POLANCO NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

Senior High School Grade 11

First Semester Second Quarter Exams
EARTH AND LIFE SCIENCE

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I. Shade the figure of the corresponding letter of your choice.

a b c d
1. What do plants use as an energy source to drive photosynthesis?
a. sunlight c. oxygen
b. hydrogen ions d. carbon dioxide

2. What is the effect of a negative feedback?

a. The body can prevent from large variations in external temperature from causing
similarly large changes inside the body.
b. a and d are correct.
c. None is correct.
d. It keeps your body’s internal temperature near 37 degrees Celsius.

3. What sex chromosome distinguishes male from female?

a. Y-women c. Y chromosome
b. X-men d. X chromosome

4. What do you call that fluid portion of the blood?

a. plasma c. chloasma
b. mucosa d. melasma

5. What do you call that fluid outside the cell?

a. cytoplasm c. nucleoplasm
b. intracellular fluid d. extracellular fluid

6. What keeps DNA separated from cytoplasm which also makes ribosome subunits and
a.
controls access to DNA?
a. mitochondrion c. nucleus
b. plasma membrane d. ribosomes

7. What organelle that digests and recycles materials?

a. rough ER c. Golgi Body

b. smooth ER d. lysosome

8. Which tissue is responsible for conducting water and mineral ions in plants?
a. collenchyma c. parenchyma
b. mesophyll d. xylem

9. Why is the Nervous System so important?

a. It detects external and internal stimuli.
b. It coordinates responses to stimuli.
a b c d c. It integrates organ system activities.
d. All of the above.
 10. Which is a male gamete?
a. sperm c. meiosis
b. egg d. mitosis

11. A process in which a change causes a response that reverses the change
a. negative feedback c. pollination
b. modification d. positive feedback

12. Which body system that supports body parts and produces red blood cells?
a. Skeletal system c. Lymphatic system
b. Circulatory system d. Respiratory System

13. How does the Urinary System serve its purpose?

a. It excretes excess fluid and wastes to maintain blood volume and composition.
b. It defends the body against infection.
c. It secretes hormones that control the activity of other organ systems.
d. None is correct.

14. Which body system defends the body against infection and cancers?
a. Skeletal system c. Lymphatic Sys tem
b. Circulatory system d. Respiratory System

15. What organelle is responsible in breaking down carbohydrates and fats?

a. rough ER c. Golgi Body
b. smooth ER d. lysosome

16. Which is not a nucleotide?

a. Thymine c. Cytosine
b. Guanine d. Adenosine

17. Who has first described the substance we now call DNA?
a. Johannes Miescher c. Oswald Avery
b. Frederick Griffith d. Maclyn McCarthy

18. Why is the Circulatory System important?

a. It maintains volume and composition of blood.
b. It collects and returns tissue fluid to the blood.
c. It produces heat to maintain body temperature.
d. It distributes materials and heat throughout the body.

19. How is a Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) modified?

a. A gene from one species is transferred to another to produce an organism that is
transgenic.
b. A gene is altered and reinserted into an individual of the same species.
a b c d c. None is correct.
d. Both are correct.

20. How does the Integumentary System work?

a. It moderates body temperature.
b. a, c, and d are correct.
 c. It excretes some body wastes.
d. It detects external stimuli.

21. Which reproductive organ that produces the plant’s female gametophytes?
a. flower c. carpel
b. stamen d. root

22. What organelle produces many ATPs by aerobic respiration?

a. mitochondrion c. nucleus
b. plasma membrane d. ribosomes

23. What organelle selectively controls the kinds and amounts of substances moving into
and out of cell?
a. mitochondrion c. nucleus
b. plasma membrane d. ribosomes

24. What is the purpose of the Skeletal System?

a. It supports and protects the body parts.
b. It protects body from injury, dehydration, and pathogens.
c. It maintains volume and composition of blood.
d. None of the above.

25. What do you call that structural unit of two or more tissues that is organized in a
specific way and is capable of carrying out specific tasks?
a. cell c. tissue
b. organ d. system

26. What cell component detects a specific stimulus?

a. capillary c. sensory receptor
b. cell membrane d. neurons

27. What do you call that organism that is produced by transferring a gene from one
species to another?
a. transgenic c. divergent
b. biopotent d. allegiant

28. Why is Lymphatic System important?

a. Because it takes in the oxygen for aerobic respiration.
b. Because it takes in food and water.
c. Because it detects external and internal stimuli.
d. None of the above.
a b c d
29. The DNA of a eukaryotic cell is divided among some number of chromosomes that
differ in length and shape. How do you call that number?
a. atomic number c. cell number
b. chromosomal number d. eukaryotic number

30. What is a genetic copy?

a. a clone c. a replica
b. a Xerox copy d. a mutant
 31. What do you call that single individual which produces an offspring?
a. sexual fertilization c. sexual reproduction
b. asexual fertilization d. asexual reproduction

32. What is that specialized reproductive structures of angiosperms?

a. flower c. carpel
b. stamen d. root

33. What do you call that reproductive organ that produces the plant’s male gametophytes?
a. flower c. carpel
b. stamen d. root

34. Why is the Endocrine System important?

a. It moves the body and its parts.
b. It secretes hormones that control the activity of other organ systems.
c. It distributes materials and heat throughout the body.
d. It protects the body from injury, dehydration, and pathogens.

35. What modifies proteins made by ribosomes attached to it.

a. rough ER c. Golgi Body
b. smooth ER d. lysosome

36. Which is a female gamete?

a. sperm c. meiosis
b. egg d. mitosis

37. How do you call that two parents that produce haploid gametes that combine at
fertilization?
a. sexual fertilization c. sexual reproduction
b. asexual fertilization d. asexual reproduction

38. What organelle that finishes, sorts, ships lipids, enzymes, and proteins.
a. rough ER c. Golgi Body
b. smooth ER d. Lysosome

39. Which body system that takes in oxygen for aerobic respiration?
a. Skeletal system c. Lymphatic Sytem
b. Circulatory system d. Respiratory System
a b c d
40. Which of the following is/are true?
(1) Nucleus keeps the cell’s genetic material – DNA – safe from metabolic processes that
might damage it.
(2) Nucleus controls the passage of certain molecules across its membrane.

a. 1 c. both
b. 2 d. none

II. Say something about ‘How May I Contribute in Suppressing Global Warming’ with the
following criteria:
Definition of Global Warming 1 point
Causes of Global Warming 2 points

Effects of Global Warming 2 points

Your at least three (3) possible contributions
in suppressing global warming 4 points
Minimum of 250 words 1 point
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Total 10 points