Cambridge IGCSE Sciences - Co-ordinated (Double) 0654 — 2014 May/June Paper 5 · Variant 1
0654/51/M/J/14 · 45 marks · ≈51 min
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Question paper, page 1
This document consists of 14 printed pages and 2 blank pages. IB14 06_0654_51/7RP © UCLES 2014 [Turn over *9630479722* For Examiner's Use 1 2 3 Total Cambridge International Examinations Cambridge International General Certificate of Secondary Education CO-ORDINATED SCIENCES 0654/51 Paper 5 Practical Test May/June 2014 2 hours Candidates answer on the Question Paper. Additional Materials: As listed in the Confidential Instructions. READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST Write your Centre number, candidate number and name on all the work you hand in. Write in dark blue or black pen. You may use an HB pencil for any diagrams or graphs. Do not use staples, paper clips, glue or correction fluid. DO NOT WRITE IN ANY BARCODES. Answer all questions. Electronic calculators may be used. You may lose marks if you do not show your working or if you do not use appropriate units. Notes for Use in Qualitative Analysis for this paper are printed on page 16. At the end of the examination, fasten all your work securely together. The number of marks is given in brackets [ ] at the end of each question or part question.
Question paper, page 2
2 © UCLES 2014 0654/51/M/J/14 1 You will be investigating the vitamin C content of a fruit juice. DCPIP is a dark blue chemical that is decolourised by vitamin C. A solution containing a higher concentration of vitamin C will take fewer drops to decolourise DCPIP. You are provided with a set of different concentrations of vitamin C and a fruit juice of an unknown vitamin C concentration. (a) • Using a dropping pipette, place two drops of DCPIP into each of five wells of a white spotting tile. • Start with the 1.00% solution of vitamin C. Use a clean dropping pipette to carefully add drops to one of the wells with the DCPIP and count how many drops are needed to decolourise it. Immediately record your result in Table 1.1. • Repeat with the other solutions of different concentrations of vitamin C and then the fruit juice, using a clean dropping pipette each time. • If a solution of vitamin C does not decolourise, stop when the well is full, record the number of drops and write maximum next to it. • You should ignore any colour changes seen 5 minutes after adding the vitamin C to the DCPIP. Table 1.1 concentration of vitamin C (%) number of drops needed to decolourise DCPIP 1.00 0.75 0.50 0.25 fruit juice [4]
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3 © UCLES 2014 0654/51/M/J/14 [Turn over (b) Plot a graph on the grid below of the number of drops needed to decolourise DCPIP against vitamin C concentration. Draw the best fit straight line. vitamin C concentration (%) [3] (c) Use your graph to estimate the vitamin C concentration of the fruit juice and mark on the graph how you worked this out. vitamin C concentration = % [2] (d) A student suggested that drops of distilled water are added to two drops of DCPIP in another well. Give a reason why this further test should be used. [1]
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4 © UCLES 2014 0654/51/M/J/14 (e) Identify one inaccuracy of this experimental method and suggest an improvement to reduce this inaccuracy. inaccuracy improvement [2] (f) Outline a way of improving the reliability of this experiment. [2] (g) Vitamin C is an important component of our diet. What are the consequences of a diet that lacks vitamin C? [1]
