SCIENCE REVIEWER FOR SCIENCE QUIZ ELEMENTARY

Prepared by: Merlyn C. Tadiar

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 Answer: ovary

16. Where does fertilization takes place?

1. It is a system that enables human being to Answer: fallopian tube
reproduce another human.
Answer: Reproductive system 17. What do you call when an egg or ovum
from an ovary is released about once a
2. It is a process that makes possible the month?
continuance of life on Earth. Answer: ovulation
Answer: reproduction
18. It is the finger-like extension of the
3. A male reproductive organ where it fallopian tube that drive the fertilized egg to the
produces sperms and the hormone uterus.
testosterone. Answer: fimbriae
Answer: testis
19. It is a hollow, avocado-shaped muscular
4. A tube that circle the bladder and the organ with thick walls where a fertilized egg
excretory duct of testes. develops.
Answer: vas deferens Answer: uterus

5. It is a sac-like pouch that supports the 20. It is called the birth canal because when a
testes in place. baby is to be born, it is where it passes.
Answer: scrotum Answer: vagina

6. It is a sac that serves as the receptacle of 21. It is the neck of the uterus.
the urine. Answer: cervix
Answer: bladder
22. It is the union of the sperm and egg cell.
7. A gland that produces sperms with a fluid Answer: fertilization
that enables them to move.
Answer: seminal vesicle 23. What do you call the fertilized egg?
Answer: zygote
8. It is the mixture of the sperm and fluid.
Answer: semen 24. What do you call the period of time when
the zygote undergoes development for nine
9. The tube that carries urine out from the months in the uterus and until the birth of the
body and also serves as an opening of the baby?
sperm. Answer: pregnancy
Answer: urethra
25. It refers to an unborn child during the first
10. The male reproductive organ two months of pregnancy.
Answer: penis Answer: embryo

11. It is a single cell with a head and a tail. 26. What do you call the protective membrane
Answer: sperm that surrounds the embryo?
Answer: amniotic sac
12. It is found at the top of each testis and
where the sperms are stored. 27. It is a clear fluid filled in the amniotic sac
Answer: epididymis that protects the embryo against harm and
keeps the embryo moist.
13. It provide fluids that lubricate the duct Answer: amniotic cord
system and nourish the sperm.
Answer: prostate gland 28. What cord connects the embryo to the
placenta?
14. What human stage on time of development Answer: umbilical cord
when a person become physically able to
reproduce. 29. Nutrients and oxygen pass from the
Answer: Puberty mother to the embryo through the
__________.
15. It is a sex glands located in the pelvis, they Answer: placenta
produce the ova and the sex cells of the
female.
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
Answer: nostrils-nasal cavity-pharynx-
trachea-bronchus- bronchiole- alveoli
15. What do you call the division of the lungs?
Answer: lobes
16. It is a thin membrane that surrounds the 31. These are sensitive to odor molecules and
lungs. help the brain recognize smells?
Answer: pleura Answer: receptors

17. Bones that protect the lungs 32. It is made out of thin pieces of bone that
Answer: rib cage separates the nasal passages.
Answer: Septum
18. How many pairs of rib cage that protect the
lungs? 33. What do you call the two holes in the
Answer: 12 pairs nose?
Answer: Nostrils
19. A dome-shaped muscle that works with the
lungs to allow breathing in and breathing out. 34. What part of the human anatomy that
Answer: diaphragm known as “voice box”?
Answer: larynx

20. What is the first apparatus used for 35. Where in the human body do alveoli
breathing underwater? found?
Answer: diving bell Answer: lungs

21. What is the first safe underwater breathing 36.

device?
Answer: aqualung

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 URINARY SYSTEM

produce in the bronchial tubes.
Answer: chronic bronchitis
1. It is a system of excretory organs that rids
24. It is an ailment caused by a virus on which
blood of wastes, excess water and excess salt.
there is swelling of the mucus membrane of
Answer: Urinary System
the respiratory passages.
Answer: colds
2. Two bean-shaped organs that filter blood to
produce waste liquid called urine.
25. Swelling of the lungs that caused by a
Answer: kidneys
virus and bacteria
Answer: Pneumonia
3. Where does blood enters going to the
kidney?
26. A communicable disease caused by the
Answer: renal artery
bacteria a mycobacterium tuberculosis.
Answer: pulmonary tuberculosis
4. Where does blood pass as it leaves the
kidney?
27. How many receptors in your nose?
Answer: renal vein
Answer: atleast 10 million
5. It is a tiny filtering unit of the kidney that rids
28. What is behind your nose and connects
blood of waste liquid called urine.
with the back of the throat?
Answer: nephron
Answer: Nasal Cavity
6. It holds the urine until it leaves the body.
29. What moves back and forth to move the
Answer: bladder
mucus out of the sinuses and the back if the
nose?
7. It carries urine to the outside of the body.
Answer: Cilia
Answer: urethra
30. This icky stuff, also known as boogers,
8. It connects the kidney to the urinary bladder.
helps capture dust, germs and small particles.
Answer: ureters
Answer: Mucus
9. It helps a defective kidney filter the blood.
Answer: dialysis 10. It is a large J-shaped organ at the end of
the esophagus, on the left side of the body.
10. What is the main excretory organ? Answer: Stomach
Answer: kidney
11. It is a muscle found at the end of the
11. Where does the filtration of blood in the stomach that closes and opens to allow the
kidney take place? flow of from the esophagus to the stomach.
Answer: Bowman’s capsule Answer: Sphincter muscle

