SCIENCE 6 NAT REVIEWER 18. What is the common name of sodium chloride?

Answer: table salt

MATTER
19. What common compound that has a symbol of
1. What do you call when matter changes from liquid H2O?
to solid? Answer: water
Answer: freezing
20. What compound is CO2?
2. Changing matter from gas to liquid. Answer: carbon dioxide
Answer: condensation
21. What gas is used as a disinfectant in drinking
3. Changing matter from solid to gas water?
Answer: sublimation Answer: Chlorine

4. Changing matter from solid to liquid 22. What is the fermented juice of apples better known
Answer: melting (fusion) as?
Answer: cider
5. It is the smallest part of the property of a substance.
Answer: molecule 23. What kind of waste is capable of being slowly
destroyed and broken down into very small parts by
6. The study of the patterns of the movement of gases natural processes?
is called what? Answer: biodegradable
Answer: aerodynamics
24. It is the action or process of making land, water,
7. It is the number of protons in the nucleus of an air dirty and not safe or suitable to use.
atom Answer: pollution
Answer: atomic number
25. It is collecting, processing and manufacturing
8. What is the most abundant noble gas? materials instead of throwing them away.
Answer: argon Answer: Recycling

9. It is the substance that capable of destroying 26. It is a waste material that are recycled as fertilizer
bacteria. Answer: compost
Answer: antibiotic
27. It is the ability of a material to absorb water.
10. A BTU is the quantity of heat required to raise the Answer: Porosity
temperature of one pound of water one degree on
what temperature scale? 28. The ability or capability of a material to dissolve
Answer: Fahrenheit another material.
Answer: solubility
11. What is measured by the SI units Bar?
Answer: pressure 29. The dissolved substance in a solution.
Answer: solute
12. What is measure by the SI units Curie?
Answer: Activity of radionuclide 30. The dissolving substance in a solution
Answer: solvent
13. What is measured by barn? REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM
Answer: Area

