SCIENCE 9

WEEK 1
MODULES 1-3

Name:___________________________Year & Section:__________________Score:_________

Multiple Choices: Questions in this test were taken from the topics Respiratory and Circulatory
Systems: Organs working together. Read the questions carefully and choose
the letter of the best answer and write it on the space before the number.

_____1. Small air sacs in the lungs where many capillaries exchange carbon dioxide for oxygen
taken into the body.
a. Bronchi b. Alveoli c. Bronchioles d. Trachea
_____ 2. When we breathe in, we inhale many gases, including oxygen. What happens to the gases that the body can’t
use?
a. They are exhaled
b. They circulate through the body and are disposed of later.
c. They are inhaled
d. None of these
_____ 3. What takes place when you inhale and exhale?
a. We lake in oxygen and release carbon dioxide.
b. We take in carbon dioxide and release oxygen.
c. We take in nitrogen gas and releases carbon dioxide.
d. All of the above
_____ 4. Which of the following body organ systems is made up of organs that help us to breathe?
a. Respiratory system c. Nasal passageway
b. Circulatory system d. None of these
_____5. Which of the following is responsible for distributing materials throughout the body?
a. Respiratory system c. Both a & b
b. Circulatory system d. None of these

_____6. Which are the components of the circulatory system?

a. Heart and lungs c. blood vessel, heart and lungs
b. Blood, blood vessel and heart d. Heart and blood

_____7. Which of the following is the function of blood?

a. Fight infection c. Transport nutrients
b. Regulate body temperature d. All of these
_____8. It is the speed of the heartbeat measured by the number of contractions of the heart per minute.
a. Heart beat c. Heart rate
b. Heart pulse d. Heart burn
_____9. It is the circulation where arteries and veins supply the heart with blood.
a. Systemic circulation c. Pulmonary circulation
b. Coronary circulation d. Portal circulation

_____10. In the human body, pulse can be found in the following parts EXCEPT.
a. Neck b. Wrist c. At the groin d. At the knee
 SCIENCE 9
WEEK 2
MODULES 4 & 5

Name:___________________________Year & Section:__________________Score:_________

Multiple Choices: Questions in this test were taken from the topics Diseases in Respiratory and
Circulatory Systems and Negative Effects of Smoking.
Read the questions carefully and choose the letter of the best answer and
write it on the space before the number.

_______1. A condition in which a patient experiences difficulty in breathing is called ____.

a. Stroke b. asthma c. hypertension d. anemia

_______2. What do you call a viral disease that could be spread through droplets released when an infected
person coughs, sneezes or talks?
a. Covid-19 b. Anemia c. Pneumonia d. Influenza

_______3. A condition where the patient may lack enough healthy red blood cells is called __.
a. hypertension b. anemia c. stroke d. asthma

_______4. It is caused by bacteria and viruses in the air we breathe that give us fever, chill, cough and
phlegm.
a. Tuberculosis b. Pneumonia c. Anemia d. Asthma

_______5. What disease is caused by having poor lifestyle habits and cigarette smoking?
a. Hypertension/heart disease c. Pneumonia
b. Influenza d. Asthma
_______6. Which of the following diseases are caused by cigarette smoking?
a. Heart disease and flue c. Cataract and hepatitis
b. Tooth decay and lung cancer d. Diarrhea and sore throat

_______7. Which of the following practices follow healthy lifestyle?

a. Neglect proper and personal hygiene
b. Consulting a doctor for proper medication
c. Regular consumption of cigarettes and alcohol
d. Eating beyond your recommended dietary plan
_______8. What is the resulting disease when the harmful chemicals of cigarette damage the bronchial tube
and alveoli?
a. Diabetes b. Tuberculosis c. Blood cancer d. Lung cancer

_______9. What might happen if a person goes on with negative lifestyle?

a. Circulatory system may be affected
b. Various disease might develop
c. It may cause death
d. All of them
_______10. Which of the following lifestyles have negative effect to one’s health?
1. Cigarette smoking 3 eating healthy foods
2. Drinking liquor 4 exercise regularly

a. 1, 2, 3, 4 b. 1, 2 c. 3, 4 d. 2, 4
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WEEK 3
MODULES 6-8

Name:________________________________Year & Section:__________________Score:_______________

Multiple Choice: Questions in this test were taken from the topic Non-Mendelian pattern of
Inheritance. Choose the letter of the best answer and write it on the space provided
before the number.

