Ghana BECE 2014 INTEGRATED SCIENCE PAST QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

1) Which of the following types of teeth is used by mammals to tear food material?

2) The eclipse formed when the moon comes between the sun and the earth is known as

3) The element with the chemical symbol S is

4) The term leaching in soils refers to

5) Which of the following statements about a plant cell is correct? It

6) An example of a derived quantity is

7) Solid non-metals normally break into pieces when hammered because they are

8) Young rabbits are called

9) Producers in an ecosystem are plants that

10) The form of energy produced from the nucleus of an atom is termed

11) Which of the following elements is a semi-metal?

12) A system of farming that leads to continuous destruction of virgin forest is

13) The by-products of respiration are

Which of the following statements about a force are correct? It
I is measured in newtons
II is measured in newton-metre
III can start a motion
IV can change the direction of a moving body.

15) Which of the following substances is a solid-gas mixture?

16) Weeds on a school farm could be controlled by

17) An example of a non-living tissue used in osmosis experiment is

18) Kerosene is poured on the surface of a pond in order to

19) Which of the following processes is used to separate insoluble solids from liquids?

20) The process of removing unproductive poultry birds from a flock is referred to as

21) Which of the following pairs of diseases can be spread easily when food is exposed to houseflies?

22) The pressure in fluids

23) Which of the following processes involve a change in the state of matter from liquid to solid?

24) Which of the following food items contains the highest amount of dietary fibre?

25) An example of a disease vector is

26) Which of the following devices is made of semiconductor?

Which of the following statements about the properties of water are correct? It
I. is colourless and tasteless
II. is neutral to litmus paper
III. turns red litmus paper blue
IV. is a universal solvent

28) The study of the soil profile of an area helps the farmer to

29) When a green leaf is placed in a test tube containing ethanol and heated over a water bath the leaf

Which of the following sources of energy is / are renewable?
I. Solar
II. Crude oil
III. Wind

31) Which of the following substances is a compound?

32) A disease-causing organism that is most difficult to control in crop production is

Which of the following organisms is/ are multicellular?
I. Amoeba
II. Paramecium
III. Onion

34) In electronic circuits, LEDs are used to indicate the absence or presence of

35) Steel is an alloy of iron and

36) Soil aeration could be improved through

37) Which of the following pairs of structures are part of the respiratory system of humans?

38) Which of the following effects is not a result of illegal connection of electricity? It can

Which of the following statements about the scientific method is / are correct? It provides
I. logical procedure for arriving at knowledge.
II. knowledge that can be verified
III. knowledge that can never be changed

40) An entrepreneur’s decision as to what to produce is a/ an