PURSUIT OF EXCELLENCE EXAMINATIONS BOARD

END OF TERM TWO EXAMINATION

2024
PRIMARY FOUR

INTEGRATED SCIENCE

Time Allowed: 2 hours 15 minutes

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 Section A: 40 marks
Questions 1 to 40 carry one mark each

1. Name any one domestic animal that provides protection at home.

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2. Mention any one type of weather that needs the use of an umbrella.
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3. What good healthy practice should be done by after visiting a latrine?
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4. Name the body organ that pumps blood in the body.
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5. Apart from adding taste to food, give one reason why food is prepared
before eating.
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The diagram below is of a bean seed, use it to answer questions
6 and 7.

6. How useful is part R to a bean seed?

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7. Name part marked S on the diagram.
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8. How are nimbus clouds useful to people?
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9. Why do we boil milk before drinking it?
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10. What characteristic of living things enables them to escape from
enemies?
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11. Name the main natural source heat and light energy in the environment.
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12. In which way is a soap dish useful at home?
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13. Name the body organ that is cleaned by using dental floss.
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14. Which part of an insect has the same use as the skin of a human beings?
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15. State any one role of a mother at home.
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Below is a diagram shows the process of rain formation. Use it to
answer the questions 16 and 17.

16. Name the process that lead to the formation of clouds at A in the
diagram.
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17. What do arrows marked B represent.
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18. Give any one way of caring for sick people at home.
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19. Which gas causes a panga to rust when left in water?
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20. Mention any one animal that uses a web to protect itself.
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21. Which deficiency disease is caused by lack of vitamin C in the body?
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22. Suggest any one way a farmer controls crop pests in the garden.
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23. What sense is used to know whether sugar was added to tea?
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24. Identify any one raw material for photosynthesis.
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25. Why does a chameleon change its colour?
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26. Name any one crop whose leaves are eaten.
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27. Why do honey bees visit flowers?
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28. What scientific name is given to the part of a flower shown below?
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29. Why is breast milk the best food for babies?
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30. Write a short note about soil profile.
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31. State any one way plants reduce the rate of transpiration.

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32. In the space below, draw a leaf with a network venation.

33. Write down any one way of controlling the spread of COVID-19 at
school.
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34. Name the item used by the first aider below

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35. Where do mosquitoes lay their eggs?
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36. Give any one reason why animals move from one place to another.
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37. Write down any one method of preserving fish.
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38. State any one reason why farmers mulch their gardens.
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39. What are pesticides?
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40. Write down one example of living component of the environment.
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SECTION B: (60 marks)
41. (a) In one sentence, give the meaning of the term sanitation.
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(b) How is a dustbin useful at home?
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(c) Write down two ways of promoting sanitation.
(i) ______________________________________________________
(ii) ______________________________________________________
42. (a) Identify the sense organ for the following.
(i) Hearing ________________________________________________
(ii) Smelling _______________________________________________
(b) State the main importance of the kidneys in the body.
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(c) Give any one way of maintaining the normal functioning of the body.
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43. Below is the diagram of the structure of teeth. Study and use
it to answer the questions that follow.

(a) Name the type of teeth marked

M _____________________________________________________

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 N ______________________________________________________
(b) Of what use is the tooth with the structure N to man?
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(c) Suggest any one way of caring for the teeth.
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44. (a) Name the weather instrument used to measure the following
(i) The amount of rainfall received ______________________________
(ii) Air pressure _____________________________________________
(b) In which season of the year do farmers harvest their ready crops?
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(c) Give any on danger of strong wind in the environment.
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45. (a) How are the following components of a balanced diet useful to the
body?
(i) Carbohydrates ____________________________________________
(ii) Proteins _________________________________________________
(b) State any one way food can get contaminated.
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(c) Mention any one local method of preserving food.
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46. The table below shows some components of the environment an A
and their uses in B. Match them correctly
A B
Plants For breathing
Animals For watering crops
Air Source of food and oxygen
Water Source of skins and hides

(a) Plants ________________________________________________

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 (b) Animals _______________________________________________
(c) Air ___________________________________________________
(d) Water _________________________________________________
47. The list below is of common insects in the environment. Use it
to answer the question that follow.
wasp housefly bedbug termite honey bees
(a) State any one characteristic common in all the insects above.
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(b) Identify any one insect in the list which has no wings.
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(c) Which of the insects above is more useful to people.
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(d) Why do wasp and honey bees grouped under social insects.
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48. (a) Write down any one disease that can break out due to poor person
hygiene.
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(b) State any one way of preventing such a disease mentioned in (a)
above.
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(c) List down any two items used in promoting personal hygiene.
(i) ______________________________________________________
(ii) _____________________________________________________
49. Below is a diagram showing a type of germination. Study and
use it to answer the questions that follow.

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 (a) Name the type of germination shown in the diagram above.
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(b) Write down any two seeds that undergo the type of germination in
the diagram.
(i) ___________________________________________________
(ii) ___________________________________________________
(c) State any one cause of seed dormancy.
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50. (a) Which group of crops grow and mature one season?
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(b) List down any two examples of crops in (a) above.
(i) ______________________________________________________
(ii) ______________________________________________________
(c) Give any method used to harvest such crops.
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51. (a) Write down any two type of germs.
(i) _____________________________________________________
(ii) _____________________________________________________
(b) Give any one way in which germs spread.
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(c) Mention any one way in which the spread of germs can be controlled.
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52. (a) Give the use of each of the following garden tool.

(b) State any two ways of caring for garden tools.

(i) _____________________________________________________
(ii) _____________________________________________________
53. (a) Write down any two items found in a clean home.
(i) ______________________________________________________
(ii) _____________________________________________________
(b) State any two signs of dirty home.
(i) ______________________________________________________
(ii) _____________________________________________________
54. (a) Name the part of a flower that;
(i) attracts pollinators ______________________________________
(ii) develops into a fruit_____________________________________
(b) State any one use of flowers to the following
(i) Man _________________________________________________
(ii) a plant ______________________________________________
55. (a) What is personal hygiene?
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(b) Write down any one disease that one can get due to poor personal
Hygiene

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(c) State any one way of preventing such a disease mentioned in (b)
above
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(d) How is a toothbrush useful during personal hygiene?
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