Science Test

1. Name one organ system that helps humans carry out each life process.
2. How does oxygen get into a unicellular organism?
3. One cell from an organism has a cell wall but no mitochondria. Will this organism be
unicellular or multicellular? Explain your reasoning.
4.
a. Suggest why viruses are not microorganisms.
b. Why is there no virus kingdom?
5. Why do bakers try to get a lot of air into bread dough?
6. Why are decomposers important in an ecosystem?
7. What is the difference between a physical and a chemical property?
8. Describe two uses of catalysts in everyday life. For each use, name the catalyst and the
chemical reaction involved.
9. Explain the difference between rusting and corrosion.
10. Describe four barrier methods for preventing corrosion. Explain how each works and
why we need to use them.
11. Name three metals that are too reactive to use for building bridges.
12. Explain how you would test rainwater to see how acidic it was.
13. Explain how you could use a metal to tell the difference between water and dilute
acid.
14. Explain the difference between a mixture and a pure substance.
15. The weight of the boat is 2000 N. How big is the upthrust? Explain your answer.
16. Write down one factor that affects the amount of kinetic energy stored in an object.
17. Early steam engines had efficiencies of only a few per cent.
a. What energy store did steam engines use?
b. Was most of this energy transferred as wasted or useful energy? Explain your
answer.
c. Suggest two ways in which energy might have been wasted.
18. A horse and rider cover 54 km in 9 hours.
a. Calculate the mean speed.
 b. Explain why the fastest speed during the journey was higher than your answer to
part a.
19. The spanner is 0.2 m long and the force is 20 N. Calculate the moment of the force.
20. A heavy box is pulled along the floor. The work done is 200 J. Explain the final form of
this energy store.
21. Write down two different ways that you can make sounds with your body.
22. What are vibrations?
23. A giant hummingbird flaps its wings about 12 times per second and bee hummingbirds
can flap at over 80 times per second. Explain how the noise made by the wings of each
species will sound different.
24. A tuning fork vibrates 500 times per second.
a. What is its frequency?
b. How will it sound different from a tuning fork that vibrates 300 times per
second?
25. Why does sound travel faster in steel than it does in air? Use ideas about particles in
your answer.
26. You can make your voice carry further by cupping your hands around your mouth or by
shouting through a paper cone. Explain why this works.
27.
a. What are impulses?
b. Which part of the ear sends impulses to the brain?
28. Employers must provide hearing protection if the noise level is above 85 dB. Why is this
necessary?
29. Energy transferred by ultrasound is used to clean a watch. What does the energy do?
30. A ship detects two echoes from a sonar pulse, one 0.05 seconds after the other. Explain
what has caused these two echoes and what information the sonar equipment can work
out from them.
31. What is the difference between a transverse wave and a longitudinal wave?
32. People in small boats need to be careful if they are sailing near cliffs, because the waves
can be bigger than in the open sea, and may be coming from more than one direction.
Explain why this is.