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Fourth Quarter Exam in Science 8

Directions : Choose the letter of the best answer. Write your answer on the space provided before the number.
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3.

What is the most serious threat to biodiversity?

a. Scientists collecting specimens
c. Tourists
b. Habitat loss
d. Pollution
2. A scientific name contains information about its
a. Family and species
b. genus and species c. Phylum and order
d. class and family
Which of the following environments would you expect to have the most biodiversity?
a. Sahara Desert
b. Amazon Rainforest c. North Pole
d. Mount Everest
4. Which organism belongs to Kingdom Animalia?
a. Moss
b. Amoeba
c. Squid
d. Paramecium
5. The following organism belong to Phylum Arthropoda EXCEPT
a. Dragonflies
b. Millipedes
c. lobsters
d. tapeworms
6. The following are Cnidarians EXCEPT
a. Sponges
b. Jellyfish
c. sea anemone
d. brain coral
7. Turtles and Tortoises are classified under
a. Amphibians
b. Reptiles
c. Mammals
d. Birds
8. Humans belong to Class mammalia, which of the following is not a characteristic of mammal?
a. They have mammary glands.
c. They give birth to live young and care for
them.
b. They breathe in air and have 4 chambered heart
d. They are cold blooded.
9. During red tide people should not eat clams. What causes red tide?
a. Paramecium
b. Amoeba
c. Dinoflagellates
d. Euglenoids
10. Which group of plant does not belong to the group?
a. Coconut
b. conifers
c. cycads
d. ginkgoes
11. What kind of algae contains alginic acid which is used as an ingredient in making ice cream or toothpaste?
a. Red Algae
b. green algae
c. Golden algae
d. Brown algae
12. Organisms that obtain food from decaying organic matter are called ?
a. Mutualistic
b. autotrophs
c. parasite
d. saprophytes
13. Which of the following is a good characteristic of natural ecosystems?
a. Low species diversity
c. High species diversity
b. No additional energy input required
d. High productivity
14. Archaea are classified as
I.
Prokaryotes
II. Bacteria
III. Eukaryotes IV. Protista
a. I and II
b. II and III
c. II and IV
d. I and III
15. What do animals and plants have in common?
a. both are heterotrophic
c. both are prokaryotic
b. both are autotrophic
d. both are eukaryotic
for nos. 16 - 18. ( refer to the figure )
16. The energy pyramid illustrates energy loss from one trophic level to another .
Which organism has the highest energy?
a. Plankton
b. Yellow fin tuna
c. small fish
d. human
17. How much biomass of humans can the yellow fin tuna support?
a. 10,000 kg
b. 1000 kg
c. 100 kg
d. 10 kg
18. How much biomass of yellow fin tuna can the small fishes support?
a. 10,000 kg
b. 1000 kg
c. 100 kg
d. 10 kg
19. The movement of water, nitrogen, and carbon through living and non-living things in the ecosystem is
characterized as
a. Cycles
b. energy transfer
c. food chain
d. biodegradation
20. You are a primary consumer if you eat a
a. Fried chicken b. mango fruit
d. chocolate
d. apple pie
21. Humans are the top consumers in many food webs. To increase food production , they use methods that may
disrupt food chains and food webs. Which of the following farming practices have a harmful effect to its
ecosystem?
a. Grow variety of crops
c. Biological control
b. Use chemical fertilizers
d. Organic farming
22. All organisms that make their own food are called ____.
a. Manufacturers b. Decomposers
c. Producers
d. Consumers
23. Mosses are non - vascular plants. They are classified as _______.
a. Tracheophytes
b. Bryophytes
c. Pteridophytes
d. Mycophytes
24. What organism has the scientific name Oryza sativa?
a. tomato
b. corn
c. rice plant
d. egg plant
25. The scientific name of tomato is Lycopersicum esculentum. What genus does it belong?
a. Lycopersicum
b. esculentum
c. plantae
d. angiosperms
26. Nitrogen from the atmosphere has to be converted into nitrates or nitrites in order to be used by plants and
animals in forming amino acids, what do you call this process?
a. Nitrification
b. denitrification
c. ammonification
d. nitrogen
fixation
27. What are the raw materials plants need in making glucose?
a. Nitrogen and Oxygen b. Water and Oxygen c. Water and carbon dioxide
Oxygen
28. What gas do plants produced during photosynthesis that animals use?
a. Nitrogen
b. oxygen
c. Hydrogen
dioxide

