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Question 1. These are living things that use 9. The Earth’s shield against the sun’s harmful
sunlight, chlorophyll, water, and carbon dioxide radiation.
to produce food. A. Atmosphere
A. Autotrophs B. Air
B. Consumers C. Ozone layer
C. Heterotrophs D. Forest
D. Food chain
Question 10. The use of products containing
Question 2. It is described as a lifeline of the ____ is discouraged because they contribute to
body. It is the body’s “pick up” and delivery the depletion of _____.
system.” A. Chlorofluorocarbon-solar radiation
A. blood B. Gas-ozone layer
B. nervous system C. Ozone layer-air
C. circulatory system D. Chlorofluorocarbon-ozone layer
D. heart
Question 11. What causes high and low tides?
Question 3. It carries the oxygen-rich blood to A. Earth’s rotation on its axis
the head, arms, chest, and down to the waist B. Moon’s gravitational pull
and legs. C. Sun’s solar energy
A. heart D. Earth’s gravitational pull
B. ventricles
C. aorta Question 12. How is coral a tool formed?
D. arteries A. Volcanic eruption
B. Coral growing around a volcanic island
Question 4. They are the transmitters of C. Underwater bedrock formations
messages from the different parts of the body D. Earthquake
to the brain and vice versa.
A. spinal cord Question 13. What is a longshore drift?
B. neurons or nerve cells A. Movement of sand and shingles along the
C. brain coast
D. arteries B. Sand bars
C. Accumulation of sand at the river mouth
Question 5. Which part of the brain controls the D. Island formed by volcanic eruptions
following activities: breathing, blood pressure,
heart rate, and alertness? Question 14. How does an occlusion form?
A. brainstem A. Cold air moving up from the ground
B. hypothalamus B. Cold front pushing warm air up off the ground
C. cerebrum C. Unbalance electrical reactions in the air
D. spinal cord D. Cold and warm air mixing in the atmosphere

Question 6. Refers to a sequence of organisms Question 15. What is heat haze?

in a community that constitutes a feeding A. A reflection caused by pollutants in the air
chain. B. A distorted image resulting from the bending
A. photosynthesis of sun’s light rays by changes in air temperature
B. ecosystem C. A movement of warm air over a vast expanse
C. consumers of land
D. food chain D. Caused by extremely high temperature
common in desert areas.
7. Is a group of interacting plants, animals, and
humans in a particular area? Question 16. What sort of rock formation do the
A. ecological community world’s greatest mountain ranges consist of?
B. environment A. magma
C. living organism B. chalk deposit
D. food chain C. fold eruptions
D. deforestation
Question 8. Excessive presence of carbon
dioxide in the air, trapping heat near the earth’s Question 17. What is the force that wears down
surface causing a rise in temperature in the mountains?
environment. A. Earthquake
A. El Niño B. Erosion
B. Greenhouse effect C. Volcanic eruptions
C. Deforestation D. Deforestation
D. Weather disturbance
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Question 18. How are volcanic islands formed? C. Ear

A. Collision of two oceanic plates D. Eyes
B. Cooling of lava by seawater
C. Volcanic eruptions Question 28. Which of the following is not a
D. Accumulations of corals sense organ?
A. Eyes
Question 19. When the Theory of plate Tectonic B. Ears
was generally accepted? C. Nose
A. 1900’s D. Teeth
B. 1930’s
C. 1950’s Question 29. A Barometer is used to measure
D. 1960’s _______.
A. wind direction
Question 20. The weathering away of rocks by B. rainy water
water, wind, and ice: C. temperature
A. Denudation D. atmospheric pressure
B. Erosion
C. Volcanic rock Question 30. Which of the following is the
D. Metamorphic rock smallest bird in the world?
A. Hummingbird
Question 21. How do hormones work? B. Robin
A. By releasing adrenaline C. Curlew
B. By controlling cell chemistry D. Greenfinch
C. By regulating water loss
D. By controlling blood pressure Question 31. Which star is nearest to the sun?
A. Proxima centauri
Question 22. Name the male and female sex B. Sirius
hormones. C. Alpha centauri
A. Sperm cell and Ovum D. Spole star
B. Testosterone
C. Chromosomes Question 32. Which is the fastest animal on
D. Red and white blood cells land?
A. Leopard
Question 23. The unit of measurement of B. Cheetah
energy in a given amount of food. C. Deer
A. Pound D. Kangaroo
B. Kilo
C. Olfactory system Question 33. Who built the first telescope?
D. Calorie A. Galileo
B. Isaac Newton
Question 24. The growth of roots toward water C. Alexander Fleming
is an example of? D. Benjamin Franklin
A. Chemotropism
B. Geotropism Question 34. Henry Ford invented the first
C. Hydrotropism _______.
D. Phototropism A. Television
B. Telephone
Question 25. DNA means: C. Motor Car
A. Data nurturing analysis D. Refrigerator
B. Deoxyribonucleic acid
C. Deoxyribonucleic acid Question 35. Jaundice is an infectious disease,
D. Deotrixylnucleic acid which spreads through _____.
A. air
Question 26. The control center of the body is B. soil
the? C. water
A. Heart D. clothes
B. Lungs
C. Brain Question 36. The telephone was invented by?
D. kidney A. JL Baird
B. AG Bell
Question 27. Which part of the body is C. Thomas A. Edison
connected with the sense of touch? D. Marconi
A. Nose
B. Skin
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Question 37. Wright brothers are inventors of C. C Clarke

