SCIENCE REVIEWER FOR SCIENCE QUIZ ELEMENTARY

Prepared by: Lorna R. Galleto

MATTER 16. The atomic number of a chemical element

refers to the number of what found in a
1. What do you call when matter changes from nucleus of an atom?
liquid to solid? Answer: Protons
Answer: freezing
17. What is the chemical symbol of lead?
2. Changing matter from gas to liquid. Answer: Pb
Answer: condensation
18. What is the common name of sodium
3. Changing matter from solid to gas chloride?
Answer: sublimation Answer: table salt

4. Changing matter from solid to liquid 19. What common compound that has a
Answer: melting (fusion) symbol of H2O?
Answer: water
5. It is the smallest part of the property of a
substance. 20. What compound is CO2?
Answer: molecule Answer: carbon dioxide

6. The study of the patterns of the movement 21. What gas is used as a disinfectant in
of gases is called what? drinking water?
Answer: aerodynamics Answer: Chlorine

7. It is the number of protons in the nucleus of 22. What is the fermented juice of apples
an atom better known as?
Answer: atomic number Answer: cider

8. What is the most abundant noble gas?
Answer: argon
9. It is the substance that capable of
destroying bacteria.
Answer: antibiotic
10. A BTU is the quantity of heat required to
raise the temperature of one pound of water
one degree on what temperature scale?
Answer: Fahrenheit
11. What is measured by the SI units Bar?
Answer: pressure
12. What is measure by the SI units Curie?
Answer: Activity of radionuclide
23. What kind of waste is capable of being
slowly destroyed and broken down into very
small parts by natural processes?
Answer: biodegradable
24. It is the action or process of making land,
water, air dirty and not safe or suitable to use.
Answer: pollution
25. It is collecting, processing and
manufacturing materials instead of throwing
them away.
Answer: Recycling
26. It is a waste material that are recycled as
fertilizer
Answer: compost

13. What is measured by barn? 27. It is the ability of a material to absorb

Answer: Area water.
Answer: Porosity
14. What is measured by calories?
Answer: Energy 28. The ability or capability of a material to
dissolve another material.
15. This gem stone is the softest of all Answer: solubility
precious stones. What is this green stone that
is composed of mineral beryl? 29. The dissolved substance in a solution.
Answer: Emerald Answer: solute

30. The dissolving substance in a solution

Answer: solvent
REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM 15. It is a sex glands located in the pelvis, they
produce the ova and the sex cells of the
female.
1. It is a system that enables human being to Answer: ovary
reproduce another human.
Answer: Reproductive system 16. Where does fertilization takes place?
Answer: fallopian tube
2. It is a process that makes possible the
continuance of life on Earth. 17. What do you call when an egg or ovum
Answer: reproduction from an ovary is released about once a
month?
3. A male reproductive organ where it Answer: ovulation
produces sperms and the hormone
testosterone. 18. It is the finger-like extension of the
Answer: testis fallopian tube that drive the fertilized egg to the
uterus.
4. A tube that circle the bladder and the Answer: fimbriae
excretory duct of testes.
Answer: vas deferens 19. It is a hollow, avocado-shaped muscular
organ with thick walls where a fertilized egg
5. It is a sac-like pouch that supports the develops.
testes in place. Answer: uterus
Answer: scrotum
20. It is called the birth canal because when a
6. It is a sac that serves as the receptacle of baby is to be born, it is where it passes.
the urine. Answer: vagina
Answer: bladder
21. It is the neck of the uterus.
7. A gland that produces sperms with a fluid Answer: cervix
that enables them to move.
Answer: seminal vesicle 22. It is the union of the sperm and egg cell.
Answer: fertilization
8. It is the mixture of the sperm and fluid.
Answer: semen 23. What do you call the fertilized egg?
Answer: zygote
9. The tube that carries urine out from the
body and also serves as an opening of the 24. What do you call the period of time when
sperm. the zygote undergoes development for nine
Answer: urethra months in the uterus and until the birth of the
baby?
10. The male reproductive organ Answer: pregnancy
Answer: penis
25. It refers to an unborn child during the first
11. It is a single cell with a head and a tail. two months of pregnancy.
Answer: sperm Answer: embryo

12. It is found at the top of each testis and 26. What do you call the protective membrane
where the sperms are stored. that surrounds the embryo?
Answer: epididymis Answer: amniotic sac

13. It provide fluids that lubricate the duct 27. It is a clear fluid filled in the amniotic sac
system and nourish the sperm. that protects the embryo against harm and
Answer: prostate gland keeps the embryo moist.
Answer: amniotic cord
14. What human stage on time of development
when a person become physically able to 28. What cord connects the embryo to the
reproduce. placenta?
Answer: Puberty Answer: umbilical cord
29. Nutrients and oxygen pass from the
mother to the embryo through the
__________.
Answer: placenta
30. In what week of the pregnancy when the
embryo develops tiny arm and legs with
fingers and toes?
Answer: 6th-7th weeks
31. What do you call the embryo after the two
months of pregnancy and the body organ are
now present?
Answer: fetus
32. It is a series of changes during which an
egg matures and the uterus is prepared for
possible pregnancy.
Answer: menstrual cycle
33. It happens when the uterine lining begins
to break down and the blood with some uterine
tissue and unfertilized egg make their way out
through the vagina.
Answer: menstruation flow
34. How many hours a sperm can survived?
Answer: 24-48 hours
35. It refers to the lining of the uterus that
becomes thicker in preparation for implantation
of the fertilized egg.
Answer: endometrium
36. It is the female gonad where the egg is
produced.
Answer: ovary
37. How many chromosomes are in the
nucleus of a human sperm?
Answer: 23 chromosomes
38. Sex determination of a child is done by
whose chromosome?
Answer: Father
39. It is the male gametes.
Answer: Testicles
40. A walnut sized glands located between the
bladder and the penis, it secretes fluid that
nourishes and protects sperm.
Answer: prostate
41. The female gametes is ___.
Answer: ovaries
RESPIRATORY SYSTEM
1. The system that helps a person breathe in
oxygen and breathe out carbon dioxide.
Answer: respiratory system
2. Where does the exchange of oxygen and
carbon dioxide happens in human body?
Answer: alveoli
3. It is the opening in our nose where air
enters.
Answer: nostrils
4. It is where the air gets moistened and
warmed as it enters in the nostrils.
Answer: Nasal Cavity
5. It is a tiny hair-like structure that traps the air
against impurities.
Answer: cilia
6. A tube-like passage for both food and air
that found between the nasal cavity and
esophagus.
Answer: pharynx
7. It is a flap of tissue found at the end of the
pharynx that closes over the larynx when we
swallow.
Answer: epiglottis
8. It is where the vocal chords attached that
produce sounds when we speak.
Answer: larynx
9. An organ below the larynx which is a 12cm
long tube and made up of C-shaped rings of
cartilage.
Answer: trachea
10. Branch of trachea that carry air into the
lungs.
Answer: bronchi
11. It is a cluster of tiny thin-walled sacs found
at the end of each bronchioles.
Answer: alveoli
12. Substance that produced by the lining of
the nasal cavity
Answer: mucus
13. Tiny hair-like structure that trap the
bacteria in the trachea
Answer: mucous membrane and cilia
14. The flow of air to the lungs 29. What moves back and forth to move the
Answer: nostrils-nasal cavity-pharynx- mucus out of the sinuses and the back if the
trachea-bronchus- bronchiole- alveoli nose?
Answer: Cilia
15. What do you call the division of the lungs?
Answer: lobes 30. This icky stuff, also known as boogers,
helps capture dust, germs and small particles.
16. It is a thin membrane that surrounds the Answer: Mucus
lungs.
Answer: pleura 31. These are sensitive to odor molecules and
help the brain recognize smells?
17. Bones that protect the lungs Answer: receptors
Answer: rib cage
32. It is made out of thin pieces of bone that
18. How many pairs of rib cage that protect the separates the nasal passages.
lungs? Answer: Septum
Answer: 12 pairs
33. What do you call the two holes in the
19. A dome-shaped muscle that works with the nose?
lungs to allow breathing in and breathing out. Answer: Nostrils
Answer: diaphragm
34. What part of the human anatomy that
known as “voice box”?
20. What is the first apparatus used for Answer: larynx
breathing underwater?
Answer: diving bell 35. Where in the human body do alveoli
found?
21. What is the first safe underwater breathing Answer: lungs
device?
Answer: aqualung 36.

