HERM JUNIOR SCHOOL – MPIGI

CONSOLIDATION EXAMINATION SET I 2024

INTEGRATED SCIENCE By; Mr Kalule Noah
Time allowed 2 hours 15 minutes
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Read the following instructions carefully:
1. Do not forget to write your school or district name on the
paper.

2. This paper has two sections: A and B. Section A has 40 questions

and section B has 15 questions. The paper has 12 printed pages.

3. Answer all questions. All working for both sections A and B

must be shown in the spaces provided.

4. All answers must be written using a blue or black ball point pen
or ink. Any work written in pencil will not be marked.

5. Unnecessary changes in your work and handwriting that cannot

be read easily may lead to loss of marks.

6. Do not fill anything in the table indicated: “For Examiners’ use

only” and boxes inside the question paper. Turn Over

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 Section A (40MARKS)
1. Name one characteristic that makes a tsetse fly able to spread
germs.
 It is attracted to scent of carbon dioxide from
animals
 It feeds on blood of animals.
 It has a high production rate.
 It has a proboscis for sucking blood.
 Reject= it has a hairy bodies
2. Identify one method of making temporary magnets.
 Induction method
 Electrical method.
 Single touch/single stroking method
 Double touch/double stroking method
3. How is VIP latrine useful in the control of diarrhoeal diseases
in the community?
 It has a fly screen for trapping and killing
houseflies that would spread diarrhoeal
diseases.
 It helps in the proper disposal of faeces that
attracts houseflies responsible for spreading
diarrhoeal diseases.
4. Give any one sign in home compound that shows that a home
environment is degraded.
 Rubbish in the home compound
 Logged water/still/stagnant water in the home
compound
 Tall grass in the home compound

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  Bushes around homes
 Faeces/poop in the home compound
Study the diagram below and answer questions 5 and 6.
5. Name part marked B
 Glass envelope = reject glass envelop

6. Why is part marked A coiled?

 To increase electrical resistance
 To fit in a glass envelope/To occupy a small
space in a glass envelope.
7. What term refers to the keeping of our bodies clean?
 Personal hygiene
8. Write down one method of extracting honey from honeycombs.
 Spinning/centrifugation method
 Crush and strain method
 Pressing honeycombs methods
 Floating the wax method
9. What is meant by the term family planning?
 Use of birth control methods to plan when to
have and not to have children.
10. Besides too much light, state any one other cause of fowl
vices in the poultry house.
 Prolapsed poultry
 Overcrowding of poultry in the house

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  Lack of enough calcium in the diet.
 Presence of broken egg shells in the poultry
house
 Boredom
 Too much hunger/failure to provide poultry with
food in time/delay in giving them feeds
11. State any one effect of alcoholism to an individual.
 It leads to self neglect
 It damages the liver
 It damages the brain and pancreas
 It leads to poverty
 It may lead to loss of job at the work places.
 It may lead to cognitive impairment/memory
loss.
12. Write down one method of applying fertilizers in the garden.
 Broadcasting method
 Top dressing method
 Placement method
13. Each dry cell contains 1.5v, how many volts are in 6 dry
cells?
 (1.5 *6)V =9V
14. Why do gases have spaced molecules than solids?
 Gases have weaker cohesion than solids.
15. State one use of foliages leaves to onion plants.
 For carrying out photosynthesis/making food for
the onion plant
 For carrying out transpiration
 For carrying out exchange of gases
 Reject = for respiration

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16. To which group of arthropods to millipedes belong?
 Myriapods
17. How does smoking affect human’s teeth?
 It tarnishes/stains the teeth/changes colour of
the teeth
 It increases risks of tooth decay by weakening
the enamel/ it weakens the enamel.
18. Give the meaning of the term electricity?
 Electricity is the form of energy produced by the
charged particles.
 Reject= is the form of energy produced by the flow of
electrons/Is the form of energy that deals with
charges.
Study the diagram below and answer questions 19 and 20

19. To which group of musical instruments does the instrument

below belong?
 Wind musical instruments

20. State any other musical instrument belonging to the same

group?
 Oboe
 Flute
 Clarinet
 Piccolo
 Trombone

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  French horn
 Trumpet
 Bassoon
 Saxophones
21. Give a reason why breast milk is the best food for babies.
 It contains all food values
 It is easily digested by the babies
 It contains antibodies that improves immunity of
babies
 It is always available with the right temperature
 Reject= it contains almost all food values
22. Write any one energy resource got from minerals.
 Uranium
 plutonium
23. Identify any one effect of heat gain on matter.
 It causes expansion of matter
 It causes melting of matter
 It causes sublimation of matter
 It causes evaporation of matter
24. Name any one example of a plant fibre.
 Jute
 Banana fibres
 Cotton wool
 Sisal
 papyrus
25. How is respiration important to in human bodies?
 It produces energy in human bodies.
26. Give any one method of improving on local breeds of pigs.
 Out breeding method