d. Carbon dioxide and

d. Carbon

29. What gas is given off by animals during cellular respiration?

a. Nitrogen
b. oxygen
c. Hydrogen
d. Carbon
dioxide
30. Which organ produces substances involved in the digestion of fats?
a. Liver
b. Gall bladder
c. Stomach
d. Pancreas
31. The muscle contraction that helps squeeze food through the esophagus is known as ____.
a. Chemical digestion
b. peristalsis
c. chime
d. microvilli
32. The body needs to absorb nutrients from food. Whether plants or animals, autotrophs or heterotrophs,
nutrition is very much needed for survival. Most living things follow a similar sequence when processing their
food. Which of the following is the correct process of digestion?
a. Digestion Absorption Ingestion Elimination
b. Ingestion Digestion Absorption Elimination
c. Absorption Ingestion Digestion Elimination
d. Elimination Absorption Digestion Ingestion
33. Which secretion contains no enzyme but speed up fat digestion?
a. Bile
b. Intestinal juice
c. mucus
d. pancreatic
juice
34. Which stages of cell cycle do most of the life of any cell is spent in the period of growth and development?
a. Mitosis only
b. Cytokinesis and Mitosis
c. G1, G2 and Mitosis d. G1, S and G2
35. How long does cell cycle takes place?
a. 80 minutes
b. 24 hrs
c. 12 hrs
d. 60 s
36. The following are some events that take place during cell division. Which would be their correct order?
1. Chromosomes line up at the equatorial plane.
2. Chromosomes condense, becoming shorter and thicker
3. Chromosomes have lengthened and the nuclear membrane forms around them.
4. Centromeres divide and the chromosomes move to the opposite poles.
a. 2-1-4-3
b. 3-4-1-2
c. 1-3-2-4
d. 4-1-2-3
37. What information should be provided in the table?
a. 4 n
b. 4 2n
c. 2 2n
d. 2 n
38. Which of the following sets of chromosomes should be contained in a human sperm cell fertilizing an egg to
result in a male offspring?
a. 22 autosomes + X
b. 22 autosomes + Y
c. 22 autosomes + 2
d. 22 autosomes
39. Cri-du-chat is a genetic abnormality due to the loss of a segment of chromosomes number ____.
a. 3
b. 9
c. 5
d. 21
40. A person with down syndrome is mildly to severely developmentally disable. He has almond-shaped eyes and
enlarged tongue, short and stocky body with poor muscular development and coordination. Which has caused
this disorder?
a. An extra X chromosome in male gamete
c. A trisomy of chromosome 21
b. A monosomy in chromosomes 21
d. A trisomy on chromosome 18.
41. He is an Austrian monk who experimented on garden peas. He is also known as the Father of Genetics.
a. Reginald Punnet
c. Alexander Fleming
b. Gregor Johann Mendel
d. Isaac Newton
42. This field of study aims to understand how traits can be passed on to the next generation and how variation
arises.
a. Science
b. Dynamics
c. Genetics
d. Heredity
43. Breakfast meal consist of milk, bread, butter and hotdog. To obtain a more balanced diet which one of the
following should be added to this meal?
a. A green vegetable
b. chicken or fish
c. coffee
d. Ice cream
44. Heartworms can infect dogs and cats. They are describe as roundworms. Which animal phyla do they belong?
a. Platyhelminthes
b. Annelida
c. Arthropoda
d. Nematoda
45. Order Primates are group of mammals having large brains relative to their body size. Which group of organism
does not belong to Order Primata.
a. Apes
b. monkeys
c. elephant
d. humans
46-50. Supply the missing information on the following paragraph.
The Digestive System
Food enters the digestive tract through the (46) _____ where physical digestion occurs through mastication.
Ingested food passes down the (47) _____ and into the stomach. The stomach release gastric juice and digested food is
churned in the pyloric end of the stomach and then enter the (48) where most digestion and absorption mostly occurs.
Undigested food then proceeds to the (49) _____ where rehydration occurs. Substances that can not be absorbed exit
the body through the (50) _____.