22. A disease in which the alveoli in the lungs

lose their ability to expand and contract.
Answer: emphysema

23. A disease in which too much mucus is

produce in the bronchial tubes.
Answer: chronic bronchitis URINARY SYSTEM
24. It is an ailment caused by a virus on which
there is swelling of the mucus membrane of
1. It is a system of excretory organs that rids
the respiratory passages.
blood of wastes, excess water and excess salt.
Answer: colds
Answer: Urinary System
25. Swelling of the lungs that caused by a
2. Two bean-shaped organs that filter blood to
virus and bacteria
produce waste liquid called urine.
Answer: Pneumonia
Answer: kidneys
26. A communicable disease caused by the
3. Where does blood enters going to the
bacteria a mycobacterium tuberculosis.
kidney?
Answer: pulmonary tuberculosis
Answer: renal artery
27. How many receptors in your nose?
4. Where does blood pass as it leaves the
Answer: atleast 10 million
kidney?
Answer: renal vein
28. What is behind your nose and connects
with the back of the throat?
5. It is a tiny filtering unit of the kidney that rids
Answer: Nasal Cavity
blood of waste liquid called urine.
Answer: nephron
6. It holds the urine until it leaves the body. 7. It is the flat teeth used for chewing the food.
Answer: bladder Answer: Molars

7. It carries urine to the outside of the body.
Answer: urethra
8. It connects the kidney to the urinary bladder.
Answer: ureters
9. It helps a defective kidney filter the blood.
Answer: dialysis
10. What is the main excretory organ?
Answer: kidney
8. It is a is a long muscular tube that connects
the pharynx to the throat to the stomach.
Answer: Esophagus
9. A rhythmically movement that contracts to
move the food through the digestive system.
Answer: Peristalsis
10. It is a large J-shaped organ at the end of
the esophagus, on the left side of the body.
Answer: Stomach

11. Where does the filtration of blood in the 11. It is a muscle found at the end of the
kidney take place? stomach that closes and opens to allow the
Answer: Bowman’s capsule flow of from the esophagus to the stomach.
Answer: Sphincter muscle
12. It is a waste product excreted through the
urinary system. 12. It is the long coiled connected from the
Answer: Urine stomach.
Answer: Small intestine
13. Cystitis is the infection of ________. There are three parts of the Small
Answer: Urinary bladder Intestine:
 Duodenum – the upper 20 cm.
14. What tube connects the kidney to the connected to the stomach
bladder?  Jejunum – is about 2.5 meters long.
Answer: Ureter
 Ileum – is the longest half coiled through
15. the abdominal cavity
 The last 20 or 30 centimeters of the colon
are called rectum.
13. The softened food is rolled into a ball
DIGESTIVE SYSTEM called the bolus and is pushed by the tongue
into the throat.
1. The process of breaking up and dissolving
the food so that it ca be taken into the blood to 14. How long is an adult’s small intestine?
be used by the body. Answer: 22 feet
Answer: digestion
15. Where does bile made/ production of bile?
2. Where does digestion begin? Answer: Liver
Answer: mouth
16. Your food can spend up to this long in the
3. It is a digestive juice which is secreted by small intestine.
the three pairs of salivary glands that empty Answer: 4 hours
into the mouth.
Answer: saliva 17. The large intestine measures about ___.
Answer: 5 feet long
4. It is the front teeth with sharp edges for
biting and cutting the food. 18. What are the last four teeth a person will
Answer: Incisors get?
Answer: Wisdom teeth
5. It is the pointed teeth which grip and tear the
food. 19. What kind of teeth do babies have?
Answer: Canines Answer: Primary

6. The teeth that crushed and grind the food 20. What makes up the roots of your teeth and
Answer: Premolars attaches to your jawbone?
Answer: Cementum
21. What innermost part of the tooth does the 38. It is the passage of air in the pharynx.
dentin protect? Answer: windpipe
Answer: pulp
39. It is a squeezing movement of muscles
22. What hard, tough and shiny substances which help the food moves from the
cover the crown? esophagus towards the stomach.
Answer: Enamel Answer: peristalsis

23. What is the part of the tooth you can see 40. What lined in the walls of the small
above the gum? intestines that separate the food nutrients
Answer: crown ready to be absorbed by the walls from the
foods that is not yet ready.
25. What tiny hairs send messages to the Answer: villi
brain that help identify tastes?
Answer: Microvilli 41. It is the undigested food that becomes a
soft solid.
26. How many taste buds does a man has Answer: feces
when he was born?
Answer: 10 thousand 42. The lowest end of the large intestine and
when feces pass out of the body.
27. The back section of the tongue that is part Answer: Rectum
of the immune system.
Answer: Lingual tonsil 43. What is the largest gland in the body that
produces a bile.
28. This is the thin membrane that connects Answer: liver
your tongue to the bottom of your mouth.
Answer: Frenulum 44. It breaks the fats into tiny droplets.
29. What substance in the mouth that helps Answer: bile
break down food?
Answer: Saliva 45. Where does bile stored?
Answer: gall bladder
30. _____ contains taste buds.
Answer: Papillae 46. The organ that produces juice that digest
sugars, starches, proteins, fats and insulin
31. It is the bumps on the top of the tongue. Answer: pancreas
Answer: Papillae
47. It is produced by the pancreas that helps
32. What organ in the digestive system that is control the use of sugar by the body.
responsible for Vitamin B and K absorption? Answer: insulin
Answer: Large intestine
48. What is the hardest material in the body?
33. Where do excess fat soluble vitamins Answer: enamel
typically accumulated?
Answer: Liver 49. Layer of the teeth that is harder than the
bone but softer than the enamel.
34. What enzyme contains in saliva which acts Answer: dentin
on starches and changes them into sugar?
Answer: ptyalin 50. What is the center of the tooth that
contains the nerves and blood vessels?
35. What is the strong muscle that helps the Answer: soft pulp
teeth in digestion?
Answer: tongue 51. What chemical helps to make the teeth
harder?
36. How many permanent teeth does an adult Answer: fluoride
have?
Answer: 32 52. It is a yellow or brownish material formed
37. It is the passageway of food from the from saliva and food that sticks below the
pharynx. gums and becomes hard.
Answer: esophagus Answer: tartar
 Answer: Knee
53. What kind of doctor you need to consult
when your teeth are poorly aligned, badly 7. What’s in the center of the bone?
spaced or prodding? Answer: Bone marrow
Answer: orthodontist
8. What age does your bone stop growing?
54. The liver secrets bile which flows through Answer: 25 yrs. Old
ducts and into what pear shaped muscular
sac? 9. How many bones are in the spine?
Answer: gall bladder Answer: 33

55. How many incisor teeth are there in a full 10. What bone protect the lungs, heart and
set of adult teeth? liver?
Answer: 8 Answer: rib cage

56. In the normal adult human, how many 11. Which part of the ear takes soundwaves
bicuspids are there? and turns them into vibration?
Answer: 8 Answer: middle ear

57. The organ that controls the level of glucose 12. What tiny bone is attached to the eardrum?
in our bodies. Answer: Malleus
Answer: pancreas
13. What is the most delicate bones in your
58. What canal is travelled in digestion? body called?
Answer: alimentary canal Answer: Ossicles

59. Where do digestion most occur? 14. It separates the outer ear from the middle
Answer: small intestine ear?
Answer: Eardrum
60. How many teeth should a human adult
have, including wisdom tooth? 15. What part of the ear that is responsible for
Answer: 32 the popping sensation you feel when you’re
flying in an airplane?
61. It makes insulin to help digest and use Answer: Eustachian tube
glucose.
Answer: pancreas 16. Which part of the ear do people pierce to
wear earrings?
62. It refers to the secretion of substance or Answer: Auricle or Pinna
hormones in the bloodstream.
Answer: Endocrine 17. What name is given to the 33 bones that
make up a person’s spine or spinal cord.
SKELETAL SYSTEM Answer: vertebrae

18. What is the longest bone in the human

1. It is the bone that protects the brain. body?
Answer: cranium/skull Answer: Femur

2. What is the smallest bone in the body? 19. Where is the largest bone in the body
Answer: Stirrup found?
Answer: in the legs
3. It is the part where bones meet.
Answer: Joints 20. A bone is joined to a muscle by what
structure?
4. How many bones that an adult has? Answer: tendon
Answer: 206 bones
21. What is the common name for the
5. What do you call the bones in your spine? scapula?
Answer: Vertebrae Answer: shoulder blade

