AITEL JOINT MOCK EXAMINATIONS
Primary Leaving Examinations
INTEGRATED SCIENCE
Time allowed: 2hours 15 minutes
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1. Do not write your school or district name anywhere on USE ONLY
this paper.
2. This paper has two sections A and B. Section A has 40 Qn. No. MARKS EXR’S
questions and section B has 15 questions .This paper No.
has 12 pages printed altogether.
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3. Answer all questions. All the working for both sections A
and B must be shown in the spaces provided. 11 – 20
4. All working must be done using a blue or black ball point 21 – 30
pen or ink. Any work done in pencil will NOT be marked 31 – 40
except drawings and diagram.
41 – 43
5. Unnecessary changes in your work and handwriting that
cannot be easily read may lead to loss of marks. 6. Do not 44 – 46
fill anything in the table indicated “For
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examiners’ use only” and the boxes inside the question
paper. 50 – 52
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SECTION A (40 MARKS)
1. Give one example of a legume.
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2. What is the use of a trowel to a crop farmer?
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3. Give one reason why a spider is not an insect.
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4. How is a worker bee able to carry pollen on its body?
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5. What does a mushroom use to reproduce?
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6. What is the danger of not brushing your teeth regularly?
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7. Why is copper called a good conductor?
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8. How is chlorophyll important in the process of photosynthesis?
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The diagram shows a food of a bird. Use it to answer questions
9 and 10.
9. Name an example of a bird with this foot.
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10. How useful is the structure of this foot to the bird?
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11. How does a vacuum prevent heat loss in a flask?
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12. What do we call a condition when a person cannot see objects that are
far from him?
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The diagram shows a type of a pulley system.
13. How does it help to make work easy?
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14. Which substance in the ear prevents dust from entering the organ?
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15. Apart from charcoal and timber, name one practice that is a danger to
trees.
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16. How does a poultry farmer stop cannibalism among his birds?
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17. Give an example of a stem tuber.
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18. How is the reproduction of a housefly different from that of a
grasshopper?
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19. Which type of plants have a parallel leaf venation?
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20. What is the use of synovial fluid in a joint?
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21. Which organ in the body allows exchange of gases in blood?
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22. What is the use of a urinary bladder?
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23. What is the use of ORS to a sick child?
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24. Why does a piece of stone sink in water?
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25. Which immunisable disease paralyses limbs of human beings?
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26. What causes evaporation in a water cycle?
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27. Which activity of sanitation will reduce the spread of malaria in a
community?
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28. What is the danger of water snails to human beings?
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29. What is the use of prop roots on a maize plant?
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30. What type of change needs heat to take place?
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31. Give one reason why a mother must breastfeed her baby?
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32. How is a bat able to avoid hitting a rock at night?
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33. Which practice of cultivation reduces soil erosion in hilly areas?
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34. What is passive smoking? ____________________________________
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35. Why should garden tools be kept in a dry place?
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36. Why is human skin called an excretory organ?
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37. Which part of a living house allows carbon dioxide out?
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38. What is the use of a nostril to a fish?
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39. Which blood vessels have valves?
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40. How would the seed below be dispersed?
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SECTION B (60 MARKS)
41. The diagram shows part of a germinating seed. Use it to answer
the questions that follow.
(a) Name the parts:
i) ______________________________________________________
ii) _____________________________________________________
(b) What is the function of part Y?
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(c) Name one condition that would make a seed fail to germinate.
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42. Name the weather instrument in A with what they do in B.
(A) Instrument (B) Function
Windsock atmospheric pressure
Rain gauge strength of wind
Sixth’s thermometer temperature
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Barometer how much it has rained
i) Windsock: _____________________________________________
ii) Rain gauge: ____________________________________________
iii) Sixth’s thermometer: ___________________________________
iv) Barometer: _____________________________________________
43. (a) Give the causes of these conditions in human body.
i) Kwashiorkor: ___________________________________________
ii) anaemia: ______________________________________________
(b) Apart from refrigeration, give two other ways of conserving
fish.
i) ______________________________________________________
ii) _____________________________________________________
44. The diagram shows a method of magnetization. Study it and
answer the questions.
(a) What is the method called?
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(b) What would happen if point X of the nail is put at pole S?
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(c) Name one activity that would make a magnet lose its magnetism.
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(d) Which part of a radio uses a permanent magnet?
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45. (a) What are energy resources?
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(b) What is the major source of energy on earth?
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(c) Give two ways by which water can act as a resource.
i) ______________________________________________________
ii) _____________________________________________________
46. (a) Name the two types of pollination in flowering plants.
i) ______________________________________________________
ii) _____________________________________________________
(b) What s the use of each of the following during pollination?
(i) anthers: ______________________________________________
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(ii) stigma: _______________________________________________
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47. The diagram shows a boy using a metallic bar to raise a bag of
coffee. Use it to answer the questions.
(a) Which type of machine is he using?
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(b) What can he do to lift the sack more easily?
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(c) Name the force that slows movement in moving parts of a machine.
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(d) How is the force in (c) useful in our daily life?
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48. The diagram shows a ray of light on a smooth shiny surface Z.
Use it to answer the questions that follow.
(a) Name part X and W.
i) X: ___________________________________________________
ii) W: __________________________________________________
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(b) Name an instrument where the above principle is used.
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(c) Use letter “T” to show the angle of reflection.
49. (a) What is First Aid? ______________________________________
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(b) Give two reasons why an injured person may need first aid.
i) ______________________________________________________
ii) _____________________________________________________
(c) How is a splint useful to a person with fractured lower leg?
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50. (a) What is teenage pregnancy? _______________________________
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(b) Apart from failure to have safe delivery, give two other dangers of
teenage pregnancy.
i) ______________________________________________________
ii) _____________________________________________________
(c) How can a school prevent teenage pregnancies?
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51. (a) How are the following important to a cattle farmer?
i) Castration: ____________________________________________
ii) Deworming; ___________________________________________
(b) Give two systems used in grazing cattle.
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i) _____________________________________________________
ii) _____________________________________________________
52. (a) Give two ways of making water safe for drinking.
i) ______________________________________________________
ii) _____________________________________________________
(b) Write any two ways by which water can become impure.
i) ______________________________________________________
ii) _____________________________________________________
53. The diagram shows a simple electric circuit. use it to answer the
questions.
(a) Name the part T and R.
i) T: ___________________________________________________
ii) R: ___________________________________________________
(b) If Q is closed, give one reason why R would not light.
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(c) How is S useful in the above circuit?
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54. Below is part of the human alimentary canal. Study it to answer
the questions.
(a) Give the name and function of part R.
i) Name: ________________________________________________
ii) Function: _____________________________________________
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(b) Where does food go after P?
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(c) Give one way of preventing constipation.
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55. The government of Uganda has stopped the use and manufacture of
polythene bag.
(a) Give two reasons why this was done.
i) _____________________________________________________
ii) _____________________________________________________
(b) Apart from controlling the spread of crop pests, give two other uses
of mulching a garden.
i) ______________________________________________________
ii) _____________________________________________________
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