THE E-LEARN EXAMINATIONS BOARD

PRE NATIONAL MOCK 2024

SET ONE / FOUR
INTEGRATED SCIENCE GUIDE
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 SECTION A: 40 MARKS

Questions 1 to 40 carry one mark each.

1. Write any one natural source of sound.

 Man // birds // cow // a dog // thunder
2. State the type of clouds that resemble cotton piles in the sky.
 Cumulus clouds
3. How are monotreme mammals similar to birds in terms of fertilization.
 Both monotremes and birds undergo internal fertilization.
4. Write one role played by a school health committee in the control of
ringworm at school.
 A school health committee promotes proper personal hygiene
among school children.
5. State the main feature of sand soil which makes it suitable for cleaning
utensils like saucepans.
 Sand soil has rough texture.
 Sand soil has rough soil particles.
6. Give one way how cooks retain heat in the saucepan during cooking.
 By covering food with banana leaves.
7. Besides identification, how is a comb important to a bird?
 For temperature regulation.
 For attraction of female for mating.
8. Mention one importance of physical changes in the environment.
 Evaporation helps to separate mixtures.
 Condensation helps in the formation of rain.
 Freezing helps in the preservation of food stuffs.
9. Name the part of a tap root which protects the growing tip from mechanical
damage.
 Root cap

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 The diagram below shows one of the parts of the alimentary canal. Use it to
z answer questions 7 and 8.

bolus Y

To the stomach

10. Name the part of the alimentary canal marked Y.

 Gullet / oesophagus.
11. How does the bolus pass through part labeled Y above?
 By peristalsis.
12. Write one condition of weather.
 Sunny // windy // rainy // cloudy
REJECT: sunny weather // windy weather// cloudy weather
13. Give one reason why steel is used to make artificial permanent magnets.
 Steel retains magnetism for a long time.
The diagram below shows one of the equipment used on a sports pitch. Use
it to answer questions 12 and 13.

14. State the importance of the above equipment on a football pitch.

 For demarcating the area of usage on a football pitch.
15. Why is the above item made of bright colours?
 For easy identification
16. How are delicate weather instruments protected from damage at a weather
station?
 By keeping delicate weather instruments in a Stevenson screen.

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 The diagram below shows two boys, Musa and John seated on different
materials, one plastic chair and the other metallic. Study it and answer
questions 17 and 18.

Musa John

Plastic
chair Metallic
chair

Live wires carrying electric current.

17. Who of the two boys will be shocked by electricity?

 John
18. Give a reason to support your answer in (17) above.
 A metallic chair is a good conductor of electricity unlike the
plastic one.
19. Name the blood cells manufactured in the bone marrows of long bones.
 White blood cells / Leucocytes
20. When burning wood to form charcoal, logs of wood are covered with soil.
State what would be formed if logs of wood are burnt openly without
covering.
 Ash would be formed.
21. State the reason why root tuber crops cannot be propagated through
planting root tubers.
 Root tubers do not have buds that grow into anew plant.
22. How is water similar to plants as resources?
 Both water and plants are renewable resources.
 Both water and plants are renewable energy resources
23. Besides enlargement of sexual organs, write one other primary sexual
change common in adolescent boys and girls.

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  Production of gametes (reproductive cells)
 Development of gonads.
24. State the function of white blood cells in the body.
 To defend the body against diseases.
 To fight against germs.
25. What type of pollination occurs in a flower where filaments grow taller than
the style?
 Self-pollination
26. Mention one biological way of controlling weeds.
 Keeping bioagents // Grazing/feeding animals on weeds
27. How do cattle protect themselves from enemies?
 By goring
28. Give the similarity between yeast and amoeba in terms of reproduction.
 Both yeast and amoeba undergo asexual reproduction.
29. Write down one advantage of hand milking.
 Hand milking is cheap // it does not need skilled labour.
30. Name the substance in tobacco smoke which stimulates the releases of
dopamine in the body.
 Nicotine REJECT: tar
31. How does stale air from the VIP latrine pass through the vent pipe?
 Through convection.
32. Name the intestinal worm which feeds by diffusion.
 Tapeworm
33. Give one way how the item below can be of use on a cattle farm.

 It can be used for open castration.

34. State any one substance absorbed in the stomach.
 Simple sugar // common salt // Alcohol / drugs

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35. Give one type of lice which attacks people.
 Crab lice // hair lice // body lice
36. Name the part of a VIP which may control the spread of trachoma.
 Fly screen/Screen
37. A P.7 candidate broke down a bar magnet in two equal parts. What
happened to each piece of the bar magnet?
 Each piece of a magnet became an independent magnet.
38. How do birds benefit from their hollow bones?
 Hollow bones reduce the weight of a bird for easy flight.
39. What type of mosquitoes lay eggs with air floats?
 Female anopheles mosquito
40. Name the deficiency disease prevented by feeding on the food value
obtained from fish.
 Kwashiorkor REJECT: Proteins

SECTION B: 60 MARKS
Questions 41 to 55 carry four marks each.
41. (a) State the energy changes which take place in the following gadgets:
(i) Dynamo - mechanical energy inform of kinetic energy
changes to electrical energy.
(ii) Percolator - electrical energy changes to heat energy.
(b) Write any one living source of electricity.
 Electric eel
(c) How does rural electrification help to conserve natural animal habitats
like forests?
 Rural electrification reduces the rate of deforestation.
 It discourages deforestation.

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42. The diagrams below show two different saucepans A and B containing raw
4food. Study them carefully and answer the questions that follow.

