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PRETEST IN SCIENCE 10

Name: _________________________________________ Date: ________________________ Score: _______________

Grade & Section: ________________________________ Teacher: _________________________________________________

DIRECTION: Read and analyze the question in each number. _____ 9. Which of the following is NOT TRUE about
Write the letter of your answer on the space provided before each convection current?
number. a. Convection current does not happen continuously.
b. Convection current happens when magma is in
_____ 1. The lithosphere of the Earth is broken into numerous circular movement.
segments called _____________. c. Convection current is formed when magma is
a. magma c. rocks unevenly heated.
b. plates d. soil d. Convection current is due to temperature
_____ 2. In which of the following regions does destruction of difference of magma close to mantle and magma
lithosphere occur? close to crust.
a. convergent boundary _____10. What piece of evidence did Wegener not present to
b. divergent boundary support his theory of continental drift?
c. lithosphere a. Puzzle Evidence c. Rock Evidence
d. d. transform fault boundary b. Fossil Evidence d. Seafloor Evidence
_____ 3. How many major plates are there on Earth?
a. 2 b. 3 c. 5 d. 7 _____11. What electromagnetic wave is sometimes called
_____ 4. What happens to lithosphere when plates move heat rays?
along transform fault boundary? a. gamma rays c. radio waves
a. Lithosphere contains new crusts that are formed b. b. infrared d. visible light
along transform fault boundary.
b. is destroyed along transform fault boundary. _____12. Among the visible light radiations, which color has the
c. Lithosphere is neither created nor destroyed along highest frequency?
transform fault boundary. a. red b. violet c. green d. blue
d. Lithosphere sinks along transform fault boundary
_____ 5. Between which of the following boundaries would you _____13. Which two waves lie at the end of the visible
expect to find mountains? spectrum?
a. Pacific and North American Plate a. infrared and ultraviolet
b. African and Australian Plate b. radio waves and microwaves
c. Indian and Eurasian Plate c. radio waves and x-rays
d. Pacific and Antarctic Plate d. x-rays and gamma rays
_____ 6. Which of the following is described as the semi-solid
part between crust and mantle? _____14. Arrange the following radiations according to the
a. asthenosphere c. Gutenberg discontinuity amount of energy they carry from least to greatest: infrared,
b. lithosphere d. Jeffrey’s discontinuity radio waves, microwaves, visible light and gamma rays
_____ 7. Which of the following layers of Earth is the thickest? a. gamma rays, radio waves, visible light, Infrared,
a. crust c. inner core gamma rays
b. b. mantle d. outer core b. radio waves, infrared, gamma rays, visible light,
gamma rays
_____ 8. Why is the inner core solid? c. radio waves, microwaves, visible light, gamma
a. The inner core is solid because of the presence of rays
iron and nickel. d. gamma rays, visible light, infrared, gamma rays,
b. The inner core is solid because of the heat inside radio waves
Earth.
c. The inner core is solid because of the pressure _____15. An FM radio transmits at a frequency of 100.2 MHz
exerted by the outer layers of Earth. while an AM radio transmits at a frequency of 1350 KHz.
d. The inner core is solid because it is protected by Which of these two transmissions has a longer wavelength?
inner core. a. AM c. a and b
b. FM d. none of the above

_____16. A ray of light meets a plane

mirror with an angle of 300 to the mirror
surface, as it is depicted in the figure to
the right. What is the angle of
reflection?
a. 60 degrees c. 45 degrees
b. 30 degrees d. 90 degrees
_____17. You hold a spoon 5 m in front of a plane mirror. How far _____26. The discharge from the uterus is called:
from the object will the image of the spoon be? a. ovulation c. secretion
a. 1 m b. 5 m c. 10 m d. 15 m b. menstruation d. gestation

_____18. Which of the following mirrors are able to produce a _____27. This is a property of a system in which some
real image? elements are regulated in order have a stable condition.
a. only a concave mirror c. a plane mirror a. negative feedback c. positive feedback
b. only a convex mirror d. all of them b. homeostasis d. apoptosis

_____19. Which of the _____28. In animal cells, in what part of the cell does DNA
figures to the right has the replication (translation) take place?
longest focal length? a. ribosome c. cytoplasm
Assume that in all lenses b. nucleus d. mitochondria
the absolute value of the
first radius of curvature is _____29. The process of copying a gene’s DNA sequence into a
equal to the second one and that they are manufactured in sequence of RNA is called __________.
order to all have the same index of refraction. a. mutation c. translation
a. I b. II c. III d. IV b. replication d. transcription

