SEKOLAH MENENGAH KEBANGSAAN SULTAN YUSSUF

31000 BATU GAJAH, PERAK

UJIAN PENGESANAN 1

1 HOURS

SCIENCE

FORM 2

2011

NAME:_______________________________________________

FORM:_______________________________________________
1. What is stimulus?

A. Part of the body that detect stimuli

B. Any change in the environment that cause a response in a living

organism

C. Any change of the part of the body to react with receptor

D. Work together with receptor to send nerve impulse to brain

2. Diagram 1 shows the path of an impulse after a stimulus is detected

Stimulus X Sensory Nerve Y

Response Z

Diagram 1

Which of the following represents X, Y and Z?

X Y Z
A Sensory Organ Brain Motor nerves
B Sensory Organ Motor nerves Brain
C Motor nerves Brain Sensory Organ
D Motor nerves Sensory Organ Brain
3. Which stimulus is not a stimulus for the sense of touch?

A. Pressure

B. Heat

C. Light

D. Pain

4. Table 1 show the type of stimulus that can be detected by different sensory
organ. Which pair of the stimulus and sensory organ is not true?

Sense Sensory Organ

A. Smell Nose
B. Taste Tongue
C. Sight Ear
D. Pressure skin

5. Azman is holding a cup of water containing hot coffee while listening to iPod.
Which of his sense are stimulated?

A. Hearing and taste

 B. Sight and touch

C. Sight, hearing and taste

D. Sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch

Figure 1

6. Figure 1 show the structure of the eye. The structure marked X is the

A. Retina

B. Yellow spot

C. Blind spot

D. Choroid

7. The fingertip is very sensitive to touch because they have more

A. Cell

B. Finger prints

C. Receptors

D. Blood vessel

8. Food become less tasty when a person catch a

cold because

A. The food cannot dissolve in saliva

B. The tongue cannot send impulses to the

brain

C. His smell receptors are covered with thick

mucus

D. The taste buds on the tongue cannot function well

9. Which of the following sensory organ detects chemicals?

A. Tongue

B. Eye

C. Ear

D. Skin

10. Which of the following surfaces will produce a diffused reflection?

A. A plain mirror

B. Surface of a calm lake

C. Smooth marble floor

D. Surface of a tire

11. The largest sensory organ in our body is the

A. Skin

B. Ear

C. Nose

D. Eye

12. All of the following are characteristic of an object formed by plane mirror
except

A. Virtual

B. Upright

C. Smaller than the object

D. Laterally inverted

13. Name the vision defect which is common among elderly people

A. Long-sightedness

B. Presbyopia

C. Short-sightedness

D. Colour blindness

14. Figure 2 shows the path of a light ray that enters a block of glass.
 Figure 2

Which of the following represents P, Q and R?

P Q R
A Incident Ray Normal Reflected ray
B Incident Ray Reflected ray Normal
C Reflected ray Normal Incident Ray
D Reflected ray Incident Ray Normal

15. The sole is not as sensitive as the neck. This is because the sole

I. Has a rougher surface than the neck

II. Has thick epidermis

III. Has a smaller number of nerve

endings

A. I and II

B. II and III

C. I and III

D. I, II and III

16. Figure 3 shows vision defect of a boy. He can see nearby object clearly but
distant objects appear blurred. He does not wear any glasses.

Figure 3

Which of the position A, B, C or D, does the image of the distant object form?
17. Raymond is long-sighted and he does not wear any glasses. He is looking at
a near object.

Figure 4

A, B, C or D in Figure 4 are the possible position of images formed in the eye.

At which position will the image be formed?

18. Venus flytrap is the example of a plant with leaves that show

A. Thigmotropism

B. Phototropism

C. Hyrdrotropism

D. Nastic movement

19. The range of audible frequencies for human is

A. 20 – 200 000 Hz

B. 20 – 20 000 Hz

C. 200 – 20 000 Hz

D. 20 000 – 120 000 Hz

20. A child can hear better than an adult because

A. A child’s auditory canal is shorter

B. A child’s ossicles vibrates better

C. A child’s eardrum is more flexible

D. A child has stereophonic hearing

21. A person will become deaf due to defects of the following parts of his/her ear
except

A. Semicircular canals

B. Oval window
 C. Ossicles

D. Cochlea

22. The inner wall of a cinema is covered with curtains so that

A. The sound can be refracted

B. The sound can be absorbed

C. The sound can be reflected

D. The cinema is well decorated

23. Optical illusion occurs when

A. The imaged falls on the blind spot

B. The brain is tired

C. The brain cannot interpreted the nerve impulse accurately

D. The sensory cells in our eyes are damaged

24. Which of the following shows the correct sequence for transmission of a nerve
impulse when a sense organ receives a stimulus?

A. Receptor spinal cord brain spinal cord effector

B. Receptor brain spinal cord effector effector

C. Effector spinal cord brain spinal cord receptor

D. Effector brain spinal cord brain receptor

Question 25 to 27 is depend to figure 5

Figure 5
25. What is Q on figure 5?

A. Eustachian tube

B. Auditory canal

C. Oval window

D. Semicircular canals
26. What is the function of Q?

A. Help the body to maintain balance

B. Maintain the same air pressure on both side of the eardrum

C. Directs sound waves to eardrum

D. Transmits the vibration and pass them to the oval window

27. R converts the vibration into impulse. What is R?

A. Oval window

B. Auditory nerve

C. Cochlea

D. Ossicles

28. Kamal is revising inhis study room. Then, he come out of his room and help
his father washing his father car outside his house. Which of the following
changes takes place in his eyes?

A. the lenses become more thicker

B. the lenses become more thinner

C. the size of pupil become bigger

D. the aqueous humour more dilute

29. Which parts of eye control the thickness of the lens?

A. Iris

B. Sclera

C. Cornea

D. Ciliary muscle

30. Which of the following statements is not true about hearing aid

A. It is worn by people without any hearing ability

B. There is more than one type of hearing aid

C. It is an electronic device consist of microphone, amplifier and ear

phone

D. It is designed to fit ear

Choose the correct answers according to the following instructions summary.

Instruction summary

A B C D
I, II, III I, II only II, III only I only
31. The
following statements
true about monocular
vision

I. Wider scope of
vision

II. Eyes at the side of the head

III. Animal of predator have this type of vision

18. What is the activities that using reflection of sound principles?

I. To determines the depth of sea

II. To measure the length of soccer field

III. To measure the electric current

19. A star in the sky seem to be further than it actually is due to

I. Refraction of light

II. Reflection of light

III. Absorption of light

20. The sensitivity of the skin is affected by

I. The thickness of dermis layer

II. The number of receptors

III. The thickness of epidermis layer

21. Which of the following statement show hydrotropism

I. Roots always grow towards the stimulus

II. Shoots always grow away from the stimulus

III. Enables the plants to get enough sunlight to make food

22.
 Figure 5
Figure 6 shows the set up of an experiment to investigate the response of
seedling towards external stimuli. Name the two stimuli being investigated
I. Water
II. Air
III. Light
37. What are the senses that are affected when a person is having a cold
I. Sense of touch
II. Sense of taste
III. Sense of smell
38. Which of the following helps to give shape to the eyeball
I. Sclera
II. Retina
III. Vitreous humour

39. Which animal has stereoscopic vision

I. Cow
II. Cat
III. Deer
40. What lens is use to correct short-sightness
I. Concave lenses
II. Convex lenses
III. Cylindrical lenses

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