6. Where does the patella located? 22. What is protected by the cranium?
Answer: brain received information and sends signals to the
body to react, decide or move.
23. An injury to a ligament caused by Answer: Brain
excessive stretching.
Answer: Sprain 12. It is the seat of human intelligence.
Answer: Brain
24. It is a break in the bone.
Answer: Fracture 13. The brain of an adult human weighs about
______.
25. It is a strong muscle contraction that is Answer: 2.5 to 3 pounds
very painful.
Answer: Cramp 14. It is the largest part of the brain.
Answer: cerebrum
26.
15. It receives, stores and recalls all the
information the body picks up. Cognitive
NERVOUS SYSTEM processes such as thinking, memorizing and
decision making occur in the outer gray part of
1. The system that controls everything you do. the cerebrum, what do you call this part?
Answer: Nervous system Answer: cerebral cortex

2. Which part of the body that is the control 16. What part of the brain controls muscle
center of the nervous system? coordination and balance?
Answer: Brain Answer: cerebellum

3. A typical brain weighs how much?
Answer: 3 pounds (1.4 kg)
4. What is the biggest part of the brain?
Answer:
17. It orders and processes split second
actions and reactions. It is called “little brain”
because it brings all of the muscle actions
together.
Answer: cerebellum

5. Which part of the brain helps keep your 18. The hind part of the brain that holds the
balance so you don’t fall? medulla oblongata and the pons.
Answer: Answer: brain stem

6. Which part of the brain keeps you 19. Found in the brain stem that transmits
breathing? signals between the spinal cord and the brain.
Answer:
Answer: medulla oblongata
7. It is a microscopic cell that creates
connections or pathways.
Answer: neurons

8. Your emotions are believed to come from
______.
Answer: Amygdala
9. It is the part of the brain acts like
switchboard that allows the communication
from the brain to the other parts of the nervous
system.
Answer: Midbrain
10. What makes up 80% of the human brain?
Answer: water
11. It is the organ which receives, processes
and stores information from inside and outside
the body. It decides what to do with the
20. Part of the brain that controls autonomic or
involuntary functions such as heartbeat and
breathing.
Answer: Medulla Oblongata
21. It is partly made up of tracts that connect
the spinal cord with higher brain levels. It also
contains cell groups that transfer information
from the cerebrum to the cerebellum.
Answer: Pons
22. The wrinkled folds of the brain are called
_____________.
Answer: gyri or convolutions
23. Heartbeat is controlled by the ________.
Answer: Medulla Oblongata