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  Crossbreeding method
 Selective breeding
27. State the reason why a coin may sink in water.
 It is more dense than water
 It is denser than water
 Its density is more than that of water
28. Identify the behavior of the body when vaccination is carried
out.
 The body produces antibodies.
29. What are non renewable resources?
 These are resources that cannot be replaced
naturally after use.
30. Name one way of abusing drugs.
 By smoking
 By sniffing
 By chewing
 By swallowing
 By drinking
 By injection
 Ways of abusing drugs are ways how
commonly abused drugs are taken into the
body.
 Reject = by taking overdose/under dose/
31. What structure reduces friction at a joint?
 Cartilages
 Synovial fluid
32. What term refers to the scattering of the seeds from the
parent plant to other new areas?
 Seed dispersal

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33. Outline one way of controlling common sicknesses at home.
 Draining away still/stagnant water
 Boiling water for drinking
 Sleeping under well treated mosquito nets
34. Besides bone marrows, name any other place where blood
cells are manufactured from.
 Spleen
 Lymph nodes
35. How can echoes be prevented in cinema halls?
 By covering walls with thick curtains
 By covering floors with heavy carpets
 By installing acoustic wall panels
 By installing double glazed windows
 By covering walls with soft boards.
 By installing acoustic ceiling tiles
 By installing acoustic wall tiles.
36. What do doctors do to restart a clinical thermometer before
using it on another patient?
 They shake the clinical thermometer
37. Give one disadvantage of treating water using fluoride.
 They add a taste in water
 They add a smell in water
38. What device measures the density of milk?
 Lactometer
39. Identify the coiled structure marked M below as used in
electricity and magnetism.

M-Solenoid

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40. Name the enzyme that breaks down starch into dextrin and
maltose.
 Ptyalin/ salivary amylase
Section B (60MARKS)
41. (a) What are detritivores?
 Organisms that feed on dead organic matter.
(b) Outline two examples of detritivores?
 Some bacteria
 Some fungi
 Millipedes
 Woodlice
 Earthworms
 Maggots
(c) How are earthworms important in improving soil quality?
 They improve soil fertility
 They improve soil structure
 They improve soil aggregation
 They improve soil aeration

42. a) State the property of air enables a person to;

(i) Fly a kite - Air exerts pressure

(ii) Wear perfume – Air can be compressed.

(b) Give any other two dangers of air to people.
 Air carries tobacco smoke that leads to lung
cancer among people
 Air carries dust to people hence damaging the
respiratory organs
 Air spreads air borne diseases

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  Strong air causes shame when it lifts people’s
clothes
43. a) Which type of honeybees are commonly seen around
flowers?
 Workers/Worker bees
b) Why is the above type of honeybees commonly seen
around flowers?
 To collect nectar
 To collect pollen
 Nectar is a sugary liquid that provides
honeybees with energy while pollen is a source
of pollen.
 Honeybees use nectar to make honey and pollen
to feed their larvae/grub.

c) How are the type of honeybees given in (a) above friendly

to a crop farmer?
 They pollinate flowers of farmers’ crops
44. a) Give one situation that may make each of these parts fail
to work when the switch is closed.
i) dry cells
 when they are exhausted/used up
 when they are arranged poorly/wrongly
ii) bulb
 when the bulb is blown
 when the bulb is not fixed properly
b) State the energy change that occurs in each of these
parts of a complete circuit;
i) bulb
 electrical energy to heat energy
 electrical energy to light energy
 heat energy to light energy

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 ii)drycell
 chemical energy to electrical energy
45. Match the plant processes with their uses to the plant.
Plant process function
Seed dispersal plants obtain food
Photosynthesis plants are cooled
Transpiration plants colonize new areas
Pollination plants are helped to reproduce
a) Seed dispersal plants colonize new areas
b) Photosynthesis plants obtain food
c) Transpiration plants are cooled
d) Pollination plants are helped to reproduce
46. Which crop growing practice is responsible for;
i) maintaining the plant population in the garden?
 Gap filling
ii) preventing root tuber crops from root tuber crop pests?
 Earthing up
iii) helping in nitrogen fixation?
 Crop rotation
b) What could be the danger of failing to weed a banana
plantation ?
 It could lead to low crop yields
 It could lead to competition for
water/nutrients/oxygen/space and carbon
dioxide
47. a) State one dairy exotic breed of goats besides sable goats.
Using a formula STAAS
 S- Saanen goats
 T- Toggen burg
 A- alpine goats
 A- Angora goats
 S- Sable goats

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 b) Give one advantage of rearing exotic breeds of goats.
 They produce higher quantities of meat
 They grow faster
 They produce more quantities of mohair
 They produce more quantities of milk
c) Name any two activities farmers do to care for their
goats.
 Watering goats
 Feeding goats
 Immunizing goats
 Housing goats
 Keeping their houses clean and dry
Below is a diagram, use it to answer to questions that follow

