National Capital Region

DIVISION OF CITY SCHOOLS

MANUEL LUIS QUEZON HIGH SCHOOL
CALOOCAN CITY
Mission: To develop productive citizens to nation’s progress.
Vision: A great channel of the culture of excellence.

1st PERIODICAL TEST (SY 2016-2017)

GRADE 9 SCIENCE

Direction: Read each statement carefully. Write the letter of your answer on your paper.

1. What system is responsible for the exchange of c. As the blood enters the lungs, the blood
oxygen and carbon dioxide between the air and is saturated with about 97% oxygen.
the cells? d. As the blood enters the heart, the blood
a. circulatory c. excretory is saturated with about 97% oxygen.
b. digestive d. respiratory 8. ___________________________________.
2. Which part of the respiratory system filters and i. Increase your walking speed.
warm the air upon entering it? ii. Maintain a healthy weight.
a. air sac c. nasal cavity iii. Stay hydrated.
b. bronchi d. diaphragm iv. Avoid smoking.
3. How does the air enter our body? Which of the following belongs in the blank
a. nose > nasal passage > trachea > space above?
bronchi > bronchioles > alveoli a. Causes of respiratory problems
b. nose > nasal passage > trachea > b. Ways on how to avoid respiratory
bronchioles > bronchi > alveoli problems.
c. nasal cavity > nose > trachea > c. Kinds of common respiratory diseases.
bronchioles > bronchi > alveoli d. Results of bad lifestyle.
d. nasal cavity > alveoli > trachea > 9. What is the primary organ of the circulatory
bronchioles > bronchi > nose system?
4. During inhalation, _______. a. Heart c. veins
a. the diaphragm moves down and b. Arteries d. blood
contracts the chest cavity. 10. A type of circulation which is described by the
b. the diaphragm moves down and movement of blood through the tissues of the
expands the chest cavity. HEART.
c. the diaphragm moves up and contracts a. Pulmonary c. Systemic
the chest cavity. b. Coronary d. Respiratory
d. the diaphragm moves up and expands 11. The _______ prevents the back flow of blood.
the chest cavity. a. atrium c. ventricle
5. All of the following are associated with b. valve d. septum
respiratory problems EXCEPT
a. unbalanced diet c. pollutants For 12-13, use the image below.
b. enough sleep d. smoking
6. What is the role of ALVEOLI in the transport of
GASES in the body?
a. They serve as the linkage from the
respiratory system and the circulatory system.
b. They serve as the carrier of the
deoxygenated blood.
c. They serve as the carrier of the
oxygenated blood.
d. They serve as the linkage from the
respiratory system and the digestive system.
7. Which of the following statements is TRUE?
a. As the blood leaves the lungs, the blood
is saturated with about 97% oxygen.
b. As the blood leaves the heart, the blood 12. What is letter A in the picture?
is saturated with about 97% oxygen. a. Septum c. Lungs
b. Left Ventricle d. Tricuspid Valve
13. What is letter B in the picture? 20. What is the basic unit of heredity?
c. Septum c. Lungs a. Gene c. autosome
d. Left Ventricle d. Tricuspid Valve b. DNA d. chromosome
14. The beating sound your heart makes comes
from:
For 21-22, A plant with red flowers is crossed
a. Blood going in the wrong direction
with a white-flowered plant of the same
b. Valves closing
c. The heart skipping beats species. All the seeds, when grown, produce
d. Your ears playing tricks on you plants with red flowers. (Assume that the flower
15. Arrange properly the statements below on how color is controlled by a single pair of alleles)
the heart works.
21. Which allele is dominant
A. When the heart contracts, the right lower a. Red color c. Pink color
ventricle will pump the blood into the lungs, b. White color d. Red & Pink
where the carbon dioxide is exchanged for
Stripe
oxygen.
22. Which is recessive?
B. The heart receives oxygen-deficient blood
from the body into the right upper atrium. a. Red color c. Pink color
C. Oxygen-rich blood flows from the left upper b. White color d. Red & Pink
atrium into the left lower ventricle. Stripe
D. After the exchange, the blood containing 23. In cats, the allele (S) for short fur is
fresh oxygen flows into the left upper atrium. dominant to the allele (s) for long fur. What
E. When the heart contracts, the left lower is the phenotype of a cat with a genotype
ventricle will force the blood out to the body Ss?
through a network of arteries. a. Short fur c. medium fur
b. Long fur d. no fur
a. A, B, C, D, E c. B, E, A, C, D
24. In rabbits, assume that the dominant allele
b. A, E, B, C, D d. B, A, D, C, E
(B) produces black fur. The allele (b) for
16. You can keep your heart strong by:
a. Eating heart-shaped candy white fur is recessive to B.
b. Doing activities, like playing outside,
riding your bike, and swimming
Rabbit 1 Rabbit 2 Rabbit 3 Rabbit 4
c. Smoking
d. Sleeping 18 hours a day Genotype BB Bb bB bb
17. Inflammation of larynx is termed
a. laryngitis c. arthritis Which rabbits will have gray coat color?
b. phlebitis d. bronchitis a. 1, 2 and 3 c. 2 and 3
18. Which two respiratory system problems are
b. 1 and 4 d. 1, 2, 3 and 4
treated with medicine that dilates the airways?
25. If rabbits 1 and 4 were mated together and
a. Sinusitis and bronchitis
b. Emphysema and tuberculosis had 12 babies, how many of these would
c. Asthma and bronchitis you expect to be gray?
d. Emphysema and pneumonia a. 0 c. 8

