SCIENCE Assessment Australia1. Forensic poten can obtain DNA fom acre scene the criminalaves behind har, bleed or any ‘ther body Uses or secretons. Once the DNA i obtine, can be procesed to form a unig NA, fingerprint ‘The dagram shows the DNA agers om acme soene and DNA gern rom fur suspects DNA fingerprint tne ee set if + faa -—=._" ch suspects mos kl to have been me me |_lrenttnctine scot -—= cece wood - ——| 8 2 © 3 @ 4 2. Avvoricalintusin of gnoous rock can cut though a sacmentary rock layer. Al the contact oes, ‘molamerphic rocks formed. When this occurs secmoniary, metamorphic and ignecds ecks ae ound next {o.one anor “The photograph shows volcanic basal that has cut trcugh a bed of congrats, Where the basalt touches agains cangiomerat, the conglomerate rack appears to have been changad eo hat pebbles are no longer seen, conglomerate asa Wich ofthe foloning enti each typeof rock corey? | seameniary metamorphic Igneous ©) | __ metamorphic innoous ‘seainentany (@)| metamorphic | —_—_sedimentany Taneous ©] sedimentary Tonoous retamerptiea ‘Aparicar drug canbe administored to biological stam using cferont methods. The graph shows the Change ncancenraton ofthis gin the bain aver ma following ts scminisraton aa patent by twee method ition econ Time ater drug administration ne ‘ich statements tue when comparing the thee methods of drug administration or this patient? “ 8 ‘© ©) Juan has the fooning equpmenton his bench nthe abot. Foran experimen, he needs to accurately m Wich sequence of steps the most appropri fo him io foow? “ @ © © “This dug stayed in tho bran the longest when administered by injection. “This drag wont inf the ean the fates when scmilstered by inhalation. ‘This drug wont ito the bean te fastest when scmiistaed by injec, “isc veached te highest concentration when sanstred by gation, ae botanee beaker ‘ebsssssns i ponder in ote spatia ur Some powder placed in @ beak. use the stu to anser power rom the bot tothe beaker, put te beaker on the balance, weigh | the beaker Use th spatula fo tansfor power om the bole oto the balance pan, welgh he powder, 6-26 the balance, hen use the spall ranstr the powder it he beaker putthe ery beaker on the balan, weigh fhe beaker, bot fe the easer pat to tansfer powder rom the putthe erty Beaker on the balance, r-zero the balance, ue he spatula o transfer powder rm the bot Toho Beaker weg beaker5 ‘The diagram shows what happens when @ ight ray tikes a gas block fat has smooth pate sides. Wich of the abled rays th dec eet of refecon? sass block ‘Te speed of al electromagnotic waves, such as microwaves, is given by the formula enn whore + cle specs of ight (200000000 mis) ‘+ F's tne trequency ofthe waves (2) ‘+ ste wavelength of he waves (m) “Te radian rom a microwave oven has a frequoncy af 2 450000000 Ha nat the approximate wavelngt ofthe aati produced by ts merowave oven? ®) at2m © 12m © 2m = ©) 20m Ibe bia retook 47 Food webs summarise he relationships betwoonIvng organisms nts of he flow of energy between them. ‘Organs can ba pecoces erbvores,camores or mare a at bt pln an aria te) ‘This food web invovesfvecrgansms VW, X,Y and Z. z R + wl Wie statment it correct? (8) X's.9 cavore anda decease in Z coud lead to an incrase in x (8) Ysa herbivore and decease InY coud lad to an neroas in 2 (C) Vis producer and W fan ornivre (©) isa producer and W isan omawors. ‘Based onthe formation nthe dlagram, which statement comet? (A) Gametes are trmed inthe human boo, (B) Merozots are released rom the human bod into the Ive. (C) __Sporozaltes tum into gametes nse tbe mosquto's body. (0) Mosqutoes are ntected wit the parse gameloyie rom an infected human. 