DUMALINAO NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

SUMMATIVE TEST
SCIENCE 9
First Quarter

Name: ____________________________________________Section: _____________________Score: _____________

Direction: Choose the correct answer and write the CAPITAL LETTER ONLY of your answer on the space
provided before the number.

____1. Which are the organs of the respiratory system?

A. Lungs, heart, and blood. B. Rib cage, diaphragm, and lungs.
C. Nose, lungs, heart, and diaphragm D. Lungs, throat, and passageways that lead to the lungs
____2. What happens in the diaphragm when we exhale (breathe out)?
A. The diaphragm relaxes and moves upwards. B. The diaphragm contracts and moves upwards.
C. The diaphragm relaxes and moves downwards. D. The diaphragm contracts and moves
downwards.
____3. What will happen if the epiglottis does not close the entrance of airways?
A. The larynx will be blocked with food particles. B. The pharynx will have difficulty in swallowing.
C. The food particles will block the opening of the trachea and a person will have difficulty in
breathing.
D. The food particles will block the bronchioles thus making it difficult to breathe in and breathe out.
____4. What important activity takes place in the lungs?
A. Food is digested. B. Liquid waste is filtered from the blood.
C. The trachea is exchanged for the larynx. D. Oxygen is exchanged for carbon dioxide.
____5. Which statement is true about the human circulatory system?
A. It makes blood cells. B. It transports oxygen and nutrients.
C. It breaks down food and releases nutrients. D. It is the first line of defense against bacteria.
____6. Which blood vessel carries blood back to the heart?
A. Artery B. Blood vessel C. Capillary D. Vein
____7. Which is NOT a function of the circulatory system?
A. Deliver oxygen and nutrients to cells. B. Break down carbohydrates into glucose.
C. Transport other materials through body. D. Remove carbon dioxide and wastes from cells.
____8. The circulatory and respiratory systems work together to provide cells with oxygen and nutrients and
remove wastes such as carbon dioxide. When the body needs more oxygen, how does the circulatory system
respond?
A. The heart beats faster to match the increase in breathing rate.
B. More blood is sent to the lungs and less to the rest of the body.
C. The blood vessels in the arms and legs constrict to conserve oxygen.
D. Blood moves more slowly through the organs to carry away more wastes.
____9. Smoking is the common cause of emphysema. Which situation will happen when you quit smoking
immediately?
A. The blood in your lungs will lack oxygen B. The amount of oxygen in your lungs will
decrease
C. The blood pressure in your pulmonary artery will increase
D. The amount of oxygen in your blood stream will, ultimately, increase
____10. What are you going to do to lessen the risk of having a disease?
A. Eat junk foods B. Exercise regularly C. Sleep late at night D. Slack off and watch Netflix all
day
____11. What type of activity will weaken our lungs, muscles, and makes our heart more inefficient?
A. Eating B. Exercising C. Sleeping D. Smoking
____12. What is the chronic respiratory condition that causes difficulty in breathing due to inflammation of the
airways? A. Asthma B. Bronchitis C. Emphysema D. Pneumonia
____13. Which practice may strengthen our circulatory system?
A. Cigarette Smoking B. Having a daily exercise
C. Staying up late at night D. Eating junk foods everyday
____14. Why do people ended up eating fast foods, rather than eating fruits and vegetables?
A. Because they are ready to eat
B. Because they taste better than fruits and vegetables
C. Because they are less expensive than fruits and vegetables
D. Because they look more delicious than fruits and vegetables
____15. What is being described in this situation: it can happen if a vessel that supplies blood to the brain
either becomes blocked by a blood clot or bursts?
A. Atherosclerosis B. Hypertension C. Pneumonia D. Stroke
____16. What are the symptoms of heart failure?
A. Fast heartbeat and sweating B. Fever, dry cough, and tiredness
C. Aching sensation of neck and jaw
D. Shortness of breath, rapid or irregular heartbeat, and chest pain
____17. When one characteristic is more strongly inherited than another characteristic, it is said to be.
A. Dihybrid B. Dominant C. Recessive D. Monohybrid
____18. Which genotypes consists of two identical genes for a given character?
A. Dominant B. Recessive C. Homozygous D. Heterozygous
____19. The human sex chromosome for male is ______________________.
A. XX B. YY C. XY D. XZ
____20. Which of the following is an alternate form of a gene?
A. Allele B. linkage C. Genotype D. Phenotype
____21. Which is NOT an example of incomplete dominance?
A. A pink flower produced from red and white flowers
B. A flower that is both red and white produced from red and white flowers
C. Curly-haired and straight-haired individuals producing wavy-haired offspring
D. A highly spotted dog and a non-spotted dog producing puppies with a few spots
____22. What inheritance is most likely involved when both parental phenotypes are expressed in the F1
generation?
A. Codominance B. Multiple alleles C. Polygenic inheritance D. Incomplete dominance
____23. What information can be obtained from a Punnett square?
A. Genotype of offspring B. Phenotype of offspring
C. Phenotypic ratio of offspring D. All the above information
____24. Which statement is TRUE about the Punnett squares in A and B?