24. It is the downward extension of the brain.
Answer: Spinal Cord
25. This are bundles of fibers (axons) from
neurons and which are held together by
connective tissue.
Answer: Nerves
26. It is the basic unit of the nervous system.
Answer: neuron
27. Fibers of nerve cells that pick up
information from the receptors. (Receptors are
parts of the body, either nerves or sense
organs, that can pick up stimuli from the
environment or from within the body).
Answer: dendrites
28. What contains the nucleus of the cell as
well as other structures that help keep the cell
alive?
Answer: cell body
29. Where do information received by the
dendrites go after?
Answer: cell body
30. What is the gap or space between axon
and dendrites called?
Answer: synapse
31. _________ is an infection of the fluid of a
person’s spinal cord and the fluid that
surrounds the brain.
Answer: Meningitis
32. Buboy was 2 years old when he started
having seizures. Without warning, he would
just fall to the ground and his body would start
convulsing. Afterwards he would lose
consciousness and wake up after several
minutes. What chronic disorder of the function
of the cerebrum is this?
Answer: epilepsy
33. It is a degenerative disease of nerve cells
in the cerebral cortex that often characterized
as the lapses of memory?
Answer: Alzheimer’s disease
34. Muhammad Ali was a world-famous boxer.
After he retired, he developed constant
trembling of his hands. He also experiences
tremors in his legs which make him walk and
move very slowly. What is this progressive
disorder in which the chemicals that facilitate
electrical transmission between neurons are
defected?
Answer: Parkinson’s disease
35. What chemical substance do synapse
released?
Answer: neurotransmitter
36. Anything that the receptors of the sense
organ collect from the environment called
what?
Answer: stimuli
37. What neurons gather information from the
sense organs and send impulses to the spinal
cord and brain for processing?
Answer: sensory neurons
38. What neurons carry impulses from the
brain or spinal cord to the muscles?
Answer: motor neurons
39. What part of the midbrain that regulates
body functions such as thirst, hungers, sleep
patterns and emotions?
Answer: hypothalamus
40. What is the main endocrine gland that is
located at the base of the brain?
Answer: Pituitary gland
41. What part of the neuron carries messages
to the cell body?
Answer: dendrites
42. What part of the neuron carries messages
away from the cell body?
Answer: axon
43. Sensory messages are taken to the brain
by _________.
Answer: nerves and hormones
44. A large ductless gland in the neck that
makes hormones to regulate growth and
development through the rate of metabolism.
Answer: Thyroid Gland
45. The glands that control the calcium in our
bodies?
Answer: Parathyroid gland
46. Located on top of each kidney, produce
hormone that you can’t live without including
sex hormones and cortisol
Answer: Adrenal
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INTEGUMENTARY SYSTEM
1. What do you call the natural oil in the skin?
Answer: Sebum
2. Each hair on your body grows out of a tiny
tube in the skin called ____.
Answer: Follicle
3. What gives the skin color?
Answer: Melanin
4. What is the outermost layer of the skin?
Answer: Epidermis
5. What is the body’s largest organ?
Answer: skin
6. When a nail curves down into the skin as it
grows, causing pain and infection, it is called
___.
Answer: Ingrown nail
7. What it is called when a loose strip of dead
skin hangs from the edge of your fingernails?
Answer: Hangnail
8. Where does the nail meet the skin?
Answer: cuticle
9. Nail start growing from the ___.
ANSWER: Nail root
10. On your nail, what is the pale half-circle
part above the cuticle?
Answer: Lunula
11. What does the nails made out of?
Answer: Keratin
16. Why do you get goosebumps when you’re
cold?
Answer: Pilomotor reflex
17. What is the deepest layer of the skin?
Answer: subcutaneous fatty tissue
18. It refers to the moisture produce by sweat
glands.
Answer: perspiration
19. It is the inflammation of the sebaceous
glands due to increase oil production in the
skin.
Answer: acne
20. What is the thickest layer of the skin?
Answer: dermis
21. What layer of the skin that produce sebum
the natural oil that lubricates the skin?
Answer: dermis
22. What disorder when a man’s skin has very
little melanin that cause the skin looks very
white and have blonde hair.
Answer: Albinism
23. It is the part of the nails that connects the
skin?
Answer: cuticle
24. What is the meaning of the scientific suffix
–derm?
Answer: skin
CIRCULATORY SYSTEM
1. It is the movement of the blood as it
distributes food and oxygen to the cells of the
body and remove waste material form them
Answer: circulation
2. It is the fluid component that circulates
throughout the body, carries nutrients to the
cells and delivers oxygen in the tissue.
Answer: Blood
3. A tube-like structure where blood travels.
Answer: Blood vessels
4. What organ pumps blood to the different
parts of the body.
Answer: heart
5. The system that considered as the main
transport of the body.
Answer: circulatory system
6. How big is human’s heart?
Answer: human’s fist
7. It is a very thin but very strong sac that
enclosed the heart.
Answer: pericardium or pericardial sac
8. It is the chamber of the heart with thicker
walls because it pumps blood to the different
part of the body.
Answer: ventricles
9. What chamber of the heart receives oxygen-
rich oxygen from the lungs?
Answer: left auricle
10. What is the alternating relaxation and
contraction of the heart?
Answer: cardiac cycle
11. What is the muscular wall that completely
separates the left and right chambers of the
heart?
Answer: septum
12. It is the specialized region of the heart that
makes sure that the heart never skips a beat?
Answer: pacemaker
13. What circulatory circuit that transport blood
between the heart and the lungs?
Answer: pulmonary circuit
14. The circulatory circuit that transport or
carries blood between the heart and the rest of
the body and back to the heart.
Answer: systemic circuit
15. How many liters of blood that an average
healthy person has?
Answer: 4.5 to 6 liters
16. It is a protein-rich fluid and that consists of
plasma, RBC, WBC and platelets?
Answer: Blood
17. It is 55% of the blood volume, 90% water
and 10% solute.
Answer: Plasma
18. The most abundant cells in the blood that
contains hemoglobin.
Answer: Red Blood cells
19. What is the other name of red blood cells?
Answer: Erythrocytes
20. It gives red color of the blood.
Answer: hemoglobin
21. Where does hemoglobin produced?
Answer: Red marrow of flat bones
22. It is the composition of blood that also
known as leukocytes.
Answer: White blood cells
23. They are the soldiers of the body because
they fight infections.
Answer: White blood cells
24. It is a yellowish liquid consisting of dead
WBC, bacteria and other foreign materials in
the blood.
Answer: pus
25. The smallest elements in the blood that
play an important role in blood clotting.
Answer: Platelets
26. The protein that platelets release when
there is cut or damage in the blood vessels.
Answer: fibrin
27. It is a jelly-like red mass fibrin.
Answer: clot
28. Who first discovered blood circulation?
Answer: Dr. William Harvey
29. The passageways of blood
Answer: Blood vessels
30. Blood vessels that carry blood away from
the heart.
Answer: arteries
31. Blood vessels that carry blood toward the
heart
Answer: veins
32. Blood vessels that allow the exchange of
nutrients, gases and wastes in the cells of the
body.
Answer: capillaries
33. Which vitamin is primarily responsible for
blood clotting?
Answer: Vitamin K
34. It is the exerted force as the blood flows
inside the walls of the blood vessels
Answer: blood pressure
35. Instrument that measured blood pressure
quickly and easily.
Answer: sphygmomanometer
36. Blood pressure 120/90
120 (systolic pressure) – higher pressure of
the heart that occurs during contraction of the
ventricles
90 (diastolic pressure) – low pressure of the
heart that occurs when relaxed
37. It is the introduction of blood of a blood
donor to the blood stream of a recipient.
Answer: Blood transfusion
38. Who performed the first human to human
blood transfusion?
Answer: Jean-Baptiste Denis
39. It is a specialized protein secretes by
lymphocytes that help protect the body against
foreign bodies.
Answer: antibodies
40. It is a sudden rise in blood pressure.
Answer: hypertension
41. A disease occur when there is an increase
in white blood cell.
Answer: leukemia
42. It occurs when a blood clot or fat get
lodged in blood vessels.
Answer: heart attack
43. It happens when a blood clot blocks an
artery in the brain and reduces the blood
supply.
Answer: stroke
44. It is a condition caused by fat or
cholesterol deposit in the aerial wall.
Answer: Atherosclerosis
45. It is a protein in the blood, primarily carries
oxygen throughout the body.
Answer: hemoglobin
46. What bacteria caused rheumatic fever.
Answer: streptococcus bacteria
47. What is the largest artery where oxygen-
rich blood from the heart flows?
Answer: Aorta
48. A hereditary blood disorder wherein blood
clots very slowly affecting only males but
transmitted in genes of females.
Answer: Hemophilia
49. What blood cells that defend our bodies
against illnesses?
Answer: white blood cells
50.How many coronary arteries has a human
heart?
Answer: 2
51. What is the name of the main artery that
carries blood from the heart?
Answer: Aorta
52. Where are red blood cells made?
Answer: bone marrow
53. When a physician puts a stethoscope to
your chest, two sounds are heard. What
sounds represents the opening and closing of
the valves?
Answer: lub-dub, lub-dub
54. Why do blood cells do not shrink in blood?
Answer: Because blood is isotonic
55. Blood vessels that allows the exchange of
nutrients, gases and waste in the cells of the
body.
Answer: capillaries
56. It is the inflammation of the lungs.
Answer: Pneumonia
57.
SENSES
1. Part of the eyes which focuses on the retina.
Answer: lens
2. “Baby teeth” are also known as deciduous
teeth. How many deciduous teeth does the
average person develop when young?
Answer: 20
3. What is the colored part around the pupil of
the eye?
Answer: iris
4. What is the strongest muscle in the body?
Answer: tongue
NUTRITION RELATED QUESTIONS
1. It makes up most of your blood and help
carry oxygen and food to the cells in your
body. It helps your body get rid of wastes
through urine and sweat.
Answer: Water
2. What food nutrient is our body’s main
source of energy?
Answer: Carbohydrates
3. They are very important for building strong
bones.
Answer: Calcium
4. It is a degenerative brain disorder that
causes a gradual and irreversible decline in
memory and eventually, the ability to care for
oneself.
Answer: Alzheimer’s disease
5. It is a dietary-deficiency disease resulting
from inadequate intake of niacin.
Answer: Pellagra
6. An irregularity in the rhythm of the heartbeat
is referred to as what?
Answer: Arrhythmia
7. It is a water-soluble vitamin found in fruits
and leafy vegetables and is also called as
ascorbic acid.
Answer: Vitamin C
8. A prolonged deficiency of Vitamin C in the
diet causes what disease?
Answer: Scurvy
9. It is an ailment that can develop from low
red blood cells count or deficiency in
hemoglobin.
Answer: Anemia
10. What is the protein food found in milk?
Answer: Casein
11. What is the cheapest source of Vitamin D?
Answer: Sunlight/Morning Sunshine
12. What is the scientific name of guava?
Answer: Psidium guajava
13. The package of simple ready-to-cook
foods designed as a supplement to the usual
diet of the child is called what?
Answer: Nutri-Pak
14. What severe form of child malnutrition is
caused by inadequate intake of protein?
Answer: Kwashiorkor
15. It refers to the food that a person usually
consumes.
Answer: Diet
16. This vitamin is extracted from liver which is
essential for red blood cell formation.
Answer: Vitamin B12/Cyanocobalamin
17. It is a relapse or recurrence of an illness or
disease.
Answer: Palindromia
18. It is the scientific regulation of diet in
treating disease.
Answer: Dietotherapy
19. Any substance that nourishes a person to
enable him to live and grow.
Answer: Food
20. It is a condition characterized by
sleepiness, indifference, and lack of energy.
Answer: Lethargy
21. ____________ is a metabolism of fat.
Answer: Lipometabolism
22. _____________ is caused by lack of
calories or inadequate amount of food.
Answer: Marasmus
23. It is a type of cancer of the blood
characterized by an abnormal increase of
immature white blood cells called “blasts“.
Answer: Leukemia
24. The slowness of heart rate is referred to as
what?
Answer: Bradycardia
25. The first secretion from the mother’s breast
is rich in antibodies and minerals. This is
produced after giving birth and before the
production of true milk. It provides newborns
with immunity to infections.
Answer: Colostrum
26. These are the “building blocks” of protein
which is an integral part of all body tissues
especially muscle.
Answer: Amino Acids
27. It is the enlargement of the thyroid gland
appearing as a swelling of the front of the
neck.
Answer: Goiter
28. It helps prevent goiter.
Answer: Iodine
29. This refers to the ease with which
nutrients, particularly minerals, can be
absorbed from the digestive tract and utilized
by the body.
Answer: Bio-availability/Bioavailability
30. ___________ is a term to describe
minerals that are attached to other molecules
such as proteins or carbohydrates and used to
improve the bio-availability of minerals.
Answer: Chelates
31. These are the building blocks of fats and
oils.
Answer: Fatty Acids
32. It refers to the study of measurement of the
physical characteristics of the body such as
height and weight.
Answer: Anthropometry
33. It is the pressure of the blood on the walls
of the arteries.
Answer: Blood Pressure
34. _________ is the rate of energy used for
metabolism when the body is at complete rest.
Answer: Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR)
35. It is an eating disorder characterized by
binge eating, sometimes followed by vomiting
or purging.
Answer: Bulimia
36. What is the natural stimulant found in
coffee, tea, and chocolate?
Answer: Caffeine
37. It is the unit of heat and the measurement
of energy.
Answer: Calorie
38. ___________ is a monosaccharide,
sometimes known as blood sugar.
Answer: Glucose
39. It is the main carbohydrate in milk.
Answer: Lactose
40. These refers to the substances obtained
from food and used in the body to provide
energy and structural materials and to regulate
growth, maintenance and repair of the body’s
tissue.
Answer: Nutrients
41. __________ is a chronic disease
characterized by excessively high body fat in
relation to lean body tissue.
Answer: Obesity
42. It is an excess of body weight that includes
fat, bone, and muscle.
Answer: Overweight
43. What is the general term for the people
who exclude meat, poultry, fish, or other
animal-derived foods from their diets?
Answer: Vegetarians
44. These are organic, essential nutrients
required only in small amounts.
Answer: Vitamins
45. ________ is a guideline for the amount of
energy and selected nutrients considered
adequate to meet the nutrient needs of
practically all healthy people.
Answer: Recommended Dietary
Allowances (RDA)
46. It is the breaking down of foodstuffs in the
body into a form that can be absorbed and
used or excreted.
Answer: Digestion
47. It is the state of being healthy and fit,
gaining all nutrients.
Answer: Wellness
48. It is a lack of adequate fluids in the body.
Answer: Dehydration
49. It is a deficiency in blood where iron level
intake is too low.
Answer: Anemia
50. These are foods that are supplemented
with essential nutrients in quantities greater
than already present.
Answer: Fortified Foods
51. How do you call a healthcare professional
with training in nutrition and diet planning?
Answer: Dietician/Dietitian
52. _______ is the science that deals with
foods and their effects on health.
Answer: Nutrition
53. ________ is a drug or remedy used for
treating illness.
Answer: Medicine
54. It is a lack of healthy foods in the diet, or
an excessive intake of unhealthy foods,
leading to physical harm.
Answer: Malnutrition
55. What is the best way to determine the
nutritional status of an individual?
Answer: Weighing
56. What substance are nails made of?
Answer: Keratin
57. Dairy products are generally made from
what common liquid?
Answer: Milk
58. He is a Polish-American chemist
considered as the “Father of Vitamin Therapy”
and was the first to coin the term “vitamin” as
vital factors in the diet.
Answer: Casimir Funk
59. It is the only sugar manufactured my
mammals.
Answer: Lactose
60. Axerophthol is the same as what vitamin?
Answer: Vitamin A
61. It is a malignant growth of cells.
Answer: Cancer
62. Cardiopathy is known to be as what sort of
disease?
Answer: Heart Disease
63. It is a disease caused by a deficiency of
Vitamin D.
Answer: Rickets
64. What vitamin is a viosterol?
Answer: Vitamin D2
65. What nutrient is needed as the main
structural component of the body?
Answer: Protein
66. What vitamin helps in blood clotting and is
known as naphthoquinone?
Answer: Vitamin K
67. What vitamin is needed for a healthy
immune system and strong connective tissue?
Answer: Vitamin C/Ascorbic Acid
68. It is also known as tocopherol and is
necessary for normal reproduction.
Answer: Vitamin E
69. What is the cheapest source of iodine in
our household?
Answer: Iodized salt
70. What fruit is an alligator pear?
Answer: Avocado
71. Who was the Philippine President who
declared July as a month of nutrition?
Answer: Ferdinand E. Marcos
72. This is often marketed as “superfruits”
being rich in vitamins A and C.
Answer: Guava
73. It is an agency of the Philippine
government under the Department of
Health responsible for creating a conducive
policy environment for national and local
nutrition planning, implementation, monitoring
and evaluation, and surveillance using state-of
the art technology and approaches.
Answer: National Nutrition Council (NNC)
74. It is a medical condition in which the eye
fails to produce tears caused by a deficiency in
vitamin A.
Answer: Xerophthalmia
75. He is referred to as the “Father of
Medicine”.
Answer: Hippocrates
76. _______ is a thiamine-deficiency disease.
Answer: Beriberi
77. What Presidential Decree, known as the
“Nutrition Act of the Philippines” which created
the National Nutrition Council (NNC) as the
highest policy-making on nutrition, was
promulgated on 1974?
Answer: P.D. 491
78. What Executive Order, which named the
Department of Health as the chair of the NNC?
Answer: Executive Order No. 472
79. What is the process of removing harmful
pathogens from various types of food.
Answer: Pasteurization
80. It protects the child from measles and is
given only once as early as nine months.
Answer: Measles Vaccine
81. It protects the unborn child from the
tetanus and is given to the mother twice.
Answer: Tetanus Toxoid
82. It is the current vaccine for tuberculosis.
Answer: Bacillus Calmette Guerin (BCG)
83. What is the substance found in colostrum
that fights against infection and creates
antibodies that stimulates immunity?
Answer: Immunoglobulin
84. ________ is a hidden hunger.
Answer: Malnutrition
85. It is also called “Night Blindness” and is a
poor vision in relatively low light.
Answer: Nyctalopia
86. Malunggay have different parts. One of
these is the fruit/seed. For what is the use of
this fruit/seed?
Answer: Arthritis
87. _________ is slowness in eating.
Answer: Bradyphagia