5 ters rinneen8. The alecromagnatic spectum ordrs the ypes of electromagnetic adationaccoing to thet wavelength The wavelength of radian isthe dstance between wo corespondng poison nahbowrng waves “The gram ropresens th electromagnet spectum. ‘The electromagnetic spectrum ‘wavelength (motes) redo microwave infrared visible ulravolt_— ray _ gamma ray 10 1 woe 108 10° oe 1 NF NVA How does the wavelength of rave radiation compare with tat of vibe Hah? The wavelength of ulvaviolet radiations (A) half as ong a the wavotngi of vib igh (B) _twico as ong as tho wavlongh of visible ight. (C) oneshindroath of the wavelongth of vite ight (0) cnehundred tmes longer han the wavelength of vl ight 10. Nick wants to fed out whether soft inks contrbute to toot decay. He knows that human teeth and ‘sone ae made of sniar substances o he setup an invesigaen using eager =a) tol ot Le ftazy standard fazy sugarites non-zny, tandaré ‘otic ‘often soften, Nick found thatthe mass of he eggshels in beakers W and X deceased, but tbe mass ofthe opgshel in beakers Y and Z id nt Wy Nek ous the eggs? (A) twlnerease the surface ar of eggshals in contact wih the quid (f) temaue sure the agpehalle ware comply covered by baud (C) _tomake teasier to compare the amounts of eggshells nthe beaker (0) tomako the eggshols val the beakore appear to have the same colour ioesebieryarioeae 62, Fr questions 11 and 12 us the information blow. Body cots contain hvemosomes which occurin pairs. Each ctramosare contains DNA Meiosis sa fom of al dvsion wher a body cel that contains th fu umber of cromasomes undergoes changes to proauce sperm or va a the ond eau ‘This aga shows a simples version ofthe process of meiosis, begining wih a body cl containing wo pars of womosomes. spam or ova “seme, © ©e@e6 What an appropiate desertion ofthe cals baled vandom segregation”? (8) The cos ae dential to he parent cal (} The oes contain half the ameunt of DNA as the parent al (C) The ca have double the numberof cromoaomnas as he parent call {6} The exemosomes have new sominaions of DNA compare tothe parent cl ‘Wat ould be another combination of emosomes produced at ‘random segregation? “ ° © o 7 tie nanartoeaeFor questions 13 and 14 us the information below. ‘When solutions containing cations (ostve ions) and anions (negative ions) are combined, sometimes an Ineolbie sl, caed a pret, formed. “Te able shows te eau of combining some ctlons and aon in eon SEE pom [St (Ste [Bias [Site oie (ss. ie cer (ote, [S[k [ste Ea SE J had fv teat tus, each conning ane ofthe fling soutons potassium odo lead tat copper sate mercury) tate sodium carbonate eee 48. Jeff mine some ofthe contnts of wo of the est bes in a boskar. An orange-pinkpreitte formed, ich two sotions dof mi? (a) tana @) tangs, (c) tans ©) tand2 14. ft hadforgotonolabel he testes, He could Went the copper sue ecuton because was be ‘By mixing some ofeach soliton wih the oer solitons, how many of the oer est ube solos cout he ‘cent? wo ® 2 © 3 o 4 miecsenaerrioeah °“Tm was asked o determine th dametr of fed tood clung aight microscope, He recoded his procedure a Foows: “+ used a minigrid on law magnification (10019 measure the ld of iw 1+ iameter of het of view is 1.8 mn + placa a bood sie at he cote othe do vow “+ lowed bleed side under high magrition (400) “Tere wore 50 red blood calls across th ameter ofthe fold of vew under high magni. Wat was the average dlametar of there Hood cols? (®) 0.03 mires @) 03.mitimotes (C) 080 meromees (©) 800 micrometres 16. “The densiy of substance a measure ofits mass por unt vluma. Two gus are said to miki they foxm a sing layer where the bo cannot be tinguished fom gach other. wo igus at do not mix re aved together inthe ama container, hey wil form sparse layers wth theless dense gud Nostng on {op ofthe more danse iui “The obese data of numberof substances. 