Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Region X – Northern Mindanao
Division of Lanao del Norte
District of Tubod West
RUFO DELA CRUZ INTEGRATED SCHOOL
Poblacion, Tubod

SCIENCE 9
1ST PERIODICAL EXAM
S.Y. 202 2-2023

Name: ____________________________________________________ Score:______________________

Section: __________________________________ Date: ______________________
Multiple Choice. Read each question carefully, and write the CAPITAL letter of the correct answer on the
space provided before each number.
____ 1) What makes up the breathing system?
A. lungs, heart, and blood C. rib cage, diaphragm, and lungs
B. oxygen, carbon dioxide, blood, and energy D. nose, lungs, passageways that lead to the lungs

____ 2) What is the main job of the respiratory system?

A. Holding up the body and giving it support and
shape.
B. Gas exchange between the external environment
and the body's circulatory system.
C. Breaking down food for it to be used by the body.
D. Transport the materials throughout the entire body.
____ 3) What happens to your lungs when you exhale?
A. Inflate B. absorb carbon dioxide C. deflate D. push up the diaphragm
____ 4) What part does the diaphragm play in the breathing process?
A. When you exhale, your diaphragm moves upward, squeezing air up through your windpipe.
B. When you inhale, the diaphragm contracts allowing more air in the chest cavity.
C. When you breathe, your diaphragm relaxes increasing the size of the chest cavity.
D. Both A and B
____ 5) How does oxygen get into the cells of the body?
A. Blood carries the oxygen from the lungs to the heart and to the body.
B. Oxygen passes through the lungs and goes where it is needed.
C. The brain tells the oxygen where to go.
D. Carbon dioxide travels through the blood. The Human Heart
____ 6) What is best inferred in the given figure on the right side?
A. The deoxygenated blood from the lungs enters at the right atrium.
B. The deoxygenated blood from the lungs enters at the left atrium.
C. The oxygenated blood from the lungs enters at the right atrium.
D. The oxygenated blood from the lungs enters at the left atrium.
____ 7) Which statement about the respiratory system and circulatory system below is correct?
A. They always work independently from one another.
B. They work together to keep blood pumping to all parts of the body.
C. They work together to deliver oxygen to cells and remove carbon dioxide from the body.
D. They work together only when we are active, and never when we are resting or sleeping.
____ 8) Which of the following blood vessels is responsible in carrying deoxygenated blood to the heart?
A. Arteries B. Veins C. Capillaries D. All of the above
____ 9) Which of the following is another name for the flu?
A. Pneumonia B. Asthma C. Influenza D. Tuberculosis
____ 10) How many chromosomes do normal humans have in their body cells?
A. 46 B. 23 C. 11.5 D. 6
____ 11) What base is a complement of Adenine?
A. Thymine B. Guanine C. Cytosine D. Uracil
____ 12) Genes are found
A. in the chromosomes of the cell C. all over the cell
B. on the cytoplasm of the cell D. in the nucleus of the cell
____ 13) Which of the following statements is TRUE about non-Mendelian inheritance?
A. It is a pattern of inheritance which follows the Law of Segregation.
B. It is a pattern of inheritance which does not follow Mendel's Genetic Laws.
C. It is a pattern of inheritance which was proposed by Sir Alexander Fleming.
D. It is a pattern of inheritance that solely explains the existence of dominant and recessive traits.
____ 14) What non-Mendelian pattern of inheritance occurs when the phenotype of the offspring somewhere
in between the phenotypes of both parents and a completely dominant allele does not occur?
A. dominance B. codominance C. multiple alleles D. incomplete dominance
____ 15) In the ABO blood group systems in humans, what two alleles are codominant?
A. A & A B. A & B C. A & O D. B & O
____ 16) In incomplete dominance, what is the phenotype of the offspring produce between a cross of a red
white flowered snapdragon?
A. pink B. red C. white D. both red and white
____ 17) Pink four o’ clock flowers are obtained from a cross between pure bred red flower (RR) and white
flower (WW) plant? What is the genotype of the pink flowers?
A. RR B. RW C. WW D. red and white
____ 18) A Non-Mendelian pattern which results when one allele is not dominant over the other which means
both alleles are shown equally in the phenotypes of the heterozygote.
A. Codominance B. Dominance C. Incomplete Dominance D. Multiple Alleles
____ 19) Suppose that Marlou is a homozygous for blood type B allele and Lovely is type “O”. What is a
possible blood type of their baby?
A. Type O B. Type B C. Type A D. Type AB
____ 20) If one of your parents is blood type A and the other is type B, which of the following blood types
would you likely be?
A. A B. AB C. B D. O
____ 21 Which of the following statements is FALSE about codominance?
A. It is a pattern of inheritance which does not follow Mendel's Genetic Laws.
B. It is a pattern of inheritance which shows the blending of traits of the parents.
C. It is a pattern of inheritance in which one allele is not dominant over the other.
D. It is a pattern of inheritance wherein the heterozygote shows the traits of both parents.
____ 22) What will be the result if Bb mates with bb?
A. All the offspring will exhibit the dominant trait.
B. All the offspring will exhibit the recessive trait.
C. The recessive trait will show up in about 50% of the offspring.
D. The dominant trait will show up in about 75% of the offspring.
____ 23) The number and variety of species on Earth is called _______________________.
A. population B. ecosystem C. community D. biodiversity
____ 24) Any species with a declining population that could become endangered is
A. extinct B. threatened C. hazard D. migration
____ 25) Habitat destruction is the primary cause of animal extinction. Which of the following is NOT an
example of habitat destruction?
A. humans converting forestland to farms
B. humans obtaining land for housing development
C. humans acquiring land for industrial development
D. humans getting land for forestation

