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PEPERIKSAAN PERTENGAHAN TAHUN

SCIENCE YEAR 4
BUKU JAWAPAN BAHAGIAN B

Part B
1.

This section consists of 4 questions.

Bahagian ini mengandungi 4 soalan.

2.

Answer all questions.

Jawab semua soalan.

3.

Write your answers in the spaces provided in

the Answer Booklet.
Tulis jawapan dalam ruang yang disediakan
dalam Buku Jawapan.

4.

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SOALAN

The diagrams in the questions provided are

not drawn to scale unless stated.
Rajah yang mengiringi soalan tidak dilukis
mengikut skala kecuali dinyatakan.

MARKAH

3
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JUMLAH
BAHAGIAN B

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Part B
[ 20 marks ]

A group of pupils carried out an experiment about the growth of balsam plant. The plant
is watered daily with different amount of water and observes the height of plants after 2
weeks. The results are recorded in Table 1 below.
.
Amount of water (ml)

50

100

150

200

Height of plants (cm)

Table 1
(a)

What is the purpose (aim) of the investigation?

[1mark]

(b)

State the variable that is kept the same (constant) in the investigation.
..
[1mark]

(c)

What can you conclude from this investigation?

..................................................................................................................
...
[1mark]

(d) Predict the amount of water used if the height of plant is 7 cm.

[1mark]
(e) State the trend for height of the plants.
.
[1mark]

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Diagram 1 shows the comparison between sizes of different animals.

Rabbit

Elephant

Deer

Sparrow

Diagram 1

Animls

Average of heart beat (minutes)

Elephant
Deer
Rabbit
Sparrow

25
74
150
400
Table 2

(a) What can you observe about the average of heart beat between the sparrow and the
elephant?

..
[1mark]
(b) State one inference based on your observation in (a).

..

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[1mark]

(c) State :
(i)

what is changed (manipulated variable)

..
[1mark]

(i)

what is observed (responding variable)

..
[1mark]

(d) State the relationship (hypothesis) between the variable that is changed
(manipulated) and the variable that is observe (responding)
..

[1mark]

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3. A group of students are investigate about special characteristics of animals .Diagram 2

show two similar glasses bottles presented the animals. Two bottles are prepared and
labeled as A and B. One bottle is wrapped with a towel. Each bottles contain hot water
and left for 30 minutes in the freezer.

Hot water
tow
el

B
Diagram 2

Table 3 shows the observations after 30 minutes.

Bottle
Condition of water

A
Cold

B
Warm

Table 3
Jadual 3
(a) State one observation based on the experiment above..
..
.
[1mark]

(b)

Based on the observations, write your inference(reason) for your answer in (a).
..
.
[1mark]

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(c) State :
(i)

what is kept the same (constant variable)

..
[1mark]

(i)

what is observed (responding variable)

..
[1mark]

(d)

What can you conclude from this investigation?

..................................................................................................................
...
[1mark]

The diagram below shows an activity to measure the length of science books using icecream sticks by Alin. Each stick is 3cm long.

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SCIENCE YEAR 4
Ice-cream stick

The table shows the results.

Number of ice- cream sticks

12

Length of books (cm)

12

24

36

Table 4
(a)

What is the purpose (aim) of this investigation?

..

[1mark]

(b)

State one information gathered in this investigation.

.. .
[1mark]

(c)

What is the relationship between the number of ice-cream sticks and the length of
books?

.. ..
[1mark]

(d) What is the pattern(trend) of the length of books?

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[1mark]
(e)

Predict the length of science books if the number of ice-cream sticks used is 10?
.
[1mark]

END OF THE QUESTIONS

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