TERUNA MUDA JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
GRADE 9-GENERAL SCIENCE/WS-1/TERM-3/2022-2023
UNIT 7. Genes and inheritance
UNIT 8. Rates of reaction
Teacher: Ms. Donna
SECTION A. STRUCTURED-1 QUESTIONS (10 x 2 mark = 20 marks)
Answer the questions correctly in the answer sheet provided.
1. What does is DNA do in every cell? ________
2. Look at the below picture.
List three features that the young lion have inherited from their
parents. ________
3. Define the term gene. Where can we find them? ________
4. Look at the below photograph.
List 2 features of the triplets in the photograph that are caused by
their environment.
5. Bacteria have genes. Explain how the development of resistance in bacteria can be explained in
terms of genetic changes over time.
6. Suggest two features of humans that are caused by their genes, and are not affected by their
environment. ________
Use this graph to answer questions number 7 – 9.
This graph shows the rate of reaction between
copper carbonate and hydrochloric acid. You can
use a graph like this to measure and compare the
rates of reaction at different times during the
reaction.
7. Write the word equation for the reaction between copper carbonate and hydrochloric acid.
8. Use the graph above to find the average rate of reaction between 60 and 80 seconds. How does this
rate of reaction compare with the rate between 10 and 30 seconds? ________
9. Why does the rate of reaction between copper carbonate and hydrochloric acid change and stop in
100 seconds? ________
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10. What happens if you place a large block of magnesium in the Bunsen flame? Reason your answer.
SECTION B. STRUCTURED-2 QUESTIONS (10 x 4 marks = 40 marks)
Answer the questions correctly in the the answer sheet provided.
1. Copy and complete these sentences. Choose from the list. You can use each word once, more than
once or not at all.
Chromosomes DNA Four Genes Two
The nucleus
of every cell contains several long threads, called ___(a)____. In most cells, they are ____(b)____
copies of each thread. Each thread contains many ____(c)____. The threads are made of a chemical
called ____(d)____.
2. When a plant or animal grows, or when it needs to repair damage to its body, some of its cells divide
to form the new cells.
Before this happens, all the DNA in the original cell is copied. Each new cell then gets a complete
copy of all the DNA in the original cell. Suggest why it is important that this happens.
3. Complete the table to compare the structures of these two gametes.
No. Egg cell Sperm cell
1 Has food reserves in the cytoplasm Does not have food reserves in the cytoplasm
2 … …
3 … …
4 … …
4. A bacterium called Staphylococcus pneumoniae causes a serious infection of the lung, called
pneumonia. The graph shows the percentage of cases of pneumonia in which the bacteria were
resistant to penicillin (an antibiotic).
a. What is an antibiotic?
b. Describe the trend shown in the graph.
c. Suggest how natural selection has caused
this trend.
5. Wheat is a crop that is grown in many different countries. The seed head of wheat plants are called
ears. The seeds are called grain. Wheat grains are used to make flour. The photographs shows
comparison between ancient wheat and modern wheat.
a. What differences can you see between the old type
of wheat and the modern one?
b. Explain how the modern variety of wheat could have been
produced.
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6. When a lizard is attacked by a predator, the lizard’s tail falls off. The tail squirms violently, attracting
the attention of the predator. While the predator is attacking the tail, the lizard runs off and hides. It
grows a new tail.
A population of lizards live on an island where there are no snakes. Some of the lizards have brown
tails and some have blue tails. Some snakes arrive on the island. Explain why the lizards with brown
tails are more likely to be eaten by snakes than the lizards with bule tails.
7. Marcus wanted to investigate the rate of reaction between magnesium ribbon and hydrochloric acid.
He collected hydrogen gas and measured its volume every 30 seconds.
a. Write the symbol equation for this reaction.
b. Look carefully at the equipment and suggest any sources of error that Marcus is likely to have.
Suggest how he could try to overcome these.
8. When particles have more energy, they move more quickly. Explain, using the same ideas, why
increasing the temperature increases the rate of reaction.
9. The chemical name for marble is calcium carbonate. In the experiment shown below, equal masses
of marble lumps, small marble chips and powdered marble were placed into equal volumes of dilute
hydrochloric acid.
a. In which beaker will the reaction be faster?
b. Explain why you think this.
c. What is the name of the salt formed in this
reaction?
10. Zara investigated the effect of surface area on the rate of reaction. She used a flat piece of zinc and
a lump of zinc of the same mass. She placed each of them in hydrochloric acid and carried out this
reaction, collecting the gas over water in a measuring cylinder.
a. Which glass is being collected over water?
b. What practical problems might Zara have in obtaining her results, if she uses this method of
collecting the gas?
