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TERM 3 CAT 2 EXAMINATION 2024

Stage 5 SCIENCE

Bambino Primary Continuous Assessment 2

Name

Class : Standard 6 Date

45 Minutes
No additional materials are needed.

INSTRUCTIONS

 Answer all questions.

 Write your answer to each question in the space provided.
 You should show all your working on the question paper.

INFORMATION

 The total mark for this paper is 100.

 The number of marks for each question or part question is shown in brackets [ ].

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1 Chen finds information about the melting points and boiling points of some
substances.

melting point boiling point

substance
in C in C
ethanol −144 78
propanone −95 56
salt solution −6 106
water 0 100

(a) What is the meaning of the words melting point?

[2]

(b) Which substance has the greatest difference between its melting point and its
boiling point?
…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

[2]
(c) Salt solution is a mixture of salt and water.

Describe the effect of adding salt to the boiling point of water.

…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
[1]

This question is about melting point and boiling point.

(d) Describe the change of state that happens at the melting point.

from to [1]

(e) What is meant by the words boiling point?

[1]

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(f) Ethanoic acid has a melting point of 17 °C and a boiling point of 118 °C. Room

temperature is 25 °C.

Tick () one box to show if ethanoic acid is a solid, liquid or gas at room
temperature.

solid

liquid

gas

Explain your answer.

[2]

(g) Hassan draws a bar chart to show the percentage of gases in the air.

80
70
60
50
percentage
40
of gases in air
30
20
10
0
A
B C D E
gas

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i. Complete the sentences.

The gas with the highest percentage in the air is .

This gas has a percentage of 78%.

The gas with the next highest percentage in the air is B.

This gas has a percentage of %.

The difference in percentage between these two gases is %.
[3]

ii. Nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide and water vapour are all gases at room
temperature.

Write down the name of one other gas at room temperature.

………………………………………………………………………………..

[1]

2 Look at the table of information about substances.

property
substance melting point does it
electrical thermal dissolve
conductivity conductivity in C in water?
A high high 3670 no
B low low 10 yes
C high high 30 no
D high high 590 no
E low low 35 yes
F high high 970 no
G low low 870 no

Metals are substances that have these properties:

 high electrical conductivity

 high thermal conductivity
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(a) Which substances in the table are metals?

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[1]
(b) Blessy sorts the substances into two groups.

Group 1 contains B, C and E.

Group 2 contains A, D, F and G.

Explain how Blessy sorts the substances into these two groups.
Group 1
…………………………………………………………………………………..
[1]
Group 2

[1]

3 Boiling and evaporation are two physical changes.

(a) Name the process that is the reverse of evaporation.

Blessy draws a diagram that shows some processes.

Melting A

solid liquid gas

Freezing B

(b) Write down the name of process A.

…………………………………………………………………………….
[1]
(c) Write down the name of process B.

…………………………………………………………………………
[1]
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(d) The picture shows a simple diagram of the water cycle

clouds

water vapour land

sea

Complete the sentences.

Choose words from the list.

evaporation condensation precipitation

The process that happens from sea to water vapour is .

The process that happens from clouds to land is .

The process that changes water vapour into small droplets of water in clouds is
. [3]

(c) Look at the particle model diagram for one of the processes.

Which process does the diagram show, A or B?

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Explain what happens to the particles during this process. Use the

diagram to help you.

[2]

(d) The particle model describes the arrangement and movement of particles.

Describe the arrangement and movement of particles in a solid.

Arrangement

…………………………………………………………………………………….
Movement

…………………………………………………………………………………….
[2]
4 Lily puts a thermometer in water.

Thermometer

Water

(a) Write down the melting point and boiling point of water.

melting point C

boiling point C
[1]

(b) Lily heats the water until it is boiling.

She measures the boiling point of water by looking at the thermometer.

Write down one way she makes sure she is safe when looking at the thermometer.
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(c) Lily adds salt to another beaker of water to make salty water.

Look at the reading on the thermometer in the salty water.

10
0
−10

Complete the sentence.

The temperature of the salty water is C [1]

5 Carlos measures the time it takes for different substances to dissolve in water.

(a) He adds 5 g of a substance to warm water.

What does Carlos do to make all the substance dissolve in the warm water?

……………………………………………………………………………………………
[1]

(b) Describe how Carlos knows all the substance has dissolved.
……………………………………………………………………………………………
[1]
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(c) Carlos repeats the experiment with different substances.

He draws a bar chart of his results.

200

180

160

140

120
Time it takes
for substance 100
to dissolve
in seconds 80

60

40

20

0
A B C D E F

Substance
Complete the sentences.

Substance B takes seconds to dissolve.

The two substances that take the same time to dissolve are

and .
[2]

END OF QUESTION