CHRISDOF INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL

END OF TERM EXAMS

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FORM ONE
END OF SECOND TERM EXAMINATION
INTREGRATED SCIENCE
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©CHRISDOF EXAMS
 Answer all questions from this section.
1. (a) Examine carefully the garden tools shown below and use it to answer the questions that follow.

A B

D
C

i. Identify each of the tools A, B, C and D. [4 marks]

ii. State one use of each of the tools. [4 marks]
iii. State two ways of maintaining tool D. [2 marks]

(b) The diagram below is a 3 − year rotation programme. Use it to answer the questions that follow.
Year Plot 1 Plot 2 Plot 3
First year Yam Cowpea I
Second year Cowpea Millet Yam
Third year Millet II III

i. Copy and complete the table above. [4 marks]

ii. Which of the crops is deep rooted? [2 mark]
iii. Name two other crops that are deep rooted. [2 marks]
iv. Which of the crops is leguminous? [2 marks]

(c) The set-up below shows air being breathed out through the mouth into a test tube containing lime
water.

Air breathed out

from the mouth

Lime water
turns milky

i. Why does the lime water turn milky? [2 marks]

ii. Identify the milky substance produced. [ 2 marks]
iii. Write a balanced chemical equation for the reaction. [3 marks]
iv. What is the aim of the experiment? [3 marks]
(d) A farmer used the crops A, B, C and D illustrated in the figure below in a crop rotation programme in
 his backyard garden for four successive growing seasons.

A B C D

i. Identify each of the crops A, B, C and D in the figure above. [4 marks]

ii. Explain the importance of crop B in the cropping programme. [2 marks]
iii. Give two advantages the farmer is likely to gain by adopting the
crop rotation programme. [4 marks]

Answer three (3) questions only from this section.

2. (a) (i) What is plant propagation? [3 marks]
(ii) How many types of propagation do we have? Name them. [4 mark]
(b) (i) Mention four farming systems practiced in Ghana. [4 marks]
(ii) Explain any two of them. [4 marks]

3. (a) (i) Is respiration important to man? Explain. [5 marks]

(ii) What are respiratory organs? [2 marks]
(b) (i) State two advantages and two disadvantages of propagation by seeds. [8 marks]

4. (a) (i) State three ways of plant propagate on. [3 marks]

(ii) Explain any two of them. [4 marks]
(b) (i) Define the term “crop rotation” and state two principles involved. [5 marks]
(ii) State the reason why yam cannot follow cassava in a crop rotational plan. [3 marks]

5. (a) (i) What are farming systems? [2 marks]

(ii) Distinguish between shifting cultivation and land rotation. [4 marks]
(b) (i) Show how the following plants are propagated;
cassava, pineapple, tomatoes, sweet potato and okro. [5 marks]
(ii) Give an example each of the following: rhizome, bulb, corm and stem tubers. [4 marks]

6. (a) (i) Define respiration. [3 marks]

(ii) Write a chemical equation to represent respiration [2 marks]
(b) (i) What are cultural practices? [2 marks]
(ii) Mention 4 farm tools and state one use each. [8 marks]

