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KANDARA SUB-COUNTY SECONDARY SCHOOLS

FORM 1 JOINT EXAMINATION
Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education

INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES

* Write your name and admission number in the spaces provided.

* Sign and write the date of examination on the spaces provided.
* Answer all the questions in the spaces provided.
* All working must be clearly shown where necessary.
* Check the question paper to ascertain that all the pages are printed and
no questions are missing.

For Examiner*s Use Only

Questions Maximum score Candidate's score

1 - 17 100

Bura - Form I - 2023 (SW) Chemistry

1. What is the first aid done in case of an acid burn in the laboratory? (1 mark)

2. The set up below was used by a student to boil water in the laboratory. Study it and answer the
questions that follow.
beaker

water

w ir e
g a u ze
tripod
stand

bqnsen
burner
Sample A Sample B

a) Which water sample boiled first? (1 mark)

b) What was observed on the bottom of each beaker after sometime? (2 marks)

c) Explain the observations made in (a) and (b) above. (3 marks)

3. Why are most laboratory apparatus made of glass? (2 marks)

4. Define the following terms

i) Drugs (1 mark)

ii) Drug abuse (1 mark)

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5. Study the diagram below and answer the questions that follow.
iodine Vapour
sublimate
of iodine
Iodine solid

Heat

a) What is observed when iodine solid is heated? (2 marks)

b) Name the process that iodine undergoes when (l mark)

heated.

c) Give other two examples of substances that undergoes the same process in (b) above. (2 marks)

6. Study the diagram below and answer the questions that follow.
(1 mark)

Copper (II)
sulphate crystals Test tube
Boilin
tube Ice
water
cold (1 mark)

Heat Distillate

a) State the observation made in the boiling tube where heating is taking
place.

b) Give the actual name of the distillate.

c) Write a word equation of the change taking place when copper (II) sulphate crystals are heated.
(1 mark)
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 d) Name the type of change that occurs when copper (II) sulphate crystals are heated. (1 mark)

7. Study the diagram below and use it to answer the questions that follow.

‘
Water out

O
Mixture of Water in 0
O
water and
ethanol

Heat

a) Name the parts labelled A, B, C and D on the diagram. (4 marks)

b) Name the method of separation of mixtures shown above. (1 mark)

c) Why is it possible to separate water and ethanol by the method shown (I mark)
above.

(1 mark)
d) What is the use of apparatus A in the method above?

8. The chromatogram below shows the constituents of a flower extract. A using an organic solvent.
Study it and answer the questions that follow.

Red

Yellow

Blue

a) Name two possible organic solvents you can use for this experiment. (2 marks)
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 b) Name two properties of the red pigment that causes it to move the furthest distance. (2 marks)

c) On the diagram, label the baseline and the solvent front. (2 marks)
d) State one industrial application of chromatography. (1 mark)

9. Name the elements present in the following compounds.

a) Sodium chloride (1 mark)

b) Zinc ox ide (1 mark)

c) Magnesium S ulphide (1 mark)

d) Lead (II) nitrate

(1 mark)

10. The graph below was obtained by a student dining an experiment which ice was heated. Study it
and answer the questions that follow.

100°C

Time in(minutes)

-10°C

a) Determine the melting point and the boiling point of the ice. Bura - Form 1
- 2023

b) Explain why there was no change during the sections BC and DE respectively.
 (1 mark)

(2 marks)

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 c) Is the above ice pure or impure? Explain. (2 marks)

11. Complete the table below by l a b e l l i n g the empty grids. (8 marks)

Name of element Symbol of element
Hydrogen H
Na
Lithium
Chlorine Cl
Beryllium

Magnesium
Ne
Potassium

12. Complete the following chemical equations:

i) Sodium + chlorine
(1 mark)
ii) Carbon + oxygen
(1 mark)
iii) Potassium + sulphur
(1mark)
13. a) What is an acid?
(1 mark)

b) What is a base?
(l mark)

c) What is an acid-base indicator?

(1 mark)

d) i) Name any three commercial indicators used in the laboratory.

(3 marks)

.
ii) Complete the following table by filling in the blank spaces. (4 marks)

Indicator Color in acid Color in base

Phenolphthalein pink
Methyl orange red
Litmus

e) Six solutions A, B, C, D, I and F were tested with a universal indicator and their PH values
recorded as shown in the table below.
Solution PH
A 11.0
B 2.0
c 6.0
D 7.0
E 12.0
F 13.0

Identify :
i) Weakest base (1 mark)
ii) Strongest base (I mark)
iii)Weakest acid (1 mark)

iv)Neutral substance (1 mark)

f) A bee keeper found that when stung by a bee, application of a little solution of sodium hydrogen
carbonate helps to relieve the irritation from the affected area. Explain. (2 marks)

g) Complete the following word equations.