168 138 08, 40 (i, merry and water do not mx. Caton tetrachloride essolves 0, butt doesnot mix wih ether water or ‘Small amounts of those four quid wore poured into a beaker. The cagram shows the fa esl When of these statment sconce? lve ol water (8). The ol could have been poured into the Beaker fist Je (8) The carbon ttaclonde could have boon added lat catbon tetrachloride (¢) The water coud have been poured into the beakor st. mercury (0) The mercury must have boon poured into te beaker fst. ° nr17. Solntss baove that Ear’ crust consists ofa sores of pas tat rest onthe semsol materia ofthe ‘manta, The lands that make up Hawai he on apa ale the Pathe Pate ‘Slat further boiove that a huge column of upweting lava ls ata kad poston under the Paci Plate ‘As the pat tha makes up the ocean floor moves ove hs ot Spa, the upweling lava eats @ sors of ow volcanoes that move along wh the plate, What evidence shows that tha Pacific Plates moving in anoth.westdoction at present? (A) The ldestHawatan volcan es at tha north-west ond ofthe chain (G) The Hawalan voloane chain es athe south-oast ond of te plate (C) Theol spot moving toto soub-east (©) Theol spots moving othe northavest 18. A srl duion decreases he concentration of soon by the same factor ia number of repeated steps. FN Fa (OY Fo |-om.} fsom| Jeo) |som| overall factor ‘10 100 t:1000 10000, ‘wnat te dui factor when 0.2 mL ofthe rignalsluton i added io 3.8 ml of water? 120 @) 18 © 14 12 bene 1048. umber of clmate factors, such s wind speed, fect now not we fa (apparent temperature) “The table shows the apparent tomperatre for a range of ambient temperetues an wind spoeds. How many diferent combinations result inthe same apparent temperature as when the wind speed is {On and tho ambient tmperature 18°C? ® © ©) * meee caeereoeatFr questions 20t0 22 use the Information below. | Gallo thermometer can be used to measure temperature Its made ofa ssled glass cylinder containing ‘8 coor uid such a alcofel and several sealed glass bubbes, ech containing a coloured qu dass buble — Galleo hermometer ach glass bubbo wth stag has an overall dnsiy thats sight diferent fom the others. As tho ‘outside temperature changos so does tho density ofthe liquid inside the cylinder. AS ares, the glass bubbles rise o sink The gass bubble closest fo the middle represents the outside temperature, 20. When the cuts temperature drops, the glass bubbles end to (®) move down 8) moveup (©) move upthen down ©) staysat 21. Which of he folowing wil change mos sgnifcantywhon the cusde temperature changes? (A) he volume ofthe gla bubbles (8) tho onsty of ho glass busbios (C)_themass of thelqud inthe cyinder {0} the volume of he gad inthe einer 22. Thareis a number on the metal tag hanging on each lass buble What des the number represent? mass 8) densty (©) voume (0) temperature sensecomerennoen 2a 2 For questions 28 and 28 use te information below, ‘The table shows the nutona information on a pack of broakast corel ara arn Serie pret 20 ropa ig 998 a ae eo “ai Fa H ‘a se ca) Protein 379 74 1249 Fat Total 04g 06 149 rated oto 04 03g catcvimes [6 35 as ‘sams | t40 12 239 Som ae 28 209 Fee 239 0 to How much protons tere in 60g ofthis breaktst crea? ® 370 6) 749 (©) ag (0) 239 ‘Based onthe inermation inthe table, whats the approximate Recommended Daly niske of carboyerates? 