THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF TRINIDAD AND

TOBAGO
MINISTRY OF EDUCATION

NATIONAL CERTIFICATE OF SECONDARY

EDUCATION 2006
(Level 1)

INTEGRATED SCIENCE

TIME 90 MINUTES
 TABLE

NUMBER

EXAMINER

INITIALS

MARKER

INITIALS

QUESTION
6
5
4
3
2
1

NUMBER

KC

UK

TOTAL

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 INSTRUCTIONS
Read the following carefully:

1. Write the following in capital letters on the cover of your this booklet:
- School’s Name
- School’s ID
- Student’s Name
- Student’s Number

2. Complete the following information on the Multiple-Choice Answer Sheet

using a 2 HB pencil only:
- School’s Name
- School’s ID
- Student’s Name
- Student’s Number
- Date of Birth
- Subject

3. This paper consists of two (2) sections.

4. There are forty (40) Multiple-Choice questions Sections I and six (6)
structured questions in Section II.

SECTION I

5. You are required to answer all questions in Section I.

6. Record your answers for Section I on the Multiple - Choice Answer Sheets
provided by shading in the selected letter completely.

7. If you must change your answer, erase your first answer completely, and then
shade your new answer.

8. When using the Multiple – Choice Answer Sheet, do not:

- Staple
- Punch holes
- Bend the corners
- Tear
- Or make stray marks

SECTION II

9. Answer all six (6) structured questions from section II in the spaces provided
in this Booklet.

10. If you are finished before time is called, go back and check your work.

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 SECTION I
MULTIPLE CHOICE

Answer all questions. For each question select the correct answer and shade the letter to
the corresponding question in the Multiple – Choice Answer Sheet provided.

1. In the diagram below, the label that the 3. Four samples of milk were treated as
chloroplast points to is shown below:

1 2 3 4
Sealed Boiled Left open Boiled
without then left without then
A Plant Cell boiling open boiling sealed

A W In which flask will the milk take

B X longest to spoil (go bad)?
C Y
D Z A 1
B 2
2. Which row of the table below represents C 3
an animal cell? D 4

Cell wall Chloroplasts

1 √ √ 4. A student notices green structures
inside a cell when viewed under the
2 X X microscope. The cell most likely
3 X √ uses these green structures to
4 √ X
A. make its own food.
B. obtain energy from food.
X Structure absent C. get rid of waste products.
√ Structure Present
D. make more cells like itself.
A 1
B 2
C 3
D 4

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5. The table below shows four pieces 8. The diagram below shows the
of bread labelled I to IV placed temperatures at which a material
under different conditions. melts and vaporizes.

Bread Moisture Temperature/ºC

SOLID LIQUID GAS
I No 10
II Yes 10
III No 25
IV Yes 25

On which piece of bread would Melting Vaporization

mould be most likely to appear first? O
40 ºC 120 C
O
A. I C
B. II At what temperature would the
C. III material change from a liquid to a
D. IV solid?

A. 0 ºC
6. A few drops of red food colouring B. 40 ºC
accidentally dropped into a sink C. 100 ºC
full of water eventually turns the D. 120 ºC
water red. This is an example of
9. The cooling curve of liquid
A. osmosis naphthalene is shown below:
B. respiration
C. diffusion Cooling Curve of Napthalene
D. transpiration
95
C)

90
o

7. Copper is used to make electrical 85

Temperature (

80
wires because it is a 75
70
A. cheap material 65
B. light material 60
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18
C. good conductor
D. good insulator Tim e (m ins.)

At 80 ºC, the process taking place is:

A. Boiling
B. Melting
C. Evaporation
D. Condensation

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10. Medicine bottles usually advise patients 13. The diagram below shows four
to “shake well before use.” This advise Aluminium plates of different colours.
will not apply to medicines which are The plates are the same size and distance
from the heat source.
A. colloids Q
B. solutions
C. emulsions Polished
Black
D. suspensions

11. An energy source that can be used as an P R

alternative to fossil fuels is: Dull
Polished
White White
A. Kerosene Heat Source
B. Diesel
C. Wind
D. Coal Dull
Black
12. The energy of a feather before it is
S
dropped from a window is:
After one hour, the plate most likely to
A. chemical have the highest temperature is
B. kinetic
C. potential A. P - Polished White
D. mechanical B. Q - Polished Black
C. R - Dull White
13. Equal volumes of four liquids S, T, U D. S - Dull Black
and V at the same temperature were
heated together in an oven for five 15. Four containers, W, X, Y, and Z of equal
minutes. The resulting temperatures are size were filled with 100cm³ water and
shown in the table below. placed together in the sun for 1 hour.
The results are shown in the table below:
Temperature (oC)
Liquid Containers W X Y Z
after 5 mins. in oven
Temperature at start / (oC)
S 35 28 28 28 28
T 41 Temperature after 1hour
in the sun /(oC) 29 33 32 30
U 50
V 54
Which container is best suited for storing
Which liquid has the highest heat hot water?
capacity?
A. W
A. S B. X
B. T C. Y
C. U D. Z
D. V