i) Sodium hydroxide + hydrochioric acid

(l mark)

ii) Potassium hydrogen carbonate + sulphuric(VI)acid

(1mark)

iii)Sodium carbonate + nitric (V) acid

. ..... .... ....... ................... (1 mark)

14. A Form 1 students set up the following apparatus to investigate the percentage of oxygen in air.

A
B
gas jar
gas jar
45cm* 36cm°
burning
candl

At start of Experiment End of Experiment

Conc. sodium
hydroxide solution

The volume of air in the gas jar was originally 45cm' and at the end of the experiment was 36cm 3.
a) Determine the percentage of air that is used in combustion. (3 marks)

b) The percentage of air used in combustion as calculated in (a) above is different from the
theoretical value 20.9%. Explain. (2 marks)

c) Why is concentrated sodium hydroxide preferred to water in the above experiment? (1 mark)

15. Study the following set ups used to investigate rusting. The set ups were left for three days and
observations were made. The iron nails used were clean originally.
Test tube 1 Test tube 2 Test tube 3 Test tube 4

Anhydrou
Calcium
chloride

boiled
water

a) i) What was observed in each of the four test tubes after three days? (2 marks)

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 iii) Why was water boiled and an oil layer put in test tube 3? (l mark)

iv) What is the purpose of anhydrous calcium chloride in test tube (I mark)
2?

(1 mark)
b) Give the chemical name for rust.

c) Vehicles made of iron rust faster in Mombasa county than vehicles of iron in Kisumu.
Explain. (2 marks)

d) State any three methods used to prevent rusting. (2 marks)

16. The set up below was used to prepare a sample of oxygen gas. Study it and answer the questions
that follow.
Water

Solid X

a) Complete the diagram to show how oxygen is collected. (2 marks)

b) Identify solid X. (l mark)

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 c) Write a word equation for the reaction between solid X and () mark)
water.

(1 mark)
d) State another substance that can be decomposed to form oxygen
gas.

17. a) The set up below was used to prepare dry hydrogen gas. Study it and answer the questions
that follow.
dilute
hydrochloric acid
card-board

Zinc Gas jar

granules

Liquid Y

i) Is the method of collecting the gas correct? Explain.

Bura -
Form 1 -
2023

ii) What would be liquid Y?

b) i) Write a word equation of reaction between hydrogen gas and lead (II)
oxide.

ii) What is the test for hydrogen gas?

 (2 marks)

(1 mark)

(l mark)

(1 mark)

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 BURA GIRLS NATIONAL SCHOOLS
FORM 1 JOINT EXAMINATION
CHEMISTRY
July. 2023
MARKING SCHEME

1. Wash with a lot of cold water on burnt

part l c) +1
Hydrated copper (II) —+ anhydrous copper
sulphate (II) sulphate + water
2. a) Sample R >1
d) Temporary chemical change +1
b) - sample B is covered with soot <1
(or black solid) 7. a) A - fractionating column <1
- sample A has no soot +1 B - thermometer +l
C - Liebig’s condenser
c) - sample B is heated using luminous +1 D - distillate l
flame that contains unbumt carbon
which form
black soot +1 b) Fractional distillation i
- sample A is heated using non-lumin‹ us
flame that do not contain soot 1 c) Water and ethanol have close but
- w'ater is sample A boil first because non- different boiling points <1
luminous flame is hotter than luminous
flame d) Apparatus A condenses vapour of a
<1 liquid before its boiling point I

3. - glass is transparent for visibility l

- glass does not react with most chemicals 8. a) - propanone / acetone l (any two)
>1 - ethanol •'1
4. i Drugs are chemical substances that alter
) the normal functioning of the body when b) - it is more soluble in the organic solvent
taken or introduced in the body <1 +1
ii) Drug abuse is using the drugs for wrong - it is less sticky / less absorbed in
purpose <1 the paper >1

5. a) - dark shinny iodine solid turns to a c) Mark on the diagram

purple vapour <1 - base lime where mixture A is <1
- the purple vapour cools to form - solvent front the dotted line +1
dark shinny solid iodine >1
d) - separation of dyes l
b) Sub!imation <1 - analyze and identify mixtures
(any one)
cj - ammonium chloride <1
- iron (III) chloride >1 9. a) Sodium, chloride l
- benzoic acid b) Zinc, oxygen. <1
- alumini:inn chloride c) Magnesium, sulphur <1
- solid carbon (IV) oxide (dry d) Lead, nitrogen, oxygen +1
ice)
any two
) turn to a white powder I
6. a Blue crystals
10. a) Melting point is p nt is 100 C
G°C >'Z› Boiling o
i 2

b) Water <1

Kandara - Form 1 - 015 (VW) ivlarking Scheme - Chemistrv