Al TONG SCHOOL 2018 END-OF-YEAR EXAMINATION PRIMARY FOUR SCIENCE DURATION: 1 hour 45 minutes DATE: 22 October 2018 INSTRUCTIONS Do not open the booklet until you are told to do so. Follow all instructions. Answer all questions. Section A 56 Name: ( ) " eee Section B 44 Class : Primary 4 Total 100 Parent’s Signature : Date : Project Work 20 120Section A (28 x 2 marks) For each question from 1 to 28, four options are given. One of them is the correct answer. Make your choice (1, 2, 3 or 4) and shade your answer on the Optical Answer Sheet. 1. In hot weather, an elephant flaps its ears to cool down. ae This shows that the elephant is a living thing because it can (1) grow (2) breathe 3) respond (4) reproduce 2. The diagram below shows a plant. Which part, A, B, C or D, supports the plant? a) (2) (3) @) p:oD> At3. The diagram below shows the growth of a young plant with two missing stages P and Q Q— 4 Which one of the following shows the correct stages for P and Q? P Q “| @ a : vi a o| @ vt A24. In which part of the digestive system is digested food absorbed into the blood? (1) gullet Q) _ storach (3) sinall intestine (4) large intestine Alice put an empty plastic bottle into a container of water. At which position, A, B, C or D, would the empty plastic bottle most likely be found? (1) (2) (3) @) gOm> ASWhich one of the following objects will break easily when bent? (1) A cotton towel (2) Awooden ice-cream stick sy i (3) Ametal wire (4) Arubber glove The reading on the weighing scale shows that the mass of the apples is. kg. 40 @ 43 @ 50 (4) 57 A48. An object Z was attracted to'a magnet, as shown in the figure below. magnet 3+ object Z Object Z is made of (1) steel (2) wood 3) glass (4) plastic 9. _ Ignatius wants to measure the temperature of hot water in a beaker. Which one of the following diagrams shows the correct position of the ‘thermometer when taking temperature reading? (1) (2) (3) (4) AS10. Look at the picture below. ae ‘Which one of the following explains why Zachary can see the table? Direction > of light (2) a11. Lily saw animal X in the zoo. animal X Which of the following action(s) should Lily do to find out if animal X is a bird? A Check if animal X can fly. B Check if animal X has a tail. © Check if animal X has feathers. D Check if animal X reproduce by laying eggs. (1) Conly (2) Aand Bonly (3) Cand Donly (4) A,CandD only The diagram below shows two living things. fern mushroom Which of the following statements are true about them? Both bear flowers. Both reproduce from spores. Both will grow towards light to make food. Both do not move from place to place on their own. com> (1) Aand Conly (2) Band Donly (8) A,BandD only (4) B,CandDonly ATThe diagram below shows the digestive system of a human body. Use the diagram below to answer Questions 13 and 14, 13, Which parts of the digestive system: produce digestive juice? (1) A,Cand D only @) — ACandE only @) _B, Cand D only (4) B,Dand E only | 14. Which one of the following will happen if part E is not functioning | properly? | (1) Food will not be digested at all. | (2) More digestive juice will be added to the food. | (3) Digested food will not be removed from the body. (4) Less water will be removed from the undigested food. AB15. Study the flow chart below. Does it breat easily? Based on the flow chart, which of the materials is most suitable for making part X of the plaster to cover a bleeding wound? aoa @ 8 eo @ DO16. Different amount of tapioca balls (pearls) were placed into four identical bubble tea cups, A, B, C and D, as shown below. Mrs Lim poured milk tea into the four cups until they were filled to the brim. st aa tapioca balls tapioca balls Which one of the bubble tea cups contained the least amount of milk tea? a oA (2) 8B @) Cc a 17. Two similar boxes, P and Q, have a capacity of 500 cm®. A ball of plasticine, of volume 100 cm*, was placed inside box P only. Both boxes. were then sealed with an air-tight cover. An additional 200 cm’ of air was. pumped into both boxes P and Q using a pump. air-tight cover pump pump boxP Stasticine pe Which one of the following shows the final volume of air in each box? box P box @ a ‘400 cm? ‘500 cms @ 400 om> 700 om? @ 500 om? | 500 om? @) 600 cm? 700 om? A-1018. A metal ball was heated and it expanded as shown befow. 