Practice Exam Grade 7
Practice Exam Grade 7
Practice Exam Grade 7
Diagram 1 below shows the lungs and the trachea, the airway leading to the lungs. One of
the lungs is drawn in section.
diagram 1
(a) In the wall of the trachea, there are pieces of a stiff material called cartilage.
Why is this stiff material necessary in the wall of the trachea?
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1 mark
(b) Diagram 2 below shows one alveolus and its blood supply.
diagram 2
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(i) Look at diagram 2, above.
Gas A enters the blood from the alveolus.
Gas B leaves the blood and enters the alveolus.
What are the names of gases A and B?
gas A ..........oxygen...........................................
(ii) Give one reason why it is easy for gases to pass across the wall of an
alveolus.
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1 mark
(c) The diagram below shows a ciliated cell from the lining of the airway.
This hair trap the dust and bacteria of to the back of the throw where it can be
swallow.......................................................................................................
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1 mark
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1 mark
(iii) Give the name of the substance, in cigarette smoke, which causes addiction
to smoking.
.....nicotine........................................................................................................
1 mark
Maximum 6 marks
Q2.
In the experiment shown below, metal and acid react together to make hydrogen gas.
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(a) Look at the flask. How can you tell that a gas is being produced in this experiment?
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1 mark
(b) (i) Hydrogen gas passes through the water and collects in the test-tube.
What does this tell you about hydrogen?
Tick the correct box.
It does not dissolve in the
It dissolves in the
water.
water.
It is acidic. It is alkaline.
1 mark
(ii) What happens to the level of the water in the test-tube as hydrogen is
produced?
oxygen
water vapour
carbon dioxide
(i) Which one of the four gases do we need to take into the blood in the lungs?
........oxygen...................................................
1 mark
(ii) Which one of the four gases can produce droplets on a cold window?
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..........water vapour................................................
1 mark
Maximum 5 marks
Q3.
Russell put ground-up coffee beans in a coffee maker and added hot water.
(a) How could Russell see that some coffee had dissolved in the water?
(i) Which mesh would be best to separate the coffee drink from all the ground-up
coffee beans? Write the letter.
..D.....................
1 mark
Which part of the apparatus above works in the same way as the wire mesh?
Write the letter.
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...P....................
1 mark
(c) Russell wanted to separate the water from the coffee drink.
He set up the apparatus shown below.
(i) Why did Russell put ice cubes around the glass tube?
(ii) Choose words from the box below to fill the gaps in the following sentences.
an acid a gas a liquid a solid
......condensation............. .
4 marks
maximum 8 marks
Q4.
Gary wanted to find out if some food colourings contained a banned food dye.
He put a drop of each food colouring and the banned food dye onto some special
paper.
He hung the paper in a beaker of water.
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After 10 minutes, the banned food dye and some of the dyes from the food colourings
had moved up the paper.
Gary’s results are shown below.
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1 mark
.......Yellow...........................................
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1 mark
..........Brown........................................
1 mark
...............Red............................................
1 mark
Q5.
Chris collected some sea water near a beach.
The sea water had salt dissolved in it. It had sand mixed in it.
(a) Chris separated the sand from the salt water as shown below.
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.....sand.................................................
....filter paper..................................................
3 marks
(b) Chris poured some of the salt water from the flask into a dish.
He put the dish on a balance and left it in a warm room for a week.
......100......... g
(ii) After one week there was a white solid but no liquid in the dish.
What had happened to the water in the dish?
.....it evaporate.....................................................................................................
.....salt.................................................
3 marks
maximum 6 marks
Q6.
Zena has a model plane attached to a rod as shown below.
The plane is balanced by a sliding counterweight.
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not to scale
(i) Calculate the turning moment produced by the counterweight about the
pivot.
Give the unit.
.......100Ncm.......................................................................................................
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2 marks
(ii) What is the turning moment produced by the plane about the pivot?
.......100.........................................................................................................
1 mark
.....10...........................................................................................................
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1 mark
.because the the solar cell is connected to the motor of the plane, so when it have
low light the plane will slow down
1 mark
maximum 5 marks
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Q7.
Jenny is doing her homework.
(a) When Jenny writes, the pencil exerts a force of 5N on the paper.
not to scale
The area of the pencil in contact with the paper is 0.5 mm2.
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2 marks
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Calculate the turning moment on the cover of the book.
Give the unit.
...........5Ncm...........................................................................................................
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2 marks
_______ N
2 marks
maximum 6 marks
Q8.
