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He burns the food and uses the energy released to heat water.
test-tube
thermometer
water
needle
burning food
(a) Complete the sentence about the energy transferred when the food burns.
The energy in the food is transferred into light, sound and
energy. [2]
(b) Oliver uses the same volume of water in the test-tube for each food he burns.
This makes it a fair test.
Tick () three more things Oliver does to make it a fair test.
always starts with cold water at 10 °C
mixes and burns all the food together
burns the same mass of food
keeps the burning food the same distance from the test-tube
uses the same type of food
writes down the colour of the food
[2]
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(c) Oliver burns each food.
He measures the increase in temperature of the water.
Here are his results.
increase in temperature
food of water
in °C
bread 6
cereal 8
marshmallow 10
biscuit 12
popcorn 3
Oliver draws a bar chart.
12
10
8
increase in
temperature 6
of water
in °C
4
0
bread cereal marshmallow biscuit popcorn
food
One of the bars is wrong.
Write down which bar is wrong. [1]
(d) Which food contains the most energy?
Give a reason for your answer.
food
reason
[1]
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