12. It is a waste product excreted through the 12. It is the long coiled connected from the
urinary system. stomach.
Answer: Urine Answer: Small intestine
There are three parts of the Small
13. Cystitis is the infection of ________. Intestine:
Answer: Urinary bladder  Duodenum – the upper 20 cm.
connected to the stomach
14. What tube connects the kidney to the
 Jejunum – is about 2.5 meters long.
bladder?
Answer: Ureter  Ileum – is the longest half coiled through
the abdominal cavity
15.  The last 20 or 30 centimeters of the colon
are called rectum.
13. The softened food is rolled into a ball
called the bolus and is pushed by the tongue
DIGESTIVE SYSTEM into the throat.

1. The process of breaking up and dissolving 14. How long is an adult’s small intestine?
the food so that it ca be taken into the blood to Answer: 22 feet
be used by the body.
Answer: digestion 15. Where does bile made/ production of bile?
Answer: Liver
2. Where does digestion begin?
Answer: mouth 16. Your food can spend up to this long in the
small intestine.
3. It is a digestive juice which is secreted by Answer: 4 hours
the three pairs of salivary glands that empty
into the mouth. 17. The large intestine measures about ___.
Answer: saliva Answer: 5 feet long

4. It is the front teeth with sharp edges for 18. What are the last four teeth a person will
biting and cutting the food. get?
Answer: Incisors Answer: Wisdom teeth

5. It is the pointed teeth which grip and tear the 19. What kind of teeth do babies have?
food. Answer: Primary
Answer: Canines
20. What makes up the roots of your teeth and
6. The teeth that crushed and grind the food attaches to your jawbone?
Answer: Premolars Answer: Cementum

7. It is the flat teeth used for chewing the food. 21. What innermost part of the tooth does the
Answer: Molars dentin protect?
Answer: pulp
8. It is a is a long muscular tube that connects
the pharynx to the throat to the stomach. 22. What hard, tough and shiny substances
Answer: Esophagus cover the crown?
Answer: Enamel
9. A rhythmically movement that contracts to
move the food through the digestive system. 23. What is the part of the tooth you can see
Answer: Peristalsis above the gum?
Answer: crown
 Answer: villi
25. What tiny hairs send messages to the
brain that help identify tastes? 41. It is the undigested food that becomes a
Answer: Microvilli soft solid.
Answer: feces
26. How many taste buds does a man has
when he was born? 42. The lowest end of the large intestine and
Answer: 10 thousand when feces pass out of the body.
Answer: Rectum
27. The back section of the tongue that is part
of the immune system. 43. What is the largest gland in the body that
Answer: Lingual tonsil produces a bile.
Answer: liver
28. This is the thin membrane that connects
your tongue to the bottom of your mouth. 44. It breaks the fats into tiny droplets.
Answer: Frenulum Answer: bile
29. What substance in the mouth that helps
break down food? 45. Where does bile stored?
Answer: Saliva Answer: gall bladder

30. _____ contains taste buds.
Answer: Papillae
31. It is the bumps on the top of the tongue.
Answer: Papillae
32. What organ in the digestive system that is
responsible for Vitamin B and K absorption?
Answer: Large intestine
33. Where do excess fat soluble vitamins
typically accumulated?
Answer: Liver
34. What enzyme contains in saliva which acts
on starches and changes them into sugar?
Answer: ptyalin
35. What is the strong muscle that helps the
teeth in digestion?
Answer: tongue
36. How many permanent teeth does an adult
have?
Answer: 32
37. It is the passageway of food from the
pharynx.
Answer: esophagus
38. It is the passage of air in the pharynx.
Answer: windpipe
39. It is a squeezing movement of muscles
which help the food moves from the
esophagus towards the stomach.
Answer: peristalsis
40. What lined in the walls of the small
intestines that separate the food nutrients
ready to be absorbed by the walls from the
foods that is not yet ready.
46. The organ that produces juice that digest
sugars, starches, proteins, fats and insulin
Answer: pancreas
47. It is produced by the pancreas that helps
control the use of sugar by the body.
Answer: insulin
48. What is the hardest material in the body?
Answer: enamel
49. Layer of the teeth that is harder than the
bone but softer than the enamel.
Answer: dentin
50. What is the center of the tooth that
contains the nerves and blood vessels?
Answer: soft pulp
51. What chemical helps to make the teeth
harder?
Answer: fluoride
52. It is a yellow or brownish material formed
from saliva and food that sticks below the
gums and becomes hard.
Answer: tartar
53. What kind of doctor you need to consult
when your teeth are poorly aligned, badly
spaced or prodding?
Answer: orthodontist
54. The liver secrets bile which flows through
ducts and into what pear shaped muscular
sac?
Answer: gall bladder
55. How many incisor teeth are there in a full
set of adult teeth?
Answer: 8
 11. Which part of the ear takes soundwaves
56. In the normal adult human, how many and turns them into vibration?
bicuspids are there? Answer: middle ear
Answer: 8
12. What tiny bone is attached to the eardrum?
57. The organ that controls the level of glucose Answer: Malleus
in our bodies.
Answer: pancreas 13. What is the most delicate bones in your
body called?
58. What canal is travelled in digestion? Answer: Ossicles
Answer: alimentary canal
14. It separates the outer ear from the middle
59. Where do digestion most occur? ear?
Answer: small intestine Answer: Eardrum