3 ¢— metal ball SS j expanded metal ball bunsen 4 cc burner Four pupils made the following statements about the metal ball, The volume of the metal ball increases after heating. The mass of the metal ball increases after heating. vv) Andric The:mass of the The volume of the métal ball remains |} _ metal ball remains the same after the same after ; heating. heating. Sy) Claris Which pupils are correct? (1) Andrie and Benny only (2) Andric and Claris only (3) Benny and Doris only (4) Claris and Doris only An19. The diagram below shows a syringe half-filled with water. The end of the syringe is,sealed and the plunger is then pushed down. [rp down H plunger | syringe water sealed end Which one of the following graphs shows the correct change in the volume of water as the plunger was pushed down? ” E [ | 5 s | g § 6 3S 8 ° 3 3 g g distance moved distance moved by plunger (cm) by plunger (cm) | @) = s | = = 5 5 § 3 ] 3 3 ° | i E g 8 distance moved distance moved by plunger (cm) by plunger (cm)20. Ali wanted to make a magnet using the stroke method. The diagram below shows the different ways Ali used to stroke the metal rod. Which one of the following ways is incorrect? van | LS . — IF LQ) _ ° — WO LES) A-1321. Four experiments were conducted to find out which bar’AB, CD or EF is a'magnet. The bars were hung from a string and brought near to each other. The observations were shown below. | Which conclusion is correct? Bar AB Bar CD Bar EF | (1) | Magnetic material | Magnetic material Magnet @ Non-magnetic Magnet Magnetic material material (3) | Magnetic material Magnet Magnetic material (4) Non-magnetic | material Magnetic material Magnet | AAS22. Sarah conducted an experiment as shown below. She brought a magnet 23, near a compass and observed that the needle of the compass moved away from the magnet as shown below by the arrow. magnet needle of, compass direction moved Which of the following best explains her observations? (1) The North pole of the magnet magnetised the needle. (2) The magnet attracted the needle as itis a magnetic material. (3) The North pole of the magnet repelled the North pole of the needle. 4) The needle moved away and came to rest in a North-South direction. Fatimah wants to find out i the colour of paper cups affects the rate of heat loss of hot water inside them. The cups below contain hot water of the same temperature. A D white cup white cup black cup black cup Which of the following pairs of cups should Fatimah use to.ensure a-fair test? (1) AandC only (2) Aand Donly @) Band Conly (4) Band D only A18524. The diagram below shows two identical bottles, X and Y, connected by a glass tube with an ink droplet. Bottle X was placed into a basin of cold water but not bottle Y. ink droplet glass tube cold water x Le What can be observed about the ink droplet in the glass tube? Why? ‘Observation of ink droplet Explanation The air in bottle X lost heat and (1) | Moves towards bottle X contracted The cold water in the basin lost (2) | Moves towards bottle X inseam caer (3) | Moves towards bottle Y ‘The air in bottle Y gained heat and expanded. The air in bottle V lost heat and (4) | Moves towards bottle ¥ contracted. At625. Xiao Ming conducted an experiment using three set-ups as shown below. material material material D E F bunsen burner bunsen burner Different amounts of water at room temperature were poured into the beakers and heated. The table below shows the time taken for the water in each set-up to boil. — How fast the Time taken for water Material material conducts | to start boiling in heat the set-up (min) D very fast 10 E slow 40 F fast 10 Which one of the following correctly shows the volume of water used in ' each set-up at the start of the experiment? Volume of water at the start of experiment (ml) ‘Set-up with Set-up with Set-up with material D material E material F a 100 200 300 @) 300 100 200 @) 100 300 200 { @) 300 200 400 AAT| 26. Mrs Goh was in a dark room, She switched on the lamp shown in | diagram 1. | | We | lamp ——— ae 2 aN | Sa diagram 1 diagram 2 | ‘She then placed a lamp shade on the lamp as shown in diagram 2. | Which of the following best explains why the lamp in diagram 2 looks less bright than in diagram 1? (1) Less light from the lamp enters Mrs Goh's eyes. (2). The lamp shade blocks all the light from the lamp. (3) _Less light is reflected from the lamp into Mrs Goh’s eyes. (4) Shadow of the lamp formed on the lamp shade blocked the light from entering Mrs Goh’s eyes. A1827. Justin was given five pieces of cardboards in different shapes as shown below. —— 40m He then stacked some cardboards together and placed them between a torch and a screen at point X. +] x + screen What is the most number of pieces of cardboards Justin could stack together and still form the following shadow on the screen? (dy. 2 @ 3 @) 4 @ 528. Feng Ming set up an experiment as shown below to measure the amount of light reflected from four materials, W, X, Y and Z. A light sensor connected to a datalogger was used fo measure the amount of light reflected by each material. torch + material light sensor | ___ dark connected to room a datalogger | He recorded the readings in the table below. Materials n datalogger (Units) | w 2750 x : 580 iY, 7400 Zz 3000 Based on the results above, which of the following materials W, X, Y or Z is most suitable to make the wordings on the road sign as shown below? | wordings on | the road sign LCE SPEED aM ow (2) x 8) Y | @ 2 | END OF SECTION A A-20Name: (229 Year End 2018 Class P4 ( ) Section B: 44 marks Read the questions carefully and write down your answers in the spaces provided. 