Republic of the Philippines

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
SABLAN NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL-MAIN
GRADE 8 SCIENCE
4TH QUARTER EXAMINATION
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Name: _____________________ Grade and Section: _____________ Date:_________ Score: ________

Directions: Read the statements or questions carefully and then WRITE the letter of the correct answer
from the choices given before each number.
I: MULTIPLE CHOICE
_____1. Which of the following is the function of the digestive system?
a. The body's breathing system c. The body's system of nerves
b. The body's food-processing system d. The body's blood-transporting system
_____2. Which of the following is the function of the digestive system?
a. The body's breathing system c. The body's system of nerves
b. The body's food-processing system d. The body's blood-transporting system
_____3. Which of the following organs of the digestive system is incorrectly paired with its function?
a. esophagus--food conduction
b. large intestine--water reabsorption
c. pharynx--voice box
d. stomach--food storage and grinding
_____4. Digestion begins in the mouth. Which of the following statement is INCORRECT?
a. Initial chemical digestion starts in the mouth.
b. Food is chewed and broken down to smaller pieces.
c. Amylase is present in saliva helps breakdown carbohydrates.
d. Tongue secretes protease and lipase help breakdown proteins.
_____5. What happens when food reaches the stomach?
a. Mechanical digestion starts in the stomach.
b. The food moves quickly into small intestine.
c. Juices mix with the food and stomach muscles squeeze it.
d. The food is completely digested and is absorbed by tiny blood vessels in the walls of the stomach
_____6. The digestive system processes food into usable and unusable materials. The usable
materials are sent to the body's cells as food. What happens to unusable materials?
a. It goes to pancreas to await disposal.
b. It goes to the right ventricle to await disposal.
c. It goes to the large intestine to wait disposal.
d. It goes to the small intestine to await disposal.
_____7. Digestion takes place in a long tube-like canal called the alimentary canal, or the digestive
tract. Food travels through these organs in which of the following order:
a. Mouth, stomach, gullet, small intestine,large intestine and rectum
b. Mouth, gullet, stomach, small intestine, large intestine and rectum
c. Mouth, oesophagus, stomach, large intestine, small intestine and rectum
d. Mouth, stomach, oesophagus, small intestine,large intestine and rectum
_____8. Starches begin to be digested in the
a. oral cavity. c. stomach.
b. esophagus. d. large intestine.
_____9. A ball-like mass of food is called a
a. bolus. c. chyme.
b. wad. d. mastion.

Use the diagram below for Questions no. 10-13

_____10. Which of the following organ is affected when too
much unabsorbed water causing diarrhea?
a. 1 c. 3
b. 2 d. 4
_____11. What organ is affected when hardened stones of
cholesterol cause painful blockages in bile ducts?
a. 1 c. 3
b. 2 d. 4
_____12. Which of the following practices will help you
avoid getting disease in organ 3?
a. Drink plenty of b. Eat more foods
water. rich in fiber.
 c. Avoid eating fatty d. Don’t skip meals
foods. and always eat on
time.
_____13. All of the following are healthful practices that can affect the digestive system, EXCEPT_______.
a. eat balanced diet.
b. limits foods that are high in fat.
c. exercise regularly.
d. drink at least 6 glasses of water a day.
_____14. Which of the following is the correct sequence in the phases of mitosis?
a. Anaphase, Metaphase, Prophase, Telophase
b. Metaphase, Prophase, Telephase, Anaphase
c. Prophase, Metaphase, Anaphase, Telophase
d. Telephase, Anaphase, Metaphase, Prophase
_____15. Which one of the following statements explains the difference of mitosis and meiosis?
a. Mitosis occurs in sex cells while meiosis occurs somatic cells.
b. In mitosis, there is crossing over while meiosis crossing over is absent.
c. Mitosis results in haploid daughter cells while meiosis produces diploid daughter cells.
d. In mitosis, genetics constitution of daughter cells is identical to the parent’s cells while meiosis
genetics constitution of daughter cells differs from the parent’s cells.
_____16. Meiosis occurs in the production of the following cells, EXCEPT ____________.
A. Egg cells B. Sex cells C. Somatic cells D. Sperm cells
_____17. In Meiosis if the parent cells have 40 chromosomes, then how many will the daughter cells have?