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5 © UCLES 2014 0654/51/M/J/14 [Turn over 2 You are going to investigate some reactions of sodium hydrogencarbonate, NaHCO3 and sodium carbonate, Na2CO3. In parts (b) and (c) you will carry out the same tests on these two substances. Be careful that you do not confuse the two white powders. (a) Remove the stopper from the hard glass test-tube which is one-quarter full of sodium hydrogencarbonate and attach a delivery tube. One-quarter fill a test-tube with limewater and place the other end of the delivery tube into the limewater. See Fig. 2.1. heat sodium hydrogencarbonate limewater Fig. 2.1 Heat the hard glass test-tube containing the solid for at least two minutes after the limewater has returned to a colourless solution. Immediately remove the delivery tube from the limewater, to avoid suck back. Record your observations including what happened to the solid and to the limewater. Keep the solid contents of the hard glass test-tube for (d)(ii). observations [2]
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6 © UCLES 2014 0654/51/M/J/14 (b) Place one spatula load of sodium hydrogencarbonate into a clean test-tube and add distilled water until three-quarters full. Place the stopper in the test-tube and shake until the solid is dissolved. Use this sodium hydrogencarbonate solution for tests (b)(i) to (b)(iv). (i) Place 1 cm3 of sodium hydrogencarbonate solution into a clean test-tube and add a few drops of Universal (full range) Indicator solution. Record the colour change. colour change to [1] (ii) Place another 1 cm3 of sodium hydrogencarbonate solution into a clean test-tube and add an equal volume of dilute hydrochloric acid. Record your observations. observations [1] (iii) Place 2 cm3 of sodium hydrogencarbonate solution into a clean test-tube and add an equal volume of sodium hydroxide solution. Record your observations. observations [1] (iv) Place another 2 cm3 of sodium hydrogencarbonate solution into a clean test-tube and add an equal volume of copper sulfate solution. Record your observations. observations [1]
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7 © UCLES 2014 0654/51/M/J/14 [Turn over (c) Thoroughly wash out the test-tubes used in (b)(i) to (iv). Do NOT wash out the hard glass test-tube from (a) which is needed for (d)(ii). Place one spatula load of sodium carbonate into a clean test-tube and add distilled water, until three-quarters full. Place the stopper in the test-tube and shake until the solid is dissolved. It does not matter if a small amount of solid will not dissolve. Use this sodium carbonate solution for tests (c)(i) to (c)(iv). (i) Place 1 cm3 of sodium carbonate solution into a clean test-tube and add a few drops of Universal (full range) Indicator solution. Record the colour change. colour change to [1] (ii) Place another 1 cm3 of sodium carbonate solution into a clean test-tube and add an equal volume of dilute hydrochloric acid. Record your observations. observations [1] (iii) Place 2 cm3 of sodium carbonate solution into a clean test-tube and add an equal volume of sodium hydroxide solution. Record your observations. observations [1] (iv) Place another 2 cm3 of sodium carbonate solution into a clean test-tube and add an equal volume of copper sulfate solution. Record your observations. observations [1]
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8 © UCLES 2014 0654/51/M/J/14 (d) (i) Look at your results for (b) and (c) and suggest which two tests could be used to distinguish between sodium hydrogencarbonate and sodium carbonate. test 1 test 2 [1] (ii) Now dissolve a spatula load of the solid remaining in the hard glass test-tube from (a) in distilled water in a clean test-tube. Use portions of this solution to carry out the two tests you have chosen in (d)(i). Record your observations below. observation for test 1 observation for test 2 [2] (iii) By using your observations in (a) and by comparing your observations in (d)(ii) with your observations in (b) and (c), state what the products of heating sodium hydrogencarbonate are. [2]
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9 © UCLES 2014 0654/51/M/J/14 [Turn over Please turn over for Question 3.
