c) a lid
d) a hole that is big enough
9. Write VIP in full as used in sanitation
10. Mention four special features of a VIP latrine.
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11. Give the reason why a VIP latrine should have:
a) no lid
b) spiral walls without a door
c) vent pipe
d) screen
12. Why are the following terms used on a VIP latrine?

a) Ventilated
b) b) improved
13. Identify three factors to consider when one is to construct a pit latrine.
14. How is an ordinary pit latrine different form a pit latrine?
15. How does a VIP latrine control diarrhoeal diseases?
16. How far should a latrine be from: a) Shop b) hotel c) hospital

d)class room e) water source
17. Why should a latrine be constructed on the lower side of the water source?
18. What is ECOSAN in full?
19. Explain what an ECOSAN latrine is.
20. What is done with the following after removing them from ECOSAN latrine:
i) Urine ii) faeces
21. Explain how the ECOSAN latrine is different from other latrines.
22. Give the reason why faeces are treated before being removed from an ECOSAN
latrine.
23. Why does one sprinkle ash on the faeces after using the ECOSAN latrine?
24. Mention any ways of maintaining latrines.
25. State six ways of cleaning pit latrines.
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26. In which two ways in smoking pit latrines very important?
27. Below is a picture of a cesspool emptier.
How useful is the cesspool emptier?
28. The diagram below shows a picture of a potty.
How is a potty useful in a home?
29. State two ways the potty effectively in a home.
30. Briefly explain how water borne toilet work.
31. The diagram below shows a water closet.
Name the parts labeled with letters:
32. Why are toilets mainly found in urban areas?
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Give the uses of the following parts of a toilet.
a) handle
b) water tank
c) seat
d) seat cover
e)bowl
f) pipe to septic tank
33. In four sentences explain how water borne toilet is used effectively.
34. Identify any four problems associated with using water borne toilets.
12. PRIMARY HEALTH CARE
1. What is Primary Health care?
2. Mention eight elements of Primary Health care.
3. Which element of Primary Health care is concerned with the following?

a) Brushing the teeth
b) Helping accident victims
c) Preventing alcohol and drug abuse
d) curbing deficiency diseases
e) controlling immunisablediseaeses
f) general health for mothers and their babies.
g) Controlling population growth
4. Write these in full:
a) C.C.D
b) C.D.D.
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c) M.C.H.C.
d) E.H.C.
5. Mention any two services provided to mothers under maternal and child health care.
6. Give one reason why mothers should go for antenatal care.
7. State any four activities done under the element of water and sanitation.
8. How important is immunization as an element of Primary Health care?
9. Write down five principles of Primary Health care.
10. State five responsibilities of each of the following in Primary Health care.
a) Individual
b) Family
c) Community
11. What do you understand by community hygiene?
12. Give five ways in which community hygiene can be maintained.
13. Explain what a healthy ‘lifestyle’ is.
14. Identify any five ways in which one can lead a healthy lifestyle.
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15. In which five ways are regular exercises important to one’s body?
16. Give four ways in which sleep is vital to the human body.
17. Identify three ways in which a balanced diet significant in one’s life.
18. Who are ‘people with special needs’?
19. Identify five groups of people categorized under people with special needs.
20. Write P.W.D.’s in full.

21. Who are the P.W.D.’s?
22. With examples, explain these three categories of disabilities.

a) Sensory disability
b) Mental disability
c) Physical disability
23. Identify five major causes of disabilities.
24. State two ways of caring for each of the following:

a) The blind
b) The deaf
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c) The lame
25. How are crutches helpful to people with disabled lower limbs?
4. ALCOHOL SMOKING AND DRUGS

ALCOHOL
1. Give the meaning of the following

b) Alcohol
c) alcoholic drink
d) Alcoholism
e) alcoholic
f) drug
g) tolerance to alcohol
h) fermentation
i) distillation
2. Why is alcohol regarded as a drug?
3. Mention two types of alcohol.
4. Explain these
Methanol (methyl alcohol)
Ethanol (ethyl alcohol)
5. State two effects of ethanol once taken.
6. Outline ten examples of alcoholic drinks.
7. Mention two methods of producing alcohol.

8. List down four examples of alcohol produced by distillation.
9. Mention five examples of fruits used in the preparation of alcohol.
10. State atleast five examples of cereals used in preparing alcohol.
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11. Which micro organisms are used in the fermentation process?
12. Point out the fungus that breweries use in the preparation of beer.
13. Briefly explain the process of distillation of when preparing alcohol.
14. In four sentences, explain how alcohol is prepared using the distillation
method.
15. List five examples of drinks prepared using the distillation method.
16. The diagram below shows a distillation apparatus.
17. State the processes at K __________________ L ________________

18. Why is tube W made of copper?
19. Why is the tube coiled at L?
20. Give the importance of the cold water at L.
21. What do the arrows at J represent?