1. It is a system that enables human being to

14. What is measured by calories? reproduce another human.
Answer: Energy Answer: Reproductive system

15. This gem stone is the softest of all precious 2. It is a process that makes possible the continuance
stones. What is this green stone that is composed of of life on Earth.
mineral beryl? Answer: reproduction
Answer: Emerald
3. A male reproductive organ where it produces
16. The atomic number of a chemical element refers sperms and the hormone testosterone.
to the number of what found in a nucleus of an atom? Answer: testis
Answer: Protons
4. A tube that circle the bladder and the excretory duct
17. What is the chemical symbol of lead? of testes.
Answer: Pb Answer: vas deferens
5. It is a sac-like pouch that supports the testes in
place.
Answer: scrotum
6. It is a sac that serves as the receptacle of the urine.
Answer: bladder
7. A gland that produces sperms with a fluid that
enables them to move.
Answer: seminal vesicle
8. It is the mixture of the sperm and fluid.
Answer: semen
9. The tube that carries urine out from the body and
also serves as an opening of the sperm.
Answer: urethra
10. The male reproductive organ
Answer: penis
11. It is a single cell with a head and a tail.
Answer: sperm
12. It is found at the top of each testis and where the
sperms are stored.
Answer: epididymis
13. It provide fluids that lubricate the duct system and
nourish the sperm.
Answer: prostate gland
14. What human stage on time of development when
a person become physically able to reproduce.
Answer: Puberty
15. It is a sex glands located in the pelvis, they
produce the ova and the sex cells of the female.
Answer: ovary
16. Where does fertilization takes place?
Answer: fallopian tube
17. What do you call when an egg or ovum from an
ovary is released about once a month?
Answer: ovulation
18. It is the finger-like extension of the fallopian tube
that drive the fertilized egg to the uterus.
Answer: fimbriae
19. It is a hollow, avocado-shaped muscular organ
with thick walls where a fertilized egg develops.
Answer: uterus
20. It is called the birth canal because when a baby is
to be born, it is where it passes.
Answer: vagina
21. It is the neck of the uterus.
Answer: cervix
22. It is the union of the sperm and egg cell.
Answer: fertilization
23. What do you call the fertilized egg?
Answer: zygote
24. What do you call the period of time when the
zygote undergoes development for nine months in the
uterus and until the birth of the baby?
Answer: pregnancy
25. It refers to an unborn child during the first two
months of pregnancy.
Answer: embryo
26. What do you call the protective membrane that
surrounds the embryo?
Answer: amniotic sac
27. It is a clear fluid filled in the amniotic sac that
protects the embryo against harm and keeps the
embryo moist.
Answer: amniotic cord
28. What cord connects the embryo to the placenta?
Answer: umbilical cord
29. Nutrients and oxygen pass from the mother to the
embryo through the __________.
Answer: placenta
30. In what week of the pregnancy when the embryo
develops tiny arm and legs with fingers and toes?
Answer: 6th-7th weeks
31. What do you call the embryo after the two months
of pregnancy and the body organ are now present?
Answer: fetus
32. It is a series of changes during which an egg
matures and the uterus is prepared for possible
pregnancy.
Answer: menstrual cycle
33. It happens when the uterine lining begins to break
down and the blood with some uterine tissue and
unfertilized egg make their way out through the
vagina.
Answer: menstruation flow
34. How many hours a sperm can survived?
Answer: 24-48 hours
35. It refers to the lining of the uterus that becomes
thicker in preparation for implantation of the fertilized
egg.
Answer: endometrium
36. It is the female gonad where the egg is produced.
Answer: ovary
37. How many chromosomes are in the nucleus of a
human sperm?
Answer: 23 chromosomes
38. Sex determination of a child is done by whose
chromosome?
Answer: Father Answer: mucus

39. It is the male gametes. 13. Tiny hair-like structure that trap the bacteria in the
Answer: Testicles trachea
Answer: mucous membrane and cilia
40. A walnut sized glands located between the
bladder and the penis, it secretes fluid that nourishes 14. The flow of air to the lungs
and protects sperm. Answer: nostrils-nasal cavity-pharynx-trachea-
Answer: prostate bronchus- bronchiole- alveoli

41. The female gametes is ___. 15. What do you call the division of the lungs?
Answer: ovaries Answer: lobes

16. It is a thin membrane that surrounds the lungs.

Answer: pleura

17. Bones that protect the lungs

Answer: rib cage
RESPIRATORY SYSTEM
18. How many pairs of rib cage that protect the lungs?
Answer: 12 pairs
1. The system that helps a person breathe in oxygen
and breathe out carbon dioxide. 19. A dome-shaped muscle that works with the lungs
Answer: respiratory system to allow breathing in and breathing out.
Answer: diaphragm
2. Where does the exchange of oxygen and carbon
dioxide happens in human body?
Answer: alveoli 20. What is the first apparatus used for breathing
underwater?
3. It is the opening in our nose where air enters. Answer: diving bell
Answer: nostrils
21. What is the first safe underwater breathing
4. It is where the air gets moistened and warmed as it device?
enters in the nostrils. Answer: aqualung
Answer: Nasal Cavity
22. A disease in which the alveoli in the lungs lose
5. It is a tiny hair-like structure that traps the air their ability to expand and contract.
against impurities. Answer: emphysema
Answer: cilia
23. A disease in which too much mucus is produce in
6. A tube-like passage for both food and air that found the bronchial tubes.
between the nasal cavity and esophagus. Answer: chronic bronchitis
Answer: pharynx
24. It is an ailment caused by a virus on which there is
7. It is a flap of tissue found at the end of the pharynx swelling of the mucus membrane of the respiratory
that closes over the larynx when we swallow. passages.
Answer: epiglottis Answer: colds