60. How many teeth should a human adult 15. What part of the ear that is responsible for
have, including wisdom tooth? the popping sensation you feel when you’re
Answer: 32 flying in an airplane?
Answer: Eustachian tube
61. It makes insulin to help digest and use
glucose. 16. Which part of the ear do people pierce to
Answer: pancreas wear earrings?
Answer: Auricle or Pinna
62. It refers to the secretion of substance or
hormones in the bloodstream. 17. What name is given to the 33 bones that
Answer: Endocrine make up a person’s spine or spinal cord.
Answer: vertebrae
SKELETAL SYSTEM
18. What is the longest bone in the human
body?
1. It is the bone that protects the brain. Answer: Femur
Answer: cranium/skull
19. Where is the largest bone in the body
2. What is the smallest bone in the body? found?
Answer: Stirrup Answer: in the legs

3. It is the part where bones meet. 20. A bone is joined to a muscle by what
Answer: Joints structure?
Answer: tendon
4. How many bones that an adult has?
Answer: 206 bones 21. What is the common name for the
scapula?
5. What do you call the bones in your spine? Answer: shoulder blade
Answer: Vertebrae
22. What is protected by the cranium?
6. Where does the patella located? Answer: brain
Answer: Knee
23. An injury to a ligament caused by
7. What’s in the center of the bone? excessive stretching.
Answer: Bone marrow Answer: Sprain

8. What age does your bone stop growing? 24. It is a break in the bone.
Answer: 25 yrs. Old Answer: Fracture

9. How many bones are in the spine? 25. It is a strong muscle contraction that is
Answer: 33 very painful.
Answer: Cramp
10. What bone protect the lungs, heart and
liver? 26.
Answer: rib cage
NERVOUS SYSTEM
1. The system that controls everything you do.
Answer: Nervous system
2. Which part of the body that is the control
center of the nervous system?
Answer: Brain
3. A typical brain weighs how much?
Answer: 3 pounds (1.4 kg)
4. What is the biggest part of the brain?
Answer:
5. Which part of the brain helps keep your
balance so you don’t fall?
Answer:
6. Which part of the brain keeps you
breathing?
Answer:
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
received information and sends signals to the
body to react, decide or move.
Answer: Brain
12. It is the seat of human intelligence.
Answer: Brain
13. The brain of an adult human weighs about
______.
Answer: 2.5 to 3 pounds
14. It is the largest part of the brain.
Answer: cerebrum
15. It receives, stores and recalls all the
information the body picks up. Cognitive
processes such as thinking, memorizing and
decision making occur in the outer gray part of
the cerebrum, what do you call this part?
Answer: cerebral cortex
16. What part of the brain controls muscle
coordination and balance?
Answer: cerebellum
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
18. The hind part of the brain that holds the
medulla oblongata and the pons.
Answer: brain stem
19. Found in the brain stem that transmits
signals between the spinal cord and the brain.
Answer: medulla oblongata
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 Answer: motor neurons
well as other structures that help keep the cell
alive? 39. What part of the midbrain that regulates
Answer: cell body body functions such as thirst, hungers, sleep
patterns and emotions?
29. Where do information received by the Answer: hypothalamus
dendrites go after?
Answer: cell body 40. What is the main endocrine gland that is
located at the base of the brain?
30. What is the gap or space between axon Answer: Pituitary gland
and dendrites called?
Answer: synapse 41. What part of the neuron carries messages
to the cell body?
31. _________ is an infection of the fluid of a Answer: dendrites
person’s spinal cord and the fluid that
surrounds the brain. 42. What part of the neuron carries messages
away from the cell body?
Answer: Meningitis Answer: axon

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
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

