Bahagian B

20 marks
[ 20 markah ]

Masa yang dicadangkan untuk bahagian ini ialah 30 minit.

Answer all questions
Jawab semua soalan.

1. The bar chart in Diagram 1 shows the number of animal in a forest area from
2001 to 2004.

Number

of
animals

Jumlah
haiwan

Year
2001 2002 2003 2004
Diagram !
Rajah 1

(a) What is the purpose of this investigation?

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[1 mark]

(b) What is the trend in the change in the number of animal W from 2001 to 2004?

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[ 1 mark ]

(c) State two reasons to explain the trend in the change in the number of animal
as stated in answer (a) .

i). _________________________________________________ ____

ii) ________________________________________________ ___

[ 2 marks ]
(c) Predict what will happen to animal by the year 2010?

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[ 1 mark ]

2. Ismail carried out a fair test to find the relationship between length of string and the
number of swings in 20 seconds. He used the same type of pendulum throughout
the fair test.The table shows the result of the fair test.

P String

R Pendulum

S
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Pendulum Length of string (cm) Number of swings in

20 seconds

P 10 30

Q 15 35

R 31

S 25 28

Table 1

a) In this fair test, state

i) What to change ? ___________________________________________

[1 mark]

ii) What to measure? __________________________________________

[1mark]

iii) What is kept the same? ________________________________________

[1 mark]

b) State the pattern/trend of the number of swings in 20 seconds.

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[1 mark]
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c) Predict the length of string if the number of swings is 31.

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[1 mark]

3 A group of students studied the characteristics of two planets in the Solar System.
Their findings are recorded in Table 3 shown below.

Placement of planet from the Sun Special characteristics

Suitable temperature to support life.

3 rd Has an atmosphere containing air

and water.

The furthest planet in the Solar

System.
9 th
Very cold.

Table 2

(a) Based on the special characteristics, explain why there are living things on the
3rd planet.
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[1 mark]

(b) What other observation can you give to support your answer in ( a ) ?

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[1 mark]
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The temperature of a planet depends on the size of the orbit.

(c) Based on the statement above, state the relationship between the temperature of a
planet and the size of the orbit.

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[1 mark]

(d) What can you conclude based on the on the statement above?

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[2 marks]
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4. A group of pupils carried out an experiment to balance a box by stacking book on the
other end of a plank. The result was recorded in table.

Plank Book
x Fulcrum

Plank Distance of the box from fulcrum(X) cm Number of books

A 10 9

B 30 13

C 50 17

D 70 21

E 90 25

Table 3

(a) Describe the trend of the changes in books needed to lift the block

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[1 mark

(b) In this investigation,

ii. what did you change? : __________________________________________

ii. what did you measure? : ___________________________________________

[2 marks]

(c) What is the relationship between two factors mentioned in (b)?

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[1 mark]

(d) Predict how many books needed to balance the block at 60 cm from the fulcrum.

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[1 mark]
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