8. It is where the vocal chords attached that produce 25. Swelling of the lungs that caused by a virus and
sounds when we speak. bacteria
Answer: larynx Answer: Pneumonia

9. An organ below the larynx which is a 12cm long 26. A communicable disease caused by the bacteria a
tube and made up of C-shaped rings of cartilage. mycobacterium tuberculosis.
Answer: trachea Answer: pulmonary tuberculosis

10. Branch of trachea that carry air into the lungs. 27. How many receptors in your nose?
Answer: bronchi Answer: atleast 10 million

11. It is a cluster of tiny thin-walled sacs found at the 28. What is behind your nose and connects with the
end of each bronchioles. back of the throat?
Answer: alveoli Answer: Nasal Cavity

12. Substance that produced by the lining of the nasal

cavity
29. What moves back and forth to move the mucus
out of the sinuses and the back if the nose? 10. What is the main excretory organ?
Answer: Cilia Answer: kidney

30. This icky stuff, also known as boogers, helps 11. Where does the filtration of blood in the kidney
capture dust, germs and small particles. take place?
Answer: Mucus Answer: Bowman’s capsule

31. These are sensitive to odor molecules and help 12. It is a waste product excreted through the urinary
the brain recognize smells? system.
Answer: receptors Answer: Urine

32. It is made out of thin pieces of bone that separates 13. Cystitis is the infection of ________.
the nasal passages. Answer: Urinary bladder
Answer: Septum
14. What tube connects the kidney to the bladder?
33. What do you call the two holes in the nose? Answer: Ureter
Answer: Nostrils
15.
34. What part of the human anatomy that known as
“voice box”?
Answer: larynx
DIGESTIVE SYSTEM
35. Where in the human body do alveoli found?
Answer: lungs 1. The process of breaking up and dissolving the food
so that it ca be taken into the blood to be used by the
36. body.
Answer: digestion

2. Where does digestion begin?

Answer: mouth

3. It is a digestive juice which is secreted by the three

URINARY SYSTEM pairs of salivary glands that empty into the mouth.
Answer: saliva

1. It is a system of excretory organs that rids blood of 4. It is the front teeth with sharp edges for biting and
wastes, excess water and excess salt. cutting the food.
Answer: Urinary System Answer: Incisors

2. Two bean-shaped organs that filter blood to
produce waste liquid called urine.
Answer: kidneys
3. Where does blood enters going to the kidney?
Answer: renal artery
4. Where does blood pass as it leaves the kidney?
Answer: renal vein
5. It is a tiny filtering unit of the kidney that rids blood
of waste liquid called urine.
Answer: nephron
6. It holds the urine until it leaves the body.
Answer: bladder
5. It is the pointed teeth which grip and tear the food.
Answer: Canines
6. The teeth that crushed and grind the food
Answer: Premolars
7. It is the flat teeth used for chewing the food.
Answer: Molars
8. It is a is a long muscular tube that connects the
pharynx to the throat to the stomach.
Answer: Esophagus
9. A rhythmically movement that contracts to move the
food through the digestive system. Answer:
Peristalsis