33. It is a degenerative disease of nerve cells 45. The glands that control the calcium in our
in the cerebral cortex that often characterized bodies?
as the lapses of memory? Answer: Parathyroid gland
Answer: Alzheimer’s disease
46. Located on top of each kidney, produce
34. Muhammad Ali was a world-famous boxer. hormone that you can’t live without including
After he retired, he developed constant sex hormones and cortisol
trembling of his hands. He also experiences Answer: Adrenal
tremors in his legs which make him walk and
move very slowly. What is this progressive 47.
disorder in which the chemicals that facilitate
electrical transmission between neurons are
defected?
Answer: Parkinson’s disease
INTEGUMENTARY SYSTEM
35. What chemical substance do synapse
released? 1. What do you call the natural oil in the skin?
Answer: Sebum
Answer: neurotransmitter
2. Each hair on your body grows out of a tiny
36. Anything that the receptors of the sense
tube in the skin called ____.
organ collect from the environment called
Answer: Follicle
what?
Answer: stimuli
3. What gives the skin color?
Answer: Melanin
37. What neurons gather information from the
sense organs and send impulses to the spinal
4. What is the outermost layer of the skin?
cord and brain for processing?
Answer: Epidermis
Answer: sensory neurons
5. What is the body’s largest organ?
38. What neurons carry impulses from the
Answer: skin
brain or spinal cord to the muscles?
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? 32. Blood vessels that allow the exchange of
Answer: 4.5 to 6 liters nutrients, gases and wastes in the cells of the
body.
16. It is a protein-rich fluid and that consists of Answer: capillaries
plasma, RBC, WBC and platelets?
Answer: Blood 33. Which vitamin is primarily responsible for
blood clotting?
17. It is 55% of the blood volume, 90% water Answer: Vitamin K
and 10% solute.
Answer: Plasma 34. It is the exerted force as the blood flows
inside the walls of the blood vessels
18. The most abundant cells in the blood that Answer: blood pressure
contains hemoglobin.
Answer: Red Blood cells 35. Instrument that measured blood pressure
quickly and easily.
19. What is the other name of red blood cells? Answer: sphygmomanometer
Answer: Erythrocytes
36. Blood pressure 120/90
20. It gives red color of the blood. 120 (systolic pressure) – higher pressure of
Answer: hemoglobin the heart that occurs during contraction of the
ventricles
21. Where does hemoglobin produced?
Answer: Red marrow of flat bones 90 (diastolic pressure) – low pressure of the
heart that occurs when relaxed
22. It is the composition of blood that also
known as leukocytes. 37. It is the introduction of blood of a blood
Answer: White blood cells donor to the blood stream of a recipient.
Answer: Blood transfusion
23. They are the soldiers of the body because
they fight infections. 38. Who performed the first human to human
Answer: White blood cells blood transfusion?
Answer: Jean-Baptiste Denis
24. It is a yellowish liquid consisting of dead
WBC, bacteria and other foreign materials in 39. It is a specialized protein secretes by
the blood. lymphocytes that help protect the body against
Answer: pus foreign bodies.
Answer: antibodies
25. The smallest elements in the blood that
play an important role in blood clotting. 40. It is a sudden rise in blood pressure.
Answer: Platelets Answer: hypertension

26. The protein that platelets release when 41. A disease occur when there is an increase
there is cut or damage in the blood vessels. in white blood cell.
Answer: fibrin Answer: leukemia

27. It is a jelly-like red mass fibrin. 42. It occurs when a blood clot or fat get
Answer: clot lodged in blood vessels.
Answer: heart attack
28. Who first discovered blood circulation?
Answer: Dr. William Harvey 43. It happens when a blood clot blocks an
artery in the brain and reduces the blood
29. The passageways of blood supply.
Answer: Blood vessels Answer: stroke

30. Blood vessels that carry blood away from 44. It is a condition caused by fat or
the heart. cholesterol deposit in the aerial wall.
Answer: arteries Answer: Atherosclerosis

31. Blood vessels that carry blood toward the 45. It is a protein in the blood, primarily carries
heart oxygen throughout the body.
Answer: veins 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
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

127. It must accompany smart eating for 143. What are the simple carbohydrates?
weight control. Answer: Sugars
Answer: Regular Exercise
144. What is the primary role of carbohydrates
128. _______ is a guideline for helping people in the body?
choose a varied, balanced, and moderate diet. Answer: To provide energy
Answer: Daily Food Guide
145. ____________ is the sole source of
129. It is a fatlike substance found only in energy used by the brain.
animal sources of food. Answer: Glucose
Answer: Cholesterol
146. It is a B vitamin that is a factor in energy
130. What is the governmental agency metabolism and supports normal vision and
responsible for food labels? skin health.
Answer: Food and Drug Administration Answer: Vitamin B2 or Riboflavin
(FDA)
147. ___________ is an excessively rapid
131. These are the substances added for a heartbeat.
specific effect. Answer: Tachycardia
Answer: Additives
132. ___________ is an excess body fat. 148. It is a bad breath.
Answer: Obesity Answer: Halitosis

133. How many calories are there in a pound? 149. ____________ is a condition in which a
Answer: 3,500 calories person can no longer control his or her need or
desire for a drug.
134. It is an eating disorder characterized by Answer: Drug Addiction
an irrational fear of becoming obese.
Answer: Anorexia nervosa 150. It is any chemical or agent that causes
cancer.
135. It refers to the eating of large amounts of Answer: Carcinogen
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
ANIMALS
1. What do you call the animals with
backbone?
Answer: vertebrates

2. Animals without backbone is called

_________.
Answer: invertebrates

3. Warm blooded animals with fur and

mammary glands.
Answer: mammals

4. Vertebrates that have dry scaly skin,

covered with scales or plates, lay eggs and
can live both land and water.
Example: turtles, crocodiles
Answer: reptiles