Question paper, page 10
10 © UCLES 2014 0654/51/M/J/14 3 You are going to find the density of plasticine (modelling clay) by two different methods and then you will compare your answers. Method 1 (a) You are provided with a beaker of water, a measuring cylinder, some plasticine and a length of thread. Break the plasticine into two pieces of about the same size. Choose one of the pieces, and keep the other piece for use in part (b)(i). (i) Use the balance provided to find the mass, m1 of your chosen piece of plasticine to the nearest 0.1 g. m1 = g [1] thread water measuring cylinder plasticine Fig. 3.1 (ii) Pour approximately 50 cm3 of water from the beaker into the measuring cylinder. Record the volume, V1 of water in the measuring cylinder. V1 = cm3 [1] (iii) Use the thread to lower your weighed piece of plasticine into the measuring cylinder until it is completely immersed. Record the new volume, V2. V2 = cm3 [1] (iv) Calculate the volume, V3 of your chosen piece of plasticine. V3 = cm3 [1]
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11 © UCLES 2014 0654/51/M/J/14 [Turn over (v) Calculate the density, d of the plasticine using the equation: d = 3 1 V m d = g / cm3 [1] Method 2 (b) b h l block of plasticine Fig. 3.2 (i) Pour the water from the measuring cylinder back into the beaker, remove the plasticine from the measuring cylinder and dry the plasticine with the paper towels. Using both pieces of plasticine, mould them together into a shape that approximates to a cube, as shown in Fig. 3.2. Measure the length l, breadth b, and height h, of the cube to the nearest 0.1 cm and record your results below. l = cm b = cm h = cm [2] (ii) Calculate the volume, V4 of your cube by using the equation: V4 = l × b × h V4 = cm3 [1]
Question paper, page 12
12 © UCLES 2014 0654/51/M/J/14 A 50 g mass has been secured to the metre rule. Its position is fixed with its centre over the 10.0 cm mark. Do not attempt to move the mass during the experiment. 50 g mass block of plasticine metre rule x 10.0 cm mark 50.0 cm mark bench 0 100 knife edge Fig. 3.3 (iii) Place the knife edge directly under the 50.0 cm mark, as shown in Fig. 3.3. Take the cube of plasticine and place it on the metre rule. Adjust its position until the rule is just balanced. Measure, to the nearest 0.1 cm, the distance, x from the centre of the cube to the 50.0 cm mark on the rule. Record the distance x. x = cm [2] (iv) Calculate the mass, m2 of the cube of plasticine using the equation: m2 = x 2000 m2 = g [1] (v) Calculate the density, d of the plasticine to an appropriate number of significant figures using the equation: d = 4 2 V m d = g / cm3 [2]
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13 © UCLES 2014 0654/51/M/J/14 (c) Compare your results for the two methods of determining the density of the plasticine given in (a)(v) and (b)(v). Suggest two reasons why the values you have obtained may not be the same. reason 1 reason 2 [2]
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16 Permission to reproduce items where third-party owned material protected by copyright is included has been sought and cleared where possible. Every reasonable effort has been made by the publisher (UCLES) to trace copyright holders, but if any items requiring clearance have unwittingly been included, the publisher will be pleased to make amends at the earliest possible opportunity. Cambridge International Examinations is part of the Cambridge Assessment Group. Cambridge Assessment is the brand name of University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate (UCLES), which is itself a department of the University of Cambridge. © UCLES 2014 0654/51/M/J/14 NOTES FOR USE IN QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS Test for anions anion test test result carbonate (CO3 2-) add dilute acid effervescence, carbon dioxide produced chloride (Cl -) [in solution] acidify with dilute nitric acid, then add aqueous silver nitrate white ppt. nitrate (NO3 -) [in solution] add aqueous sodium hydroxide then aluminium foil; warm carefully ammonia produced sulfate (SO4 2-) [in solution] acidify then add aqueous barium chloride or aqueous barium nitrate white ppt. Test for aqueous cations cation effect of aqueous sodium hydroxide effect of aqueous ammonia ammonium (NH4 +) ammonia produced on warming - copper(II) (Cu2+) light blue ppt., insoluble in excess light blue ppt., soluble in excess giving a dark blue solution iron(II) (Fe2+) green ppt., insoluble in excess green ppt., insoluble in excess iron(III) (Fe3+) red-brown ppt., insoluble in excess red-brown ppt., insoluble in excess zinc (Zn2+) white ppt., soluble in excess giving a colourless solution white ppt., soluble in excess giving a colourless solution Test for gases gas test and test results ammonia (NH3) turns damp red litmus paper blue carbon dioxide (CO2) turns limewater milky chlorine (Cl2) bleaches damp litmus paper hydrogen (H2) “pops” with a lighted splint oxygen (O2) relights a glowing splint
Mark scheme, page 1
CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS International General Certificate of Secondary Education MARK SCHEME for the May/June 2014 series 0654 CO-ORDINATED SCIENCES 0654/51 Paper 5 (Practical), maximum raw mark 45 This mark scheme is published as an aid to teachers and candidates, to indicate the requirements of the examination. It shows the basis on which Examiners were instructed to award marks. It does not indicate the details of the discussions that took place at an Examiners’ meeting before marking began, which would have considered the acceptability of alternative answers. Mark schemes should be read in conjunction with the question paper and the Principal Examiner Report for Teachers. Cambridge will not enter into discussions about these mark schemes. Cambridge is publishing the mark schemes for the May/June 2014 series for most IGCSE, GCE Advanced Level and Advanced Subsidiary Level components and some Ordinary Level components.