29. The diagram below shows the young and adult of some organisms. Draw lines to match the young with the correct adult. 1B} Bt30. (a) The diagram shows part of the human digestive system. Tick one box to show 34. where the stomach is. a) 4 Ve (b) _ Fill in the blank using the following helping words. i} large intestine gullet mouth Food from the stomach is next passed on to the ‘Two magnets are placed together as shown below. magnet 4 magnet 2 s|A a] The south pole of magnet 1 is labelled S, Name the poles labelled A and B on magnet 2. (2 A: B: 4 B232. (a) Look at the pictures. Tick (V) the sources of light. 2) Cairo Csi eyes ee NS Se (b) Xiao Hui shines a torch on a ball and a shadow is formed on a smooth wall. shadow torch ball wall Ashadow is formed when light is. by an object. 1)33, Study the chart below. Animals Produce milk Do not produce for their young milk x Have moist Have dry skin | skin with scales amphibians. Zz (a) Which animal group does X and Z each represents? 2) | es | Z ‘Study the diagram below. tQ ' Ce animal P Part Q is the outer covering of animal P which protects it from other animals or fallen objects from trees. (b) What property must part Q have? 1) Question 33 continues on the next page. 4] | B4Question 33 continues on this page. (c)_ The life cycle of animal P is similar to that of a beetle, The graph below shows the mass of animal P during different stages of its life cycle. mass of animal P (9) time (days) State the name of stage C of the life cycle of animal P. Suggest a reason why there is no gain in mass during stage C. O) B-534. The diagram below shows how a plant is watered by Kim. (a) Explain why water is sprayed at the soil instead of the leaves, 1 Kim conducted an experiment with two young plants, A and B. He cut off all the leaves of plant B as shown. Over the next few days, Kim ensured that any new leaves growing from plant B would be cut off. plant B {b) Suggest what will happen to plant B after one week. Explain your answer. [2] BS35. Jiaxuan wanted to find out how the size of food affects the time taken for the food to be digested. She performed an experiment using the set-up as shown below. [digestive juice Lt food {a) _ Whatiis the measured variable of the experiment? roy (b) If Jiaxuan did not use the same type of digestive juice for all three beakers, how will that affect the experiment? Explain your answer. i | (c) Suggest another variable that Jiaxuan has to keep constant when conducting | the experiment. (11 | (d) Jiaxuan concluded that the smaller the size of food, the shorter the time taken for it to be digested. | Explain Jiaxuan's conclusion. a) | | 4 B736. Uncle Lim sells buns and drinks in a coffee shop. He uses paper bags for his customers to carry their buns and plastic bags for them to carry coffee. | _ handle for big handle for bag {| — coffee paper bag for buns plastic bag for coffee (a) What property does plastic have that makes it suitable to contain coffee? [1] () Uncle Lim performed an experiment using the set-up as shown below. A B c water absorbed by ‘material water He placed three strips of different materials, A, B and C, into a container of water from the same distance. After two minutes, he observed the height of wateriabsorbed by each material. Based on the diagram above, which material, A, B or C, could be plastic? Explain your answer. a Question 36 continues on the next page. BSQuestion 36 continues on this page. (c)_ When Uncle Lim's customers wanted to eat the buns, they realised that the ‘buns were too hot to hold with their bare hands. They would use the paper bag to hold the buns instead. Explain why. 2 Bo37. Shima poured substance W from bottle A into bottle B as shown. CO substance W bottle B (a) Whatis the state of matter of substance W? Explain your answer. 2 Shima then placed bottle B into the freezer overnight. When she removed bottle B from the freezer the next moming, she observed that she could not pour substance W out of bottle B. substance W bottle B {b) Explain her observation. 