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Section A
 Answer all the following correctly.
1. Yam is usually propagated by A. staking B. pruning C. mulching
A. root tubers B. layering C. stem D. thinning out
tubers D. stem cutting
13. A flap of tissue that prevents food and fluid
2. Which of the crops is a legume? from entering the air passage is called
A. Maize B. Pepper C. Wheat A. bronchus B. epiglottis C. glottis
D. Soya bans D. trachea
3. The voice box is also called 14. A system of farming where the farmer and his
A. pharynx B. larynx C. thorax family move from one farmland to another is
D. epiglottis called
4. Which of the following farming systems deals A. land rotation B. shifting cultivation
with the protection of vegetation and animals in C. monoculture D. monocropping
an 15. In which of the following respiratory
environment? structures does gaseous exchange occur?
A. Monocropping B. Mixed cropping A. Alveoli B. Trachea C. Nasal
C. Ecological farming D. Monoculture passage D. Bronchiole
5. Which of the following farming systems 16. All the following farming tools can be used to
requires special skills for planning? loosen the soil except
A. Pastoral farming B. Monocropping A. garden fork B. pick-axe C. hand
C. Crop rotation D. Monoculture trowel D. hand fork
6. All the following are methods used to 17. Which of the following farming activities
artificially propagate plants except pollutes the environment?
A. Cutting B. Tissue culture C. A. Drainage B. Frequent use of
Marcotting D. Stirring chemical fertilizers C. Pruning D.
7. In which of the following areas in Ghana is Staking
pastoral farming being practiced? 18. A farming system in which rice is grown and
A. Accra B. Tema C. ducks are reared is called
Nsawam D. Northern region A. land rotation B. crop rotation C.
8. Which of the following plant is propagated mixed farming D. mixed cropping
through layering?
19. The life process by which energy is released
A. Mango B. Bougainvillea C.
from the breakdown of food is called
Orange D. Almond
A. excretion B. digestion C.
9. Which of the following vegetable crops need to respiration D. nutrition
be staked?
20. Which of the following crop is propagated
A. Okro B. Tomato C. Cabbage
using suckers?
D. Carrot
A. Orange B. Banana
10. Which of the following vegetable seeds are
C. Guava D. Cocoyam
nursed before transplanting?
A. Groundnut B. Cucumber C. 21. Which of the following is a root vegetable?
Okro D. Garden eggs A. Asparagus B. Broccoli
C. Carrot D. Cucumber
11. Which of the crops cultivated is deep rooted?
A. Pepper B. Maize C. Soya
beans D. Sweet potato The table shows a four-year crop rotation
programme.
12. Removal of excess branches and leaves from a
Study and use it to answer questions 22-25
crop plant is called
 Year Plot 1 Plot 2 Plot 3 Plot 4 C. Orange D. Tomato
First Sweet Soya Pepper Maize
year potato beans 31. The tiny air sacs in the lungs are called
Second Soya Pepper Maize Soya A. alveoli B. trachea sacs
year bean potato C. bronchioles D. bladder
Third Pepper Maize Sweet Soya
year potato beans 32. In which part of human beings are the lungs
Fourth Maize Sweet Soya Pepper situated?
year potato beans A. Abdominal cavity B. Thoracic cavity
C. Diaphragm D. Stomach
22. Which of the crops is cultivated in Plot 3 in 33. Which of the following is a root vegetable?
the third year? A. Tomato B. Ginger
A. Maize B. Sweet potato C. Carrot D. Shallot
C. Soya bean D. Pepper
34. Which of the following is the respiratory
23. How many crops are cultivated in the 4-year organ for fish?
programme? A. Skin B. Lungs
A. 1 B. 4 C. 3 D. 2 C. Mouth D. Gills
24. Which of the crops is a legume? 35. The process by which living things obtain
A. Pepper B. Sweet potato energy from food in their body cells is known as
C. Maize D. Soya bean A. tissue respiration B. excretion
25. Millets belong to the family of crops called C. selective reabsorption D. digestion
A. citrus B. legumes 36. The gas produced when glucose is oxidized
C. weeds D. cereals during internal respiration is
26. Which of the following diseases affects the A. carbon (II) oxide B. carbon (IV)
lungs? C. hydrogen D. nitrogen
A. Cholera B. Measles 37. A place where seeds are raised before they are
C. Tetanus D. Tuberculosis transplanted is called
27. The practice of growing crops on the same A. a nursery B. seed box
piece of land, year after year is called C. nursery bed D. a drill
A. commercial farming 38. Which of the following is not a climatic
B. monocropping factor?
C. mixed farming A. Temperature B. Rainfall
D. monoculture C. Light D. pH of soil
28. Which of the following gases is present in 39. Which of the following ca be processed into
exhaled air? paste for storage?
A. Oxygen B. Nitrogen A. French beans B. Tomatoes
C. Carbon dioxide D. Argon C. Okro D. Cucumber
29. All these crops belong to the same family 40. Internal respiration occurring in the presence
except of oxygen is known as
A. groundnut B. cowpea A. anaerobic respiration
C. onion D. soya bean B. aerobic respiration
30. Which of the following is a fruit vegetable? B. alcoholic fermentation
A. Cabbage B. Carrot D. simple diffusion