Sae Young Christian School

F. Jaca St. Pardo, Cebu City

Tel. #: 415-2955/412-3663

SCIENCE - 4
Achievement Test (Review)

Name: __________________________________ Date: _________________ Score: ______

Read each item carefully. Write the letter of the correct answer on the space before each number.

____ 1. When sea water reaches the last stage of the water cycle, the _________.

a. water disappears
b. water cycle starts all over again
c. water stays in that stage where it ended
d. water cycle is done and it moves on to another cycle

____ 2. What type of soil is red or brown and holds water?

a. clay b. humus c. sand d. silt

____ 3. Which type of soil is a mixture of humus, silt, sand and clay?

a. humus b. loam c. potting soil d. sand

____ 4. On which kind of day would you expect the most evaporation from a pond?

a. on a cool sunny day c. on a warm rainy day

b. on a cool rainy-day d. on a warm sunny day

____ 5. Which allows water to move from Earth’s surface back into the air?

a. condensation b. evaporation c. gravity d. weathering

____ 6. What type of relationship exist between a cactus and bat if the bat benefits from the cactus flowers and
the cactus benefits because it gets pollinated?

a. Commensalism b. Mutualism c. Parasitism d. Predation

____ 7. What pulls things down to the ground?

a. air b. force c. gravity d. matter

____ 8. A moving object tends to stay in motion and a resting object tends to stay at rest ______.

a. even if it is rolled c. even if it is pushed or pulled

b. unless a force acts on it d. until there are major weather changes

____ 9. Which can be used to separate white light into different colors?

a. camera b. hammer c. mirror d. prism

____ 10. ________ is a push or a pull.

a. air b. force c. gravity d. matter

____ 11. Which soil quality depends on the proportion of different sized soil particles?

a. fertility b. quality c. structure d. texture

____ 12. Which is an example of parasitism?

a. a bat pollinating a cactus

b. a flea living off a dog’s blood
c. a bird building a nest on a tree branch
d. E. coli bacteria producing vitamin K in your intestine

____ 13. Groundhogs and gophers go into a deep winter sleep during which their body processes slow down
and they live off of the stored food. This refers to ________.

a. camouflage b. hibernation c. migration d. mimicry

____ 14. Which is the only part of your digestive tract that is large enough to store food?

a. Esophagus b. Liver c. Stomach d. Small Intestine

____ 15. Which removes waste products from the body by filtering the blood?

a. Respiratory System c. Urinary System

b. Digestive System d. Circulatory System

____ 16. Which is not a kind of blood vessel?

a. artery b. capillary c. valve d. vein

____ 17. If the density of the object is lesser than the density of the water, what will happen?

a. The object will sink. c. The water will spill out.

b. The object will float. d. The water will overflow.

____ 18. How can water be reused?

a. Rain can be caught in rain barrels and used to water your garden.
b. Water that has been used for laundry can be used to water the plants.
c. Purified sewage water can be used for fountains, firefighting, and irrigating crops.
d. All of the above

____ 19. Which is not a characteristic of hazardous waste?

a. explosive c. carcinogenic, mutagenic, or teratogenic

b. fatal to humans in low doses d. none of the above

____ 20. Which has particles that are very closely packed together with very little movement?

a. gas b. liquid c. plasma d. solid