2019 (6) 13076 (c) 30025 (0) 103088 3 acest roe25, There ae patios inthe physical and chemical properties of laments and thelr compounds. Scientists Use ‘hase pattems lo make predctons “Te gram shows part 8 Group of the Periodic Table of he Elements. Li “Th table ate elaments rom thie Group andthe meting pons of he chords of four ofthe ements. som sodium chloride on foes] [potassium olasum cle Tt Rb | [rabid rubium enone 718 fue! [caesium caesium cine 86 Cs | [rau ‘ranlum enone 2 Fr ‘Seles have not yet managed io produce any fancum chloride. rom the data nthe able, what temperature (in “) the bet pried value for he meting pont of francs choise? wa 09 (558 (0) 74 neater 428. The goto eats aesponsohgh blood carbon desde (2, evel rather than ow Boad oxygen (0,) Iowls Ie concentration af, the lod Tals blow 9 oral eels pareonwillbecome unconscious (@actouy, Hyperventistion is excessive vention of the lung trough dep an rapid breathing. To graphs show how hyparventlaton aft the ovals af O, and CO, inte blood dung a ree ve underwater Dive after normal breathing normal broathng | Based on thi infomation, wich sttoments corect? (8) Hypenventlation reduces the CO, love and inreates the O, lavel compared to nrmal breathing. (8) Hyperventlaton may puta diver at sk of blackout before the CO, leval agers breathing. {C) During vo the CO, level increases more rapa: hypererton than afer normal resting. {0} lfabackout occurs ding a dvs following hypervetation, te normal O, lve s restored aftr tho. (C0, lve tigers breathing, 16 sr6 ebro27. There are several ype of free that can act ona car when its moving. Those are shown inthe diagram, _ a ood ronmal acon ‘State reton sa fres between the yrs and the 1080. This helps o stop the tyres om siding ‘Airresstanoe opposes the motion ofa vehicle, The faster the veil is raveting, the oeatr the Roling ction I force between the fos andthe road a tho fy change shape, "Normal esction I the support ore exerted bythe rad onthe re. Wight he foes of gravy acing on he car. 4Jo0 i pushing his car slong 2 lat iveway at steady speed. Which fre Ish largely pushing against? (®)—rermatroacton (8) airresstance—(€)_—stale clon ——(0)_—reling con 28, Thermal conductivity is a measure of how walla substance conducts (vanes) nest. ‘The thermal conductiviy of @ metal depends onthe composion andthe temperature ofthe metal. The ator the thermal conduct, the Bt conducts hea Poremess | Metimun [__THetmaleenaucivy cons) | was | amare | ase ‘ron iagex, a cy 60 | [cowcsmteehe x esis ae tae Pin x oral amerina | Biase St 5 « [1s [0 Tungsten, x 7 180 160 150, ‘Silver, x Z 420 41a, 415, Copper x wor | | ae] ‘Based onthe information nthe tbl, whic sstementis tue? (A) Thermal conduct for al ypes of sta decreases when lomperalue ineases. (8) Thermal conduct fr most of he pure mais decreases when tamparatureincroasos. | {C)__Thetmermatconauetwty a latnum sess tan th thermal conduct of fon alter peraies. (0) Thethemal conduct of sver and of copper deroasos at the same ate whon enperaure ncoasas, sec cere 6For questions 29 and 30 use the information below. Cvs and Sam were svn ther car along the same straight soon of highway. Chis was ving hor car 21 constant speed of 30 mis whe Sam was drng hs era a conelant sped of 24 ms. ‘signpost cong nig ‘som 1200 9 [A plat X Cis avertook Sam, fer which hay Both maintained the speeds. 