OSHWAL ACADEMY NAIROBI

JUNIOR HIGH

Cambridge International General Certificate of Secondary Education

NAME:

CLASS: SUBJECT TEACHER:

BIOLOGY 0610
YEAR 8 TERM 1
SEPTEMBER 2023

WEEK 4 QUIZ
TOPIC; PHOTOSYNTHESIS
Time: submit before the deadline given
Instructions
 Use blue font.
 Answer all questions in the spaces provided
 Date assignment given;
 Date of submission;
Information
 The total mark for this paper is 10
 The marks for each question are shown in brackets - use this as a guide as to how
much time to spend on each question.
 Type your answers in the spaces after the questions

Advice
 Read each question carefully before you start to answer it.
 Try to answer every question.
.

Total: 10 Marks
1. Safia and Jamila investigate photosynthesis. They use water plants.

Here is the apparatus they use.

gas
bubbles

lam
p
ligh
t water

water plant

a. In their first experiment they measure the number of gas bubbles made
in one minute.

i. What is the name of the gas made in photosynthesis?

Circle the correct answer.

carbon dioxide methane nitrogen oxygen water [1]

ii. What equipment does Safia use to measure one minute? [1]

iii. Explain why they used water plant for this experiment [1]

iv.
Write the complete word equation for photosynthesis [1]
b. Safia and Jamila do two more experiments.

They move the lamp further away from the plant for each experiment. Here are

their results.
distance between light and number of gas bubbles in
water plant in cm one minute

10 98

20 54

40 26

i. Why do they use one minute for each experiment?

[1]

As the distance between the light and the water plant increases,

[1]
c. Predict the results for:

a distance of 30 cm = gas bubbles

a distance of 50 cm = gas bubbles

[2]

d. Highlight the correct word or phrase that completes the conclusion. (1)

increases

The rate of photosynthesis as light decreases

does not change

decreases

(Total 10 marks)