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 16. An excretory product that is released 20. During filtration, the substance that
through the skin is remains on the filter paper is called the

A. oil A. solvent
B. glucose B. filtrate
C. urea C. suspension
D. Carbon dioxide D. residue

17. The part of the body that is most 21. Sandra noticed that it took less time for
sensitive to the stimulus of light is: granulated sugar to dissolve in her tea
than sugar cubes even when she used the
A. skin same quantities. The best explanation for
B. eye this is
C. brain
D. ear A. granulated sugar is more soluble than
sugar cubes
18. A slice of banana turned blue-black B. granulated sugar is less soluble than
when iodine solution was added to it. sugar cubes
This shows that the banana contained C. the surface area for granulated sugar
is larger than sugar cubes
A. sugar. D. the surface area for granulated sugar
B. starch. is larger than sugar cubes
C. protein.
D. vitamins. 22. A student added some salt to a beaker of
cold water. After stirring for some time
19. A student performed the food test salt could still be seen at the bottom of
shown. the beaker. The student then heated the
beaker and its contents. The remaining
salt soon dissolved. The explanation for
Step 1 Step 2 Result
this is

Copper A. increase in temperature increases

Sulphate solubility of the salt
Sodium Solution B. increase in temperature decreases
Hydroxide solubility of the salt
Purple
Crushed colo
Solution C. solubility depends on the nature of
food Mixture from
food Mixture the liquid
step 1
from D. the student did not stir sufficiently

Which food item could produce the

result shown?

A Rice
B Bake
C Chicken
D Pineapple

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23. The group that only contains conductors 25.
is

A. paperclip, pen cover, coin and styro

foam
B. match stick, wire, nail and styro + + + - - -
foam + + + - - -
C. copper, paperclip, pen cover, match + + + - - -
stick + + + - - -
D. coin, nail, copper and wire
(i
(i) (i
(ii) (ii
(iii)
) ) i)

24. The diagrams above show electric

charges on 3 pairs of balloons.
1 Which balloons will repel each other?

2
A. i only
B. ii only
3
C. i and iii
D. ii and iii
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26. The products of photosynthesis are

A. glucose and oxygen

In the circuit shown above, which lamps B. glucose and carbon dioxide
are controlled by the switch? C. glucose and energy
D. glucose and water
A. 1 and 2
B. 2 and 3
C. 3 and 4 27. A caterpillar feeds on the leaves of a
D. 1 and 4 lemon branch. The caterpillar is a

A. producer.
B. primary consumer.
C. secondary consumer
D. decomposer

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28. Which gas is produced when 31. In the experiment, the base of a plant
decomposers break down dead organic was wrapped as show in the diagram
material? below and weighed. After 12 hours
the plant was reweighed and a
A. Nitrogen decrease in mass was found.
B. Oxygen
C. Hydrogen
D. Carbon Dioxide
29. The below food web exists on a dairy
farm where there is a large fly
population.

HAWK Plastic bag tied tightly

around stem

SNAKE
LIZARD
The loss in mass is mainly due to
FROG
A. respiration
FLY B. transpiration
C. evaporation
D. condensation.
DUNG
32.
Which two organisms if removed from 32. The most gas with the highest
the food web above can result in a percentage in the atmosphere is
decrease in the fly population?
A. Argon
A. Frog and lizard B. Oxygen
B. Frog and hawk C. Nitrogen
C. Snake and lizard D. Carbon dioxide
D. Snake and hawk
33. Carmen decided to place his pet
spider in a large glass jar, and seal it
30. Which of the following is not related to with the cover. Amy, her friend,
the green house effect? suggested that he put a small plant in
the jar for the survival of the spider.
A. Use of CFC’s What will the plant provide that will
B. Increase in global temperatures ensure this?
C. Burning of forests
D. Use of fossil fuels A. Food
B. Oxygen
C. Carbon dioxide
D. Camouflage

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 34. An experiment was set up in the 37. An elephant of weight 2000N stands
laboratory as shown below on one foot of surface area 0.5 m².
Glass The pressure exerted by the
jar elephant is;
Air A. 250 Nm−²
B. 1000 Nm²
C. 4000 Nm−²
Candle D. 16000 Nm−²

Water
38.

