SET 11

SECTION B
(20 Marks)
Answer all the questions. Write your answers in the space provided.
1.

A group of pupils carried out an investigation.

Three guppy fish are placed in aquarium P and ten guppy fish
are also placed in aquarium Q which has the same size.
Same amount of food is put in each aquarium every day.
The size of the fish after one month is shown in Figure 1.

Q
Figure 1

a. State an observation and give a reason to explain the difference in size of the
fish in aquarium P and aquarium Q after one month.
Observation: ____________________________________________________
____________________________________________________
Reason

____________________________________________________
____________________________________________________
[1 marks]

b. State another observation to support your reason in (a).

_______________________________________________________________
[ 1 mark ]
c. What can you conclude from this investigation.
_______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
[ 1 mark ]
d. In another investigation, Daniel find out that fisherman used a head-lamp to
catch fish at night. What can you infer from this observation.
_______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
[ 1 mark ]

2.

Table 1 shows the result of an investigation on the cooling of 500 ml of hot

water.
Time / minute

10

12

Water temperature / C

98

86

76

68

62

58

56

Table 1
a.

What is the purpose of the investigation.

_________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________
[ 1 mark ]

b.

Predict the water temperature at the 9th minute.

_________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________
[ 1 mark ]

c.

What conclusion can be made from the investigation?

_________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________
[ 1 mark ]

Amount of heat absorbed by a substance influence the

temperature of the substance.

d.

State the relationship between two information gathered based on the

above statement.
_________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________
[ 1 mark ]

3.

Four different volumes of water were poured into four similar beakers. The
beakers were placed in a freezer at the same time. The time taken for the
water in each beaker to freeze was recorded in Table 2.

Volume of water / ml

Time taken for the water to freeze / min

100

150

10

200

15

250

20
Table 2

a. What is the relationship between the volume of water and the time taken for
the water to freeze?
______________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________
[1 mark ]
b. Based on the results of the investigation, state two factors that must be kept
the same?
_______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
[ 1 mark ]
c. Predict the time taken for the water to freeze if the volume of water is 375 ml.
______________________________________________________________
[ 1 mark ]
d. What conclusion can you make from this investigation?
______________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________
[ 1 mark ]

4.

Figure 2 shows the phases of Moon from the first to twenty-fifth day based on
lunar calendar that has been drawn by a group of pupils in an investigation.

1st day

4th day

7th day

10th day

15th day

19th day

22nd day

25th day

Figure 2
a. State the pattern of the changes of the Moon size that can be seen from
first day to twenty-fifth day.
____________________________________________________________
[ 1 mark ]
b. What is the aim of this investigation?
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
[ 1 mark ]
c. State one conclusion that can be made from information in the figure
above.
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
[ 1 mark ]
On one night of the 15th day of the Lunar Calendar, the moon
cannot be seen.

d. State a suitable reason for this observation.

____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
[ 1 mark ]

5. A group of pupils carry out an investigation to determine the number of pulley

used and the amount of force needed to lifted a 200 kg load.
Table 3 shows the result of investigation.

Number of pulley
Amount of force needed to
lift the load /N

800

650

500

350

Table 3
a.

What the pupils want to find out in this investigation?

_________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________
[ 1 mark ]

b.

Based on this investigation, state what to;

i.

Changed: ___________________________________________

ii.

Measured: __________________________________________
[ 2 marks ]

c.

State the relationship between what to change and what to measure in

this investigation.
_________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________
[ 1 mark ]

END OF QUESTION