Mark scheme, page 2
Page 2 Mark Scheme Syllabus Paper IGCSE – May/June 2014 0654 51 © Cambridge International Examinations 2014 1 (a) result recorded for each vitamin C solution ; result recorded for the fruit juice ; trend: number of drops needed increases as concentration decreases (2 marks) ;; (allow 1 mark if trend correct with two adjacent readings the same) [4] (b) vertical axis labelled correctly and scales for both axes are linear and increasing ; all four points plotted correctly ± 0.5 square ; suitable straight line for the four points (not including a fruit juice point) ; [3] (c) line from number of drops of unknown fruit juice shown on graph / fruit juice point plotted and distinct from other points ; correct vitamin C content reading from graph (allow ecf from a curve) ; [2] (d) a control / to see if water alone has an effect / owtte ; [1] (e) drop sizes vary ; use a syringe / burette ; OR difficult to judge end point / not properly mixed ; stir after each drop ; OR only 2 drops DCPIP used ; use more drops DCPIP in larger wells ; (to award second mark the improvement must match a stated inaccuracy) [max 2] (f) carry out the experiment more than once ; calculate a mean / identify an anomalous result ; [2] (g) scurvy / poor wound healing / loosening or loss of teeth / bleeding gums ; [1] [Total: 15]
Mark scheme, page 3
Page 3 Mark Scheme Syllabus Paper IGCSE – May/June 2014 0654 51 © Cambridge International Examinations 2014 2 (a) milky / white ppt in limewater ; solid remains white / solid remains the same ; [2] (b) (i) (green) to blue-green / blue / dark green ; [1] (ii) bubbles / effervescence / fizzes ; [1] (iii) no reaction / no ppt / nothing happens ; [1] (iv) blue-green solid / cloudy blue / cloudy green / blue ppt / green ppt ; [1] (c) (i) (green) to purple / (dark) blue ; [1] (ii) bubbles / effervescence / fizzes ; [1] (iii) no reaction / no ppt / nothing happens ; [1] (iv) (pale) blue ppt ; [1] (d) (i) test 1: Universal Indicator / (i) AND test 2: copper sulfate / (iv) ; (OR tests reversed) [1] (ii) observation for test 1: purple / blue (not green) ; observation for test 2: (pale) blue ppt ; (ecf from (c) (iv) blue solid / cloudy blue) [2] (OR tests reversed) (iii) sodium carbonate / Na2CO3 ; carbon dioxide / CO2 ; [2] [Total: 15]
Mark scheme, page 4
Page 4 Mark Scheme Syllabus Paper IGCSE – May/June 2014 0654 51 © Cambridge International Examinations 2014 3 (a) (i) m1 recorded to nearest 0.1 g ; [1] (ii) V1 recorded and between 40 and 60 (ignore decimal places) ; [1] (iii) V2 > V1 (ignore decimal places) ; [1] (iv) correct subtraction for V3 (V2 – V1) but must include any decimal places from above ; [1] (v) density value correct and minimum two significant figures and between one and three ; [1] (b) (i) l, b, h values present ; to nearest 0.1 cm ; [2] (ii) V4 correct and minimum two significant figures ; [1] (iii) x present and to nearest 0.1 cm ; x < 40.0 cm ; [2] (iv) correct calculation and minimum two significant figures ; [1] (v) d evaluated ; correct d to two or three significant figures ; [2] (c) difficulty in moulding a perfect cube / rounded corners / not regular shape ; volume of thread adds to the total volume ; difficulty in measuring x / recording an accurate balance point ; water still remaining on plasticine ; [max 2] [Total: 15]
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