Fig. 2 air
Fig. 1
Burning candle covered Water rises in the glass
with glass jar. jar when the candle goes
out. water
Which gas was replaced by the rising?
water in Figure 2?
BEFORE AFTER
2 hrs in refrigerator
A. Water Vapour
B. Carbon dioxide David observed that when a partially
C. Oxygen filled plastic bottle was tightly
D. Nitrogen covered and placed in the
refrigerator it crumpled as shown in
the diagram above.
35. The image formed by a plane mirror is:
What is the best explanation for
A. real, erect and laterally inverted David’s observation?
B. real, inverted and laterally inverted
C. virtual, inverted and not laterally A. Air pressure in the bottle decreases
inverted as it cools.
D. virtual, erect and laterally inverted B. Plastic changes shape at low
temperatures.
C. The water pressure decreases as it
36. When a force is applied on a flat cools.
surface, the pressure D. The water expands at low
temperatures.
A. increases as the surface area
increases
B. decreases as the surface area
increases
C. remains constant as the surface
area increases
D. is related to the material of the
surface

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39. Two forces of equal magnitude act on a
an object as shown below. In which
diagram will the object experience the
largest resultant force?

F
F F F F

A B
F
F F F

C D

40.

10 cm
15 cm
18 cm

No mass
added 10 g
Xg
The diagram above shows how different
masses changed the length of a spring.
What is the mass X?

A. 8g
B. 10g
C. 16g
D. 18g

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 SECTION II

This Section consists of six (6) questions. Answer All six questions in the spaces provided.

1.The diagram below shows one type of cell found in the blood.

(a) Name the type of cell. [ 1 mark]

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(b) State one function of the cell. [ 1 mark]

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(c) Name the component of the blood that is essential for the clotting of blood. [ 1 mark]

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(d) Name another cell present in blood. [ 1 mark]

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(e) Scientists have developed a fluid as a substitute for blood. State THREE properties which
this fluid must possess for it to be effective in its functions. [ 3 marks]
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 (f) Explain why a man faints if a major blood vessel in his leg is cut. [ 3 marks]
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2. (a) Sugar + Water Syrup

What terms can be used to describe the sugar, water and syrup in the above equation?
[ 3 marks]
Sugar ___________________________________________________________________
Water ___________________________________________________________________
Syrup ___________________________________________________________________

(b) A snow cone vendor decides to make his own syrup. He used tap water and sugar, but his
customers complained about his product. On the second occasion he used boiling water and
his customers started complimenting him on a sweeter product.

Explain what happened on each occasion? [ 4 marks]

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(c) The vendor decided to use an oil based brand of colouring but noticed that
when it was added to the syrup it floated at the top.
How would you account for this? [ 1 mark]

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(d) The vendor was told that he can make his own flavouring with the guava fruit, and decided
to use oil to extract the flavour. What would you advise him and why? [ 2 marks]

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3. Design and build electrical circuits. Use circuit symbols and draw circuits.
Bulb 1

Switch
Bulb 2

Batteries
Ammeter

(i) Use circuit symbols to draw a circuit diagram that represents the circuit shown above.
[ 4 marks]

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(ii) A student wants to insert another bulb into the circuit in parallel with the other two bulbs.
Label this bulb #3 and draw the new circuit diagram to represent this circuit.( 2)

(iii) Bulb #1 blows. Will bulb #2 and bulb #3 still light? Give reasons for your answers.
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4.

Water vapour
forming clouds ACID RAIN
POLLUTION
from factory

The diagram above shows the formation of acid rain.

(a) Name two gases from the factory that may cause acid rain and explain how acid rain
forms. [ 4 marks]
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(b) State two ways in which acid rain may harm the river and trees? [ 4 marks]
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 (c) Give two problems a vegetable farmer may have because of acid rain. [ 4 marks]
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(d) How can the farmer counteract the effects of this acid rain? [ 4 marks]
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5. A government plans to construct a refinery plant in the middle of a housing settlement. Some
people of this settlement are for its construction, while others are against its construction.

(a) (i) Suggest 2 reasons why persons may be against construction.

(ii) Suggest 2 reasons why persons may be for construction. [ 4 marks]

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(b) John keeps many green plants in his home. His wife prefers to have a pet. John claims
though that the green plants produce oxygen.
(i) Is John’s claim true? Explain your answer.
(ii) Why does he not keep animals?

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(c) John’s mother advises that he remove the plants at night. Explain why this advice may
have been given.
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6. (a) Draw rays of light in the diagram above to show how an image of the object
labelled P would be seen in the mirror [ 3 marks]

eye

mirror P

(b) State four (4) properties of the image of P formed by the mirror. [ 3 marks]

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(d) An optician’s office is 4 metres long. He wants his patients to read a chart from a
distance of 8 metres. Explain how this can be achieved in the optician’s 4 metre office.
[3 marks]

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