Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Region III
CITY SCHOOLS DIVISION
Cabanatuan City
MARCIANO DEL ROSARIO MEMORIAL NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
Pamaldan, Cabanatuan City

SCIENCE 8
FOURTH GRADING PERIOD

DIRECTIONS: Read each item carefully and choose the best answer. Write your answers
on a separate sheet of paper.

1. What do you call the process when
the food taken into the mouth and
digestion starts?
a. Assimilation b. Elimination
c. Absorption d. Ingestion
2. What system is used for breaking down
food into nutrients which then pass into the
circulatory system and are taken to where
they are needed in the body?
a. Digestive system
b. Nervous system
c. Circulatory system
d. Respiratory system
3. Which kind of foods can help in your
digestions?
a. High fiber b. High
protein c. High carbohydrates
High fat
4. All of the following are organs
of the digestive system
EXCEPT___________.
a. Nose b. Liver
c. Mouth d.Small intestine
5. Which of the following parts of the
digestive system removes solid wastes such
as feces from the body?
a. Mouth b. Esophagus
c. Large intestine d. Small intestine
6. Why do we need to break down the food
we eat?
a. So that it can fit into our stomach.
b. So that our bodies’ ‘enzymes have
something to do.
c. So that liquids can be separated by
solids.
d. So that our bodies can use the
nutrients from the food we eat.
7. What process is taking
place when the muscles of
the esophagus squeeze the
food downward?
a. Bile b. Bolus
c. Chyme d. Peristalsis
8. Which of the following is the main role of
the large intestine?
a. The main role of the large
intestine is to churn food around with
enzymes.
b. The main role of the large
intestine is to break down solid
food.
d. c. The main role of the large
intestine is to chew and swallow
foods.
d. The main role of the large
intestine is to absorb undigested
food and water.
9. Which of the following terms describes
the encircled part of chromosomes in the
picture below?
a. Chromatid
b. Centromere
c. Eurochromatin
d. Chromatin
10. What law states that the pair of genes
segregate or separate from each other during
gamete formation?
a. Law Segregation
b. Law
Dominance
c. Law of Independent Assortment
d. Law Recessiveness
11. Tall is dominant over short. How will a. 32 b. 43
you write the allele of a mother’s trait if it c. 52
homozygous short? d.23
a. tt b. Tt
17. How many daughter cells are produced
c. TT d. tT
12. What stage in cell cycle involves cell in meiosis?
a. 4 b. 3
growth and replication of DNA?
a. Interphase b. c. 2 d. 5
Prophase c. Telophase 18.Which of the following does meiosis
d. Metaphase produce?
a. Sex cells b. DNA
13. Which of the statement is NOT correct c. Chromosomes d. Zygote
about Mitosis and Meiosis? 19. The branch of biology that deals with the
a. Mitosis produces two transmission and variation of inherited
identical daughter cells while characteristics, in particular chromosomes
meiosis produces four unique and DNA.
daughter cells. a. Genes b. Geneticist
b. Mitosis involves separation c. Genetics d. Genus
of sister chromatid like what happen 20. It applies the rules of
in Meiosis II. probability to predict the
c. Mitosis happens in almost possible outcomes of a
all of the cells in the body while monohybrid cross and their
Meiosis is involved in sex cells expected frequencies.
only.
d. Mitosis produce haploid a.. Panett Square
cells and Meiosis produce diploid b. Punet Square
cells. c. Punnet Square
14. Which of the following does NOT d. Punnett Square
happen during the Meiosis I? 21. When two parents of
a. Chromosomes are paired heterozygous genes of curly hair
and crossing over happens. are crossed, what percent of
b. Separation of homologous their offspring (F1) would have
chromosomes. curly hair?
c. Separation of sister
a. 25% b. 75%
chromatids.
d. Formation of haploid cells. c. 50% d. 100%
15. Which of the stage of mitosis is in
correct order? 22. Juan is heterozygous brown. If B is for
a. Prophase, Metaphase, brown hair, and b is for blonde hair, what
Telophase, Anaphase is Juan’s genotype?
b. Metaphase, Anaphase, a. BB b.. Bb
Telophase, Prophase c. bb d. bB
c. Telophase, Metaphase, 23. He is known as the father of Genetics
Anaphase Prophase a. August Weismann
d. Prophase, Metaphase, b.Gregor Johann Mendel
Anaphase, Telophase b. Nettie Maria Stevens
16. How many chromosomes does a somatic c. . Thomas Hunt Morgan
cell of human has? 24. What law states that the pair of genes
segregate or separate from each other during
gamete formation?
 a. Law Segregation 32. What is taxonomy?
b. Law of a. The scientific study of how
Independent Assortment living things are classified.
