KALASUNGAY NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

Grade 7
SCIENCE
Diagnostic Test

NAME: __________________________________________ Score ___________________

I. MULTIPLE CHOICE: Read the following items very carefully & encircle the letter of the correct answer.

1. A student conducted an experiment to see the effects of light intensity on the growth of a certain plant.
Which could be the independent, dependent, and control variables of his experiment?
a. height of the plant, light intensity, weight of the plant
b. height of the plant, light intensity, color of light used
c. light intensity, height of the plant, the amount of nutrients the plant receives
d. light intensity, size of leaves, the size of flower pots used
2. Which Fahrenheit temperature is twice the Celsius temperature?
a. 64 oF c. 320oF
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b. 200 F d. 546oF
3. Which of the following is arrange in an increasing order: 1.2m, 123 cm, 1180 mm
a. 1180 mm, 123 cm, 1.2 m
b. 1180 mm, 1.2 m, 123 cm
c. 1.2 m, 123 cm, 1180 mm
d. 1.2 m, 1180 mm, 123 cm
4. Why is arteries are thicker and more elastic than veins?
a. Veins return blood the heart against gravity.
b. Arteries contain a greater volume of blood.
c. Arteries have less smooth muscles than veins.
d. Arteries are under great pressure.
5. Which of the following is NOT a function of the nervous system?
a. receive sensory input c. perform information processing
b. cushion and protect soft tissue d. generate motor output
6. What do inspiration and expiration have in common?
a. They both use same pathways. c. They both conduct air from the outside.
b. The air travels in the same direction in both. d. They remove waste from the tissue.
7. When does the reproductive system begin to function fully?
a. at birth c. when puberty is complete
b. before puberty d. when there has been sexual intercourse
8. Where does absorption occur?
a. stomach c. large intestine
b. small intestine d. liver
9. What is the difference between weather and climate?
a. Weather is a local phenomenon, climate is regional.
b. Weather is a day-to-day phenomenon, climate is a long-term average.
c. Weather is the non-scientific term for climate.
d. There is no difference between the two.
10. Where does most of the earthquakes, volcanoes, and mountain belts of the Earth occur?
a. within tectonic plates far from the edges
b. in ocean basins
c. at the edges of tectonic plates
d. at zones where tectonic plates slide horizontally past each other
11. When does the gravitational attraction between the Moon, Sun, and the Earth will have the greatest effect
on the tides of the ocean?
a. full moon c. new moon
b. blue moon d. A and C
12. What types of rocks that is formed from material that melted deep in the Earth and crystallized at or just
below the surface?
a. sedimentary rocks c. faulted rocks
b. metamorphic rocks d. igneous rocks
13. What are two most abundant elements in the sun?
a. hydrogen and helium c. helium and neptunium
b. hydrogen and plutonium d. helium and uranium
14. What does the milky way look like on the night sky?
a. A spiral-shapes region of nebulosity.
b. A pale band of light scattered with stars that stretches across the sky.
c. A uniform scattering of stars throughout the sky.
d. The milky way is not visible from Earth without a telescope.
15. What is the interaction between abiotic factors and biotic factors of an environment?
a. symbiosis c. ecosystem
b. mutualism d. commensalism
16. Which of the following types of interaction is least likely to limit population size?
a. predation c. competition
b. commensalism d. parasitism
17. Which level in the food chain has the highest energy?
a. producer c. second order consumer
b. first order consumer d. third order consumer
18. Which is NOT an example of a chemical change?
a. water turning into ice
b. rust forming on an iron nail
c. a match burning
d. using baking soda and vinegar to simulate a volcanic eruption
19. Troy once went to the Moon to light a match there, but to his disappointment, it did not light.
Which of the following best explains why the match did not light?
a. There is no oxygen in the moon.
b. The heat generated by the friction between the match and the matchbox was insufficient.
c. The moon is a windy heavenly body.
d. The moon’s atmosphere is too humid for fire to start.
20. Ken left his glass of cold water outside for a few minutes. When he came back, there were droplets on the
glass. Where did the water droplets come from?
a. from the water inside the glass c. from the air outside the glass
b. from the glass d. from the Ken’s sweaty palms
21. A ball was released and let to roll on he floor; after some time, it stopped.
What was the responsible for this?
a. insufficient kinetic energy c. too much potential energy
b. friction d. gravity
22. Car A is moving in a circular path at constant speed, while car B is moving in a straight line at a constant
speed also. Which statement is correct about cars A and B?
a. Cars A and B are not accelerating
b. Car A is accelerating, car B is not
c. Cars A and B are accelerating
d. Car A is not accelerating, car B is.
23. Which form of energy is renewable and does NOT pollute the Earth’s environment?
a. solar energy c. nuclear energy
b. hydroelectric energy d. geothermal energy
24. What causes magma to rise to the surface?
a. Magma is less dense than rock. c. The rock forces the magma upward.
b. Magma is more dense than rock. d. A force pulls the magma upward.
25. Which of the following is least likely to be a volcano?
a. a vent where magma and other volcanic material is erupted
b. a hill with a crater formed at the site of an eruption
c. a hill capped by volcanic rocks.
d. a fissure that erupts hot, molten lava
26. Why air in the mountains does not absorb heat as well as air found at sea level?
a. The atmosphere and air is thinner.
b. The winds carry all the heat away.
c. The air is thicker and has more molecules.
d. The air is made of different kinds of molecules than the air at sea level.
27. What type of heat energy transfer produced by the sun reaches the Earth?
a. convection c. radiation
b. convection and radiation d. conduction
28. Which of the following process that creates energy on the sun?
a. fission c. blue shift
b. parallax d. fusion
29. How does lunar eclipse occur?
a. When the moon comes directly between the Sun and Earth
b. The Earth has moved along its orbit taking the Moon with it.
c. When the Moon moves through Earth’s shadow at full Moon.
d. When the Moon is directly on the opposite side of the Earth and Sun.
30. What kind of eclipse do we see when the moon is entirely within the Earth’s umbral shadow?
a. Partial lunar c. Total lunar
b. Total solar d. Partial solar
II. IDENTIFICATION (2pts. each) Identify the following. Write the letter of your choice on the space
provided.