_____20. Which of the following makes use of the total internal _____30. RNA contains which bases?
reflection? a. adenine, thymine, guanine, cytosine, uracil
a. telescope c. optical fiber b. adenine, thymine, guanine, cytosine
b. microscope d. camera c. thymine, guanine, cytosine, uracil
d. adenine, guanine, cytosine, uracil
_____21. The __________ are regions where the magnetic
_____31. A DNA strand with the sequence AACGTAACG is
force exerted by a magnet is strongest.
transcribed. What is the sequence of the mRNA
a. anodes c. magnetic field lines
b. magnetic poles d. cathodes molecule synthesized?
a. AAACCTAACG c. AACGUAACG
_____22. When an iron nail has a wire carrying a current b. UUGCAUUGC d. TTGCATTGC
wound around it,
a. the nail becomes a magnet _____32. The following is a sequence of bases in a
b. the nail moves back and forth messenger RNA molecule: ACG-GCC-CGA-AAC-GGC-
c. only one end of the nail is magnetized CAC-CAG. How many different types of tRNA molecule
d. the coil of wire becomes a magnet without the nail would be used to produce a polypeptide from this piece of
mRNA?
_____23. The diagram to the right shows a current-carrying a. 4. b. 5 c. 6 d. 7
straight conductor placed within an external magnetic field.
Using the left-hand slap rule, how would the conductor
move? _____33. Which of the following statements DOES NOT
show the process of adaptation?
+ a. A Child learning to walk on his own.
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a. Outward b. Certain group of birds eating different kinds of
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b. Inward foods,
c. Upward c. Dying out of dinosaurs during Cretaceous period
d. Downward d. The finches in Galapagos with different beaks.
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_____34. Which of the following causes a decreasing wildlife
population in most of the places in our country?
_____24. What principle is used in the electrical generator? a. loss of limiting factor
a. Moving magnets produce electrical forces b. loss of natural disturbance
b. Mechanical energy is converted to magnetic energy c. loss of habitat
c. Moving electric charges produce magnetic field d. loss of carrying capacity
d. Moving electric charges produces kinetic energy
_____35. Which of the following phenomena DOES NOT
_____25. bar magnet is used to induce a current in a coiled involve the application of gas pressure?
conductor. Which combination of the following will increase the a. burning fuels c. falling leaves
current in the coil? b. vulcanizing tire d. rising hot air balloons

1. Use a weaker magnet. _____36. Which of the following is a TRUE statement about
4. Move the magnet through the coil slower. the gas laws?
2. Use a stronger magnet. a. Breathing illustrates Boyle’s law.
5. Increase the number of coil windings. b. Charles’ law illustrates that the volume of gas
3. Move the magnet through the coil faster. expands when temperature becomes higher.
6. Decrease the number of coil windings. c. Gay-Lussac’s law illustrates that the pressure of
gas is proportion to its temperature.
a. 2, 3 & 5 c. 2, 4 & 6 d. All of the above
b. 2, 3 & 6 d. 1, 4 & 6
_____37. Avogadro stated that equal volumes of gases under _____46. Which of the following is the correct balanced
the same conditions of temperature and pressure have equal reaction?
a. number of molecules a. 2C3H8 + 10O2 6CO2 + 8H2O
b. number of grams b. C3H8 + O2 CO2 + H2O
c. number of molar masses c. c. C3H8 + O2 3CO2 + 2H2O
d. number of atoms d. C3H8 + 5O2 3CO2 + 4H2O
_____38. What gas law explains the relationship between
pressure and volume? _____47. Which of the following sugars are the components of
a. Charles' Law c. Gay-Lussac’s Law maltose?
b. Boyle’s Law d. both a & b a. glucose & galactose
b. fructose & galactose
_____39. A balloon contains 3 moles of an ideal gas. The c. glucose & fructose
volume of the balloon is 9.0 Liters. If 6 more moles of that gas d. glucose & glucose
were to be added to the balloon what would be the final
volume, given that temperature and pressure are held _____48. Which of the following contains most lipids?
constant? a. banana c. cheese
a. 27 L b. 9 L c. 54 L d. 18 L b. champorado d. olive oil

_____40. Which of the following statements are TRUE? _____49. Which of the following is the correct pair?
I. Particles are moving continuously. a. glucose: disaccharide
II. Particles move randomly. b. sucrose: monosaccharide
III. Particles only move along fixed paths. c. starch: polysaccharide
IV. The paths that particles move are determined by d. triglycerine: polysaccharide
their mass.
V. Gas particles always move more freely than _____50. Which of the biomolecules contain other elements
particles in liquids and solids. aside from carbon, hydrogen and oxygen?
a. carbohydrates, lipids
a. I, II and V only c. III and IV only. b. proteins, lipids
b. I, and II only. d. III, IV, and V only c. nucleic acids, proteins
d. nucleic acids, lipids
_____41. The pressure of a gas inside a closed, rigid
container will increase when the gas temperature
increases. Which best describes the reason for the
increase in pressure?
a. The average kinetic energy of the gas molecules
decreases.
b. The potential energy of the gas increases.
c. The average kinetic energy of the gas molecules
increases.
d. The potential energy of the gas decreases.

_____42. Which Law of Nature states that matter cannot be

destroyed or made during a chemical reaction?
a. Law of Conservation of Mass
b. The Law of Definite Proportions
c. The Law of Chemical Reaction
d. The Law of Chemical Multiple Proportions

_____43. A chemical reaction is a process in which

a. all reactants change state
b. products change into reactants
c. the law of conservation of mass applies
d. all of these

_____44. What determines an atom’s ability to undergo

chemical reaction?
a. protons c. innermost electrons
b. neutrons d. outermost electrons

_____45. Reactions eventually stop. What is generally the

reason for this?

a. The catalyst has been used up.

b. The particles have run out of energy
c. One or more of the reactants has been used up
d. Wrong catalyst was used.