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✅ Official UNEB Section B Scoring Guide (Total: 4 Marks):

(a) A fracture is a broken or cracked bone in the body. [1 mark] (b) In a simple fracture, the broken bone remains inside unbroken skin; in a compound fracture, the broken bone tears through muscle and pierces outside through the skin. [1 mark] (c) (i) Splints: Immobilize and hold the broken bone in one fixed position to prevent movement. [1 mark] (ii) Arm sling: Supports, immobilizes, and elevates a fractured or injured arm. [1 mark]

💡 Examiner Deduction Warning: In (a), writing 'a broken bone' without mentioning 'cracked' loses precision. In (c)(i), 'keeps bone in one position' is the official mark-earning phrase.

✅ Official UNEB Section B Scoring Guide (Total: 4 Marks):

(a) Accept any two of: - Common diseases affecting people in the community - Pit latrine and sanitation coverage - Immunization coverage among infants and children - Sources of safe drinking water - Nutritional and food security status (b) Accept any two of: - Helps identify community health needs and challenges - Determines the health and sanitation status of the community - Helps government and NGOs plan and allocate medical resources effectively - Creates health awareness and sensitization among community members

💡 Examiner Deduction Warning: Cognitive Level: Comprehension & Application (C & A).

✅ Official UNEB Section B Scoring Guide (Total: 4 Marks):

(a) To suck out foul odours from the pit and expel them high into the air. (b) To trap flies so they cannot escape and spread disease germs. (c) (i) Wind blowing across the top of the vent pipe draws out smelly gases continuously (ii) The latrine interior is kept dark, forcing air currents up the pipe.

💡 Examiner Deduction Warning: Classic 4-mark UNEB sanitation question.

✅ Official UNEB Section B Scoring Guide (Total: 4 Marks):

(a) (i) Sanitation: The general cleanliness of the environment to promote public health / steps taken to keep an area clean. (ii) Personal hygiene: The cleanliness of the body and the materials used to clean it. (b) Accept any two of: - Sweeping rubbish from the compound - Picking up littered rubbish and disposing of it in dustbins or rubbish pits - Slashing tall grass and clearing bushes around the compound - Draining stagnant water to destroy mosquito breeding grounds - Scrubbing and cleaning latrines and urinals regularly

💡 Examiner Deduction Warning: Cognitive Level: Knowledge & Application (K & A).

✅ Official UNEB Section B Scoring Guide (Total: 4 Marks):

(a) Chlorophyll (b) Ferns make their own food through photosynthesis (autotrophic nutrition), whereas mushrooms cannot make food and absorb nutrients from decaying organic matter (saprophytic nutrition) (c) Accept any two of: - Mosses - Liverworts - Horsetails - Algae - Hornworts

💡 Examiner Deduction Warning: Cognitive Level: Comprehension (C).

✅ Official UNEB Section B Scoring Guide (Total: 4 Marks):

(a) Tsetse fly (b) Larva stage (maggots) / Adult fly (c) Blood (from humans and livestock) (d) Through biting and sucking blood (injects saliva containing Plasmodium parasites)

💡 Examiner Deduction Warning: Cognitive Level: Knowledge & Comprehension (K & C).

✅ Official UNEB Section B Scoring Guide (Total: 4 Marks):

(a) Social insects. (b) Some insects are eaten as food (grasshoppers), some pollinate crops, or some provide honey and wax (honeybees). (c) Any two of: Bush burning, Deforestation, Spraying chemical pesticides, or Swarm/wetland drainage.

✅ Official UNEB Section B Scoring Guide (Total: 4 Marks):

(a) A physical change does not take place in living things and is reversible, whereas a biological change takes place exclusively in living organisms and is irreversible. (b) (i) Melting (ii) Evaporation / Boiling (c) Evaporation

💡 Examiner Deduction Warning: Clear distinction in reversibility and living vs non-living matter.

✅ Official UNEB Section B Scoring Guide (Total: 4 Marks):

(i) Sorting: Separates clothes by color to prevent staining, and by texture/dirtiness to protect delicate fabrics. (ii) Soaking: Softens and dissolves stubborn dried dirt and stains, making scrub-washing easier.

✅ Official UNEB Section B Scoring Guide (Total: 4 Marks):

(a) Practicing personal hygiene (bathing, washing hands) OR sleeping under treated mosquito nets. (b) Teaching health education OR providing clean separate latrines OR holding health parades. (c) (i) Mobilising mothers for child immunisation days (ii) Treating uncomplicated malaria with ACTs / distributing ORS for diarrhea.

💡 Examiner Deduction Warning: Award 1 mark per section.

✅ Official UNEB Section B Scoring Guide (Total: 4 Marks):

(a) Test-Tube D (Salty water) (b) Oxygen was absent (driven out by boiling and blocked by the oil layer) (c) To keep the air completely dry by absorbing moisture (d) Oxygen and Moisture (water)

💡 Examiner Deduction Warning: Candidate must correctly identify the missing factor in each test tube.

✅ Official UNEB Section B Scoring Guide (Total: 4 Marks):

(a) Afforestation is the massive planting of trees in an area where there have never been trees before. (b) (i) To get land for farming and settlement (ii) To get wood fuel (firewood and charcoal) and timber. (c) Tree roots that absorb excess rainwater are destroyed, and bare soil easily allows rapid surface runoff into rivers and lakes.

💡 Examiner Deduction Warning: Mark strictly on environmental cause-and-effect.

✅ Official UNEB Section B Scoring Guide (Total: 4 Marks):

(a) Accept any two of: - Cold-blooded (poikilothermic) - Live both on land and in water - Lay eggs in water covered in jelly - Undergo external fertilization - Breathe through moist skin and lungs (gills at larval/tadpole stage) (b) Accept any two of: - Fish breathe using gills throughout their lives, while adult amphibians breathe using lungs and moist skin - Fish have fins for swimming, while amphibians have limbs (legs) with webbed toes - Fish have scales covering their bodies, while amphibians have smooth moist skin without scales - Fish have a lateral line to detect vibrations, while amphibians detect sound using eardrums

💡 Examiner Deduction Warning: Cognitive Level: Comprehension (C).

✅ Official UNEB Section B Scoring Guide (Total: 4 Marks):

(a) Humerus [1 mark] (b) (i) Cord: Biceps muscle [1 mark] (ii) Rubber band: Triceps muscle [1 mark] (c) Elbow joint [1 mark]

💡 Examiner Deduction Warning: This is a classic UNEB question. The cord pulls and shortens just like the biceps during flexion, while the rubber band stretches like the triceps.

✅ Official UNEB Section B Scoring Guide (Total: 4 Marks):

(a) (i) Flatworms (Platyhelminthes) (ii) Roundworms (Nematodes) (b) Accept any two of: - Eating infected, poorly cooked / raw meat containing tapeworm cysts - Eating unwashed fruits and vegetables contaminated with worm eggs - Walking barefoot on soil contaminated with hookworm larvae (hookworms penetrate bare skin) - Drinking unboiled water contaminated with worm eggs

💡 Examiner Deduction Warning: Cognitive Level: Comprehension (C).