5. Vertebrates that has moist skin and can live

both land and water.
Examples: frog
Answer: amphibians

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

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
 Answer: insects
9. What is the largest bird?
Answer: ostrich 22. How many legs that an insect has?
Answer: six legs
10. Invertebrates that are marine animals that
full of pores or holes. 23. What animals belong in arthropods that
Example: sponges has 4 pairs of legs, two body segments and no
Answer: Porifera antennae.
Example: scorpions, spiders
11. Invertebrates that describe as animals with Answer: arachnids
hollow-bodied or soft bodied.
Example: hydras, jellyfish, anemone, corals 24. What do you call the animals that have
Answer: Cnidaria hundred feet?
Answer: centipede
12. Invertebrates that describes as animals
with soft-bodied shelled animals. 25. Animals with thousand feet
Examples: snail, slugs, squid, octopus, clamps Answer: millipede
Answer: mollusks
26. Animals with many legs?
13. Invertebrates that are spiny-skinned sea Answer: Myriapods
animals. 27. Single-celled animals that are microscopic
Example: starfish, sea urchins in size
Answer: Echinoderms Answer: Protozoa

14. Organism that has bilateral symmetry and 28. How many segments make up the thorax
no digestive system, flatworms belong to this of an insect?
group. Answer: 3
Answer: Platyhelminthes
29. Extinct sea bird known as the Atlantic
15. Unsegmented worms that has long, thin penguin
round bodies pointed at both ends and Answer: auk
covered by a touch cuticle. Roundworms
belong to this group. 30. It is the largest animal phylum.
Answer: nematodes Answer: arthropod

16. Segmented worms that has no respiratory 31. Types of these animals includes the
system but absorbs oxygen and gives of gorilla and chimpanzee.
carbon dioxide through the thin skin. Answer: ape
Answer: annelids
32. It is the bony out-growth on the head of a
17. What is the largest group in the animal deer
kingdom? Answer: antler
Answer: arthropods
33. It refers to animals that eat other animals.
18. They are joint legged animals. Answer: carnivores
Answer: arthropods
34. It is a collection of interacting organism
19. Arthropods are animals with bodies and within an ecosystem.
legs made up of section and they have outside Answer: community
shell. What do you call the outside shell of
arthropods? 35. It is a system of unlocking food chains
Answer: exoskeleton Answer: food web

20. What group of animals that have a hard 36. Animals that are carnivores at some times
outer body covering, have five pairs of legs ad and herbivore at others.
characterized by the presences of antenna Answer: omnivores
located on the head?
Example: crabs, lobster, shrimps 37. Pollination by birds is called _____.
Answer: crustaceans Answer: Ornithophily

21. What animals that have 3 body parts that 38. Which insects spread kala-azar?
includes the head, thorax and abdomen? Answer: Sand fly
39. It is the transmission of sound waves to
locate object, this is where bats rely to help
them find their food.
Answer: Echolocation
40. It is the way or biological process by which
insects develop after birth or hatching, usually
accompanied by change of habitat or behavior.
Answer: metamorphosis
41. It refers to the total number of animals in a
particular habitat or community.
Answer: population
42. It is an ecological or environmental area
that is inhabited by a particular species of
animal, plant or other type of organism.
Answer: habitat
43. It is the protective coloration that allows
some animals to blend with their surroundings.
Answer: Camouflage
44. The imitation of animals of the shape,
smell, tastes, colors and sounds of other
animals to protect them against enemies.
Answer: mimicry
45. It is the structure or behavior that helps an
organism survive in its environment.
Answer: adaptation
46. The process in which the pollens are
transferred from the anther to the stigma in a
flower.
Answer: Pollination
PLANTS
1. In a food chain, plants are the _______.
Answer: producer
2. An environment where both living and non-
living things exist and interact with one
another?
Answer: ecosystem
3. It is the transfer of solar energy from plants
to animals and eventually to decomposers
when they die.
Answer: food chain
4. What is the process when tissues are
breakdown to its simplest form?
Answer: decomposition
5. They are microorganisms that change
complex substances.
Answer: decomposers
6. It is the relationship between a prey and a
predator.
Answer: predation
7. Relationships among living organism where
they obtain their foods by living together.
Answer: symbiosis
8. A kind of hunter-prey relationship between a
parasite and a host.
(Example: Tapeworm in human’s stomach,
tapeworm-parasite; human’s stomach-host)
Answer: parasitism
9. A relationship where an organism benefits
from another without harming it.
Answer: commensalism
10. What part of the plant that receives the
pollen from the male parts of the flower?
Answer: stigma
11. Female parts of a flower that produce
ovules that become seeds
Answer: Carpels
12. What is produce by the male parts of the
flower?
Answer: pollen
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
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
Answer: auxin
20. Golden algae would be found in what
kingdom?
Answer: Protista
21. The process where plants make their own Answer: Embryo
food.
Answer: Photosynthesis 39. It is the off white and the biggest part of
the seed.
22. The emergent, canopy and understory Answer: Cotyledon
layers all form part of what?
Answer: rainforest 40. What is the other term for aquatic animals
that adaptive to living with aquatic
23. What is the name given to the female part environment.
of a flower? Answer: hydrophytes
Answer: Pistil
41. What do you call the plants that grow on
24. What gas do plants absorb from the land?
atmosphere? Answer: terrestrial plants
Answer: Carbon dioxide
42. The male reproductive organ in a flower.
25. It is the science that study plants. Answer: stamen
Answer: Botany
43. The female reproductive organ of a flower.
26. What kind of plants that has no roots, stem Answer: pistil
or leaves?
Answer: fungus 44. A type of reproduction that does not
involve fertilization of egg and sperm
27. What are gum trees better known as? Answer: Asexual Reproduction
Answer: Eucalyptus trees

