Basic Science Exam Questions and Answers for Junior school students

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Class: JSS 1    Subject: Basic Science

Instruction: Answer all question in this section

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1. Science is needed in the manufacturing industry, medicine, agriculture, engineering and many other areas (true or false)
2. To find out the truth about things scientist makes guesses and then puts them to the lest, and these guesses is called __ (a) hypothesis (b) practical (c) conclusion
3. Scientists carry out experiments (true or false)
4. The internet is a network of computers linked by telephone and satellite (true or false)
5. With internet, you can send a message to someone in new York and get your reply within a very short period (true or false)
6. One of these is what scientists use for experiment (a) carpet (b) microscope (c) bed
7. ___ is use for heating in the laboratory (a) fire wood (b) stove (c) Bunsen burnet
8. ____ measure the degree of hotness or coldness of substances (a) microscope (b) thermometer (c) computer
9. ____ is used for measuring the mass of objects (a) thermometer (b) balance (c) computer
10. Handlens is used for observing small objects (true or false)
11. ____ is a quantity of stuff or matter in a body (a) computer (b) phone (c) mass
12. Pendulum makes a to – and – fro movement which is call an oscillation (true or false)
13. The doctor’s thermometer is called a clinical thermometer (true or false)
14. Matter has weight and occupy space (true or false)
15. The movement of one substance through another is called diffusion (true or false)

Section B

Answer three questions only from this section

1. Define internet
2. Which organs do we use for the following activities

• Seeing
• Hearing
• Smelling

3. Define matter; matter is believed to be made up of particles (true or false)
4. What is diffusion
5. Mention four science equipment that you know

Class: JSS 2    Subject: Basic Science

Instruction: Answer all question in this section

1. There are over ____ bones in the body (a) 200 (b) 300 (c) 150
2. ____ are bony structures which give animals ridity and support (a) skeletons (b) woods (c) stones
3. The shoulder girdle consists of the collar bone and the shoulder blade (true or false)
4. Plaster of paris is used to hold a broken bone together while it heals (true or false)
5. There are more than 150 joints in the human skeleton (true or false)
6. Muscles are attached to bones by means of strong whitish cords called _____ (a) joint (b) tendons (c) muscles
7. Bones and muscles perform many useful function in the body (true or false)
8. The two kinds of muscles are the voluntary and the ____ muscles (a) joint (b) involuntary (c) voluntary
9. Useless waste material from food is excreted from time to time through the _____ (a) mouth (b) anus (c) head
10. Extra water is absorbed from food material in the large intestine (true or false)
11. There are ____ digestive juices in our body (a) five (b) three (c) four
12. The digestive system is made up of many organs (true or false)
13. Blood is made up of two kinds of particles red blood cells and ____ (a) plasma (b) brown blood cells (c) white blood cells
14. One of the functions of the blood is that waste material from cells all over the body is carried to the kidneys by the blood (true or false)
15. The heart pumps the blood, making it flow around the ____ (a) eys (b) head (c) body

Section B

Answer all questions from this section

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1. Define joint
2. Mention four functions of the digestive organs
3. There are four digestive juices in our body, mention them
4. Blood is made up of kinds of particles known as ______ and ___ moving in a liquid called _____
5. Name the four parts of the alimentary canal that you know

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