Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Region VII (Central Visayas)
Schools Division of Bais City
DODONG ESCAÑO MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL
Sitio Cantugot, Sab-ahan, Bais City

1ST PERIODICAL TEST

SCIENCE 9

Directions: Read and understand each of the questions carefully. Write the letter
of the correct answer on your answer sheet.

1. What do you call the system in our body that is made up of organs that helps us to
breathe?
A. Respiratory System C. Circulatory System
B. Skeletal System D. Nervous System

2. What do you call the thin abdominal muscle that contracts and relaxes to help us take
in oxygen and breathe out carbon dioxide?
A. Nose B. Diaphragm C. Bronchioles D. Bronchi

3. Which of the following is NOT TRUE about the respiratory and circulatory system
working together? Both the respiratory and circulatory system______
A. work together in supplying oxygen to every part of the body.
B. help to excrete metabolic waste out from the body
C. transport nutrients to every part of the body.
D. None of the above

4. What do you call the hollow muscle that is as big as your fist and pumps blood all
throughout the body?
A. Lungs B. Nose C. Heart D. Blood

5. What do you call the blood component that functions for body defense?
A. Plasma B. Red Blood Cell C. White Blood Cell D. Platelets

6. Which of the following will result to a healthy and strong body?

A. Cigarette Smoking C. Balanced diet
B. Sleeping late D. Lack of exercise

7. What do you call the pattern of inheritance when more than two alleles control the
inheritance of a character?
A. Antigen B. Multiple alleles C. Codominance D. Incomplete dominance
8. Two dominant alleles of a contrasting pair fully expressed at the same time in the
heterozygous individual.
A. Gamete B. Codominance C. Incomplete dominance D. Sex-linked traits

9. The method by which one can determine the possible genotypes and phenotypes
when two parents are crossed.
A. Incomplete dominance B. Codominance C. Multiple alleles D. Punnett square

10. Occurs when the phenotype of the offspring is somewhere in between the
phenotypes of both parents, a completely dominant allele does NOT occur.
A. Gamete B. Codominance C. Incomplete dominance D. Punnett square

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11. What blood type (or types) can be found in an offspring if a mother has type O blood
and the father has type B blood?
A. B and O B. A only C. A, B and O D. A, B, AB and O

12. Baldness is an example of ______.

A. holandric gene B. X- linked gene C. sex- influenced trait D. polygene

13. A genetic characteristic associated with the expression of a trait in one sex is.
A. Sex – linked B. Autosomal C. gene linkage D. crossing- over

14. What chromosome must a sperm have to fertilize an egg and result to have a
female child?
A. Y B. X C. XY D. XX

15 . Hemophilia is a heredity X -linked recessive trait causes blood defect. If a female

carrier of hemophilia marries a male withnormal blood clotting, what percentage of the
female children will be hemophilia carrier?
Legend: XH - no hemophilia
Xh – has hemophilia
Y – male
Percentage: ________________________%

16. Sex- linked genetically inherited traits,

A. can appear in both males and females C. are only found in females
B. are only found in males D. result from premarital sexual intercourse

17. Which sex is more likely to experience color blindness?

A. male B. female C. both male and female D. none of the above

18. If someone has only X chromosome and no Y chromosomes in the somatic cells,
the individual must be,
A. female B. male C. both male and female D. none of the above

19. How many PAIRS sex chromosomes do humans have?

A. 23 B. 46 C. 1 D. 2

20. What is the genotype for females?

A. XY B. XX C. X D. XXYY

21. What is the genotype for males?

A. XY B. XX C. X D. XXYY

22. Pollutants dumped into the rivers and streams eventually find their way to
A. the ocean B. The atmosphere C. groundwater supplies D. back to the river

23. The average temperature of the earth’s atmosphere may rise as a result of
A. the greenhouse effect B. water pollution C. garbage dumping D. acid rain

24. What is the relationship between extinction and biodiversity?

A. Extinction contributes to a decrease in biodiversity.
B. Extinction contributes to the increase in biodiversity.
C. Extinction randomly changes biodiversity I one direction of the other.
D. extinction has no impact on biodiversity.

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25. About half of Earth’s biodiversity exists in its tropical rainforests. What does this
mean?
A. Tropical rainforests have more plants than animals.
B. Tropical rainforests have the greatest number of different species of any climate
region.
C. Tropical rainforests have more animals than plants.
D. Tropical rainforest have the greatest number of animals of any climate region.

26. What will happen to a species if none of the individuals within a particular species
can survive to reproduce?
A. They will increase in number.
B. They will become extinct.
C. They will adapt to a new environment.
D. They will evolve into a new species

27. What do you call the waxy layer that covers the leaf which prevents loss of water?
A. cuticle B. upper epidermis C. palisade layer D. stomata

28. What do you call the small slit-like pore that facilitates the exchange of gases and
giving off of water vapor?
A. cuticle B. upper epidermis C. palisade layer D. stomata

29. Which of the following is TRUE about the guard cells?

A. It regulated the opening and closing of the stomata.
B. This is where vascular bundles are found.
C. It facilitates the exchange of gases.
D. Photosynthesis usually happens in this region

30. It is a type of plastid that contains chlorophyll that absorb light energy.
A. chlorophyll B. chloroplast C. stroma D. stomata

31. Which of the following is NOT TRUE about photosynthesis?

A. The plant takes in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere through the stomata on its
leaves.
B. Plant roots are specially designed to draw water from the ground and transport it to
the plant leaves through the stem. 3. Chlorophyll, the green coloring matter.
C. The solar energy is used to break water down into hydrogen and oxygen.
D. None of the above

32. What are the factors that affect the rate of photosynthesis?
A. light, carbon dioxide, water, air
B. water, sand, fire, air
C. sun, air, water, environment
D. light, carbon dioxide, water, pollution
Prepared by:
KIMBERLY SHAIRA S. TANO
Science Teacher

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