PACE - PREPARE A CHILD EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL

PRE-MOCK EXAMINATION SET 4

2025
INTEGRATED SCIENCE
Time Allowed: 2 hours 15 minutes
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2. This paper has two sections: A and B QN.NO. MARKS NO.
Section A has 40 questions and section B
1 - 10
has 16 questions. The paper has 15
printed pages altogether. 11 - 20
3. Answer all the questions. All answers to 21 - 30
both sections A and B must be written in
the spaces provided. 31 - 40

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may lead to loss of marks.
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 SECTION A: 40 MARKS
Answer all questions in this section
Questions 1 to 40 carry one mark each.

1. State the role played by yeast in brewing alcohol.

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2. Give the way in which washing of hands after visiting a latrine helps
to control the spread of germs.

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3. Identify the type of false roots that enables plants that grow in water
logged areas to survive.

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4. Name the crop management practice that reduces the weight of the
crops.

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5. State one way in which a bee farmer makes use of a centrifuge

machine.

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A P.7 pupil connected two dry cells with bulbs and a wire as shown in the
diagram below. Use it to answer question 6 and 7.

6. State what happened to the electric bulbs.

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7. Give a reason for your answer in (6) above.

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8. Name the body part of a scorpion that serves a similar purpose as the
spiracles of an insect.

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9. State any one advantage of rearing crossbreeds of cattle over exotic

breeds of cattle.

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10. State the condition for germination in bean seeds that dissolves food
nutrients in the cotyledon for the growing embryo.

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11. A P.7 pupil wanted to ride a bicycle one evening but he realized that it
was difficult for him to turn the bicycle pedals. Write one piece of
advice you would give to the above pupil in order to solve the above
challenge.

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12. Give a reason why anopheles mosquito cannot spread AIDS.

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13. State the cause of wind in the environment.

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14. Identify the practice done by people at home that encourages free air
circulation in a VIP latrine.

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15. Name any one substance that has the ability to sublimate.

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16. Mention any one quality of a good planting material.

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17. Name any one vector that spreads typhus fever among people.

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18. State the reason for raising the legs of a fainted person above the
head level when giving first aid to him or her.

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19. During the health parade, a child was found with the following signs,
itching of the skin, hair falling off the skin and round white patches on
the skin. Identify the skin disease which the child was suffering from.

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20. Mention any one bad practice which the above child may have
encountered.

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The diagram below shows a mode of waste management. Study and use it to
answer questions 21 and 22 correctly.

21. State the waste management practice shown in the above diagram.

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22. Mention any one advantage of carrying out the above waste
management practice in the environment.

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23. Name the method of extracting milk from the udder of a cow that
involves squeezing of the teats with hands in order to get milk out of
the udder of a cow.

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24. Give a reason why salt disappears when mixed with water.

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25. Give any one danger of teenage pregnancies to teenage girls.

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26. Name the type of friction experienced by objects moving on solid

surfaces.

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27. State what happens to the density of water if its volume is reduced.

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The diagram below shows a root system. Use it to answer questions 28 and
29 correctly.

28. Name the structures marked with letter T above.

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29. State the way in which structures marked T are useful to plants.

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30. Mention any one cause of drug overdose among people.

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31. Give a reason why displacement method is used to find the volume of
a stone.

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32. Name the group of non-flowering plants to which a thallophyte plant

undergo.

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33. State any one reason why would you choose to use solar energy
instead of wood fuel as a source of energy.

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34. Give a reason why moulds are able to develop on expired food.

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The diagram below shows a food store found in some homes in rural areas.
Use it to answer number 35 and 36.

35. Name the part of the store marked M above.

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36. State any one adaptation of part marked B above to its purpose.

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37. Identify the source of food that undergoes asexual reproduction.

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38. Mention any one way how the kidneys are useful to the human body
besides producing urine.

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39. Mention the way in which whiskers are useful to a rabbit.

