Year 9 - Final Exam

June 2021

Subject: Science

Time Allowed: 50 minutes

(Question and Answer Booklet)

Student’s Full Name: _________________________Grade:_______

READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST

Write in dark blue or black pen.
Do not use staples, paper clips, highlighters, glue or correction fluid.
Answer all questions in the spaces provided on the question paper. The number of marks is
given in brackets [ ] at the end of each question or part question.

The total number of marks for this paper is

Answer ALL questions.

Read the questions carefully before you answer and show all calculations.

1. The giant panda lives in China.

The diagram shows a simple food web involving the panda
2. The diagrams show the modern horse and three of its ancestors.
3.
4.Blessy investigates the reactions of the element carbon.
Blessy uses a Bunsen burner to heat carbon.
She lets the carbon burn in air.
She then puts the burning carbon into a jar of oxygen.
The diagram shows the apparatus Blessy uses.
5. State the three requirements that should be met for burning to take place

(3)

6. Mention two substances that are produced during complete combustion.

 (2)

7. State the name of a toxic product that is produced during the incomplete combustion of
hydrocarbons

(1)

8. The diagram shows how a room can be heated.

The arrows show the direction of air movement.

Use the diagram to complete the sentences.

At A warm air rises because it is ................................................... .
At B cool air sinks because it is ..................................................... .
This process is called .................................................................... .
[3]

9. Carlos uses the internet to collect information about the use of world energy resources in
2016.
(a) Hydroelectric is a renewable resource.
Write down the names of two other types of renewable resources.

…………………………………..and…………………………….. [1]

10.Chen draws a diagram to show water changing from a liquid to water vapour.

Complete the sentences.

All the water molecules in the liquid are moving.
Some of the molecules have more .................................................... .
These molecules move ...................................................... enough to escape the surface of
the liquid.

This is called .................................................. .

This makes the liquid become .................................... .
[4]
11. Manjit puts a metal saucepan of milk on a cooker.

Thermal (heat) energy can be transferred by conduction, convection and radiation.

(a) Which is the main process that transfers thermal energy through the milk?

[1]

(b) Which is the main process that transfers thermal energy through the metal
saucepan?

[1]