IGCSE Science - Combined (0653) — May–June 2023, Paper 33

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Question 1 · 11 marks · Characteristics of living organisms

The boxes on the left show characteristics of living organisms; the boxes on the right show descriptions. Draw one straight line from each characteristic (growth, movement,…

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Question 2 · 8 marks · Apparatus

A student investigates the combustion of natural gas (Fig. 2.1: a beaker of water heated by burning natural gas). The student measures the temperature of the water as the natural…

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Question 3 · 8 marks · Speed and motion

Fig. 3.1 shows a football player kicking a football. Fig. 3.2 is a speed–time graph for the horizontal motion of the ball after leaving the player's foot (speed / m/s against time…

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Question 4 · 8 marks · Digestive system

Fig. 4.1 is a diagram of the alimentary canal and associated organs with two unlabelled parts. Complete the labels in Fig. 4.1 with the names of the parts shown.

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Question 5 · 10 marks · Acids and salts

Magnesium sulfate is produced by reacting excess magnesium oxide with dilute sulfuric acid. Complete the word equation for this reaction. + → magnesium sulfate +

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Question 6 · 10 marks · Electric circuits

Fig. 6.1 shows a car battery connected to an electric heater used in a caravan, with two identical heating elements. State the type of circuit connection for the heating elements.

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Question 7 · 8 marks · Food webs

Fig. 7.1 shows part of a food web (grasses, seeds → insects, grouse, chipmunk, marmot; bear; hawk). Identify the two herbivores in Fig. 7.1.

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Question 8 · 8 marks · Group I / Periodic Table

Fig. 8.1 lists some Group I elements (Li lithium, Na sodium, K potassium). The elements in Group I react with water to produce a gas. State the name of this gas.

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Question 9 · 9 marks · Sound / waves

A person's voice emits sound as longitudinal waves, represented by wave graphs of displacement against time. Fig. 9.1 shows wave graph A and wave graph B as they travel through…

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