22. Which scientific substance is given to the fluid at M?
23. Why is the first alcohol to be collected at M more concentrated than the one
collected later?
24. Apart from preparation of alcohol, how else is the is the distillation apparatus
used by man?
25. Study the diagram below( laboratory distillation apparatus)
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Name the process at m and n
26. How useful is the cold water flowing in at n?
27. Explain how the heat is useful in this process.

28. List down ten uses of alcohol.
29. Identify ten reasons why people take alcohol.
30. List down five factors for promoting alcoholism.
31. Mention five immediate effects of alcohol to an individual.
32. State five long term effects of alcohol consumption to an individual.
33. Which liver disease is associated with alcohol consumption?

34. Give five ways in which alcohol consumption is can be a problem to the
consumer.
35. In which five ways is alcohol a problem to each the following?

a) Family
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b) Community
36. Why is it dangerous for a pregnant woman to consume alcohol?
37. How does alcohol affect the unborn baby?
38. Mention four laws in Uganda governing alcohol consumption.
39. Which law on alcohol protects the following?
40. How can you as a school going child keep away from alcohol and its related
dangers?
41. What advice would you give to a friend who abuses alcohol to quit the habit?
SMOKING
42. What do you understand by these?
i) Smoking
ii) active smoker
iii) active smoking
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iv) passive smoking
v) passive smoker
vi) first hand smoke
vii) second hand smoke.
43. Give three ways in which people use tobacco products.
44. State three ways in which nicotine is taken into the body.
45. Outline ten reasons why people smoke.
46. Mention the three dangerous substances found in tobacco smoke.
47. State the following

i) The addictive substance found in tobacco smoke
ii) The dangerous gas found in tobacco smoke
iii) The cancer causing agent in tobacco smoke
48. Give the meanings of these as used in the study of drugs.
a) Nicotine
b) Carbon monoxide
c) Tar
49. Mention six effects of smoking to active smokers.
50. Outline any three body parts damaged by tobacco smoke.

51. Identify the impact of nicotine in the body.
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52. How does smoking affect the heart?
53. Mention the heart disease caused by smoking.
54. Explain how smoking affects the lungs.
55. Apart from lung cancer, mention two other diseases of the lungs caused by
smoking.
56. Explain three ways in which tobacco smoking affects non smokers.
57. Why is smoking in public dangerous?
58. When does a person become an active smoker?

59. Give five reasons why it is dangerous for a pregnant woman to smoke.
60. State two ways in which smoke affects a foetus when a pregnant woman
smokes.
61. What advice would you give to a friend who smokes in order to quit the habit.
62. Give three ways in which one can avoid smoking.
63. State four laws governing tobacco usage in Uganda.
DRUGS
64. What is a drug?
65. What special term is given to a substance that changes the physical and
mental state of the body?
66. Explain the following:
a) Essential drugs
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b) Drugs of dependency
ESSENTIAL DRUGS
67. State three uses of essential drugs.
68. Identify three characteristics of essential drugs.
69. Outline ten examples of essential drugs.
70. State any four ways in which essential drugs area administered.
71. Write down ten examples of anti malarial drugs.
72. List down ten groups of drugs used in Uganda.
73. State two roles of each of these.

a) N.D.A.
b) N.M.S.
74. What are laboratory drugs?
75. Mention the characteristics of laboratory drugs.
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76. In which five ways are laboratory drugs different from traditional drugs?
77. What are traditional drugs?
78. Mention five characteristics of traditional drugs.
79. State five examples of traditional drugs.
80. Mention two disadvantages of traditional drugs.
81. What is a drug prescription?

82. Mention five important pieces of information found on a drug prescription.
83. Identify any five factors considered before a drug prescription is made for a
patient.
84. Give four ways in which a drug prescription is of importance.
85. State four dangers of taking drugs that are not prescribed.
86. Explain how an over dose is different from an under dose.
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87. How dangerous is:
a) An over dose
b) An under dose
88. Study the diagram below( tin of medicine)
What special name is given to the information on the tin above?

