Circle the letter that best corresponds to the answer of your choice.

1. Seventy percent of the earth’s surface is covered by:

a) Rivers
b) Land
c) Water
d) Sea
2. Which chemical listed below can be used to test for water?
a) Hydrated copper (II) sulphate
b) Cobalt chloride
c) Steam
d) Sulphuric acid
3. Which pair of processes do not allow the loss of water from the human body?
a) Sweating, respiration
b) Respiration, urinating
c) Urinating, sweating
d) Inhaling, sweating
4. The mass of a bunch of cabbage leaves is 25g. After heating, the leaves have lost 12g of water.
What is the mass of the leaves after heating?
a) 12g
b) 25g
c) 13g
d) 27g
5. Water in the gaseous form is called?
a) Vapour
b) Ice
c) Steam
d) Evaporation
6. What is the density of water?
a) 0.1 g/cm3
b) 1 g/cm3
c) 1 kg/cm3
d) 1 g/cm3
7. Which of the following statements is not true about water?
a) Water can exist as solid, liquid and gas
b) Water is a white liquid
c) Water is tasteless
d) Water is a neutral liquid
8. The curved surface of liquid in a narrow tube is called a:
a) Bore
b) Meniscus
c) Coherence
 d) Capillary action
9. What is the melting point of ice?
a) 0 0 C
b) 50 0 C
c) 100 0 C
d) 5 0C
10. A water is a habitat for a:
a) Crocodile
b) Dog
c) Lizard
d) Fish
11. Hydrophytes are:
a) Tree plants
b) Land plants
c) Potted plants
d) Water plants
12. Which statement best describes hard water?
a) Frozen water
b) Distilled water
c) Water containing solutes
d) Bottled water
13. Which of the following is soluble in water?
a) Plastic
b) Chalk dust
c) Sugar
d) Sand
14. What property of water allow small animals to walk on its surface
a) Surface tension
b) Density
c) Freezing point
d) Boiling point
15. Which of the following is not a water plant?
a) White mangrove
b) Bladderwort
c) Duckweed
d) Lettuce
16. The habitat of a paramecium is:
a) A tree
b) A pond
c) The sea
d) A house
17. What effect does salt have on the freezing point of water?
 a) No effect
b) Lowers the freezing point
c) Raises the freezing point
d) Allows water to freeze at 0 0 C

Use the information below to answer question 18 and 19.

A fruit with a mass of 4g was sun dried and then its mass was re measured again. The fruit loss 3g of
water during the drying process.

18. What was the mass of the dried fruit?

a) 3g
b) 1g
c) 4g
d) 7g
19. What percentage of water was lost from the fruit?
a) 25%
b) 75%
c) 90%
d) 50%
20. The method by which water travel up the xylem vessel is called:
a) Surface tension
b) Dissolving
c) Meniscus
d) Capillarity
21. Which of the following is not a method of purifying water?
a) Aeration
b) Boiling
c) Distillation
d) Chlorination
22. All of the following are aquatic except:
a) Crayfish
b) Chicken
c) Shrimp
d) Shark
23. An example of microscopic organism found is a pond is:
a) An moeba
b) A mangrove plant
c) Pond weed
d) A habitat
24. Which property below makes water a good habitat for living things?
a) Water is colourless
b) Water is odourless
 c) Water exists in three forms
d) Water is liquid between 1 0C and 100 0C
25. Which statement is not true about hard water?
a) Hard water mainly contain calcium hydrogen carbonate
b) Hard water contain calcium oxide
c) Hard water can be made soft by boiling
d) Hard water is water containing dissolved solids.