88. A person who stores too much sugar in the
body may suffer from ___________.
Answer: Diabetes
89. Who discovered the vitamin D and the role
of the vitamin in preventing rickets?
Answer: Edward Mellanby
90. What is the medical term for the
inflammation of the protective membranes
covering the brain and spinal cord, known
collectively as the meninges?
Answer: Meningitis
91. ____________ is a great toe displacement
toward other toes.
Answer: Hallux varus
92. This disease happens when the flow of
oxygen-rich blood to a section of heart muscle
suddenly becomes blocked and the heart can’t
get oxygen.
Answer: Heart Attack
93. It is a part of the vitamin B complex, which
is vital for red blood cells, and thus used in the
treatment of pernicious and macrocytic anemia
and gastrointestinal disorders.
Answer: Folic Acid / Folacin / Folate /
vitamin M / vitamin B9 / vitamin Bc
94. _________ means hernia of the stomach.
Answer: Gastrocele
95. _________ is any illness resulting from the
consumption of contaminated food or foods
which contain poisonous substances.
Answer: Food Poisoning
96. What is the stable food of Filipinos that is
served every meal?
Answer: Rice
97. When protein reaches the intestines for it
to be digested, in what unit is it broken?
Answer: Amino Acid
98. It is a statement or information on food
labels indicating the nutrient(s) and the
quantity of said nutrient found or added in the
processed foods or food products.
Answer: Nutrition Facts
99. ________ is the addition of nutrients to
processed foods or food products at levels
above the natural state.
Answer: Fortification / Food Fortification
100. This is a strategy to encourage food
manufacturers to fortify processed foods or
food products with essential nutrients at levels
approved by the Department of Health (DOH).
Answer: Sangkap Pinoy Seal Program
101. It is the process of introducing vaccine
into the body to stimulate the formation of
antibodies which fight germs that cause
diseases.
Answer: Immunization
102. What do you call the medical condition in
which a person’s spine is curved from side to
side?
Answer: Scoliosis
103. What is the act establishing the Philippine
Food Fortification Program?
Answer: R.A. 8976
104. This results from a disproportion among
essential nutrients with or without the absolute
deficiency of any nutrients.
Answer: Imbalance
105. What is the other name for vetsin, which
we usually used in cooking that give flavor to
the foods we eat?
Answer: Monosodium glutamate / Sodium
glutamate
106. ________ is a substance formed by
protein in the blood that is used by the immune
system to identify and neutralize foreign
objects such as bacteria and viruses.
Answer: Antibody
107. It is the removal of mineral or calcium
ions from the bone or other calcified tissue to
make them flexible and easy for pathological
investigation.
Answer: Decalcification
108. These are smaller amounts of vitamins or
minerals consumed.
Answer: Micronutrients
109. What hormone is produced in the
pancreas that regulates the metabolism of
glucose? [The lack of this hormone causes
diabetes.]
Answer: Insulin
110. __________ are portions and types of
foods and beverages consumed on a regular
basis.
Answer: Diet
111. It is a standardized ratio of weight to
height.
Answer: Body Mass Index (BMI)
112. In what part of the body does digestion
begin?
Answer: Mouth
113. What group of foods builds and repairs
worn-out tissues?
Answer: Grow Foods
114. In what year was it discovered that citrus
fruit juices aided in the treatment of scurvy,
now known as vitamin C deficiency disease?
Answer: 1720
115. What basic food group provides the body
with heat and energy?
Answer: Energy-Giving Foods (Go Foods)
116. It is a deficiency of calcium in elderly.
Answer: Osteoporosis
117. What is the poor man’s meat?
Answer: Monggo
118. What vitamin do we get from yellow
foods?
Answer: Vitamin A
119. What mineral makes our teeth harder?
Answer: Calcium, Iron, Phosphorus
120. What are the water-soluble vitamins?
Answer: Vitamin C and Vitamins B complex
121. What vitamin helps in preventing
hemorrhage and known as bandage vitamin?
Answer: Vitamin K
122. What do you call the thrombocytes that
are tiny colorless disk-shaped and plays an
important part in the clotting process?
Answer: Platelets
123. What do you call the cholesterol that
comes from food?
Answer: Dietary Cholesterol
124. What do you call the cholesterol that
circulates in your blood?
Answer: Serum Cholesterol/Blood
Cholesterol
125. What is the body’s most essential
nutrient?
Answer: Water
126. What are the fat-soluble vitamins?
Answer: Vitamins A, D, E, and K
127. It must accompany smart eating for
weight control.
Answer: Regular Exercise
128. _______ is a guideline for helping people
choose a varied, balanced, and moderate diet.
Answer: Daily Food Guide
129. It is a fatlike substance found only in
animal sources of food.
Answer: Cholesterol
130. What is the governmental agency
responsible for food labels?
Answer: Food and Drug Administration
(FDA)
131. These are the substances added for a
specific effect.
Answer: Additives
132. ___________ is an excess body fat.
Answer: Obesity
133. How many calories are there in a pound?
Answer: 3,500 calories
134. It is an eating disorder characterized by
an irrational fear of becoming obese.
Answer: Anorexia nervosa
135. It refers to the eating of large amounts of
starches on days leading up to athletic
competition.
Answer: Carbohydrate Loading
136. It is when the body’s immune system
overreacts to food substances.
Answer: Food Allergy
137. ___________ is using a medicine in a
way that is not intended.
Answer: Medicine misuse
138. It is the ability to be physically active.
Answer: Physical Fitness
139. Of the existing 22 amino acids, how many
are considered to be essential in the diet?
Answer: 9 amino acids
140. What are the complex carbohydrates?
Answer: Starches
141. What mineral helps build red blood cells?
Answer: Iron
142. It is a fat-soluble vitamin that enhances
the absorption of calcium and therefore aids in
the formation and maintenance of bones and
teeth.
Answer: Vitamin D

