Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Region VII-Central Visayas
Cebu Province Division
Pilar District
FIRST QUARTER SUMMATIVE EXAMINATION
SCIENCE 9
S.Y. 2021-2022

Name:__________________________ Grade & Section:_______________ Score:_______

School: __________________________ Date:________

Direction: Read carefully each question. Choose the letter of the correct answer.

I. Multiple choice. Read and analyze each question. Write the letter of the correct answer.

1. Which organ system is used when you breathe?

a. Perspiratory system c. Photosynthesis
b. Respiratory system d. Urinary system
2. What structure in the lungs does the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide takes
place?
a. Alveoli b. bronchi c. bronchioles d. trachea
3. All of the following are true about human circulatory system EXCEPT
a. The atria pump blood out of the heart
b. Leukocytes fight microbes that may cause diseases
c. Our veins have thinner walls than our arteries
d. Our heart rate changes in response to our physical activity
4. In which chamber of the heart does oxygen-rich blood enter from the lungs?
a. Left atrium b. left ventricle c. right atrium d. right ventricle
5. How does oxygen get to the cells of the body?
a. Blood carries the oxygen throughout the body
b. Oxygen passes through the lungs and goes where it is needed
c. Carbon dioxide travels through the blood
d. The brain tells the oxygen where to go.
6. Which malfunction of the respiratory system pertains to the permanent damage of the
walls of the alveoli?
a. Bronchitis b. asthma c. emphysema d. pneumonia
7. It is the periodic constriction of the bronchi and bronchioles that makes breathing difficult
because of airborne irritants
a. Bronchitis b. pneumonia c. asthma d. emphysema
8. Blockages in the blood vessels can lead to __________.
a. Heart attack b. leukemia c. stroke d. a and c
9. How can you have a healthy body image?
a. Your body image can change with your mood
b. Your body image can change your environment
c. Your body can change your experiences
d. All of these
10. It is a lifestyle with no or irregular physical activity
a. Good and healthy habit c. sedentary lifestyle
b. Alcohol consumption d. cigarette smoking
11. What do you call a smoke from a smoker breathed in by other people?
a. Smog b. dirty smoke c. passed on smoke d. second hand smoke
12. Which one of these describes healthy ways to cope with stress?
a. Exercise b. learn to relax c. get enough rest d. all of these
13. What pattern of inheritance that explains the expression of pink color of a four o’clock
flower?
a. Codominance c. multiple alleles
b. Incomplete dominance d. sex-linked traits
14. A pattern of inheritance where both alleles are expressed equally in the phenotype of the
heterozygote is _____________.
a. Codominance c. multiple alleles
b. Incomplete dominance d. sex-linked traits
15. Lino crossed a pink four o’clock flower with white four o’clock flower. How much is the
percentage for a cross to produce red-colored four o’clock flower?
a. 25% b. 50% c. 0% d. 75%
16. Which of the following is true regarding sex limited traits?
a. They are always X-linked.
b. They are phenotypically expressed in only one sex.
c. They are recessive in one sex and dominant in the other.
d. They do not exist.
17. It is expressed in both sexes but more frequently in one than in the other sex.
a. Recessive trait c. sex-influenced trait
b. Dominant trait d. sex-limited trait
18. Appearance of cock feather in chicken is ____________.
a. X-linked b. Y-linked c. sex-influenced d. sex limited
19. Oxygen and carbon dioxide are gases that cycle out in the ecosystem. Which of the
following gases is important to photosynthesis?
a. Carbon dioxide b. oxygen c. ozone gas d. water vapor
20. Which of the following cell organelles does photosynthesis occur?
a. Chlorophyll b. chloroplast c. mitochondrion d. ribosome
21. What color is chlorophyll?
a. Blue b. green c. red d. yellow
22. What is the site of light-dependent reactions?
a. Chlorophyll b. chloroplast c. stroma d. thylakoids
23. Which of the following cell organelles is associated with the production of chemical
energy?
a. Chloroplast c. mitochondrion
b. Endoplasmic reticulum d. nucleus
24. What are the stacks of flattened sacs that contain the pigment of chlorophyll called?
a. Chlorophyll b. chloroplast c. stroma d. thylakoids
25. If plants take in carbon dioxide, what do they breathe out?
a. Carbon dioxide c. nitrogen
b. Carbon monoxide d. oxygen
26. Which three things do plants need for the process of photosynthesis?
a. Carbon dioxide, oxygen, and soil
b. Sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water
c. Sunlight, oxygen, and sugar
d. Water, soil, and oxygen
27. Pollutants dumped into the rivers and streams eventually find their way to __________.
a. the ocean b. the atmosphere c. groundwater supplies d. the land
28. Which metabolic stage is glucose broken down to pyruvate?
a. Electron transport chain c. Krebs cycle
b. Glycolysis d. Oxidative phosphorylation
29. Which of the following materials are cycled out by the chloroplasts and mitochondrion?
a. Carbon dioxide, water, oxygen, and ATP
b. Carbon dioxide, water, sugar, and oxygen
c. Sugar, water, oxygen, and ATP
d. Sugar, water, sunlight, and oxygen
 30. Patterned baldness is a sex-influenced trait more expressed in male. If b+ is normal allele
making non-bald phenotype and b is mutant leading to bald phenotype, for a cross
between a bald mother and normal father, what is the probability of a bald son?
a. 0 b. ¼ c. ½ d. 1

II. Matching Type. Match the concept in column A with its description in column B. Write
only the letter of the correct answer in another sheet of paper.

COLUMN A COLUMN B
31. Species a. Refers to the variety of life in an area
32. Biodiversity b. A group of organisms that have certain
characteristics in common and are able
to interbreed
33. Population c. Number of organisms of one species
that an environment can support
34. Endangered species d. The total number of organisms of the
same species inhabiting a place at the
same time
35. Threatened species e. Species that have rapidly decreasing
numbers of individuals
36. Deforestation f. Species in which the number of
individuals falls so low that extinction is
possible
37. Eutrophication g. The process by which a body of water
becomes enriched in dissolved
nutrients
38. Acid rain h. Removing or clearing of a forest to
include the cutting of trees, mostly for
agricultural or urban use
39. PCB i. A term referring to a mixture of wet and
dry deposition
40. Carrying capacity j. Toxic wastes produced in the making of
paints, and inks

Prepared by: Checked by:

MARY ROSE D. BORINAGA DIOSDADA E. BORINAGA

Teacher I Master Teacher I

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