A. 40 B.10 C. 20 D. 18
_____18. If the parent cell starts out with 24 Chromosome and undergoes mitosis, then how many will
the daughter cells have?
A. 48 B. 12 C. 5 D. 24
_____19. Which of the following states the principle of dominance?
a. All alleles are dominant
b. Alleles are niether dominant nor recessive
c. All alleles are recessive
d. Some alleles are dominant and others recessive
_____20. In the punnet square shown, curly hair (C) is dominant over straight hair (c)? Which of the
following is true about the offspring resulting from the cross?
a. All are expected to have curly hair.
b. About half are expected to have curly hair
c. All are expected to have straight hair.
d. About half are expected to have straight hair
_____21. Which is an example of a heterozygous allele?
a. Tt c. TT
b. tt d. T
_____22. The following terms, except one, have something to do with the base of a food pyramid.
A. producer B. shelf fungus C. photosynthesis D. decomposer
_____23. Symbiosis is best demonstrated in
a. fishes and aquatic plants.
b. herons and carabaos.
c. tobacco flowers and honey bees.
d. termites and cellulose-eating flagellates.
_____24. Which of the following best describes the simple phenomenon of eating and being eaten?
a. food web c. food chain
b. food pyramid d. food trophics
_____25. In here, energy is obtained by transferring chemical energy of inorganic molecules to chemical energy
of organic molecules.
a. photosynthesis c. hydrosynthesis
b. chemosynthesis d. glucosynthesis
_____26. In energy pyramids, as the trophic level increases, the energy
a. decreases. c. is not affected
b. increases. d. is decomposed.
_____27. How are organismic materials returned back to the nonliving world?
a. via respiration
b. via decomposition
c. both a and b
d. none of the above
_____28. This is the ecological relationship showed by a dog and a tick.
a. parasitism b. mutualism
 c. commensalism d. predation
_____29. This is the ecological relationship showed by a Philippine eagle and a farm rat.
a. parasitism c. commensalism
b. mutualism d. Predation
_____30. The level of biodiversity that mostly composed of genetic information that organism contain
is called___.
a.
b. species diversity d. ecosystem diversity
c. genetic diversity e. life biodiversity
_____31. 2. The type of archeabacteria that can survive in places where there is no oxygen is
called_____.
a. halophiles b. thermophiles c. methanogens
_____32. The type of protist that feeds on other organism is called_____.
a. phototrophs b. heterotrophs c. sporozoan
_____33. The type of vascular plants where the leaf venation is parallel is called_____.
a. monocot b. dicot c. angiosperms
_____34. 6. Roundworms belongs to phylum______.
a. platyheminthes b. nematode c. annelida

For items 35-39, identify the missing word that will complete the first statement. Jumbled letters are provided as
clues. Then, examine if the associated statement is true or false. Write TRUE if the second statement is correct and if
false, change the sentence to make it factual.
_____35. A _________________________ (obgolicial sepesci) is defined as all populations of organisms that are
capable of interbreeding among themselves.
_____36. It is seldom reproductively isolated from members of other species.
_____________________________________________________________________________
_____37. _________________________ (Toxaymon) is the science of nomenclature and classification of
organisms. _________________________________________________________________________
_____38. Assigning the name of an organism is done before biologists classify them.
__________________________________________________________________________________________
_____39. Taxonomists use the _________________________ (iltan) language in giving scientific names.
_____40. The levels of classification refer to the category’s kingdom, class, phylum, family, order, genus, and
species._____________________________________________________________________________________
_____41. __________________ (Cslreha Drinwa) is the father of taxonomy who made Systema Naturalae in 1700.
_____42. Yeast, a fungi, belongs to the kingdom proposed by Herbert Copeland which is used in baking.
__________________________________________________________________________________________
_____43. The classification system is considered to be _________________________ (ivelgvno).
_____44. Dogs and humans belong to the same kingdom, phylum and class while differ in order, family, genus,
and species.
_____45. _____________________________________________________________________________________

III. Modified Matching Type: Match the words in column BIOLOGY with the appropriate term in column CELL and
find the corresponding example of your answer in column CELL in column CHROMOSOME.

Column BIOLOGY Column CELL Column CHROMOSOME

1. concerned with the
A. Mitosis I. Synthesis of RNA
maintenance of the life
processes of whole organisms II. Four daughter cells
B. Gametes
2. the reduction–division
phenomena C. Interphase III. Bone cell

3. aligning of double-stranded D. Telophase IV. Two daughter cells

chromosomes at equatorial
plate E. Metaphase V. Formation of a
cleavage furrow
4. the cytoplasmic division
F. Somatic Cell VI. Fifty cell division
phenomena
G. Multinucleated Cell VII. Sperm cell
5. involved in the production of an
offspring
H. Meiosis VIII. Skeletal muscle cell
6. shortening of telomeres
7. the nuclear division phenomena IX. Four double-stranded
I. Cell Aging
chromosome
 8. repeated nuclear divisions X. Uncoiling of
without cytoplasmic division J. Cytokinesis
chromosomes
9. nondividing stage devoted to
cell growth

10. the reverse prophase

Knowledge.
1

Process
Match column A to column A Understanding
A B
7. horses a. nonvascular plants 17-20. Why some people where infected by anthrax?
8. mollusks b. vascular plants
9. mosses c. cnidarians 21-24. Why do you think that parasitic flatworms do not
10. kangaroos d. roundworms have a digestive system?
11. scorpions e. phylum Mollusca
12. pine trees f. echinoderm
13. sea star g. arachnids
14. jelly fishes h. amphibians
15. salamanders i. marsupials
16. ascaris j. eutherians

Product Performance
29-32. Draw situation/s that will result to the decrease of level of biodiversity.

33-40. Draw situation/s that will result to the increase for the level of biodiversity.