____ 26) Why is biodiversity valuable and desirable to humans?

A. for medicinal purposes B. for consumptive use C. for agricultural diversity D. all of these
____ 27) Abiotic factors are non-living things which determine the survival of an organism. Which of the
following items is an abiotic factor?
A. habitat B. food C. temperature D. organism
____ 28) Biodiversity and the survival of ecosystems have a direct proportional relationship. This means that if
biodiversity will increase, the chances of survival will also _______.
A. decrease B. increase C. increase then decrease D. cannot be determined
____ 29) What do you call the process wherein plants make their own food?
A. cellular respiration B. photosynthesis C. protein synthesis D. carbon fixation
____ 30) In what cell organelles in plants photosynthesis takes place?
A. mitochondria B. chloroplasts C. ribosomes D. cytoplasm
____ 31) Cellular respiration cannot take place in the absence of
A. ATP B. light C. oxygen D. glucose
____ 32) The following are the products of cellular respiration, EXCEPT
A. water B. carbon dioxide C. glucose D. ATP
____ 33) If you did not eat for three days, where did your cell get the glucose for ATP?
A. blood sugar C. glycogen present in the muscle
B. glycogen in the liver D. protein in the blood

For numbers 34-36, the given pictures depict the negative ways of living. What do you think are the illnesses
that are brought about by the negative lifestyles? Write your answers in the box provided for each number.

34) __ __ __ __ __ 35) __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __

36) __ __ __ __ __ __

37)-40) Propose effective ways on how you can help the respiratory and circulatory
systems to become healthy. (4 pts.)
RUBRIC
For numbers 41-44, complete the DNA model. Just give the letter of the answer. 4 – Provided 4 effective
ways.
3 – Provided 3 effective
ways.
2 – Provided 2 effective
ways only.
1 – Provided 1 effective
way only.
 1

41) _____
2
42) _____
3
43) _____

4 44) _____

45)-48) In rabbits, white coat color (C WCW) and black coat

color (CBCB) are codominant, and both of these
alleles are dominant over albino (c);
heterozygotes (CWCB) are spotted. 45 46
Draw a Punnett Square that shows the
genotypes and phenotypes of the offspring from 47 48
a Albino rabbit and a homozygous white-coated
rabbit?

49)-50. Explain what will happen if the community is over populated. What will happen to the ecosystem and
it’s diversity?
 Republic of the Philippines
Department of Education
Region X – Northern Mindanao
Division of Lanao del Norte
District of Tubod West
RUFO DELA CRUZ INTEGRATED SCHOOL
Poblacion, Tubod

SCIENCE 9
ST
1 PERIODICAL EXAM
S.Y. 2022-2023
TABLE OF SPECIFICATIONS
COGNITIVE DOMAIN Test %
Time spent TOTAL
Most Essential Learning Easy (60%) Moderate (30%) Difficult (10%) Placement
in hour or
Competencies Understandin Computed Adjusted
in minutes Remembering( Applying Analyzing Evaluating Creating
g
1. Respiratory and Circulatory Systems,
8
Working with other Organ Systems
1.1 Explain how the respiratory and circulatory 1-4
systems work together to transport nutrients,
gases, and other molecules to and from the
5 hours 1, 2, 3, 4 5, 6, 7 8 8 5-7
different parts of the body. 8
1.2 Infer how one’s lifestyle can affect the
9
37, 38, 39,
functioning of the respiratory, circulatory, and 3 hours 9 34, 35, 36 8 34-36
excretory systems. 40
37-40
2. Heredity: inheritance and Variation 10
2.1 Identify the component of a DNA molecule. 1 hour 41, 42, 43, 44 4 41-44
2.2 Describe the location of genes in chromosomes. 2 hours 10, 11, 12 3 10-12
13-15
2.3 Explain the different patterns of non-Mendelian
inheritance.
4 hours 13, 14, 15 16, 17, 18 19 7 16-18
19
2.4 Solve a genetic problem involving non- 3 hours 20, 21, 22 45, 46, 47, 7 20-22
Mendelian patterns of inheritance.
 48 45-48
3. Biodiversity and Evolution 8
3.1 Relate species extinction to the failure of 23-25
populations to adapt to abrupt changes in the
8 hours 23, 24, 25 26, 27, 28 49, 50 8 26-28
environment.
49-50
4. Ecosystem: Life Energy 4
4.1vDescribe the basic features of photosynthesis 29-32
and respiration and their importance. 4 hours 29, 30, 31, 32 33 5
33

TOTAL 30 50 50 100

Prepared by: Reviewed by: Noted by

DIANA LIZA G. BANO . MARIA VICTORIA B. ONG HELEN C. TORRES

T-1 Assistant Principal Principal