48. a) Identify the type of latrine with a fly screen in the

diagram above.
 VIP latrine//Ventilated improved pit latrine
b) State the importance of the vent pipe on the above
mentioned latrine.
 It lets out bad smell

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 c) How is the above latrine an important element in
controlling trachoma among children?
 It has a fly screen for trapping and killing
houseflies that would spread trachoma among
children
 It helps in proper disposal of faeces that would
attract houseflies that spread trachoma among
children
d) Why should the above latrine be constructed at least 30
metres away from the water sources?
 For easy filtration of water in faeces by the soil
to prevent water contamination
 To prevent contamination of water in water
sources.
49. a) Mention one example of a plant that stores food in
leaves.
 Shallot plants
 Onion plants
 Cabbage plants
 Tulip plants
 Garlic plants
b) Apart from storing food, give two other uses of leaves to
plants.
 For carrying out transpiration
 For carrying out photosynthesis
 For breathing
(c) How do most plants reproduce?
 By means of seeds
50(a) Write down one way sound can be stored.
 By recording using phones/computers

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  By solfa notation
 By staff notation
b) Give one reason for storing sound.
 To keep records of family members
 To use it for entertainment
 To present it during lectures
 To broadcast it to make communication easy
 For reference/research purposes
 To preserve historical speeches for future use.
c) Mention any one way stored sound can be reproduced.
 Singing solfa notation
 Singing staff notation
 Replaying it using DVD players
 Replaying it using CD players
 Replaying it using VLC media players
 Replaying it using computers/GOM players/phones
d) Why is sound grouped under forms of energy?
 It can be changed to other forms of energy
 It can be transferred from one object to another.
 It makes work possible.

51 a) Give two properties of air.

 Air occupies space
 Air can be compressed
 Air exerts pressure
 Air has weight
b) Which part of air is added to the atmosphere by starch making
in plants?
 oxygen
c) Name one disease that spreads through contaminated air.
 Influenza/flu
 Tuberculosis/TB
 COVID 19

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  Measles
 Chicken pox
 Pertusis/whooping cough
 Common cold
 Mumps

52 a) Give one use of magnets in radios.

 Magnets enable radio speakers to produce sound
b) Name the methods of making magnets described below;
i) a magnetic material gaining magnetism through contact to a
permanent magnet
 Induction method
ii) a magnetic material gaining magnetism by placing it in a
solenoid with direct current electricity
 Electrical method
c) Mention one way of keeping a permanent magnet stronger for
long.
 Keeping permanent magnets in iron keepers
 Keeping magnets in a cool/dry place.
 Keeping magnets away from each other
 Keeping magnets away from corrosive substances
 Avoid dropping/dropping magnets
 Avoid keeping magnets facing in W-E direction
 Painting magnets
53 (a) How can you conserve coal as an energy resource?

 By using it wisely and sparingly

 By using hydroelectricity for cooking instead of using
coal gas always
 By heating houses during winter using charcoal
instead of coal always
 By using solar electricity for lightning instead of
using coal gas always

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  By using biogas for cooking and lighting instead of
thermal electricity from coal always
(b) Give any two ways coal is used as an energy resource.
 It is burnt to produce thermal electricity
 It is used as fuel for steam electric power
generation
 It is used as fuel in locomotives
 It is used as fuel in steam engines
 It is used in steel industries for smelting metals
 Coal gas is used for cooking and lighting
 Used for heating houses during winter in some
countries
(c) State the reason why non renewable energy resources
should be conserved.
 For future use
 To prevent wastage of non renewable energy
resources
 To prevent extinction of non renewable energy
resources

54 (a) What is primary health care?

 This is the essential health care where individuals,

families and communities work together to solve
their common health problems
(b) Give any two principles of PHC apart from prevention is
better than cure.
 Health services should be available
 Health services should be affordable
 Health services should be accessible

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  Health services should benefit all members
 Total health for all members
 Total participation for all members
(c) Name one any one element that is promoted by taking
pregnant mothers for antenatal care.
 Maternal and child health care
study the diagram below and answer the questions below

55. (a) Name the movable joint marked K.

 Ball and socket joint

(b) Write any one disorder of the bones
 Fractures
 Dislocations
 Osteoporosis/porous bones/brittle bones
 Scoliosis(abnormal curvature of the spine)
(c) Give any one habit done to promote the proper
functioning of the bones.
 Feeding on the balanced diet
 Doing regular body exercises
 Avoid smoking as this weakens the bones
 Avoid taking too much alcohol
 Avoiding taking excess caffeine as it reduces
calcium absorption

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  Taking food supplements like calcium and
vitamin D supplements.
 Having good body postures to prevent
weakening of bones/deformities.
 Having enough sleep to allow proper repairing of
bones
 Going for regular bone health checkups.
Mr. Kalule Noah Wishes You Success.

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