the? D. Jhon Walker
A. Balloon
B. Bicycle Question 44. Parkinson’s disease is a brain
C. Aeroplane disease that is characterized by loss of nerve
D. Television cells in which part of the brain?
A. Cerebrum
Question 38. Which planet is closest to the sun? B. Cerebellum
A. Mars C. Cerebral Cortex
B. Venus D. Brain stem
C. Mercury
D. Jupiter Question 45. Symbiosis is defined by biologists
as individuals of different species living

1. A 11. B 21. B 31. A 41. D

2. C 12. B 22. A 32. b 42. A

3. D 13. A 23. D 33. A 43. A

4. B 14. B 24. C 34. C 44. C

5. A 15. A 25. C 35. C 45. D

6. D 16. C 26. C 36. B 46. B

7. A 17. B 27. B 37. C 47. B

8. B 18. A 28. D 38. C 48. B

9. C 19. D 29. D 39. C 49. C

10. D 20. B 30. A 40. B 50. D

together in intimate association, regardless of
Question 39. The most poisonous plant is _____ whether the association is harmful, neutral, or
A. pitcher beneficial. All of the following pairs are
B. dodder examples of symbiosis EXCEPT:
C. castor bean A. ants and tapeworms
D. mangrove B. human and tapeworms
C. cats and mice
Question 40. Scientists who study the weather D. dogs and cats
are known as?
A. Seismologists Question 46. Which of the following statement
B. Meteorologists about atomic structure is NOT right?
C. Astronomer A. All atoms of the same atomic numbers are
D. Anthropologist atoms of the same element.
B. An atom can gain or lose electrons without
Question 41. Which of the following birds changing its charge.
cannot fly? C. Atoms are mostly empty spaces.
A. Emu D. Most of the mass of the atom is concerned
B. Rheas with its nucleus.
C. Ostrich
D. All of these Question 47. Which of the following statement
is TRUE of nuclear fission?
Question 42. Who invented the sewing A. The energy process is identical to that which
machine? occurs in the sun.
A. Elias Howe B. Energy is obtained by getting the nucleus of
B. Murray Spangler the atoms to break up or split.
C. Thomas Martin C. Matter from the lighter atoms is changed into
D. Leslie Large energy.
D. Scientists can combine lighter atoms to form
Question 43. Who invented the fountain pen? heavier atoms.
A. Lewis Waterman
B. Lazlo Biro Question 48. All of the following statements
about the routinary use of pesticides are TRUE,
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EXCEPT:
A. Due to the widespread use of DDT, a new type
of housefly emerged.
B. It results in the evolution of exciting new
types of organisms.
C. It may not only kill the intended insects but
also those that feed on them.
D. Pesticides tend to become progressively less
effective as the organisms become immune.

Question 49. The skull of a person increases in

size rapidly during _____.
A. puberty
B. babyhood
C. adolescence
D. adulthood

Question 50. Apparently, the loss of weight of

objects immersed in a fluid is due to ______.
A. Archimedes principle
B. Specific gravity
C. Newton’s theory
D. Buoyant force

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