Foundation I Science

Assignment 1 Scientific Enquiry Skills

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Level Foundation I
Subject Science
Assignment 1
Duration 40 minutes
Total Marks 25 marks

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Read the instructions carefully

● Answer all questions.

● Use a black or dark blue pen. You may use an HB pencil for any diagrams or graphs.

● Write your answer to each question in the space provided.

● You may use a calculator.

● You should show all your working and use appropriate units.

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Question 1 (9 marks)

Ada investigated the relationship between the volume of a beaker containing a

burning candle and the time for which it continued to burn.

She set up the apparatus as shown in the diagram below.

Ada lit the candle and placed a 100 cm3 beaker over it. She used a stopclock to
find out how long the candle burned. She then repeated the experiment with
beakers of volumes 500 cm3 and 1 000 cm3.

The burning times for the candles are shown on the stopclocks in the diagrams
below.

Record the times in the table.

beaker volume / cm3 time /s

100

500

1000 [3]

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(a) Identify the independent variable in this investigation.

………………………………………………………………………………………………..….………… [1]

(b) Identify the dependent variable in this investigation.

…………………………………………………………………………………………..……….………… [1]

(c) Identify one variable to be controlled to ensure that it is a fair test.

……………………………………………………………………………………………..…….………… [1]

(d) What is the relationship between the volume of the beaker and the burning
time of the candle?

…………………………………………………………………………………………..……….……………..

……………………………………………………………………………………..…………….………… [1]

(e) Ada repeats the experiment two more times and calculates the averages.
Explain why the experiment is repeated.

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……………………………………………………………………………..…………………….………… [2]

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Question 2 (8 marks)

Kai is doing an experiment and needs to make measurements. He needs to

measure the temperature of the water, the volume of the water in the beaker,
the circumference of the beaker, and the depth of the water in the beaker.

(a) Below is a diagram of the thermometer. Record the temperature.

temperature = ……………………………………… [1]

(b) The following diagram of the apparatus used to measure the volume of the
water.

(i) What is the name of this piece of apparatus?

……………………………………………………………………….. [1]

(ii) What is the volume of the water?

……………………………………………………………………….. [1]

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(c) The string is wrapped five times around the beaker and marked as shown
in the diagram below.

The string is held against a metre rule as shown in

(i) Give the length of the string between the two marks.
Show your working.

length = ………………………………. [2]

(ii) Calculate the circumference of the beaker (the circumference is the

distance around the beaker).
Show your working.

circumference = ………………………………. [2]

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(d) A rule is placed beside the beaker, as shown in the diagram below.

Write down the depth of the water in the beaker.

…..……………………………………………………………………………………………….………… [1]

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Question 3 (5 marks)

Angelique’s pet mouse has baby mice.

Pierre says that grouping together helps the baby mice to keep warm.

Angelique suggests that they plan an investigation to test Pierre’s idea.

They use eight test-tubes filled with hot water to represent eight baby mice.
Angelique labels one tube A and stands it on its own.
She labels another tube B and places it in the middle of six other tubes all
labelled C.

Pierre and Angelique obtain these results.

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(a) Describe two patterns shown by these results.

1. …….….……………………………………………………………………………………………………

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2. ………………………….….………………………………………………………………………………

…………………………………………………………………………………………………………… [2]

(b) Describe how these results could be displayed to make these patterns
more obvious.

…………………….……………………………………………………………………………………………

…………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. [1]

(c) Angelique says that one result is anomalous.

Which result is anomalous?

tube ………………….

time ………………… minutes

(d) Explain how you know the result is anomalous.

…………………….……………………………………………………………………………………………

…………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. [2]

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Question 4 (3 marks)

Tolu wants to determine if the height of the ramp affects how far his toy car will
move along a table. He designs an experiment and carries it out. He uses a pile
of books and a chopping board to make the ramp.

The following is the table of his results.

height of distance travelled / cm

ramp / cm trial 1 trial 2 trial 3 average
5 20 22 21 21
10 40 42 38 40
15 60 58 62 60

20 82 83 78 81

25 100 98 99 99

(a) Plot the results of the average distance against the height of the ramp on
the grid on the next page. [2]

(b) Draw the line of best fit. [1]

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 average
distance
travelled
/ cm

height / cm

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