143. What are the simple carbohydrates?

Answer: Sugars

144. What is the primary role of carbohydrates

in the body?
Answer: To provide energy

145. ____________ is the sole source of

energy used by the brain.
Answer: Glucose

146. It is a B vitamin that is a factor in energy

metabolism and supports normal vision and
skin health.
Answer: Vitamin B2 or Riboflavin

147. ___________ is an excessively rapid

heartbeat.
Answer: Tachycardia

148. It is a bad breath.

Answer: Halitosis

149. ____________ is a condition in which a

person can no longer control his or her need or
desire for a drug.
Answer: Drug Addiction

150. It is any chemical or agent that causes

cancer.
Answer: Carcinogen
 Answer: ostrich

10. Invertebrates that are marine animals that

full of pores or holes.
Example: sponges
Answer: Porifera

11. Invertebrates that describe as animals with

hollow-bodied or soft bodied.
Example: hydras, jellyfish, anemone, corals
Answer: Cnidaria

12. Invertebrates that describes as animals

with soft-bodied shelled animals.
Examples: snail, slugs, squid, octopus, clamps
Answer: mollusks

13. Invertebrates that are spiny-skinned sea

animals.
Example: starfish, sea urchins
ANIMALS Answer: Echinoderms

1. What do you call the animals with 14. Organism that has bilateral symmetry and
backbone? no digestive system, flatworms belong to this
Answer: vertebrates group.
Answer: Platyhelminthes
2. Animals without backbone is called
_________. 15. Unsegmented worms that has long, thin
Answer: invertebrates round bodies pointed at both ends and
covered by a touch cuticle. Roundworms
3. Warm blooded animals with fur and belong to this group.
mammary glands. Answer: nematodes
Answer: mammals
16. Segmented worms that has no respiratory
4. Vertebrates that have dry scaly skin, system but absorbs oxygen and gives of
covered with scales or plates, lay eggs and carbon dioxide through the thin skin.
can live both land and water. Answer: annelids
Example: turtles, crocodiles
Answer: reptiles 17. What is the largest group in the animal
kingdom?
5. Vertebrates that has moist skin and can live Answer: arthropods
both land and water.
Examples: frog 18. They are joint legged animals.
Answer: amphibians Answer: arthropods

6. _________ are animals that live in water
when they are young and when become old,
their lungs are now developed and they can
now live in land?
Answer: amphibians
19. Arthropods are animals with bodies and
legs made up of section and they have outside
shell. What do you call the outside shell of
arthropods?
Answer: exoskeleton

7. Vertebrates that covered with scales and
used gills for breathing.
Answer: fish
8. Vertebrates covered with feathers, lay eggs
and adapted to flight.
Answer: Birds
9. What is the largest bird?
20. What group of animals that have a hard
outer body covering, have five pairs of legs ad
characterized by the presences of antenna
located on the head?
Example: crabs, lobster, shrimps
Answer: crustaceans
21. What animals that have 3 body parts that
includes the head, thorax and abdomen?
Answer: insects 38. Which insects spread kala-azar?
Answer: Sand fly
22. How many legs that an insect has?
Answer: six legs 39. It is the transmission of sound waves to
locate object, this is where bats rely to help
23. What animals belong in arthropods that them find their food.
has 4 pairs of legs, two body segments and no Answer: Echolocation
antennae.
Example: scorpions, spiders 40. It is the way or biological process by which
Answer: arachnids insects develop after birth or hatching, usually
accompanied by change of habitat or behavior.
24. What do you call the animals that have Answer: metamorphosis
hundred feet?
Answer: centipede 41. It refers to the total number of animals in a
particular habitat or community.
25. Animals with thousand feet Answer: population
Answer: millipede
42. It is an ecological or environmental area
26. Animals with many legs? that is inhabited by a particular species of
Answer: Myriapods animal, plant or other type of organism.
27. Single-celled animals that are microscopic Answer: habitat
in size
Answer: Protozoa 43. It is the protective coloration that allows
some animals to blend with their surroundings.
28. How many segments make up the thorax Answer: Camouflage
of an insect?
Answer: 3 44. The imitation of animals of the shape,
smell, tastes, colors and sounds of other
29. Extinct sea bird known as the Atlantic animals to protect them against enemies.
penguin Answer: mimicry
Answer: auk
45. It is the structure or behavior that helps an
30. It is the largest animal phylum. organism survive in its environment.
Answer: arthropod Answer: adaptation

31. Types of these animals includes the 46. The process in which the pollens are
gorilla and chimpanzee. transferred from the anther to the stigma in a
Answer: ape flower.
Answer: Pollination
32. It is the bony out-growth on the head of a
deer
Answer: antler
PLANTS
33. It refers to animals that eat other animals.
Answer: carnivores 1. In a food chain, plants are the _______.
Answer: producer
34. It is a collection of interacting organism
within an ecosystem. 2. An environment where both living and non-
Answer: community living things exist and interact with one
another?
35. It is a system of unlocking food chains Answer: ecosystem
Answer: food web
3. It is the transfer of solar energy from plants
36. Animals that are carnivores at some times to animals and eventually to decomposers
and herbivore at others. when they die.
Answer: omnivores Answer: food chain

37. Pollination by birds is called _____. 4. What is the process when tissues are
Answer: Ornithophily breakdown to its simplest form?
Answer: decomposition
 Answer: auxin
5. They are microorganisms that change
complex substances. 20. Golden algae would be found in what
Answer: decomposers kingdom?
Answer: Protista
6. It is the relationship between a prey and a
predator. 21. The process where plants make their own
Answer: predation food.
Answer: Photosynthesis
7. Relationships among living organism where
they obtain their foods by living together. 22. The emergent, canopy and understory
Answer: symbiosis layers all form part of what?
Answer: rainforest
8. A kind of hunter-prey relationship between a
parasite and a host. 23. What is the name given to the female part
(Example: Tapeworm in human’s stomach, of a flower?
tapeworm-parasite; human’s stomach-host) Answer: Pistil
Answer: parasitism
24. What gas do plants absorb from the
9. A relationship where an organism benefits atmosphere?
from another without harming it. Answer: Carbon dioxide
Answer: commensalism
25. It is the science that study plants.
10. What part of the plant that receives the Answer: Botany
pollen from the male parts of the flower?
Answer: stigma 26. What kind of plants that has no roots, stem
or leaves?
11. Female parts of a flower that produce Answer: fungus
ovules that become seeds
Answer: Carpels 27. What are gum trees better known as?
Answer: Eucalyptus trees
12. What is produce by the male parts of the
flower? 28. What tree produces acorns?
Answer: pollen Answer: oak tree

13. It is a plant that bears cones.
Answer: coniferous plant
14. The interrelationship between species from
the Greek word that means “to live together”
Answer: symbiosis
29. A plant that produce seed but not fruit.
Answer: mint
30. Soya bean is a good source of _________.
Answer: protein