23. How many seconds aor his did Sam reach he signpost? “ 0 @® % © 2s ©) 9% 20. Whatis the total cstance (mts het Cvs had aval fom pont X byte time Sam reschadhe snp? (4) 960 (1200 (o) 1800 (0) 2400 S31. Plants uso light orgy for photosynthesis. nhs process, ‘carton desc (CO,) and water (0) are converted int. lose (,H,,0, and exygen (©, wih he a of clorophy ‘The overal reaction can be summarised bythe chemical ‘euation carbon dioxide + water» glucose + oxygen 60, + 640+ CH,0, +60, Sciontsts can doity tho ‘pathway of photosynthesis. ‘Tod co, they us water that contains radacive oxygen (%0) SIE enters ‘toms water pant Than they colet he oxygen elses FOM stem ‘rom the plant and tet to soe radioactive. ‘Wien ofthese mates an observation vith the possible conclusion supports? ee erat ‘oxygen atoms fom the water molecu become | eee arf the glucose motecula. ‘gen alos rom the wate molecules fom bxygen 938 ‘rygen slams fom the carbon dioxide molenses become pat of te glucose malecse ‘gga atoms fom tho water molecules fom ‘ongen 928 (@) | oxygen rom eats radioactive (©) | oxygen trom satis NOT radioscive (0) | oxygen fom lets NOT racioncive w ‘ie sauarwnon3. ‘A posite sa cogram tat shows the occsrence of @ particular gone, or characteritie, over a numb of (genertne of fami. In ths exam, the gono consis of to alleles o sections of DNA that coe for that charactte The folowing pases lksrates to ocourence ofa gene represenod by re) over four generations. Key BH Pomozygous mate @ omozyg0us female I hoteozygous male & hstecaygousforalo Cantos mate (© umaiecte female N + Homozygous individuals have two aes forthe characteris and exit characteris. 1 Hotrozypousincividuals cary one alla forthe characters but donot exhibit the characterise {+ Unafected ncvduas do not have the gene atl Bad on his pcre ian ndudual exhib the characters then (A) both pares are neterozygous, (@) both parens ave homozygous (C)oneparent must be unateted, (0) then! must be hatrczygous \Wen you heat a substance, ts temperature ros unt t begin o change sate by mating or evaporating ‘Aline energy tht the substance absros then used nthe change of slate curing which he temperate ofthe substance stays constant. ‘This canbe used to protect cbacts and people fem extreme heat, During re-entry int the atmosphere tho and ofa space ight tbe heat shal onto leading surface ofa space capsule ras and even ‘vapotaes, absorbing a lage amount of hea. This Keeps the emslndar ofthe capsule relatively ol. This ‘Snow as ableve pctacon. -Ablatve protect it NOT used onthe nase conos of passenger ara. nat te reason forts? (A) Thoheat siete ae too heavy to cary on passenger ara (8) Pescongor ara y at an atuce whore the aris more dense, (C) Theres great aerencenspood between spacecraft and ara. {b} __Theneat shield woua ctr he aetoaynamis of tho passenger aca. see earynieee 18For questions 34 and 35 use the information below. In Atala the egal ito Blood Aloo Concantation (BAC) or fly Scansod diversi sat at 0.05 g of ‘eaholm every 100 mL of loa Each of hese dks represents approximately one standard ink ght beer rainay beer wee port 425m. 285 mk s00m somt 27 Walcott «4.0% aeohol—2Maloohal 20M alcohol 34. Which ofthese dks contain the largest amount of aaho!? (®) taht boor (8) oranary beer (©) wine (0) pont 5. The lowing steps enable an acto cleus hither BAC, ‘Stop t: donty your mass foe using the table, 64kg 0015 65-839 oor ne 659 2010 ‘Stop 2 ently the numberof standard inks you have had Slap 9: Caleuation 1 = mass figure x number of standard ciks Stop 4: Calculation 2 = (numberof hours of dnking ~ 1)» mass gure ‘Step 5: BAC = Caleulation 1 ~Caletation 2 ‘Nicks 50 years old and has a mass of 80 kg He sated drinking a 20 am and fished drinking at 1250 am He hod 3 standard dorks of ordinary beor and? standard eke of pot win he ine. ‘What was N's BAC (9100 mo lod) at 12:90 an? (a) a2 (0030 (c) cas (0) cas 8 iene rookFor questions 36 and 37 use tho information below. Hydrocarbons are a class of compounds made up of ely carbon (©) atoms an hycrogen(H) atoms. Fors cmple unbranched fysrocarbon molacl, te pref ofthe chemical name afro tho numberof {atbon atoms na molecu, a8 shown in Tale I. The sux of he chemical