2) 8-1038, Albert attached an iron bar on a toy car. He placed the toy car at the start point and slowly pushed the toy car towards the electromagnet. Albert recorded the distance the toy car was pushed before the electromagnet could attract it. direction of electromagnet movement distance pushed He repeated the experiment, each time changing the number of batteries in the set-up. His results were recorded in the table as shown. Number of batteries | Distance the toy car was pushed before being attracted by the electromagnet (cm) 2 8 3 6 4 ace 4 [_ | 2 (2) Why did Albert choose to use an iron bar instead of a wooden bar for this ‘experiment? uy (b) State the relationship between the number of batteries and the magnetic strength of electromagnet. iD (©) If Albert fixed the number of batteries used to three, suggest another way to make the distance the toy car was pushed before being attracted by the electromagnet to be shorter than 6 cm. (1) B-1139, The diagram shows a balloon connected to an air pump. balloon Li Em pressed the air pump once. She noticed that the balloon became bigger. When she pressed on the air pump three times, the balloon became even bigger. balloon (a) Explain Li Ern's observation. t Question 39 continues on the next page. B12Question 39 continues on this page. Using the balloon, Li Em carried out an experiment as shown in the diagram below. The whole metal plate was at room temperature at the start of the experiment. balloon empty flask basin with water bunsen burner (b) After part X of the metal plate was heated for three minutes, Li Ern touched part Y of the metal plate and felt that it was hot. Explain why. 1) (c) After a while, the balloon became bigger. Explain-why. 2 3 B1340. The diagram below shows the layout for a shadow performance. Z light source ° oO Position 1 Position 2 oO fe} Position 3 Position 4 ———————————— — screen oO audience Gerald has two toys of the same height. He created the following shadows with his toys as shown below. BA Ss toyA toyB shadows on screen (2) Suggest the position of each toy. 2) Position of toy A: Position of toy B: (b) Explain your answer in (a). (1) (©) For the shadow performance to be successful, explain why the screen should not be made of wood. iO] | B14 441. Minghui placed a cup of ice cream in the living room as shown ice cream (a) State the change in state of the ice cream after some time. t (b) Explain your answer in (a). fa} Minghui’s sister placed a similar cup of ice cream in the same room. She added a metal spoon into the ice cream as shown. metal spoon ice cream (©) Willthe ice cream with the metal spoon melt faster, slower, or at the same rate? Explain your answer. 2) End of Paper [A] BASEXAM PAPER 2018 (P4) SCHOOL : Al TONG SUBJECT : SCIENCE TERM : SAZ Qa ‘az @ | as a | a | a7 a8 a3 Taio 3 3 a [3 1 2 2 1 3 3 air | ai | ais | aaa | as | aie | ai [ais | ais | azo 1 2 a 4 4 ae asa 2 [2 a “a2 | azz | a23 | aaa | ors | a26 | a7 | az | 3 3 1 1 2 [4 3 am Q29)Q30) a) b) small intestine Q31) A: North B: South Q32) a) fire, Sun b) blocked Q33) a) X : Mammal Z: Reptile b) It does not break easily c) Animal P does not eat at stage C. Q34) a) The roots of the plant absorbs the water from the soil but the leaves do not absorb water as it takes in sunlight and makes food for the plant. b) Plant B will die. It does not have leaves to take in sunlight and make its own food. Q35) a) Time taken for the food to be digested.b) The experiment will not be fair as there are more than one variable changed. c) The amount of digestive juice. d) It has a larger surface area allowing the digestive juice to digest at a shorter time. Q36) a) It is waterproof b) Material B. It did not absorb any water and it is waterproof c) Paper is not a good conductor of heat. Paper will slow down heat transfer from buns to hand. Q37) a) Liquid. It takes up the shape of bottle B and it has an indefinite shape. b) Substance W became solid state and does not take up the shape of bottle B and has a definite shape. Q38) a) The iron bar is a magnetic material and can be attracted by electromagnet. b) As the number of batteries increases, the magnetic strength of electromagnet increases. c) Turn more number of coils of wire. 39) a) More air entered the balloon and occupied more space. b) The heat from Bunsen burner travelled from part X of the metal rod all the way to part Y of the metal rod. c) The basin of water gained heat from the metal plate. The air gain heat and expanded. Q40) a) Position of toy A : Position 1 Position of toy B : Position 4 b) The height of the shadow will increases when the toy is nearer to the light source and the height of the shadow will decrease when the toy is further from the light source.c) Wood does not allow any light to pass through so shadows cannot be seen. Q41) a) From solid state to liquid state. b) The ice cream gained heat from the surroundings and melted. c) Faster. Metal is a good conductor of heat, it conducts heat from surrounding to ice cream faster.