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40. Name the costless natural method of conserving food at home.

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 SECTION B: 60 MARKS
Answer all questions in this section
Questions 41 to 55 carry four marks each
41. Identify the cause of a short circuit.

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(b) State the way in which the function of a fuse is different from that
of a switch as components of an electric circuit.

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(c) Mention any two ways of preventing short circuits.

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42. (a) Give the meaning of the term respiration.

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(b). The table below shows the percentage of different gases during
inhalation and exhalation the air we breathe out. Study and complete
it correctly

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43. (a) Give any two conditions in which bottle feeding may be
recommended for babies.

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(b) State the reason why breast feeding is regarded as a natural

family planning method in some women.

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(c) Apart from breast feeding, give any one other condition when a
woman can be vulnerable.

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44. (a) Name the physical process that forms nimbus clouds in the sky.

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(b) Name the type of cloud that;

(i) Resembles cotton piles in the sky. ………………………………………….

(ii) Shows a clear weather. …………………………………………

45. (c) Mention any one use of clouds in the environment apart from
providing rainfall to people

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46. The table below shows classification of animals. Use it to answer
questions that follow.

(a) Name the groups of animals in the boxes marked with letters V
and W.

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(ii) W……………………………………………………………………………………………

(b) State the way in which animals in the box with letter C are
different from fish in form of sensing sound waves.

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(c) Name the type of skeleton animals in the box with letter B has.

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47. (a) Give the meaning of the term crop rotation.

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(b) Identify any two factors considered by crop farmers when

designing crop rotation.

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(c) State the way in which cop rotation controls soil erosion in a crop
garden.

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48. Transpiration is the process by which plants lose water in form of

water vapour to the atmosphere. It majorly takes place in plant leaves
by the use of the stomata.

(a) Name the part of a stem in which the above process takes place.

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(b) Explain how wind affects the rate of transpiration. (02 marks)

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(c) State any one way how transpiration may be a menace to the
plant life.

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49. Identify the state of matter in which heat transfer by conduction is
slowest.

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(b) Give a reason for your answer in (a) above.

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(c) Name the kind of heat whose transfer does not a need a medium
of transmission.

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(d) Mention any one way through which heat transfer by conduction
is useful to a hairdresser.

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50. The diagram below shows the action of certain muscles in the body.
Use it to answer the questions that follow.

(a) What name the muscle represented by the,

(i) Cord …………………………………………………………………………………

(ii) Rubber …………………………………………………………………………………

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 (b) State what happens to the rubber when the plywood is
straightened.

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(c) Mention any one practice done by people to improve the efficiency
of the skeletal muscular system.

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51. (a) Give the meaning of the term farm records.

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(b) Mention any two forms of inventory records kept at the farm.

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(c) State any one way how a farmers benefits from keeping farm
record.

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52. (a) Name the component of air used by plants to make plant proteins.

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(b) Mention any one way in which cattle farmers make use of the
component of air names in (a) above.

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(c) State two differences between the exhaled air and inhaled air.

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53. (a) One of the properties of matter is “matter exerts pressure”.
Mention any one other property of matter.

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(b) Mr. Julius Jasper wanted to do an experiment to prove that matter

exerts pressure using the following materials. Cold water, open
bottle and charcoal stove. Write three steps through which he
underwent in order for him to get accurate results. (03 marks)
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54. (a) Mention the process through which seeds are scattered from a
parent plant to other areas.

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(b) Mention any two features that develop on some seeds in order to
ease the above process.

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(c) State one way in which plants makes use of the above process.

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55. Match the following deficiency diseases to their signs correctly.

Deficiency disease Signs

Scurvy Ox bow legs

Kwashiorkor Bonny face

Rickets Bleeding gum

Marasmus Swollen moon like face

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Kwashiorkor ………………………………………………

Rickets ………………………………………………

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PACE Examinations Board wishes

you success

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