7. It carries urine to the outside of the body.
Answer: urethra
8. It connects the kidney to the urinary bladder.
Answer: ureters
9. It helps a defective kidney filter the blood.
Answer: dialysis
10. It is a large J-shaped organ at the end of the
esophagus, on the left side of the body.
Answer: Stomach
11. It is a muscle found at the end of the stomach that
closes and opens to allow the flow of from the
esophagus to the stomach.
Answer: Sphincter muscle
 Answer: Frenulum
12. It is the long coiled connected from the stomach. 29. What substance in the mouth that helps break
Answer: Small intestine down food?
There are three parts of the Small Intestine: Answer: Saliva
 Duodenum – the upper 20 cm. connected to
the stomach 30. _____ contains taste buds.
 Jejunum – is about 2.5 meters long. Answer: Papillae
 Ileum – is the longest half coiled through the
31. It is the bumps on the top of the tongue.
abdominal cavity Answer: Papillae
 The last 20 or 30 centimeters of the colon are
called rectum. 32. What organ in the digestive system that is
responsible for Vitamin B and K absorption?
13. The softened food is rolled into a ball called the Answer: Large intestine
bolus and is pushed by the tongue into the throat.
33. Where do excess fat soluble vitamins typically
14. How long is an adult’s small intestine? accumulated?
Answer: 22 feet Answer: Liver
15. Where does bile made/ production of bile? 34. What enzyme contains in saliva which acts on
Answer: Liver starches and changes them into sugar?
Answer: ptyalin
16. Your food can spend up to this long in the small
intestine. 35. What is the strong muscle that helps the teeth in
Answer: 4 hours digestion?
Answer: tongue
17. The large intestine measures about ___.
Answer: 5 feet long 36. How many permanent teeth does an adult have?
Answer: 32
18. What are the last four teeth a person will get? 37. It is the passageway of food from the pharynx.
Answer: Wisdom teeth Answer: esophagus
19. What kind of teeth do babies have? 38. It is the passage of air in the pharynx.
Answer: Primary Answer: windpipe
20. What makes up the roots of your teeth and 39. It is a squeezing movement of muscles which help
attaches to your jawbone? the food moves from the esophagus towards the
Answer: Cementum stomach.
Answer: peristalsis
21. What innermost part of the tooth does the dentin
protect? 40. What lined in the walls of the small intestines that
Answer: pulp separate the food nutrients ready to be absorbed by
the walls from the foods that is not yet ready.
22. What hard, tough and shiny substances cover the Answer: villi
crown?
Answer: Enamel 41. It is the undigested food that becomes a soft solid.
Answer: feces
23. What is the part of the tooth you can see above
the gum? 42. The lowest end of the large intestine and when
Answer: crown feces pass out of the body.
Answer: Rectum
25. What tiny hairs send messages to the brain that
help identify tastes? 43. What is the largest gland in the body that
Answer: Microvilli produces a bile.
Answer: liver
26. How many taste buds does a man has when he
was born? 44. It breaks the fats into tiny droplets.
Answer: 10 thousand Answer: bile
27. The back section of the tongue that is part of the 45. Where does bile stored?
immune system. Answer: gall bladder
Answer: Lingual tonsil
46. The organ that produces juice that digest sugars,
28. This is the thin membrane that connects your starches, proteins, fats and insulin
tongue to the bottom of your mouth.
Answer: pancreas 1. It is the bone that protects the brain.
Answer: cranium/skull
47. It is produced by the pancreas that helps control
the use of sugar by the body. 2. What is the smallest bone in the body?
Answer: insulin Answer: Stirrup

48. What is the hardest material in the body? 3. It is the part where bones meet.
Answer: enamel Answer: Joints

49. Layer of the teeth that is harder than the bone but 4. How many bones that an adult has?
softer than the enamel. Answer: 206 bones
Answer: dentin
5. What do you call the bones in your spine?
50. What is the center of the tooth that contains the Answer: Vertebrae
nerves and blood vessels?
Answer: soft pulp 6. Where does the patella located?
Answer: Knee
51. What chemical helps to make the teeth harder?
Answer: fluoride 7. What’s in the center of the bone?
Answer: Bone marrow
52. It is a yellow or brownish material formed from
saliva and food that sticks below the gums and 8. What age does your bone stop growing?
becomes hard. Answer: 25 yrs. Old
Answer: tartar
9. How many bones are in the spine?
53. What kind of doctor you need to consult when your Answer: 33
teeth are poorly aligned, badly spaced or prodding?
Answer: orthodontist 10. What bone protect the lungs, heart and liver?
Answer: rib cage
54. The liver secrets bile which flows through ducts
and into what pear shaped muscular sac? 11. Which part of the ear takes soundwaves and turns
Answer: gall bladder them into vibration?
Answer: middle ear
55. How many incisor teeth are there in a full set of
adult teeth? 12. What tiny bone is attached to the eardrum?
Answer: 8 Answer: Malleus