________1. Which of the following best describes a phenotype?

a. The expression of a trait; physical appearance.
b. Refers to the genetic makeup of an individual
c. An organism that has the same genes for a trait (ex. TT or tt)
d. the passing of traits from parent to offspring
________2. What do you call an allele whose trait only shows up when no dominant allele is present?

a. Hidden allele b. Dominant allele c. Recessive allele d. Present allele

________3. Height in pea plants follows the pattern of incomplete dominance. Two heterozygous (Tt)
tall pea plants are crossed. Which describes their offspring?
a. 50% tall and 50% short
b. 25% tall, 50% medium, and 25% short
c. 100% short
d. None of the above
________4. What would be the possible results or offsprings if you cross a homozygous round with
a wrinkled? R=round seed; r=wrinkled seed.

a. All offspring will be Rr c. All offspring will be RR

b. Round seeds will be recessive to wrinkled d. Wrinkled will be observed in half of offspring
________5. If you cross a horse with WW and a horse with BB what fraction of the offspring
would be expected to have gray hair? W=white hair ;B= black hair

a. None b. ¾ c. ½ d. All
________6. In a cross between AABB x aabb, the ratio of F2 genotypes between AABB, AaBB, Aabb and
aabb would be ______.

a.9 : 3 : 3 : 1 b. 2 : 1 : 1 : 2 c. 1 : 2 : 2 : 1 d. 7 : 5 : 3 : 1.
________7. If you cross two roan cows, what percentage of the progeny would you expect to be roan?
RW-roan
a. 10% b. 25% c. 50% d. 75%

________8. When can you say that a trait being expressed is codominance?
a. When both alleles for a gene are equally expressed
b. Neither allele is dominant or recessive
c. Both a and b
d. None of the above
________9. Which phenotype(s) does the red blood cells from a person with AB blood type exhibit?
a. Either the 'A' or 'B' phenotype in separate red blood cells
b. Both the 'A' and 'B' phenotype in each red blood cell
c. B phenotype
d. A phenotype
________10. If red (R) and white (r) are codominant alleles that determine flower color, what phenotypes are
possible for this gene?
a. Red, white, and pink c. Red, white, and red-white spotted
b. Pink only d. Red and white
 SCIENCE 9
WEEK 4
MODULES 9 &10

Name:________________________________Year & Section:__________________Score:_______________

Multiple Choices: Questions in this test were taken from the topic Non-Mendelian pattern of
Inheritance – Sex Determination, Sex Influenced, Sex Limited and Sex Linked Trait.
Choose the letter of the best answer and write it on the space provided
before the number.

_______1. How many PAIRS of sex chromosomes do humans have?

a. 23 b. 46 c. 1 d. 2
________2. If a gene is found only on the X chromosome and not the Y chromosome, it is said to be what?
a. sex-linked trait
b. polygenic trait
c. codominant trait
d. incomplete dominance trait
_______3. Sex –linked traits are generally inherited traits that __.
a. can appear in both males and females
b. are found only in males
c. are found only in females
d. result from premarital intercourse
_______4. Y-linked traits are inherited _________
a. only by females c. both males and females
b. only by males d. by either males and females
_______5. Where do men with green color blindness inherit their trait from?
a. Their mothers c. Their fathers
b. Either their fathers or mothers d. None of these
_______6. When genes are found in both males and females but their expression is limited to one sex only, it
is called ____.
a. sex determination b. sex -limited trait c. sex Influenced d. sex linked trait
_______7. Which of the following is true about sex chromosomes?
a. They only carry information for maleness and femaleness
b. They carry genes that have nothing to do with biological gender
c. Males have two X chromosomes and females have an X and a Y chromosome.
d.  Y chromosomes carry more genes than X chromosomes.
_______8. Why are males more likely to be affected by sex-linked disorders?

a. Because they have two X chromosomes and, therefore, twice as much genetic information
b. Because they are more likely to inherit a dominant allele
c. Because they are more likely to inherit a recessive allele
d. Because they will only inherit one allele, and it if is recessive it will not be masked by a
dominant one

_______9. Which of the following is an example of sex linked trait?

a. Hypertrichosis pinnae auris
b. Pattern baldness
c. Female lactating
d. Hemophilia

_______10. If an egg is fertilized by a sperm with Y chromosome, the resulting offspring will be _______.
a. male c. female
b. c. either male or female d. both male and female
 SCIENCE 9
WEEK 5
MODULES 11 & 12

Name:________________________________Year & Section:__________________Score:_______________

Multiple Choice: Questions in this test were taken from the topic Index of Diversity, Measuring Population
Density and the Local and Global environmental issues. Choose the letter of the best answer
and write it on the space provided before the number.