28. What tree produces acorns?

Answer: oak tree

29. A plant that produce seed but not fruit.

Answer: mint

30. Soya bean is a good source of _________.

Answer: protein

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?
ASTRONOMY
1. What is the more common name for the
constellation Canis Minor?
Answer: Little dog

2. Approximately, how many days does it take

the moon to complete one rotation around the
earth?
Answer: 28 days

3. What comet with shortest known orbital

period?
Answer: Encke’s comet

4. Besides hydrogen, what is the next major

component of Jupiter’s atmosphere?
Answer: Helium

5. What is the highest volcanic mountain in the

solar system that is located on Mars?
Answer: Olympus Mons

6. What is the highest mountain on Earth?

Answer: Mount Everest

7. It is a scale-like pattern of cirrocumulus

clouds that also known as “buttermilk sky”.
Answer: mackerel sky

8. Envelope of gases surrounding a planet

Answer: atmosphere

9. What layer of the earth is inferred to be

liquid in form?
Answer: Outer core

10. It is the space shuttle sent to Venus to

investigate its atmosphere.
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 31. What is the name of the second biggest
center of the solar system? planet in the solar system?
Answer: Copernicus Answer: Saturn

16. What is the darkest part of a shadow? 32. What is the hottest planet in our solar
Answer: umbra system?
Answer: Venus
17. The movement of the earth on its axis is
called _______. 33. What planet in famous because of its big
Answer: rotation red spot?
Answer: Jupiter
18. What is the collection of stars called?
Answer: Galaxy 34. What planet is famous for the beautiful
rings that surround it?
19. What was the name of the space mission Answer: Saturn
that landed the first humans on the moon?
Answer: Apollo 11 35. What planet is known as red planet?
Answer: Mars
20. Which planet do the moons of Phobos and
Deimos belong to? 36. It is the force that holding us on Earth.
Answer: Mars Answer: Gravity

21. Which planet was the Galileo spacecraft 37. What is the name NASA’s most famous
sent to study? space telescope?
Answer: Jupiter Answer: Hubble Space Telescope

22. What part of the sun is easily visible only 38. In which galaxy does earth located?
during total solar eclipse? Answer: Milky Way Galaxy
Answer: Corona
39. What is the first satellite sent into space?
23. How many minutes does it take for light Answer: Sputnik
from the Sun to reach Earth?
Answer: 5 minutes 40. Ganymede is a moon in which planet?
Answer: Jupiter
24. How many planets are there in the solar
system? 41. What is the name of Saturn’s largest
Answer: 8 planets moon?
Answer: Titan
25. Who was the first person to land on the
moon? 42. Olympus Mons is a large volcanic
Answer: Neil Armstrong mountain on which planet?
Answer: Mars
26. What is the outermost layer of the earth’s
surface? 43. How many days are there in a leap year?
Answer: crust Answer: 366 days

27. What is the hottest layer of the Earth’s 44. What is the imaginary line on which Earth’s
surface? rotates on its axis?
Answer: inner core Answer: orbit

28. What layer of the earth is inferred to be 45. If the earth has completed three
liquid in form? revolutions, how many rotations has it
Answer: outer core completed?
Answer: 1095 ¾
29. What instrument can view the heavenly
bodies clearly and without the filtering effect of 46. It is the earth’s movement on its axis.
Earth’s atmosphere? Answer: rotation
Answer: space telescope
47. It is the Earth’s rotation around the sun.
30. What is the closest planet in the sun? Answer: revolution
Answer: Mercury

