BETTER EDUCATIONAL CONSULTANCY

PRE-PRIMARY LEAVING EXAMINATION

SPOT ON SET THREE, 2022
SCIENCE
Time Allowed: 2 hours 15 minutes

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Candidate’s Name:
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Candidate’s Signature:
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School Random No. ……………………………………………………………………….
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District ID: …………………………………………………………………..
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Read the following instructions carefully: FOR EXAMINER’S USE ONLY
1. Do not write your school of district name
anywhere on this paper. Qn. No MARK EXR’S NO.

2. This paper has two sections: A and B. 1 – 10

Section A has 40 questions and section B has
15 questions. 11– 20

21 – 30
3. Answer all questions. All answers to both
sections A and B must be written in the 31 – 40
spaces provided.
41 – 43
4. All answers must be written using a blue or black
ball point pen or ink. Any work written in pencil 44 – 46
will not be marked.
47 – 49
5. Unnecessary changes in your work and handwriting50 – 52
that cannot be easily read may lead to loss of marks.
53 – 55
6. Do not fill anything in the table indicated:
TOTAL
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SECTION A: (40 marks)

1. Name the common cause of scalds in children.
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2. Suggest one method of preserving cassava for at least one month.
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3. State the importance of the enzyme found in saliva during digestion.
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4. What form of energy is stored in the food we eat?
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5. Suggest the best way of separating iron filings from sawdust.
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6. Name the dangerous substance found in tobacco.
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7. How is a housefly able to spread disease?
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8. What good health habit should be practised after visiting a toilet?
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9. How does a chameleon differ from a bat in terms of reproduction?
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10. How long is the incubation period for turkeys?
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11. What is the role of a drone bee in a bee hive?
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12. Apart from being sticky, state any other reason why clay soil is good for modelling
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13. Name the part of a plant that carries out photosynthesis.

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14. Without mentioning Omasum and Abomasum, name any other one of the stomachs
of ruminant animals.
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15. To which class of simple machines does a ladder belong?
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16. Why is tepid sponging recommended when giving first aid to a patient with a fever?
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17. Which disease is controlled by providing food rich in iron to the patient?
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18. Why can’t sound travel in a vacuum?
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19. State one way floods affect farmers in a community.
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20. What is puberty?
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21. State the role of water in preparation of Oral Rehydration Solution.
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22. Why are egg laying mammals referred to as being preimitive?
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23. Identify the method of harvesting wood illustrated in the diagram below.

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24. Mention one mineral salt that is lost during severe cases of diarrhoea.
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25. When sugar is mixed in water it disappears. What scientific word is used to mean
the disappearance?
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26. How do bees protect themselves from enemies?
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27. Name one sexually transmitted disease that is caused by a virus.
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28. Why is a biogas digester tightly sealed?
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29. Which structures enable maximum absorption of food in the ileum?
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30. In the diagram below, draw the image of the object through a plane mirror.

31. Name any immunisable water borne disease.

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32. Name any one device that changes electric energy to sound energy.
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33. State one effect a poor sitting posture on the health of an individual.
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34. State any one way in which farmers can promote easy mating in sheep.
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35. The diagram below is of a mango. Give the method of its dispersal.

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36. Give one importance of keeping rabbits to a home.
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37. What type of skeleton do rats have?
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38. List any one reason why lightning is seen before thunder.
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39. State one way grease is important in a moving chain of a bicycle.
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40. Write the component of soil that helps micro-organisms to live in the soil.
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Section B

41. Air is a mixture of gases.

(a) Which component of air occupies 0.03% of the atmosphere?
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(b) Write down two examples of rare gases.
(i) ______________________________________________________________________
(ii) ______________________________________________________________________
(c) Which component of air is fixed into the soil by legumes?
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42(a) State any two ways how animals depend on plants.
(i) _________________________________________________________________
(ii) _________________________________________________________________
(b) State any one way how non living things depend on living things.
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(c) State any one way how plants depend on animals.
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43(a) Mention one use of male gametes in a living organism.
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(b) In which part of a flower are male gametes stored?
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(c) How are the following propagated?
(i) sweet potatoes
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(ii) sisal
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44(a) State the major function of red blood cells in a human body.
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(b) Give two reasons why blood from the heart is first circulated to the lungs before it is
pumped to other parts of the body.
(i) ______________________________________________________________________
(ii) ______________________________________________________________________
(c) Name the pigment in the red blood cells that absorbs oxygen.
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45. The diagram shows two pulleys. Use it to answer the questions that follow.

(a) Identify the types of pulleys marked A and B.

(i) A:____________________________________________________________________
(ii) B:____________________________________________________________________
(b) Give one advantage of using pulley A over using pulley B.
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(d) Mention the force that the pulley user overcomes while lifting a load from the
ground.
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46(a) Write down any two types of soil.
(i) ______________________________________________________________________
(ii) ______________________________________________________________________
(b) Identify the type of soil with:
(i) highest capillarity
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(ii) lowest capillarity
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47(a) Mention one type of reflection.
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(b) How can man make use of reflection through plane mirrors?
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(c) Give two characteristics of images formed through a plane mirror.
(i) ______________________________________________________________________
(ii) ______________________________________________________________________
48. Study the diagram below carefully and use it to answer questions that
follow. The container below was given by a health worker to a P.7
candidate on 12/7/2022.

Panadol
2x3
mfd: 02/2020
exp: 09/2022

(a) Identify the practice illustracted above.

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(b) State a ny one importance of the practice mentioned above to patients.
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(c) Why shouldn't any patient use the above drug in October 2022?
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(d) Define drug abuse.
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49(a) Give one cause of road accidents.
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(b) In which two ways can pedestrians protect themselves from road accidents?
(i) ______________________________________________________________________
(ii) ______________________________________________________________________
(c) Apart from the zebra crossing, where else can pedestrians cross a busy road?
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50. The diagram below is of an onion. Study it carefully and answer the questions that
follow.

(a) Name the parts labeled S and T.

(i) S:____________________________________________________________________
(ii) T:____________________________________________________________________
(b) Give the function of part labeled R.
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(c) Which food value is got from eating onions?
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51. Study the food chain and use it to answer the questions that follow.
grass locusts lizards hawks
(a) Which of the organisms is a producer?
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(b) Give a reason for your answer in (a) above.
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(c) Identify the predator in the above food chain.
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(d) Give a reason to support your answer in (c) above.
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52(a) Which component of blood is destroyed by HIV?
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(b) Give any two ways in which you can care for an AIDS victim.
(i) ______________________________________________________________________
(ii) ______________________________________________________________________
(c) Why are female adolescents more vulnerable to HIV/ AIDS than the male
adolescents?
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53. The diagram shows a way of making a magnet. Use it to answer the
questions that follow.
(a) Name the method of making magnets shown above.
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(b) What pole will X become?
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(c) Mention any one way of increasing the strength of a magnet made by using the
above method.
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(d) In which way can a magnet be destroyed?
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54(a) Name one type of latrines used in a home.
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(b) What health activity can you carry out as a P.7 candidate to keep the school latrine
clean?
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(c) Give two health problems that can result in a community which lacks latrines.
(i) ______________________________________________________________________
(ii) ______________________________________________________________________
55. Match the foods below to the correct classes of food.
A B
(i) beans Vitamins
(ii) sweet potatoes Proteins
(iii) oranges Roughages
(iv) spinach carbohydrates
Fats and oils
(a) Beans _________________________________________________________________
(b) Sweet potatoes _________________________________________________________
(c) Oranges _______________________________________________________________
(d) Spinach _______________________________________________________________
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