THIRD TERM EXAMINATION (2022/2023 ACADEMIC SESSION)

SCIENCE

BASIC 1
Doc. Ref: TRA-EXM-STDA-BSC/2023

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PART A – MULTIPLE CHOICE

Choose the correct answers from the options lettered A-C

1. What can pollution do?

A. Keep the air clean B. make animals sick C. help save resources
2. How can you use reduce your use of resources?

A. Plant a tree B. turn off light C. throw trash in a trash can

3. In which season was this young lamb born

A. Fall B. spring C. summer
4. A person who studies weather is a _____________

A. meteorologist B. hot air balloon C. polymer scientist

5. What does a rain guage measure?

A. the direction of the wind B. how much rain has fallen C. the temperature of the air
6. What is wind?

A. Moving air B. water from the sky C. a tool for measuring

temperature

7. Look at this picture. What is the weather like?

A. clear and cold B. cold and snowy C. windy and warm

8. Which season comes right before fall?
A. spring B. summer C. winter
9. What can you do to predict what the weather will be like next week?
A. ask a friend B. look out the window C. look at a weather report for this week

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10. Identify this weather tool?

A. hot air balloon B. weather balloon C. weather station

11. What is weather?

A. One of the four seasons B. what the air outside is like C.a way to measure
temperature
12. I am a time when trees have lots of leaves, or no leaves at all. I am winter, spring,
summer or fall. I am a ____________
A. weather B. season C. harmattan
13. What are the two seasons in Nigeria?
A. winter and fall B. spring and summer C. rainy and dry
14. He lived more than 400 years ago, His telescope made objects look 20 times bigger,
and he found out that Jupiter has four moons. He is ________________
A. Galileo Galilei B. June Bacon Bacey C. Dr Eugene Tsui
15. Which can we see in the daytime sky?
A. the moon and the sun B. the sun and many stars C. many stars and the moon
16. Hind was given an assignment by her teacher to draw object(s) that cannot be seen in
the nighttime sky. Which of the options below would she draw?
A. clouds B. stars C. the sun
17. Rahyyan gives one of the following explanation as what the sun does
_____________________
A. appears as phases B. moves around Earth C. warms land, air, and water

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18. Abdurrahman saw this moon phase at night when he was coming back from magrib
prayer with his dad. He quickly recalled and told his dad that it was a
_________________moon phase

A. full moon B. new moon C. first quarter moon

19. Which object can you see in both the daytime and nighttime skies?

A. B. C.

20. The moon is a _________________

A. large ball of rock B. star closest to Earth C. a sphere that does not give off its
own light
21. Nabeelah requested her dad to buy her a small telescope if she passes her
examination. Her dad asked her to write what a telescope does. Which of these would she
write to get the gift.
A. helps to remove dark clouds B. makes the stars look smaller C.helps to magnify
things in the sky
22. What time of day does this picture show?

A. afternoon B. morning C. night

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23. Light from the sun makes _______________________
A. Position B. shadow C. cloud
24. How many stars are in the sky?
A. about 100 B. fewer than 100 C. more than we can easily count
25. What kind of matter is a shoe?
A. a gas B. a liquid C. a solid
26. What is one property of a solid?
A. It flows B. It fills it container C. It has its own shape
27. It was quiz time in school, Grade 1 students were represented by Ibrahim. He was
asked to say in one sentence , how solids, liquids, and gases are the same. Which will he
choose to get his point right ?
A. They all flow B. They are all matter C. They all keep their shape
28. Muktar went for a party and was given a lot of gift. To apply what he had been taught,
he sort the gift under what group would he You see several objects at a party. Which
object is a liquid?
A. apple juice B. cake C. the air in a balloon

29. Hameedah does this to her blanket every morning . How can you describe her action?

A. She is washing the blanket B. she is folding blanket C. She is cutting the blanket
30. Which is a mixture?
A. Grapes B. Pencils C. Salad
31. How do you know that the material being poured is a liquid and not a solid?

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A. It has mass B. It has its own shape C. It flows and takes the shape of its
container

32. You stir sugar into a glass of warm water. What happens?
A. The sugar freezes B. The sugar dissolves C. All of the sugar sinks the bottom
33. Saheed stirs sand into a glass of warm water. He knows the sand is not dissolving in the
water. How does he know?
A. The sand melts B. The sand and water mix completely C. The sand and
water do not mix completely
34. In what kind of water will sugar disolve the fastest?
A. Cold B. cool C. hot
35. What kind of matter is inside the bubbles ?
A. solid B. liquid C. gas
36. An object that ___________ stays on top of liquid
A. Sink B. flows C. float
37. One of the following object stays on top of liquid
A. apple B. ball C. nail
38. Which of the following is the heaviest?
A. Marker B. paper clip C. paint bucket
39. ____________________ is the measure of how something moves
A. Distance B. speed C. motion
40. How can you describe the movement of a swing?
A. On a Straight line B. round a round C. back and forth

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PART B

1. Choose a word from the box to fill in the gaps.

Weather pattern season weight magnify

pollution

i. A change in weather that repeats is a ___________________________

ii. Time of a year is _____________________________
iii. The measure of how heavy something feels is _____________________
iv. Waste that harms land, water and air is ______________________
v. To ____________________________ is to make an objects bigger.

Fill the gaps with the appropriate answer

vi. A dark place made where an object blocks light is a ____________________________
vii. The brightest object in the day is __________________________________
viii. ________________________ is the amount of matter something has.
ix. To move or stop an object from moving is ____________________
x. After spring comes ___________________________ 20 marks

2. Look at the tree.

a. What season is it? How do you know?

_______________________________________________________________
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_______________________________________________________________
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b. Which season comes next?

________________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________

3. Describe a way people can use each of these natural resources

a. _________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________
__________________

b. _________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________
__________________

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4. Write the states of the following matter in their appropriate

Solid Liquid Gases

Air table door milk smoke

Water river steam rock apple
Juice brick tree wind rain

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