48. How long does the earth travel around the
sun?
Answer: 365 ¼ days
49. How many seasons does the Philippines
has?
Answer: 2 seasons (wet ad dry)
50. What law that states that energy can be
transformed from one form to another, but can
be neither created or destroyed.
Answer: Law of Conservation of Energy
51. It is an astronomical body orbiting a star or
stellar remnant.
Answer: planet
52. What is the largest star?
Answer: Eta Carinae
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
57. It is the partial shadow in an eclipse.
Answer: penumbra
58.
ASTRONOMY
1. What is the more common name for the
constellation Canis Minor?
Answer: Little dog
2. Approximately, how many days does it take
the moon to complete one rotation around the
earth?
Answer: 28 days
3. What comet with shortest known orbital
period?
Answer: Encke’s comet
4. Besides hydrogen, what is the next major
component of Jupiter’s atmosphere?
Answer: Helium
5. What is the highest volcanic mountain in the
solar system that is located on Mars?
Answer: Olympus Mons
6. What is the highest mountain on Earth?
Answer: Mount Everest
7. It is a scale-like pattern of cirrocumulus
clouds that also known as “buttermilk sky”.
Answer: mackerel sky
8. Envelope of gases surrounding a planet
Answer: atmosphere
9. What layer of the earth is inferred to be
liquid in form?
Answer: Outer core
10. It is the space shuttle sent to Venus to
investigate its atmosphere.
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
16. What is the darkest part of a shadow?
Answer: umbra 32. What is the hottest planet in our solar
system?
17. The movement of the earth on its axis is Answer: Venus
called _______.
Answer: rotation 33. What planet in famous because of its big
red spot?
18. What is the collection of stars called? Answer: Jupiter
Answer: Galaxy
34. What planet is famous for the beautiful
19. What was the name of the space mission rings that surround it?
that landed the first humans on the moon? Answer: Saturn
Answer: Apollo 11
35. What planet is known as red planet?
20. Which planet do the moons of Phobos and Answer: Mars
Deimos belong to?
Answer: Mars 36. It is the force that holding us on Earth.
Answer: Gravity
21. Which planet was the Galileo spacecraft
sent to study? 37. What is the name NASA’s most famous
Answer: Jupiter space telescope?
Answer: Hubble Space Telescope
22. What part of the sun is easily visible only
during total solar eclipse? 38. In which galaxy does earth located?
Answer: Corona Answer: Milky Way Galaxy

23. How many minutes does it take for light 39. What is the first satellite sent into space?
from the Sun to reach Earth? Answer: Sputnik
Answer: 5 minutes
40. Ganymede is a moon in which planet?
24. How many planets are there in the solar Answer: Jupiter
system?
Answer: 8 planets 41. What is the name of Saturn’s largest
moon?
25. Who was the first person to land on the Answer: Titan
moon?
Answer: Neil Armstrong 42. Olympus Mons is a large volcanic
mountain on which planet?
26. What is the outermost layer of the earth’s Answer: Mars
surface?
Answer: crust 43. How many days are there in a leap year?
Answer: 366 days
27. What is the hottest layer of the Earth’s
surface? 44. What is the imaginary line on which Earth’s
Answer: inner core rotates on its axis?
Answer: orbit
28. What layer of the earth is inferred to be
liquid in form? 45. If the earth has completed three
Answer: outer core revolutions, how many rotations has it
completed?
29. What instrument can view the heavenly Answer: 1095 ¾
bodies clearly and without the filtering effect of
Earth’s atmosphere? 46. It is the earth’s movement on its axis.
Answer: space telescope Answer: rotation

30. What is the closest planet in the sun? 47. It is the Earth’s rotation around the sun.
Answer: Mercury Answer: revolution

31. What is the name of the second biggest

planet in the solar system? 48. How long does the earth travel around the
Answer: Saturn sun?
Answer: 365 ¼ days
49. How many seasons does the Philippines
has? 2. Name the deposits left by a melted glacier.
Answer: 2 seasons (wet ad dry) Answer: till

50. What law that states that energy can be 3. The deposits left by windblown dust.
transformed from one form to another, but can Answer: loess
be neither created or destroyed.
Answer: Law of Conservation of Energy 4. What do you call death caused by electric
current?
51. It is an astronomical body orbiting a star or Answer: electrocution
stellar remnant.
Answer: planet 5. Name the long, narrow deposit of sand
formed where a shoreline changes direction?
52. What is the largest star? Answer: spit
Answer: Eta Carinae
6. The structure made by deposits left by
53. It is an astronomical event that occurs windblown sand.
when an astronomical object temporarily Answer: dunes
obscured.
Answer: eclipse 7. Anorthosite is from what primary rock
classification?
54. A group of star. Answer: Igneous rocks
Answer: constellation
8. The science that deal with the development
55. An eclipse when the moon passes directly of the universe.
behind the Earth and into its shadow. Answer: cosmogony
Answer: Lunar eclipse
9. Where can the lowest point on the earth’s
56. An eclipse when an observer on Earth crust be found?
passes through the shadow cast by the moon Answer: Marianas Trench
which fully or partially block.
Answer: solar eclipse 10. It is the deepest part of the earth.
Answer: Marianas Trench
57. It is the partial shadow in an eclipse.
Answer: penumbra 11. What season is characterized with the
most amount of leaves falling from trees?
58. 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
community of people.
Answer: Epidemiology
MIXED QUESTIONS
17. What number is neutral measured at on
1. What type of lens is used to diverse light the PH Scale?
rays? Answer: 7
Answer: Concave lens
18. To split an atom is _________. 36. What vitamin does sunlight provide to
Answer: fission human?
Answer: Vitamin D
19. To clash an atom is called _________.
Answer: fusion 37. What two metals combined to make
bronze?
20. What is the most common element found Answer: copper and tin
in the Earth’s atmosphere?
Answer: nitrogen 38. Who invented the telephone?
Answer: Alexander Graham Bell
21. What type of paper is used to indicate
acids and alkalis? 39. Who invented telescope?
Answer: Litmus paper Answer: Galileo Galilei