a. Saturated f. Distillation k. Element

b. Solutions g. Mixtures l. Compounds
c. Solute h. Residue m. Periodic Table
d. Solvent i. Substance n. Anemia
e. Unsaturated j. Melting o. Electrolysis

_______1.They are homogeneous mixtures. It may be solids dissolved in liquids or gases dissolved in
liquids.
_______2. Combination of atoms which can be separated using chemical processes.
_______3. Commonly used method for purifying liquids and separating mixtures into their individual
components
_______ 4. A primary substance that cannot be separated into simpler materials.
_______ 5. A particular kind of matter that has uniform properties.
_______ 6. A solution contains less solute than it has the capacity to dissolve.
_______ 7. An arrangement of elements by increasing atomic number such that elements having similar
chemical behavior are grouped in vertical columns.
_______ 8. A solution that contains as much of the solute as it hold at a given temperature.
_______ 9. Sickness caused by a deficiency of iron.
_______ 10. A physical process that results in the phase transition of a substance from a solid to a liquid.
_______ 11.The component of a solution that is in lesser quantity. The substance being dissolve.
_______ 12. Aprocess wherein chemical changes occur when electrical energy is supplied externally.
_______ 13. The solid that is left behind after evaporation.
_______ 14. The component of a solution that is in greater amount.The dissolving substance of a
solution.
_______ 15. A physical combination of two or more substances on which the identities are retained and
are mixed in the form of solutions, suspensions, and colloids.

III. COMPLETE THE TABLE OF ELEMENTS(2pts. each)

Write the symbol of elements on the space provided.

Element Symbol Element Symbol

1. Calcium 9. Selenium

2. Copper 10. Magnesium

3. Sulfur 11. Potassium

4. Iodine 12. Chromium

5. Zinc 13. Sodium

6. Oxygen 14. Fluorine

7. Iron 15. Nitrogen

8. Hydrogen

IV. SEQUENCING (2pts. each)

Write the correct sequence –from smallest to biggest- of the levels of organization in an organism.

Prepared by:
SHERYL B. PALMA
Subject Teacher

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