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MIDTERM EXAMINATION IN PSCI 02

STUDENT UNDERSTANDING AND METACOGNITION IN LEARNING SCIENCE
2nd Semester, Academic Year 2015-2016

Prepared by:

PROF. ROSE D. ARQUION

Course Instructor
General Instruction
This test contains fifty items in misconceptions in biology, earth science, chemistry and
physics. You shall manage to answer all items in 1.5 hours.

Begin Here:

I. Directions: Read carefully the concepts in science and write TRUE if the statement is correct,
and FALSE if it is incorrect.
1. All animals have brain.
2. Taking antibiotics may cause unnecessary and harmful side effects.
3. Koalas are bear and jellyfish are fish.
4. Nociception is a sense of pain.
5. Viruses are not cells.
6. Bacteria and viruses are just the same.
7. Escherichia coli can cause diarrhea and all the time dangerous to one’s health.
8. Sponges are animals that does move from one place to another.
9. If you’ve swallowed poison, it is necessary to induce vomiting.
10. It is beneficial to avoid an-made chemicals.
11. Drinking coffee when one is feeling cold can actually make you colder.
12. Alcohol doesn’t make you warmer.
13. Urinary and excretory systems is just the same.
14. A coconut is a palm with the trunk considered as stem
15. Water from the rain is safe to drink.
16. There is electricity onside a battery cell.
17. When alcohol is applied to the palm, alcohol is absorbed by the skin, and makes our hand
cooler.
18. There are rules to follow in writing a formula.
19. Oxygen do not exist as a single atom.
20. Hot and cold water get mixed altogether immediately in a container.
21. Inertia is the ability to resist acceleration.
22. Friction is only present in moving objects.
23. The temperature of an object depends in its size.
24. In the case of metal conductor, electricity is made of electrons.
25. For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
26. Air is not a fluid.
27. All acids can burn or melt objects particularly human skin.
28. Adding acid to water cause to release more heat that the solution may boil violently.
29. Boiling is the maximum temperature a substance can reach.
30. When temperature at boiling remains constant, something is wrong
31. The sun is the brightest among the stars.
32. Volcanoes are not formed in divergent boundaries.
33. The earth is only 20,000 years old.
34. Aluminum is the most abundant metallic element in the earth’s crust, therefore it is the
most abundant in the planet.
35. The temperature rise or fall varies in every layer of the atmosphere.
36. Hurricanes form over warm water in the tropical oceans and develop best when far from the
jet stream.
37. All igneous rocks have the same characteristics.
38. According to Wegener, only continents move.
39. Hurricanes form over warm water in tropical oceans.
40. Crust and lithosphere (or plates) are synonymous term.
41. Rocks must be heavy.
42. All radioactivity is man-made.
43. Soil must have always been in present form.
44. Diamond crystal can scratch a glass.
45. It takes a long period of time for a mountain to form.

Test 11. Discussion:

46.50 Discuss one misconception in Physics rooted in your mind and now has been
clarified for its true meaning.

Prepared by

ROSE D. ARQUION
Course Instructor

Noted

CORNELIO L. LABAO, JR.

Associate Dean, Faculty of Teacher Development

Approved by:

VIVINIA B. DAUG, Ph.D.

Dean for Academics and Multicultural Education