The drawing shows a boy with a bow and arrow. He is holding the arrow and pulling it
back.
(a) Two horizontal forces act on the arrow. These are the force exerted by the
boy’s hand and the force exerted by the string. The arrow is not moving.
The boy pulls the arrow with a force of 150 N. What is the size of the force exerted
by the string on the arrow?
...................... N
1 mark
(b) When the boy lets go of the arrow, it starts to move forward.
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(c) The arrow flies across a field and hits a target.
Two forces act on the arrow while it is in the air. Air resistance acts in the opposite
direction to the movement, and gravity acts downwards. These two forces cannot
balance each other, even when they are the same size. Why is this?
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1 mark
(d) The arrow has a sharp pointed end. When the arrow hits the target, the sharp point
exerts a very large pressure on the target.
Why does a sharp pointed end exert a larger pressure than a blunt end?
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1 mark
Maximum 4 marks
Q9.
Karen wants to pump up her car tyre.
Her pump has a piston with an area of 7 cm2.
(a) What pressure does she exert on the air in the pump?
..............25.......................................................................................................
.......................................................................................................... N/cm 2
1 mark
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.larger area........................................................
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1 mark
(c) Another of Karen’s car tyres exerts a pressure of 30 N/cm2 on the road. The area of
the tyre in contact with the road is 95 cm2
What is the force exerted by the tyre on the road?
......................................................2850........................................................... N
1 mark
Maximum 3 marks
Q10.
The graph shows how the speed of a 0.1 kg mass changes as it falls.
(a) Read from the graph the speed of the mass at 0.4 s and 0.8 s.
Use your results to work out the average speed of the mass between
0 and 0.4 s and then between 0 and 0.8 s. Give the units.
(b) Using the average speeds calculated in (a), work out how far the mass falls in:
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(i) 0.4 s
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1 mark
(ii) 0.8 s
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1 mark
If the mass falls for double the time, it will fall .............................................
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Mark schemes
Q1.
(a) any one from
• it is thin
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(iii) nicotine
1 (L6)
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Q2.
(a) bubbles are formed
accept ‘fizzing’
accept ‘effervescence’
1 (L3)
Q3.
(a) any one from
(ii) • P
accept ‘the filter paper’
‘the filter’ is insufficient
accept ‘the paper’
1 (L3)
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accept ‘to condense the steam or gas’
• evaporation
1 (L4)
• condensation
1 (L4)
award one mark for each correct word in the correct place
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Q4.
(a) any one from
Q5.
(a) (i) • filtration
if more than one box is ticked, award no mark
1 (L3)
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accept ‘paper’ or ‘filter’
do not accept ‘funnel’ or ‘filter funnel’
1 (L4)
(iii) salt
accept ‘sodium chloride’
accept ‘salts’ or ‘minerals’ or ‘crystals’
1 (L4)
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Q6.
(a) (i) • 100
accept ‘5 ×20’
1 (L7)
• Ncm
accept ‘cmN’
accept ‘1.0 Nm’ for two marks
do not accept lower case n
1 (L7)
(ii) 100
accept ‘the same’
accept the numerical answer to part a i
the mark for the unit may be awarded in part a ii
if not given in part a i
the unit is not required for the mark
1 (L7)
(iii) • 10
accept the numerical answer to a ii ÷ 10
1 (L7)
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• the voltage produced by the solar cell was lower
accept ‘less electrical or kinetic energy produced’
‘less light’ is insufficient do
not accept ‘no light to provide energy
1 (L7)
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Q7.
(a) • 10
• N/mm2
accept, for two marks, ‘107 Pa’
‘107’ is insufficient
accept ‘Nmm-2’
do not accept ‘n’ for ‘N’
1 (L7)
(b) • 5
accept ‘10 × 0.5’ if the answer is not evaluated
1 (L7)
• N cm
accept ‘cm N’
do not accept ‘n’ for ‘N’
accept, for two marks, ‘0.05 Nm’
‘0.05’ is insufficient
1 (L7)
Q8.
(a) 150
1
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energy’ or ‘energy from the bow is transferred to the arrow’
1
Q9.
(a) 25
accept ‘175 ÷ 7’
1 (L7)
(c) 2850
1 (L7)
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Q10.
(a) (i) final speed = 4 m/s average speed = 2 m/s
the unit is required for the mark in (i) and (ii)
1
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(b) (i) distance = 2 × 0.4 = 0.8 m
accept numerical answer to (a) (i) × 0.4
1
(c) 4 times
accept a correct statement based on the
answers to (b) (i) and (b) (ii)
1
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