22. Energy produced inside the Earth. 40. Who discovered penicillin in 1928?
Answer: geothermal energy Answer: Alexander Fleming

23. It is the center of an atom. 41. What is the lightest metal?

Answer: nucleus Answer: Lithium

24. Amperes measures what current? 42. Scientists that devise the three laws of
Answer: electrical current motion.
Answer: Isaac Newton
25. It is a large group of wind turbines.
Answer: wind farm 43. What is the name of the device used to
convert sound to electricity?
26. What is the name of the lightest Answer: microphone
substance?
Answer: hydrogen 44. What is needed to change the velocity of
an object?
27. What is the chemical symbol for iron? Answer: force
Answer: Fe
45. What do the letters Ph stand for?
28. Which is the only metal that is liquid at Answer: Power of Hydrogen
room temperature?
Answer: Mercury 46. It is the branch of biology that study about
relationship between living things and their
29. Global warming is caused by too much of environment.
which type of gas? Answer: Ecology
Answer: Carbon dioxide
47. It has the longest wave length.
30. Which element has atomic number of 2? Answer: Infrared radiation
Answer: Helium
48. Bacteria that converts atmospheric
31. Which metals make the strongest nitrogen into nitrogen compound.
magnets? Answer: Nitrogen Fixing Bacteria
Answer: Iron
49. At constant temperature, the product of
32. What device is used to measure air pressure and volume of a given amount of gas
pressure? is constant, whose law is this?
Answer: barometer Answer: Boyle’s Law
50. What degree does water boils?
Answer: 100 degrees Celsius
33. What two elements made up water?
Answer: Hydrogen and oxygen 51. In what degree that water becomes solid.
Answer: 0 degree Celsius
34. Which gas has the chemical formula CO?
Answer: carbon monoxide 52. In which enzyme is Urea converted into
ammonia and carbon dioxide?
35. Who invented the gramophone? Answer: Urease
Answer: Thomas Edison
53. What is addictive poisonous substance can 69. What do you call the water part of the earth
be found in tobacco leaves? or “water sphere”?
Answer: Nicotine Answer: hydrosphere

54. Who discovered the law of gravity? 70. The process in which water continuously
Answer: Isaac Newton moved in the earth’s surface.
Answer: Water cycle
55. Cumulus, cirrus and stratus are kinds of
____. 71. What kind of water is found beneath the
Answer: Clouds earth’s surface?
Answer: Groundwater
56. What do DNA means?
Answer: Deoxyribonucleic acid 72. What kind of water is called hard water?
Answer: Seawater
57. What is the freezing point of water?
Answer: 0 degrees Celsius or 32 degrees 73. What kind of water is also called surface
Celsius water?
Answer: Freshwater
58. What does an anemometer measure?
Answer: Speed of Wind 74. It is the uppermost layer of the soil.
Answer: Topsoil
59. What is the largest flower in the world?
Answer: Rafflesia 75. What is the lowest layer of the soil?
Answer: Bedrock
60. What is the process by which plants
release water from their leaves? 76. It is a system in which energy and matter
Answer: Transpiration from the sun, the atmosphere and living
organisms penetrate and interact.
61. It is the process by which the condensed Answer: soil
water vapor falls back on the earth’s surface in
the forms of rain, hail, snow and sleet. 77. It is the type of soil that is a mixture of
Answer: Precipitation sand and clay.
Answer: Loam
62. The process of changing water vapor in
liquid water. 78. It is a blanket of air that surrounds the
Answer: Condensation earth.
Answer: atmosphere
63. It is the process of changing liquid water
into gas or water vapor 79. It is the primary source of energy.
Answer: Evaporation Answer: sun

64. How do sun’s heat and light reaches the 80. The sound that is reflected or returned
surface of the earth? sound.
Answer: radiation Answer: Echo

65. What do you call when food makes their 81. It is the softness and loudness of sound.
own foods. Answer: volume
Answer: photosynthesis
82. What type of energy made by vibrations?
Answer: Sound
66. The device used in telling the direction of 83. It is the transfer of heat from one place to
the wind? another by movement of fluids.
Answer: wind vane Answer: Convection

67. What is used to measure air temperature? 84. It is the transfer of heat through solid
Answer: thermometer materials.
Answer: Conduction
68. It is the hotness and coldness of the air
around us. 85. It is the push and pull of magnets.
Answer: Temperature Answer: magnetism

86. It is the ability to do work.

Answer: energy

87. The energy from electromagnetic waves.

Answer: Radiant energy

88. It is the energy of a moving object.

Answer: Kinetic energy

89. The energy that is stored in a substance.

Answer: Potential energy

90. It is also called as heat energy.

Answer: thermal energy

91. Energy that stored in the bonds of

chemical compounds like atom and molecules.
Answer: Chemical energy

92. It is the amount of moisture in the air.

Answer: humidity

93. It is a weather condition of a place over a

period of time.
Answer: climate