name nccaos the typeof he ‘pound. The genera midoe for ome hyrocarbons a sted in Table 2 Tablet Table ‘ner represonts the numberof carbon atoms in ‘pmalecte 8, Whatis the name of CH? (®) hexane (8) hoxyre (©) ectane ©) decyne {37 Ina.comgound,eoch carbon atom must have 4 bonds, wha Sach hysrogon atom can on have 4 bond ‘nen compounds are rprotante by diagrams, bods aro rpresore by ane ning io som. ic lagram presents proper “ 4 i con rt ha 22, The Cols, Fabvenhelt and Kein scales ar thee temperature soles in common us, “The conversion bewoon these scales scarred out sing the formulae below: wien neces Wile statements conect? ¢ (A) The Cals and Kolin scales have the same 820 of uns on hor scales. {8} The Fahrembolt and KoWin sales have to same size of units on he seaes. [C)__ The Colas and Faenhot sale have te same pont as zero degrees. {0} The Kein ana Celus seals have he same pont as zero degrees, pein 20Fr questions 39 and 40 use the Information below. “Tm was studying te wind speed of topical cyclones. He used the relative wind speed which the aio local average wind speed to the maximum average wind speed oft eycane, This graph shows the Tole wind speed ation distances rom the cents ofa opal ycone 1 _ 250 200 180 00 500 «80100 tao 200250 Distance trom centre of tropical eycione (km) “Tropical cyclones are categorised sccoring othe maximum average wind speed. The table shows the categorie that are used in Asal 4 eae 3 18-159 5 > 200 “Tim found thatthe maximum average wind speed of one topical eeone was 300 kh nat waste likely average wind speed at locaton 250 km away rom tho contro? (®)37.5kmm (8) 75k (©) (254mm (0) 280m “Tan was cveg near 2 topical eycone and found hat he average wind speed at his location was 42 kmh “Tam knew he wat 130 ken away rom the canto the cyclone, Wat the category ofthis opal eycone? wt ® 2 @ 9 om « a eres4 “The dlagram shows a measurement being mado using 8 veer sale E “Te value of he measurements calcite flows: 1+ Detemine the value man the main sale, ta ines up exact wih 2 marker on the wemnir stale 1 Countthe number of civson ()betwoon this markor andthe zero on the veri scale, “Te measurement is then given by Measurements m=09. 0 Whatis the value of the measurement (mm) shown nthe agra? 199 ® 8 © 270 © 28 2 sees tae rook 2 For questions 42to 44 use the information below. _Amedcal company conducted tate determine the ffectveness of «new estn detecting m paricular conan. Among the 1000 people selected othe ia, sone had been previously diagnosed with the contin by ‘rather method, whereas other people were es rm the conto. ‘uring the ta some people witnew and therefore were nol coded in he fa resuts. “he abo shows the tial result sing ho new test How many people wire rom the tl? w 2 es © % 6 Hraporson has bis condition, what the chanes thatthe new tes will corey lagnse I? wy 33% 18) 901% ©) 3% sem ‘What was ne als. poive' rate among the popuaton tat wore tated? 39% 40% ce) 54% ©) 85%‘Kents volage law states that the sum of he cect potential diferences (voage) around any loved ‘Seats aout aero. ‘fn law datnes he relationship bewean tho potenti ferences aro a conductor and he curent Aowing trough tas VereR + Visthe potent ference across ts terminals (measures in vot, V) + Tis the olctr curent Bowing through (measured in amperes, A) + isthe conducor’ resistance (measured inchs, 0), Fonda setup an elect crc, as shown inthe diagram. powerpack (e2tat2 vote) ‘men the power pak was sched on, the ammeter and vlmeter measured he readings as shown, ‘Azsume th meters ae functoal and castrated cone nat the resistance of ron resistor an the ight lobe? 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