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APRIL 2020 SCI PAPER 1 checkpoint primary
APRIL 2020 SCI PAPER 1 checkpoint primary
SCIENCE 0846/01
Paper 1 April 2020
45 minutes
INSTRUCTIONS
Answer all questions.
Use a black or dark blue pen. You may use an HB pencil for any diagrams or graphs.
Write your name, centre number and candidate number in the boxes at the top of the page.
Write your answer to each question in the space provided.
Do not use an erasable pen or correction fluid.
Do not write on any bar codes.
You should show all your working in the booklet.
You may use a calculator.
INFORMATION
The total mark for this paper is 50.
The number of marks for each question or part question is shown in brackets [ ].
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[2]
Complete the table to show the method he uses to separate each mixture.
[3]
Yuri
balloon
4 Draw a line between each material and one correct description of the material.
material description
black solid
[5]
5 Safia, Mia and Mike make a model of part of the solar system.
A
B
[2]
plant A
plant B
growth rate
of plant
plant C
0
0 10 20 30 40 50
temperature in °C
(a) Which plant grows the fastest when the temperature is 30 C?
[1]
[1]
[1]
[1]
Jamila says that all the bones in the hand are different.
(a) What equipment does she use to measure the length of each bone?
[1]
(b) What equipment does she use to measure the mass of the bones?
[1]
[1]
eye of
animal shape
animal shape
stick
Complete the sentences to describe how the animal shadows are formed.
(a) Animal shadows are made when light from a source is ………….………………… . [1]
This is because the material they are made from is ………….………………… . [1]
(c) We can see the light passing through the eye of the animal shape.
Forces quiz
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4. What is the name of the force that makes objects fall on the Earth?
.....................................................
[3]
soft body
Describe one way snails keep their soft body from drying out.
[1]
What do snails use to help them know where they are going?
[1]
Ahmed
Carlos
Carlos pushes with gentle force, then medium force and then hard force.
hard 1.2 s gentle 1.1 s medium 1.0 s medium 1.1 s hard 1.0 s
gentle
medium
hard
[2]
Predict what happens to the time taken for Ahmed to come back to X.
[1]
If they get the question correct the lamp will turn on.
A
question
B
wire answer 1
answer 2
answer 3
[1]
He connects the wire from the question to answer 2 on the quiz board.
[1]
Explain why.
[1]
Explain why.
[1]
[1]
(b) Calculate the difference between the boiling point of the solution and the
boiling point of pure water.
[2]
[1]
time taken 30
to dissolve 25
in seconds
20
15
10
5
0
0 1 2 3 4 5
number of sugar cubes
(c) Blessy predicts that it would take 55 seconds for 6 sugar cubes to dissolve.
She checks her prediction by doing the experiment with 6 sugar cubes three
times.
[1]
(d) It was a good idea for Blessy to check her prediction using three experiments
rather than just one.
Explain why.
[1]
light
shadow
books
add a book
remove a book
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