A Covered B
with
banana
leaves

saucepans

(a) In which of the above diagrams will food be cooked faster.

 In A
(b) Give a reason to support your answer.
 Food is covered with banana leaves which retain heat in the
saucepan for faster cooking.
(c) By what process does heat reach the raw food through the saucepan.
 Through conduction.
(d) Besides cooking, give one other importance of heat in our daily life.
 Heat provides warmth to people.
 Heat helps in ironing.
 Heat helps in rain formation.
 Heat helps in food preservation by sun drying.
43. Below, are different types of honey bees. Use them to answer the h
questions that follow.

A
B
C

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 (a) Which of the above bees lays eggs in the hive?
 Bee C
(b) Write any two duties of a worker bee in a hive.
 Cools the temperature in the hive.
 Feeds the grubs.
 Makes honey // guards the hive.
 Makes royal jelly for the queen to feed on.
(c) What food value do we obtain from eating honey?
 Carbohydrates
44. Match the following elements of PHC to their activities correctly.

A B

Water and sanitation dental flossing.

Maternal and child health draining stagnant Water.

Family planning prolonged breast feeding.

Oral and dental health immunizing pregnant

d women with T.T Vaccine.

(i) Water and sanitation - draining stagnant water

(ii) Maternal and child health – immunizing pregnant women with TT
vaccine
(iii) Family planning – prolonged breast feeding.
(iv) Oral and dental health – dental flossing
45. (a) To what type of change do we group digestion in man?
 Chemical change
(b) Write two ways of managing body changes.
 Bathing daily.
 Shaving overgrown pubic hair.
(c) Why is burning referred to as a chemical change?
 Burning is irreversible // burning forms anew substance.
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46. (a) What does letter ‘‘I’’ stand for in the abbreviation PIASCY?
 Initiative
(b) Give two life skills that children get through PIASCY messages.
 Self esteem // self-awareness
 decision making // assertiveness
(c) Write the PIASCY message which helps to the prevent HIV/AIDS.
 Abstinence / abstinence from sex
47. The diagram below shows a skull of a certain mammal. Use it to answer the
questions that follow.

(a) To which sub class of mammals do animals with such a skull belong?
 Carnivorous mammals
(b) What kind of food do such mammals feed on?
 Flesh
(c) How is an animal with such a skull adapted to its mode of feeding?
 It has well developed canines for tearing flesh.
(d) Give one example of an animal with such a skull.
 Dog // hyena // domestic cat // tiger
48. (a) Name two examples of fuel obtained from crude oil.
 Petrol // diesel/kerosene
(b) How are the fuels mentioned in 48(a) above separated from crude oil?
 By fractional distillation

(c) Under which principle does the method in (b) above work?

 Different liquids have different boiling points.

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49. (a) Give two functions of muscles to the human body.
 Muscles help in body movement through contraction and
relaxation.
 Muscles help animals to perform heavy duties.
 Muscles of the heart help to pump blood.
 Muscles of the eye regulate the amount of light entering the
eye.
(b) Name one organ in the body made of cardiac muscles.
 The heart
(c) Give the main reason why biceps and triceps are called antagonistic C
CCC muscles.
 Biceps and triceps work in pairs and oppose the action of
each other.
50. (a) Name the force which:
(i) holds molecules of water together.
 Cohesion force
(ii) enables small insects like mosquitoes to stand on water.
 Surface tension
(b) Give two ways we can use ‘‘air exerts pressure’’ in our daily life.
 It enables us to drink water using a straw.
 It enables a cesspool emptier to suck wastes from the septic
tank.
 It enables a kite to fly in air.
 It enables a doctor to inject medicine in a patient’s body.
51. (a) Write two uses of magnets.
 Magnets are used in electric bells.
 Magnets are used in loud speakers.
 Magnets are used in compasses to show direction.
 They are used in dynamos and generators to produce
electricity.
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 (b) State the property of a magnet which enables a pilot to find g ddd
rrrrrdirection.
 A freely suspended magnet will always rest in North-South
direction.
(c) In the space provided below, draw an illustration of magnets to show
ffffffthat ‘‘unlike poles attract’’

52. (a) Why are rabbits given a block of salt to lick?

 To provide mineral salts to the rabbits.
(b) Okello’s rabbits have difficulty in breathing. Which disease are they g
gg suffering from?
 Pneumonia
(c) Mention two advantages of keeping rabbits over cattle.
 Rabbits require a small piece of land while cattle need a
bigger piece of land.
 Rabbits consume little food unlike cattle.
 Rabbits multiply faster than cattle.
 Rabbits are cheaper than cattle in terms of management.
53. (a) Write two agents of seed dispersal.
 Water // Explosion
 Animals // wind
(b) How are coconut seeds dispersed?
 By flowing water/ through water dispersal.
(c) Give one way seed dispersal prevents extinction of plant species.
 Plants colonise new areas hence reducing the chances of
extinction.

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54. (a) Write two components of plant glucose made during photosynthesis.
 Carbon dioxide
 Water
(b) How does photosynthesis purify air?
 By absorbing or trapping carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
(c) Briefly write about a variegated leaf.
 A variegated leaf is a leaf with many colours.
55. Use the words given in the box below to fill in the spaces below.

methane gas fermentation

anaerobic sludge

Biogas is methane gas that is produced by rotting and fermentation of

organic matter. After the formation of biogas, the waste material called

sludge is taken and used as manure. Biogas is produced by anaerobic

respiration with the help of anaerobic organisms.

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