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THE WEST AFRICAN EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL
GHANA

Basic Education Certificate Examination

SCIENCE 2014

Objective Test

Question 1

Which of the following type of teeth is used by mammals to tear food material?





Question 2

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





Question 3

The element with the chemical symbol S is ……





Question 4

The term leaching in soils refers to .....





Question 5

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





Question 6

An example of a derived quantity is





Question 7

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





Question 8

Young rabbits are called





Question 9

Producers in an ecosystem are plants that





Question 10

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





Question 11

Which of the following elements is a semi-metal?





Question 12

A system of farming that leads to continuous destruction of virgin forests is





Question 13

The by-products of respiration are





Question 14

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.





Question 15

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





Question 16

Weeds on a by school farm could be controlled by





Question 17

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





Question 18

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





Question 19

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





Question 20

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





Question 21

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





Question 22

The pressure in fluids





Question 23

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





Question 24

Which of the following food items contains the highest amount of dietary fiber?





Question 25

An example of a disease vector is





Question 26

Which of the following devices is made of semiconductor?





Question 27

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





Question 28

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





Question 29

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





Question 30

Which of the following source(s) of energy is/are renewable?

I. Solar

II. Crude oil

III. Wind





Question 31

Which of the following substances is a compound?





Question 32

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





Question 33

Which of the following organisms is/are multicellular?

I. Amoeba

II. Paramecium

III. Onion





Question 34

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





Question 35

Steel is an alloy of iron and





Question 36

Soil aeration could be improved through





Question 37

Which of the following pairs of structures are parts of the respiratory system of humans?





Question 38

Which of the following effects is not a result of illegal connection of electricity?

It can





Question 39

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





Question 40

An entrepreneur's decision as to what to produce is a/an





Theory