15. This type of relationship is characterized
by an organism sapping nutrients from the
body of a living host.
Answer: parasitism
16. In this relationship, both organisms benefit
from the relationship.
Answer: mutualism
17. One of the partners’ benefits while the
other neither helped or harmed.
Answer: commensalism
18. A botanist calls a ripe ovule before
germination what reproductive item?
Answer: seed
19. Plant hormone produced in growing tips of
plant stems
31. Parthenogenesis is seen generally in what
fruit?
Answer: Grapes
32. Some plants grow better if bone meal is
spread around their roots. What does bone
meal supply to the plants that makes them
grow faster?
Answer: minerals
33. It is the process in which the embryo or
baby plant gets energy from the stored food in
the see and starts grow.
Answer: Germination
35. Seeds with one cotyledon.
Answer: Monocot
36. Seeds with two cotyledon
Answer: Dicot

37. It is the outer covering of the seed. It

protects the seed from injuries.
Answer: Seed coat

38. What do you call the young plant or

immature plant found inside the seed?
Answer: Embryo

39. It is the off white and the biggest part of

the seed.
Answer: Cotyledon

40. What is the other term for aquatic animals

that adaptive to living with aquatic
environment.
Answer: hydrophytes

41. What do you call the plants that grow on

land?
Answer: terrestrial plants

42. The male reproductive organ in a flower.

Answer: stamen

43. The female reproductive organ of a flower.

Answer: pistil

44. A type of reproduction that does not

involve fertilization of egg and sperm
Answer: Asexual Reproduction
 11. Who formulated the mathematical equation
that probe the Big Bang Theory?
Answer: Albert Einstein

12. What feature in the sun appears like

billowing arches of glowing gases?
Answer: Prominences

13. A galaxy that comprises two to three

percent of the total number of galaxies.
Answer: irregular galaxy

14. For a rocket to orbit the earth and become

a satellite, its speed must be around __.
Answer: 29,000 kph

15. Who figured out that the sun was the

center of the solar system?
ASTRONOMY Answer: Copernicus

1. What is the more common name for the 16. What is the darkest part of a shadow?
constellation Canis Minor? Answer: umbra
Answer: Little dog
17. The movement of the earth on its axis is
2. Approximately, how many days does it take called _______.
the moon to complete one rotation around the Answer: rotation
earth?
Answer: 28 days 18. What is the collection of stars called?
Answer: Galaxy
3. What comet with shortest known orbital
period? 19. What was the name of the space mission
Answer: Encke’s comet that landed the first humans on the moon?
Answer: Apollo 11
4. Besides hydrogen, what is the next major
component of Jupiter’s atmosphere? 20. Which planet do the moons of Phobos and
Answer: Helium Deimos belong to?
Answer: Mars
5. What is the highest volcanic mountain in the
solar system that is located on Mars? 21. Which planet was the Galileo spacecraft
Answer: Olympus Mons sent to study?
Answer: Jupiter
6. What is the highest mountain on Earth?
Answer: Mount Everest 22. What part of the sun is easily visible only
during total solar eclipse?
7. It is a scale-like pattern of cirrocumulus Answer: Corona
clouds that also known as “buttermilk sky”.
Answer: mackerel sky 23. How many minutes does it take for light
from the Sun to reach Earth?
8. Envelope of gases surrounding a planet Answer: 5 minutes
Answer: atmosphere
24. How many planets are there in the solar
9. What layer of the earth is inferred to be system?
liquid in form? Answer: 8 planets
Answer: Outer core
25. Who was the first person to land on the
10. It is the space shuttle sent to Venus to moon?
investigate its atmosphere. Answer: Neil Armstrong
Answer: Pioneer-Venus 2
26. What is the outermost layer of the earth’s
surface?
Answer: crust
43. How many days are there in a leap year?
27. What is the hottest layer of the Earth’s Answer: 366 days
surface?
Answer: inner core 44. What is the imaginary line on which Earth’s
rotates on its axis?
28. What layer of the earth is inferred to be Answer: orbit
liquid in form?
Answer: outer core 45. If the earth has completed three
revolutions, how many rotations has it
29. What instrument can view the heavenly completed?
bodies clearly and without the filtering effect of Answer: 1095 ¾
Earth’s atmosphere?
Answer: space telescope 46. It is the earth’s movement on its axis.
Answer: rotation
30. What is the closest planet in the sun?
Answer: Mercury 47. It is the Earth’s rotation around the sun.
Answer: revolution
31. What is the name of the second biggest
planet in the solar system?
Answer: Saturn 48. How long does the earth travel around the
sun?
32. What is the hottest planet in our solar Answer: 365 ¼ days
system?
Answer: Venus 49. How many seasons does the Philippines
has?
33. What planet in famous because of its big Answer: 2 seasons (wet ad dry)
red spot?
Answer: Jupiter 50. What law that states that energy can be
transformed from one form to another, but can
34. What planet is famous for the beautiful be neither created or destroyed.
rings that surround it? Answer: Law of Conservation of Energy
Answer: Saturn
51. It is an astronomical body orbiting a star or
35. What planet is known as red planet? stellar remnant.
Answer: Mars Answer: planet

36. It is the force that holding us on Earth. 52. What is the largest star?
Answer: Gravity Answer: Eta Carinae

37. What is the name NASA’s most famous
space telescope?
Answer: Hubble Space Telescope
38. In which galaxy does earth located?
Answer: Milky Way Galaxy
39. What is the first satellite sent into space?
Answer: Sputnik
40. Ganymede is a moon in which planet?
Answer: Jupiter
41. What is the name of Saturn’s largest
moon?
Answer: Titan
53. It is an astronomical event that occurs
when an astronomical object temporarily
obscured.
Answer: eclipse
54. A group of star.
Answer: constellation
55. An eclipse when the moon passes directly
behind the Earth and into its shadow.
Answer: Lunar eclipse
56. An eclipse when an observer on Earth
passes through the shadow cast by the moon
which fully or partially block.
Answer: solar eclipse

42. Olympus Mons is a large volcanic 57. It is the partial shadow in an eclipse.
mountain on which planet? Answer: penumbra
Answer: Mars
58. Answer: Pioneer-Venus 2

11. Who formulated the mathematical equation

that probe the Big Bang Theory?
Answer: Albert Einstein

12. What feature in the sun appears like

billowing arches of glowing gases?
Answer: Prominences

13. A galaxy that comprises two to three

percent of the total number of galaxies.
Answer: irregular galaxy

14. For a rocket to orbit the earth and become

a satellite, its speed must be around __.
Answer: 29,000 kph

15. Who figured out that the sun was the

center of the solar system?
Answer: Copernicus
ASTRONOMY
16. What is the darkest part of a shadow?
1. What is the more common name for the Answer: umbra
constellation Canis Minor?
Answer: Little dog 17. The movement of the earth on its axis is
called _______.
2. Approximately, how many days does it take Answer: rotation
the moon to complete one rotation around the
earth? 18. What is the collection of stars called?
Answer: 28 days Answer: Galaxy

3. What comet with shortest known orbital 19. What was the name of the space mission
period? that landed the first humans on the moon?
Answer: Encke’s comet Answer: Apollo 11

4. Besides hydrogen, what is the next major 20. Which planet do the moons of Phobos and
component of Jupiter’s atmosphere? Deimos belong to?
Answer: Helium Answer: Mars

5. What is the highest volcanic mountain in the 21. Which planet was the Galileo spacecraft
solar system that is located on Mars? sent to study?
Answer: Olympus Mons Answer: Jupiter

6. What is the highest mountain on Earth? 22. What part of the sun is easily visible only
Answer: Mount Everest during total solar eclipse?
Answer: Corona
7. It is a scale-like pattern of cirrocumulus
clouds that also known as “buttermilk sky”. 23. How many minutes does it take for light
Answer: mackerel sky from the Sun to reach Earth?
Answer: 5 minutes
8. Envelope of gases surrounding a planet
Answer: atmosphere 24. How many planets are there in the solar
system?
9. What layer of the earth is inferred to be Answer: 8 planets
liquid in form?
Answer: Outer core 25. Who was the first person to land on the
moon?
10. It is the space shuttle sent to Venus to Answer: Neil Armstrong
investigate its atmosphere.
26. What is the outermost layer of the earth’s 42. Olympus Mons is a large volcanic
surface? mountain on which planet?
Answer: crust Answer: Mars

