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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]
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.

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

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[1]

(c) Look at the particle model diagram for one of the processes.
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Which process does the diagram show, A or B?

[1]

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.

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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.

[1]

(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
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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?

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[1]

(b) Describe how Carlos knows all the substance has dissolved.
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[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

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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

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