P3

SMK CHUNG CHENG

SPM BIOLOGY TRIALS
PAPER 3
Answer all the questions.
The time suggested to complete each question is 45 minutes.

Question 1
A group of student conducted an experiment to measure the process of aerobic respiration by a cockroach
over a period of time. Figure 1 shows the set-up of the experiment.

370 C

Figure 1

The students carried out the following steps:

 One boiling tube is filled with soda lime and placed with a wire gauze in the middle of the tube.
 A cockroach is placed on the wire gauze in the boiling tube.
 A stopper with a capillary tube is inserted to the boiling tube.
 The end of the capillary tube is immersed in a coloured liquid .
 The initial level of the coloured liquid was marked.
 The boiling tube was placed in a water bath at room temperature.
 The apparatus set-up is left for an hour.
 The heights of the coloured liquid in the capillary tubes are observed and recorded every 10
minutes interval.
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Table 1 shows the results obtained from the experiment:

Boiling Time (minutes) Height of coloured liquid (mm) Results
tube

10

20

30

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Table 1 For
Examiner’s
Use
a) Record all the values of your reading in Table 1.
[ 3 marks] 1 (a)

b) (i) Based on the results in Table 1 , state three observations that can be made from
this experiment.

Observations

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1 (b) (i)
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[ 3 marks]
(ii) State the inference from the observations in (b) (i).

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For
Examiner’s c) Construct a table and record all your data collected in the experiment.
Use

[ 3 marks]

d) Complete table 2 based on the experiment.

Variable Particulars to be implemented

1. Manipulated How to alter the manipulated variable.
variable:
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2. Responding What to observed in the responding variable.
variable:
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3. Controlled How to maintain the controlled variable.

1 (d) variable:
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[ 3 marks ]
Table 2

1 (e) e) Plot a graph based on your reading at Table 1

What is the height of coloured liquid at 35th minutes?

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[ 3 marks]
For
f) According to your graph at (e) , state the relationship between the use of oxygen gas Examiner’s
with time. Use

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[ 3 marks]
g) State a suitable hypothesis for this experiment.

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1 (g)
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[ 3 marks]

h) If the temperature of the water bath is increased to 40 0 C, predict the height of the
coloured liquid and the amount of carbon dioxide gas at 40 minutes.

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[ 3 marks]

i) Based on the results of the experiment , state the operational definition of respiration.

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j) Another group of students carried out the experiment to determine the aerobic respiration For
of germinating seeds. They were provided with the following materials: Examiner’s
Use

Potassium hydroxide solution thermos flask

Thermometer U-tube with coloured liquid
Germinating seeds stopper with hole
1 (j)

Classify the above list into materials to be tested and apparatus to be use based on their
functions in the experiment.
[ 3 marks]

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Question 2.

A biologist did a study on the sources of water pollution at three locations A, B and C respectively as
shown in figure 2

Palm oil
estate

lake

Kampong Padi field

area

C well

Figure 2

Construct an experiment to study the level of pollution in several different sources of water.

END OF THE QUESTION PAPER

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