56. In the normal adult human, how many bicuspids 13. What is the most delicate bones in your body
are there? called?
Answer: 8 Answer: Ossicles

57. The organ that controls the level of glucose in our 14. It separates the outer ear from the middle ear?
bodies. Answer: Eardrum
Answer: pancreas
15. What part of the ear that is responsible for the
58. What canal is travelled in digestion? popping sensation you feel when you’re flying in an
Answer: alimentary canal airplane?
Answer: Eustachian tube
59. Where do digestion most occur?
Answer: small intestine 16. Which part of the ear do people pierce to wear
earrings?
60. How many teeth should a human adult have, Answer: Auricle or Pinna
including wisdom tooth?
Answer: 32 17. What name is given to the 33 bones that make up
a person’s spine or spinal cord.
61. It makes insulin to help digest and use glucose. Answer: vertebrae
Answer: pancreas
18. What is the longest bone in the human body?
62. It refers to the secretion of substance or hormones Answer: Femur
in the bloodstream.
Answer: Endocrine 19. Where is the largest bone in the body found?
Answer: in the legs
SKELETAL SYSTEM
20. A bone is joined to a muscle by what structure?
Answer: tendon
 Answer: Brain
21. What is the common name for the scapula?
Answer: shoulder blade 13. The brain of an adult human weighs about
______.
22. What is protected by the cranium? Answer: 2.5 to 3 pounds
Answer: brain
14. It is the largest part of the brain.
23. An injury to a ligament caused by excessive Answer: cerebrum
stretching.
Answer: Sprain 15. It receives, stores and recalls all the information
the body picks up. Cognitive processes such as
24. It is a break in the bone. thinking, memorizing and decision making occur in the
Answer: Fracture outer gray part of the cerebrum, what do you call this
part?
25. It is a strong muscle contraction that is very Answer: cerebral cortex
painful.
Answer: Cramp 16. What part of the brain controls muscle
coordination and balance?
26. Answer: cerebellum

17. It orders and processes split second actions and

NERVOUS SYSTEM reactions. It is called “little brain” because it brings
all of the muscle actions together.
1. The system that controls everything you do. Answer: cerebellum
Answer: Nervous system
18. The hind part of the brain that holds the medulla
2. Which part of the body that is the control center of oblongata and the pons.
the nervous system? Answer: brain stem
Answer: Brain
19. Found in the brain stem that transmits signals
3. A typical brain weighs how much? between the spinal cord and the brain.
Answer: 3 pounds (1.4 kg)
Answer: medulla oblongata
4. What is the biggest part of the brain?
Answer:

5. Which part of the brain helps keep your balance so

you don’t fall?
Answer:
6. Which part of the brain keeps you breathing?
Answer:
7. It is a microscopic cell that creates connections or
pathways.
Answer: neurons
8. Your emotions are believed to come from ______.
Answer: Amygdala
9. It is the part of the brain acts like switchboard that
allows the communication from the brain to the other
parts of the nervous system.
Answer: Midbrain
10. What makes up 80% of the human brain?
Answer: water
11. It is the organ which receives, processes and
stores information from inside and outside the body. It
decides what to do with the received information and
sends signals to the body to react, decide or move.
Answer: Brain
20. Part of the brain that controls autonomic or
involuntary functions such as heartbeat and breathing.
Answer: Medulla Oblongata
21. It is partly made up of tracts that connect the
spinal cord with higher brain levels. It also contains
cell groups that transfer information from the cerebrum
to the cerebellum.
Answer: Pons
22. The wrinkled folds of the brain are called
_____________.
Answer: gyri or convolutions
23. Heartbeat is controlled by the ________.
Answer: Medulla Oblongata
24. It is the downward extension of the brain.
Answer: Spinal Cord
25. This are bundles of fibers (axons) from neurons
and which are held together by connective tissue.
Answer: Nerves
26. It is the basic unit of the nervous system.
Answer: neuron