89. How is drug abuse different from drug misuse?
90. Mention six ways in which drugs are abused and misused.
DRUGS OF DEPENDENCY
91. Explain these:
i) Drugs of dependency
ii) Drug dependence
iii) Sedatives
iv) Stimulants
v) Recreational drugs
vi) Narcotics
92. Mention ten examples of commonly abused drugs.
93. Why do some people depend on drugs?
94. State five excuses people give for abusing drugs.
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95. Identify the effects of drug abuse to an individual.
96. Give three ways in which drug abuse affects the family.
97. Suggest any three ways in which one can help a person that is addicted to
harmful drugs.
98. Mention five important points to note if one is to store drugs safely.
99. Why should drugs be kept out of the reach of children?
100. Give the reason why drugs should be kept in a cool dry place.
101. Why is it dangerous to put liquid medicine in bottles of soda?
THEME: Managing changes in the Environment
10. TYPES OF CHANGES IN THE ENVIRONMENT

1. Give your meaning of the term change
______________________________________________________________________
2. There are three types of changes i) the environment
A) PHYSICAL CHANGE
3. What is a physical change?
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4. Mention three characteristics of a physical change
5. State five example of physical changes
B) CHEMICAL CHANGES
6. Explain what you understand by chemical change?
7. Identify three characteristics of chemical changes
8. List five examples of chemical changes
B) BIOLOGICAL CHANGES
9. Give the meaning of biological change
_______________________________________________________________________
10. Mention the characteristics of a biological change
____________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________
11. State six examples of biological changes in:
a) Animals
b) Plants
12. Identify the type of change that occurs when

b) An egg hatches __________________________________________________________
c) When a raw egg is boiled____________________________________________________
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d) When an egg drops off a table to the floor the it breaks
_______________________________________________________________________
13. Identify the differences between a physical change and a chemical change.
_______________________________________________________________________
14. How are biological changes similar to chemical changes?
_______________________________________________________________________
15. “All biological changes are chemical changes but not all chemical changes are
biological changes” support the statement.
______________________________________________________________________
16. State four examples of good changes made by man.
_______________________________ ____________________________________
_______________________________ ___________________________________
17. List five examples of disastrous changes made by man
18. Identify five changes in the environment that affect man, other animals and
plants.
19. Suggest ways in which man has managed the above made changes.
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MUSCULO- SKELETAL SYSTEM

1. Give two ways in which a skeleton is useful to a mammal.

3. Identify the longest bone in the human body.

6. Explain how the knee is different from the shoulder joint.

7. Which joint enables you to nod your head?

13. State five disorders of the skeleton.

14. What do these mean?

ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM

3. In which way is geothermal electricity different from thermal electricity?

THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM

b) How does food move through the gullet to the stomach?

a) Why doesn’t digestion of cooked starch continue in the stomach?

14. What are enzymes?

15. Identify two conditions in which enzymes work

b) Which two enzymes act on food in the stomach?

18. a) Identify two juices that work in the duodenum

21. a) What are the “villi”?

2. Where does respiration in animals take place?

5. Identify the end product of respiration.

8. What is the importance of respiration to the body?

9. How useful are the cilia in the nose?

10. Why isn’t it advisable to breathe through the nose?

12. Why is the trachea made of rings of cartilage?

13. Where does gaseous exchange take place?

14. Explain how breathing is different from respiration?

15. Explain five things that happen as you breathe in.

16. What happens to the following during inhalation?

GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT

3. How long is the gestation period of a woman?

6. Mention five signs of pregnancy in women.

9. How is the umbilical cord useful during pregnancy?

10. How different is an embryo from a foetus?

11. How are teenage pregnancies dangerous?

13. Write AIDS in full.

15. Who started PIASCY?

17. Why was PIASCY started?

18. What are the benefits of PIASCY?

RESOURCES IN THE ENVIRONMENT

1. Give the meaning of the following with three examples on each

2. State any one reason why alloys are made.

3. List down two examples of alloys.

4. Identify ten uses of minerals to man.

5. What is the meaning of the following terms?

8. Mention the causes of environmental degradation.

9. Outline one cause of environmental degradation.

2. Mention four differences between plants and animals.

3. How are non flowering plants different from living things?

4. Identify the two major groups of plants

8. Name the plant above.

5. Name the plant in the diagram.

How does it reproduce?

22. Identify three uses of roots to plants.

27. Name parts labeled a, b, c,

29. Identify ways in which roots are useful to man.

30. Mention four types of stems

34. Why do some plants climb others?

35. Give three ways in which plants climb others.

36. Identify these methods of climbing

37. Mention five examples of climbing plants.

40. What are underground stems?