______1. The number of people living in a particular area at a particular point in time is known as the
__________ of that area.
a. Population density c. Population distribution
b. Population d. Population growth
______2. Which term refers to the way in which people are spread out over an area?
a. Population density
b. Population distribution
c. Population
d. Population growth
_______3. If you were to take a count of the diversity of species in your town, what would you be measuring?
a. Genetic diversity b. Habitat diversity c. Biodiversity d. Species richness

_______4. When the population of a species begins declining rapidly, the species is said to be ____.
a. Extinct b. Endangered c. Threatened d. Pandemic

_______5. The disappearance of a particular population from a given area, but not the entire species globally
is known as ________________.
a. extinction b. endangered c. extrapolation d. excavation

______6. Which of the following best describe biodiversity?

a. An economic diversity
b. Saving the habitat for at risk of extinction of native animals
c. The diversity of flora and fauna
d. Various methods of biological or environmental control
______7.The following are human activities which may affect the coastal resources. Which of these does
not belong to the group?
a. Coastal pollution c. coastal congestion
b. c. mangrove planting d. dynamite fishing
______8. Acid precipitation is commonly known as acid rain. What is its pH to be considered acidic?
a. pH 5.6 b. pH 7 c. pH 6.5 d. pH 7.5
______9. The concentration of PCB in the body tissues of water organisms is possible due to biological
magnification. What does biological magnification mean?
a. The build-up of pollutants in organisms at higher trophic levels in a food chain
b. The concentration of organic nutrients in the bodies of water
c. The increase in the temperature in the bodies of water
d. All of the above
______10. What particular gas in the atmosphere when exceeded in the concentration results in an
increase of earth’s temperature or global warming?
a. O2 b. H2O c. CO2 d. NO2

SCIENCE 9
 WEEK 6
MODULES 13- 15

Name:________________________________Year & Section:__________________Score:_______________

Multiple Choice: Questions in this test were taken from the topic Ecosystem: Introduction to Photosynthesis,
Light Dependent and Light Independent Reaction of Photosynthesis. Choose the letter of the
best answer and write it on the space provided before the number.

_______1. Photosynthesis is a process by which green plants undergo to convert the light energy from the sun
into chemical energy. The chemical energy is a molecule of sugar called GLUCOSE. Which of the following is
the correct chemical formula of glucose?

a. C6H12O6 b. C12H22O11 c. H2O d. CO2

_______2. The process of photosynthesis takes place in a leaf of the plant. What particular part of the leaf
controls the entry and exit of gas and water that plants need.
a. Epidermis b. Stomata c. Mesophyll d. Cuticle

_______3. Which of the following substances act as the reactants in the process of photosynthesis?
a. Carbon dioxide and water c. glucose and carbon dioxide
b. Glucose and oxygen d. oxygen and water

_______4. Which of the following best describes light-dependent reactions?

a. They are the first stage of photosynthesis.
b. They utilize the energy stored in ATP and NADPH.
c. They use carbon dioxide to synthesize proteins.
d. They create energy-rich ATP and NADPH.

_______5. Photosynthesis uses radiant energy, carbon dioxide and water to produce energy storing
carbohydrates. Which substance is released as a by-product of photosynthesis?
a. Carbon dioxide b. Carbon c. Oxygen d. Water

_______6. Why do we perceive chlorophyll as being green?

a. Because it is green.
b. Because it absorbs green light.
c. Because it reflects green light.
d. Because it absorbs yellow light.

_______7.Which could be used to monitor the rate of photosynthesis in a plant?

a. Carbon dioxide production
b. Water production
c. Oxygen production
d. Hydrogen production

_______8. The process of photosynthesis may occur in two cycles such as Light –dependent and Light
Independent reaction. Which of the following processes in the Light –dependent reaction absorbs light to use
in the transfer of electron particularly from plastocyanin to ferredoxin and whose reaction center chlorophyll is
P700?
a. Phosphorylation b. Photosystem I c. Photosystem II d. Chemiosmosis

_______9. Which is the site of light reaction of photosynthesis?

a. Chloroplast b. mitochondrion c. stroma d. thylakoid membrane

_______10. In the light dependent reaction of photosynthesis, light energy is converted to ____.
a. Heat energy b. ATP and NADPH c. ATP and NADH d. ATP