12. It is the seat of human intelligence.

27. Fibers of nerve cells that pick up information from 39. What part of the midbrain that regulates body
the receptors. (Receptors are parts of the body, either functions such as thirst, hungers, sleep patterns and
nerves or sense organs, that can pick up stimuli from emotions?
the environment or from within the body). Answer: hypothalamus
Answer: dendrites
40. What is the main endocrine gland that is located at
28. What contains the nucleus of the cell as well as the base of the brain?
other structures that help keep the cell alive? Answer: Pituitary gland
Answer: cell body
41. What part of the neuron carries messages to the
29. Where do information received by the dendrites go cell body?
after? Answer: dendrites
Answer: cell body
42. What part of the neuron carries messages away
30. What is the gap or space between axon and from the cell body?
dendrites called? Answer: axon
Answer: synapse

31. _________ is an infection of the fluid of a person’s

spinal cord and the fluid that surrounds the brain. 43. Sensory messages are taken to the brain by
_________.
Answer: Meningitis Answer: nerves and hormones

44. A large ductless gland in the neck that makes

hormones to regulate growth and development
32. Buboy was 2 years old when he started having through the rate of metabolism.
seizures. Without warning, he would just fall to the Answer: Thyroid Gland
ground and his body would start convulsing.
Afterwards he would lose consciousness and wake up 45. The glands that control the calcium in our bodies?
after several minutes. What chronic disorder of the Answer: Parathyroid gland
function of the cerebrum is this?
Answer: epilepsy 46. Located on top of each kidney, produce hormone
that you can’t live without including sex hormones and
33. It is a degenerative disease of nerve cells in the cortisol
cerebral cortex that often characterized as the lapses Answer: Adrenal
of memory?
Answer: Alzheimer’s disease 47.

34. Muhammad Ali was a world-famous boxer. After

he retired, he developed constant trembling of his
hands. He also experiences tremors in his legs which
make him walk and move very slowly. What is this
progressive disorder in which the chemicals that INTEGUMENTARY SYSTEM
facilitate electrical transmission between neurons are
defected? 1. What do you call the natural oil in the skin?
Answer: Sebum
Answer: Parkinson’s disease
2. Each hair on your body grows out of a tiny tube in
35. What chemical substance do synapse released? the skin called ____.
Answer: Follicle
Answer: neurotransmitter
3. What gives the skin color?
36. Anything that the receptors of the sense organ Answer: Melanin
collect from the environment called what?
Answer: stimuli 4. What is the outermost layer of the skin?
Answer: Epidermis
37. What neurons gather information from the sense
organs and send impulses to the spinal cord and brain 5. What is the body’s largest organ?
for processing? Answer: skin
Answer: sensory neurons
6. When a nail curves down into the skin as it grows,
38. What neurons carry impulses from the brain or causing pain and infection, it is called ___.
spinal cord to the muscles? Answer: Ingrown nail
Answer: motor neurons
7. What it is called when a loose strip of dead skin
hangs from the edge of your fingernails? 4. What organ pumps blood to the different parts of
Answer: Hangnail the body.
Answer: heart
8. Where does the nail meet the skin?
Answer: cuticle 5. The system that considered as the main transport
of the body.
9. Nail start growing from the ___. Answer: circulatory system
ANSWER: Nail root
6. How big is human’s heart?
10. On your nail, what is the pale half-circle part above Answer: human’s fist
the cuticle?
Answer: Lunula 7. It is a very thin but very strong sac that enclosed
the heart.
11. What does the nails made out of? Answer: pericardium or pericardial sac
Answer: Keratin
8. It is the chamber of the heart with thicker walls
16. Why do you get goosebumps when you’re cold? because it pumps blood to the different part of the
Answer: Pilomotor reflex body.
Answer: ventricles
17. What is the deepest layer of the skin?
Answer: subcutaneous fatty tissue 9. What chamber of the heart receives oxygen-rich
oxygen from the lungs?
18. It refers to the moisture produce by sweat glands. Answer: left auricle
Answer: perspiration
10. What is the alternating relaxation and contraction
19. It is the inflammation of the sebaceous glands due of the heart?
to increase oil production in the skin. Answer: cardiac cycle
Answer: acne
11. What is the muscular wall that completely
20. What is the thickest layer of the skin? separates the left and right chambers of the heart?
Answer: dermis Answer: septum