I. In diagram A, white is dominant over black while in diagram B red is dominant over white.
II. Diagram A shows a codominance pattern of inheritance while diagram B shows an incomplete
pattern
of inheritance
III. In diagram A, the parents produce offspring with a phenotype in which both parental traits appear
together while in diagram B, the parents produce offspring with a phenotype that is a blending of
parental traits.
IV. Diagram A describes a cross among parents of different phenotypes while diagram B describes a
cross between parents of the same
A. I B. II C. Both II and III D. Both II and IV
____25. Which is NOT an example of an endangered species?
A. Tarsier B. Dodo bird C. Mouse deer D. Monkey- eating eagle
____26. Which do you think is the biggest problem faced by endangered species?
A. Food B. Water C. Climate change D. Human activities
____27. Which situation illustrates the relationship between a limiting factor and population density?
A. When birth rate is greater than death rate, population increases.
B. When the population in a given area increases, the population density also increases.
C. Population sizes change with the number of births or when organisms move out of an ecosystem.
D. When the population of goats and cows in a field increases rapidly, there may not be enough food
for each of them.
____28. Which could be a probable cause of increase in the population of preys in an environment?
A. destruction of prey habitats B. lower birth rate than death rate of preys
C. calamities and rampant spread of diseases D. decrease in the population of their predators
____29. How does habitat degradation cause extinction of species?
A. It kills acid intolerant species.
B. It leads to spread of diseases that exterminate species.
C. It leads to diminishing resources which increases competition among species.
D. It leads to existence of shallow gene pools that promote massive inbreeding.
____30. What do woolly mammoth, Dodo, and Great Auk have in common?
A. They are all extinct. B. They are all mammals.
C. They are all threatened species. D. They are all endangered species.
____31. Which statements are TRUE?
I. Introducing a new species in an ecosystem affects the food chain.
II. Extinction is a natural process that has occurred since the beginning of time.
III. Human intervention is the most leading cause of animal extinctions in this time.
A. I and II only B. II and III only C. I and III only D. I, II and III
____32. Which could you infer about an ecosystem with high species diversity?
A. Its food webs are relatively simple.
B. It has a greater number of successful species and a more stable ecosystem.
C. The change in the environment would probably have quite serious effects on it.
D. The environment is quite stressful with relatively few ecological niches and only a few organisms
are really well adapted to that ecosystem.
____33. Which of the following statements are TRUE about cellular respiration?
I. Cellular respiration is the process by which food molecules are broken down to release
energy.
II. Most of the reactions of cellular respiration take place in the mitochondria of the cell.
III. The reactants of cellular respiration are water, carbon dioxide and energy.
IV. The products of cellular respiration are oxygen and glucose.
A. I only B. II only C. II and II only D. III and IV only
____34. Which of the following is the first step of both anaerobic and aerobic respiration?
A. Glycolysis B. Krebs cycle C. Electron transport chain D. none of these
____35. When cells break food into chemical energy, it undergoes three major processes: glycolysis, Krebs cycle
and electron transport. Which of these processes of aerobic respiration produces the most ATP?
A. Glycolysis B. Krebs cycle C. Electron transport chain D. none of these
____36. Which of the following are the reactants of cellular respiration?
A. Oxygen and glucose B. Carbon dioxide and water
C. Water, oxygen, and ATP D. Water, Carbon dioxide, and ATP
____37. Which of the following processes release energy?
I. Glycolysis II. Calvin Cycle III. Krebs cycle IV. Electron transport chain
A. I and II only B. II and III only C. I, II, and IV only D. I, II, III, and IV only
____38. Which of the following statements correctly describes the difference between cellular respiration and
photosynthesis?
A. Cellular respiration occurs in cytoplasm only, while photosynthesis occurs in chloroplast.
B. Cellular respiration reactants are carbon dioxide, water and light, while photosynthesis reactants are
water sugar and oxygen
C. Cellular respiration products include carbon dioxide, water and ATP, while photosynthesis products
are glucose and oxygen.
D. None of these.
____39. What is the purpose of putting the plant in darkness for two days?
A. To test if it will die. B. To remove excess water in it.
C. To remove starch on its leaves. D. To test if the leaves will change in color.
____40. What is the purpose of inserting half of the leaf of the plant inside the bottle?
A. So that only half of the leaf will receive oxygen.
B. So that only half of the leaf will receive carbon dioxide.
C. So that only half of the leaf will be exposed to sunlight.
D. To protect the other half of the leaf from harmful chemicals in the air.

Prepared by:
Mrs. Rennah Marie Cadelinia-German