c. Law Dominance b. the name of Aristotle's
d. Law Recessiveness classification system.
c. The process used by
25. What organism can survive in places geologists to classify rocks.
where there is no oxygen? d. The process of observing
a. halophiles an organism's behaviour.
c. methanogens
b. thermophiles 33. What is binomial nomenclature?
d. parasites a. Classifying organisms into
26. Which of the following is an example of seven levels
halophiles? b. The naming system
a. Bacillus anthracis developed by Aristotle
c. Halobaterium c. Grouping animals based on
ruminatum how they move
b. Haloccocus salinarum d. A naming system in which
d. Halobaterium each organism is given a two-part
hungatei name
27. What bacteria caused the disease 34. What is a characteristic of
leptospirosis? archaebacteria?
a. Propionibacterium acnes a. Most are disease-causing.
c. Mycobacterium
tuberculosis b. They live just about
b. Leptospira interrogans everywhere.
d. Bacillus anthracis c. They use sun to produce
28. What substances that kills or inhibits food and energy.
disease- causing organisms? d. They thrive in extreme
a. Antivirals environments.
c. Antibiotics 35. A cat's scientific name is Felix
domesticus, which genus does it belong to?
b. Analgesics a. Cat
d. Antihistamines b. Felix
29. What vitamin can be produced by c. binomial nomenclature
Escherichia coli which human body cannot?
a. vitamin A d. domesticus
c. vitamin C 36. Which kingdom includes only
b. vitamin B12 prokaryotes?
d. vitamin E a. archaebacteria b.
30. How do you call the group of organisms protists c. plants
that is feed on other organism? d. fungi
a. sporozoan b. 37. Which kingdom a mushroom belongs
phototrophs c. heterotrophs to?
d. saprophytes a. protist b.
31. Which of the following is NOT a fungi c. plant
monocot plant? d. animal
a. onion b. lily 38. Why do scientists organize living things
into groups?
c. banana d. acacia
 a. so they can find them in
the wild more easily
b. so that the organisms are
easier to study
c. so they can make sense of
the variety of rocks on Earth.
d. so products from living
things can be easily found in
groceries
39. Which group of vertebrates comprises
the highest number of endangered species?
a. mammals b.
fishes c. reptiles
d. birds
40. What do you mean if the biodiversity is
high?
a. The number of species living is
high.
b. The habitat is not polluted and the
organisms are healthy.
c. The place where organisms lived
is wide and beautiful.
d. Different species are living in high
areas.
41. What concept deals with the different
feeding levels where energy flows?
a. biodiversity levels
c. levels of ecosystem
b. trophic levels
d. biological levels
42. Which of the following is a producer?
a. birds b. tigers
c. dragon fruit d.
people
43. Which of the following flows in the
ecosystem and does NOT cycle?
a. water b. energy
c. oxygen d.
nitrogen
44. Which of the following is a difference
between a food chain and a food web?
a. Food chains involve only plants,
while food webs involve animals.
b. Food chains involve only plants,
while food webs involve both plants and
animals.
c. Food chains are linear and food
webs are complex.
d. Food chains include decomposers,
but food webs do not.
45. Which group of organisms do human
belong?
a. producers b. consumers
c. decomposers d.
preys
46. What cycle shows the interdependence
among organisms for the two important
gases?
a. Oxygen- Carbon Dioxide Cycle
b. Nitrogen Cycle
c. Water Cycle
d. Oxygen- Nitrogen Cycle
47. How plants contribute in the process of
evaporation in water cycle?
a. Plant gives off water through their
roots moving to the land then evaporate.
b. Water escape through leaf pores of
plants and add water vapor to the
atmosphere.
c. The oxygen that plants produced
are converted to water as it reached the
atmosphere.
d. The flowers and fruits produced
by the plants contain moisture that
evaporates.
48. How do decomposers help other
organisms in an ecosystem?
a. They break down dead organisms
and add nutrients back to the soil that plants
use.
b. They use the sunlight to make
their own food that other organisms eat for
energy.
c. They help disperse seeds for plant
growth.
d. Decomposers do not help other
organisms in an ecosystem.
49. What farming practices is described the
cultivation of a single crop in large areas
where vast tracts of land are converted to
rice farms, sugar farms, and coconut farms?
a. Monoculture
b. Monocropping
c. Land conversion
d. Land accumulation
50. Which food chain correctly describes the
flow of energy in an ecosystem?
a. grass- cow- human
b. cow- grass- human
c. caterpillar- leaf- human
d. leaf- bird- caterpillar