21. What layer of the skin that produce sebum the 12. It is the specialized region of the heart that makes
natural oil that lubricates the skin? sure that the heart never skips a beat?
Answer: dermis Answer: pacemaker

13. What circulatory circuit that transport blood

22. What disorder when a man’s skin has very little between the heart and the lungs?
melanin that cause the skin looks very white and have Answer: pulmonary circuit
blonde hair.
Answer: Albinism 14. The circulatory circuit that transport or carries
blood between the heart and the rest of the body and
23. It is the part of the nails that connects the skin? back to the heart.
Answer: cuticle Answer: systemic circuit

24. What is the meaning of the scientific suffix –derm? 15. How many liters of blood that an average healthy
Answer: skin person has?
Answer: 4.5 to 6 liters

16. It is a protein-rich fluid and that consists of plasma,

CIRCULATORY SYSTEM RBC, WBC and platelets?
Answer: Blood
1. It is the movement of the blood as it distributes food
and oxygen to the cells of the body and remove waste 17. It is 55% of the blood volume, 90% water and 10%
material form them solute.
Answer: circulation Answer: Plasma

2. It is the fluid component that circulates throughout 18. The most abundant cells in the blood that contains
the body, carries nutrients to the cells and delivers hemoglobin.
oxygen in the tissue. Answer: Red Blood cells
Answer: Blood
19. What is the other name of red blood cells?
3. A tube-like structure where blood travels. Answer: Erythrocytes
Answer: Blood vessels
20. It gives red color of the blood. 37. It is the introduction of blood of a blood donor to
Answer: hemoglobin the blood stream of a recipient.
Answer: Blood transfusion
21. Where does hemoglobin produced?
Answer: Red marrow of flat bones 38. Who performed the first human to human blood
transfusion?
22. It is the composition of blood that also known as Answer: Jean-Baptiste Denis
leukocytes.
Answer: White blood cells 39. It is a specialized protein secretes by lymphocytes
that help protect the body against foreign bodies.
23. They are the soldiers of the body because they Answer: antibodies
fight infections.
Answer: White blood cells 40. It is a sudden rise in blood pressure.
Answer: hypertension
24. It is a yellowish liquid consisting of dead WBC,
bacteria and other foreign materials in the blood. 41. A disease occur when there is an increase in white
Answer: pus blood cell.
Answer: leukemia
25. The smallest elements in the blood that play an
important role in blood clotting. 42. It occurs when a blood clot or fat get lodged in
Answer: Platelets blood vessels.
Answer: heart attack
26. The protein that platelets release when there is cut
or damage in the blood vessels. 43. It happens when a blood clot blocks an artery in
Answer: fibrin the brain and reduces the blood supply.
Answer: stroke
27. It is a jelly-like red mass fibrin.
Answer: clot 44. It is a condition caused by fat or cholesterol
deposit in the aerial wall.
28. Who first discovered blood circulation? Answer: Atherosclerosis
Answer: Dr. William Harvey
45. It is a protein in the blood, primarily carries oxygen
29. The passageways of blood throughout the body.
Answer: Blood vessels Answer: hemoglobin