27. What is the hottest layer of the Earth’s 43. How many days are there in a leap year?
surface? Answer: 366 days
Answer: inner core
44. What is the imaginary line on which Earth’s
28. What layer of the earth is inferred to be rotates on its axis?
liquid in form? Answer: orbit
Answer: outer core
45. If the earth has completed three
29. What instrument can view the heavenly revolutions, how many rotations has it
bodies clearly and without the filtering effect of completed?
Earth’s atmosphere? Answer: 1095 ¾
Answer: space telescope
46. It is the earth’s movement on its axis.
30. What is the closest planet in the sun? Answer: rotation
Answer: Mercury
47. It is the Earth’s rotation around the sun.
31. What is the name of the second biggest Answer: revolution
planet in the solar system?
Answer: Saturn
48. How long does the earth travel around the
32. What is the hottest planet in our solar sun?
system? Answer: 365 ¼ days
Answer: Venus
49. How many seasons does the Philippines
33. What planet in famous because of its big has?
red spot? Answer: 2 seasons (wet ad dry)
Answer: Jupiter
50. What law that states that energy can be
34. What planet is famous for the beautiful transformed from one form to another, but can
rings that surround it? be neither created or destroyed.
Answer: Saturn Answer: Law of Conservation of Energy

35. What planet is known as red planet? 51. It is an astronomical body orbiting a star or
Answer: Mars stellar remnant.
Answer: planet
36. It is the force that holding us on Earth.
Answer: Gravity 52. What is the largest star?
Answer: Eta Carinae
37. What is the name NASA’s most famous
space telescope? 53. It is an astronomical event that occurs
Answer: Hubble Space Telescope when an astronomical object temporarily
obscured.
38. In which galaxy does earth located? Answer: eclipse
Answer: Milky Way Galaxy
54. A group of star.
39. What is the first satellite sent into space? Answer: constellation
Answer: Sputnik
55. An eclipse when the moon passes directly
40. Ganymede is a moon in which planet? behind the Earth and into its shadow.
Answer: Jupiter Answer: Lunar eclipse

41. What is the name of Saturn’s largest 56. An eclipse when an observer on Earth
moon? passes through the shadow cast by the moon
Answer: Titan which fully or partially block.
Answer: solar eclipse
57. It is the partial shadow in an eclipse. 10. It is the deepest part of the earth.
Answer: penumbra Answer: Marianas Trench

58. 11. What season is characterized with the

most amount of leaves falling from trees?
Answer: autumn

12. What is we call the breaking of white light

into all the colors of the visible spectrum?
Answer: diffraction

13. 128 ounces is equivalent to one what?

Answer: gallon

14. What is created when an electron is added

to a proton?
Answer: neutron

15. The study of phenomena at very low

temperature.
Answer: Cryogenics

16. The branch of science which is concerned

with the study of disease as it affects a
MIXED QUESTIONS community of people.
Answer: Epidemiology
1. What type of lens is used to diverse light
rays? 17. What number is neutral measured at on
Answer: Concave lens the PH Scale?
Answer: 7
2. Name the deposits left by a melted glacier.
Answer: till 18. To split an atom is _________.
Answer: fission
3. The deposits left by windblown dust.
Answer: loess 19. To clash an atom is called _________.
Answer: fusion
4. What do you call death caused by electric
current? 20. What is the most common element found
Answer: electrocution in the Earth’s atmosphere?
Answer: nitrogen
5. Name the long, narrow deposit of sand
formed where a shoreline changes direction? 21. What type of paper is used to indicate
Answer: spit acids and alkalis?
Answer: Litmus paper
6. The structure made by deposits left by
windblown sand. 22. Energy produced inside the Earth.
Answer: dunes Answer: geothermal energy

7. Anorthosite is from what primary rock 23. It is the center of an atom.

classification? Answer: nucleus
Answer: Igneous rocks
24. Amperes measures what current?
8. The science that deal with the development Answer: electrical current
of the universe.
Answer: cosmogony 25. It is a large group of wind turbines.
Answer: wind farm
9. Where can the lowest point on the earth’s
crust be found? 26. What is the name of the lightest
Answer: Marianas Trench substance?
Answer: hydrogen
27. What is the chemical symbol for iron? 44. What is needed to change the velocity of
Answer: Fe an object?
Answer: force
28. Which is the only metal that is liquid at
room temperature? 45. What do the letters Ph stand for?
Answer: Mercury Answer: Power of Hydrogen

29. Global warming is caused by too much of 46. It is the branch of biology that study about
which type of gas? relationship between living things and their
Answer: Carbon dioxide environment.
Answer: Ecology
30. Which element has atomic number of 2?
Answer: Helium 47. It has the longest wave length.
Answer: Infrared radiation
31. Which metals make the strongest
magnets? 48. Bacteria that converts atmospheric
Answer: Iron nitrogen into nitrogen compound.
Answer: Nitrogen Fixing Bacteria
32. What device is used to measure air
pressure? 49. At constant temperature, the product of
Answer: barometer pressure and volume of a given amount of gas
is constant, whose law is this?
Answer: Boyle’s Law
33. What two elements made up water? 50. What degree does water boils?
Answer: Hydrogen and oxygen Answer: 100 degrees Celsius

34. Which gas has the chemical formula CO? 51. In what degree that water becomes solid.
Answer: carbon monoxide Answer: 0 degree Celsius

35. Who invented the gramophone? 52. In which enzyme is Urea converted into
Answer: Thomas Edison ammonia and carbon dioxide?
Answer: Urease
36. What vitamin does sunlight provide to
human? 53. What is addictive poisonous substance can
Answer: Vitamin D be found in tobacco leaves?
Answer: Nicotine
37. What two metals combined to make
bronze? 54. Who discovered the law of gravity?
Answer: copper and tin Answer: Isaac Newton

38. Who invented the telephone?
Answer: Alexander Graham Bell
39. Who invented telescope?
Answer: Galileo Galilei
40. Who discovered penicillin in 1928?
Answer: Alexander Fleming
41. What is the lightest metal?
Answer: Lithium
42. Scientists that devise the three laws of
motion.
Answer: Isaac Newton
43. What is the name of the device used to
convert sound to electricity?
Answer: microphone
55. Cumulus, cirrus and stratus are kinds of
____.
Answer: Clouds
56. What do DNA means?
Answer: Deoxyribonucleic acid
57. What is the freezing point of water?
Answer: 0 degrees Celsius or 32 degrees
Celsius
58. What does an anemometer measure?
Answer: Speed of Wind
59. What is the largest flower in the world?
Answer: Rafflesia
60. What is the process by which plants
release water from their leaves?
Answer: Transpiration 76. It is a system in which energy and matter
from the sun, the atmosphere and living
61. It is the process by which the condensed organisms penetrate and interact.
water vapor falls back on the earth’s surface in Answer: soil
the forms of rain, hail, snow and sleet.
Answer: Precipitation 77. It is the type of soil that is a mixture of
sand and clay.
62. The process of changing water vapor in Answer: Loam
liquid water.
Answer: Condensation 78. It is a blanket of air that surrounds the
earth.
63. It is the process of changing liquid water Answer: atmosphere
into gas or water vapor
Answer: Evaporation 79. It is the primary source of energy.
Answer: sun
64. How do sun’s heat and light reaches the
surface of the earth? 80. The sound that is reflected or returned
Answer: radiation sound.
Answer: Echo
65. What do you call when food makes their
own foods. 81. It is the softness and loudness of sound.
Answer: photosynthesis Answer: volume

82. What type of energy made by vibrations?

66. The device used in telling the direction of Answer: Sound
the wind? 83. It is the transfer of heat from one place to
Answer: wind vane another by movement of fluids.
Answer: Convection
67. What is used to measure air temperature?
Answer: thermometer 84. It is the transfer of heat through solid
materials.
68. It is the hotness and coldness of the air Answer: Conduction
around us.
Answer: Temperature 85. It is the push and pull of magnets.
Answer: magnetism
69. What do you call the water part of the earth
or “water sphere”? 86. It is the ability to do work.
Answer: hydrosphere Answer: energy

70. The process in which water continuously 87. The energy from electromagnetic waves.
moved in the earth’s surface. Answer: Radiant energy
Answer: Water cycle
88. It is the energy of a moving object.
71. What kind of water is found beneath the Answer: Kinetic energy
earth’s surface?
Answer: Groundwater 89. The energy that is stored in a substance.
Answer: Potential energy
72. What kind of water is called hard water?
Answer: Seawater 90. It is also called as heat energy.
Answer: thermal energy
73. What kind of water is also called surface
water? 91. Energy that stored in the bonds of
Answer: Freshwater chemical compounds like atom and molecules.
Answer: Chemical energy
74. It is the uppermost layer of the soil.
Answer: Topsoil 92. It is the amount of moisture in the air.
Answer: humidity
75. What is the lowest layer of the soil?
Answer: Bedrock 93. It is a weather condition of a place over a
period of time.
Answer: climate