SCIENCE 2008

SECTION A

Choose the correct answer and then write the letter in front of each question in your answer sheet.

1.  In addition to helping build muscle, what do sports strengthen?

1. legs 
2. Body parts
3. Head links 
4. Hands 
5. Joints of the upper part of the body

2.  The main benefits of family planning are.........

1. educating children
2. making the number of children larger
3.  to be able to build a stable home for the family
4.  avoid problems
5. be able to provide all the necessary services to the family

3. Which of the following groups provides first aid training as well as the service itself?

1.  Red cross
2. He shines 
3. Firefighters 
4. Good Samaritans 
5. Road safety officers

4. Food that provides the body with all the nutrients in the right proportions is:

1.  a protein-rich diet 
2. a diet rich in protein and carbohydrates
3. a balanced meal 
4. well-cooked food
5. fragrant food

5. Namanji seems to bend her legs. What minerals do you think he lacks?

1. Calcium
2. Sodium
3. Magnesium 
4. Iron 
5. Aluminum

6.  The following are vaccine-preventable diseases in children:

1. Whooping cough, polio, tetanus and measles
2. Diarrhea, chickenpox, measles and typhoid fever
3. Polio, kwashiorkor, tetanus and diphtheria
4. Chickenpox, Marasmus, measles and polio
5. AIDS, tuberculosis, tetanus and diarrhea

7.  Convulsions are caused by:

1.  bird flu disease
2. severe cough
3. high fever 
4. cholera
5. HIV/AIDs

8.  Mama Katu entered the room and found her husband lying on the floor after being electrocuted. Mama Katu will help her husband by:

1.  give him clean drinking water 
2. give him milk
3. shaking him violently 
4. blowing air
5. to bathe him

9.  Air is a combination of:

1.  Oxygen 
2. carbon dioxide
3. gases 
4. vapour 
5. water and oxygen

10.  Water in vapour conditions are:

1.  Clouds 
2. rain 
3. ice 
4. dew 
5. humidity

11.  One of the following measures prevents soil erosion:

1.  Reduce the number of trees 
2. Burning forests
3. Planting trees 
4. Grinding the grass
5. Increase the number of livestock

12 The caterpillar is the lava of

1. grasshopper
2. cockroach 
3. frog 
4. butterfly 
5. mosquitoes

13. What can lead to a "positive change" in natural resources?

1.  Fishing using poison
2.  Arbitrary cultivation in the highlands
3.  Deforestation near water sources
4. Fishing using dynamite
5. Growing trees and grasses

14. The following are the key characteristics that characterize living things. What qualities do you think are not involved?

1.  respiration 
2. Growth
3. Make their own food
4. movement 
5. reproduction

15. The part of the seed that stores food for the germination of seed is:

1. cotyledon
2. testa 
3. embryo
4. foetus 
5. stalk

16. Examine the leaf of the plant shown in the figure and then answer the question that follows.

Which of the following leaves can you compare it to?

1.  Rice
2.  Millet
3.  Cow peas
4.  Maize
5. Coconut

17. Wax is made from ......... of bees.

1. glands 
2. Wings 
3. Eyes
4. Feet
5. abdomen

18. What is the part of the flower that attracts insects that come to the plant and help pollination and pollination?

1. Petal 
2. Sepal 
3. Stigma 
4. stalk
5. Pistil

19. The frog's back is short enough to enable him .........

1. run 
2. to sleep 
3. fly
4. jump and land 
5. turn

20. Which of the following items transports heat faster?

1. A
2. B
3. C
4. D
5. E