19. Atherosclerosis is a disease in which plaque b. 4 d. 12

builds up inside your arteries. Plaque is made 26. What is a type of inheritance where both
up of fat, cholesterol, calcium, and other alleles are expressed equally in the
substances found in the blood. Over time, phenotype of the heterozygote?
plaque hardens and narrows your arteries. This a. Complete dominance
limits the flow of oxygen-rich blood to your b. Incomplete dominance
organs and other parts of your body.
c. Codominance
d. Multiple allele
Why is atherosclerosis especially serious
when it develops in the coronary arteries?
27. A red cow is crossed with a white cow and
a. It can then go on to affect the aorta. produced an offspring that is a roan cow.
b. It can make red blood cells die. What is a roan cow?
c. It can lead to a heart attack. a. A purebred red cow.
d. It can limit the functioning of white blood b. A purebred white cow.
cells. c. A pink cow.
 d. A cow with red hair and white 32. What is the genotype of Jane's husband?
blotches. a. XX c. XY
n
b. X X d. XnY
33. Then Jane’s husband is a ________.
a. Normal male
For 28-29, use the table below.
b. Normal, carrier male
c. Male with PKU
d. None of the above
34. It is a hereditary material and is also known
as the blue print of life.
a. DNA c. mRNA
b. RNA d. tRNA
35. Which of the following statements is true?
28. The alleles controlling the ABO blood a. The gene is the basic unit of heredity
groups are given the letters IA (group A), IB and is found in the chromosome.
(group B) and i (group O). This type of b. The chromosome is the basic unit of
inheritance is called ________. heredity and is found in the gene
a. Complete dominance c. The gene determines the sex of
b. Incomplete dominance humans and the chromosomes carry the
c. Codominance traits.
d. Multiple allele d. The gene carries the traits inside the
29. What is/are the possible blood type/s of an 20 pairs of chromosomes in humans.
offspring if both parents are type O? 36. A DNA strand has the following bases: A A
a. A and B c. A, B and AB G C C A. What are the bases on its
b. A and AB d. O only complementary strand?
30. In humans, maleness or femaleness is a. A A G C C A c. T T C G G T
determined by a pair of sex chromosomes b. A C C G A A d. C C A T T C
called X and Y. What is the genotype for 37. Extinction means
males? a. population of a species begins
a. XX c. XXY declining rapidly
b. XY d. XO b. population has become so low
31. Which of the following traits is not controlled c. occurs when the last member of that
by multiple genes? species dies
a. color blindness c. freckles d. when the population is stable.
b. eye color d. hair 38. A major benefit to come from the release of
texture wolves into the Yellowstone National Park
is
For 32-33, the genetic disorder
a. increased numbers of elk
phenylketonuria (PKU) is caused by a
b. control of coyotes that kill cattle
recessive allele (n). The family tree below
c. control of the explosive population
shows the incidence of the disease over three
growth of domestic cats that menace
generations.
campgrounds
d. control of the grizzly bears
39. It happens when there is removing or
clearing of forest to include cutting of all
trees, mostly for agricultural or urban use.
a. Eutrophication
b. Acid rain precipitation
c. Water pollution
d. deforestation
40. A conservation biologist would _____.
a. work with government officials to
establish a plan for the protection of
endangered species
 b. analyze organism characteristics that b. Electron Transport Chain
help them survive in particular c. Glycolysis
locations d. Krebs cycle or Citric Acid Cycle
c. investigate the impact of industrial 48. Which of the following is the products of the
pollutants on an ecosystem Krebs cycle?
d. all of the above a. ATP c. FADH
b. NADH d. all of these
41. Acid deposition _____.
a. is only a problem where sulfur
dioxide and nitrogen oxide are
emitted
b. occurs when sulfur dioxide and
nitrogen oxide combine with water to
produce acids
c. stimulates the growth of plants that
prefer acid soil
d. all of the above
42. Which is associated with air pollution?
a. global warming
b. destruction of the ozone shield
c. acid deposition
d. all of the above
43. What is the formula for photosynthesis?
a. 6CO2 + 6H2O + light energy →
C6H12O6 + 6O2
b. 6CO2 + 6O2 + light energy ----> 49. Cramps during exercise are caused by:
C6H12O6 + 6H2O a. alcohol fermentation
c. 6CO2 + 6H2O ----> C6H12O6 + 6O2 + b. glycolysis inhibition
light energy c. lactic acid fermentation
d. 6CO2 + 6H2O ----> C6H12O6 + 6O2 d. chemiosmosis
44. Which of the following molecules is a waste 50. Which of the following processes produces
product of photosynthesis? the most ATP?
a. Oxygen c. Water a. glycolysis
b. Carbon dioxide d. Sugar b. oxidative phosphorylation
45. Chlorophyll is mostly located above the leaf c. fermentation
of the plant to _________. d. Krebs’ cycle
a. collect carbon dioxide.
b. collect light energy.
c. release oxygen.
d. release glucose.
46. Iodine is used to detect the presence of Ang rules sa LOVE
starch produced in photosynthesis. This
ay PAREHAS ng rules
works when ______.
a. its brown color has not changed. when taking the exam,
b. its brown color turned into dark blue.
c. its brown color become colorless. NO CHEATING!
d. its brown color become yellow.

For 47-48, use the diagram on the topmost

right. Kung LOYAL ka,

47. This process begins with the production of hindi mo gagawin ang
Acetyl-CoA:
tumingin sa IBA.
a. Chemiosmosis
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