30. Blood vessels that carry blood away from the 46. What bacteria caused rheumatic fever.
heart. Answer: streptococcus bacteria
Answer: arteries
47. What is the largest artery where oxygen-rich blood
31. Blood vessels that carry blood toward the heart from the heart flows?
Answer: veins Answer: Aorta

32. Blood vessels that allow the exchange of nutrients, 48. A hereditary blood disorder wherein blood clots
gases and wastes in the cells of the body. very slowly affecting only males but transmitted in
Answer: capillaries genes of females.
Answer: Hemophilia
33. Which vitamin is primarily responsible for blood
clotting? 49. What blood cells that defend our bodies against
Answer: Vitamin K illnesses?
Answer: white blood cells
34. It is the exerted force as the blood flows inside the
walls of the blood vessels 50.How many coronary arteries has a human heart?
Answer: blood pressure Answer: 2

35. Instrument that measured blood pressure quickly 51. What is the name of the main artery that carries
and easily. blood from the heart?
Answer: sphygmomanometer Answer: Aorta

36. Blood pressure 120/90
120 (systolic pressure) – higher pressure of the
heart that occurs during contraction of the ventricles
90 (diastolic pressure) – low pressure of the heart
that occurs when relaxed
52. Where are red blood cells made?
Answer: bone marrow
53. When a physician puts a stethoscope to your
chest, two sounds are heard. What sounds represents
the opening and closing of the valves?
Answer: lub-dub, lub-dub
 7. It is a water-soluble vitamin found in fruits and leafy
54. Why do blood cells do not shrink in blood? vegetables and is also called as ascorbic acid.
Answer: Because blood is isotonic Answer: Vitamin C

55. Blood vessels that allows the exchange of 8. A prolonged deficiency of Vitamin C in the diet
nutrients, gases and waste in the cells of the body. causes what disease?
Answer: capillaries Answer: Scurvy

56. It is the inflammation of the lungs. 9. It is an ailment that can develop from low red blood
Answer: Pneumonia cells count or deficiency in hemoglobin.
Answer: Anemia
57.
10. What is the protein food found in milk?
Answer: Casein

11. What is the cheapest source of Vitamin D?

Answer: Sunlight/Morning Sunshine

SENSES 12. What is the scientific name of guava?

Answer: Psidium guajava
1. Part of the eyes which focuses on the retina.
Answer: lens 13. The package of simple ready-to-cook foods
designed as a supplement to the usual diet of the child
2. “Baby teeth” are also known as deciduous teeth. is called what?
How many deciduous teeth does the average person Answer: Nutri-Pak
develop when young?
Answer: 20 14. What severe form of child malnutrition is caused
by inadequate intake of protein?
3. What is the colored part around the pupil of the Answer: Kwashiorkor
eye?
Answer: iris 15. It refers to the food that a person usually
consumes.
4. What is the strongest muscle in the body? Answer: Diet
Answer: tongue
16. This vitamin is extracted from liver which is
essential for red blood cell formation.
Answer: Vitamin B12/Cyanocobalamin
NUTRITION RELATED QUESTIONS
17. It is a relapse or recurrence of an illness or
1. It makes up most of your blood and help carry disease.
oxygen and food to the cells in your body. It helps Answer: Palindromia
your body get rid of wastes through urine and sweat.
Answer: Water 18. It is the scientific regulation of diet in treating
disease.
2. What food nutrient is our body’s main source of Answer: Dietotherapy
energy?
Answer: Carbohydrates 19. Any substance that nourishes a person to enable
him to live and grow.
3. They are very important for building strong bones. Answer: Food
Answer: Calcium
20. It is a condition characterized by sleepiness,
4. It is a degenerative brain disorder that causes a indifference, and lack of energy.
gradual and irreversible decline in memory and Answer: Lethargy
eventually, the ability to care for oneself.
Answer: Alzheimer’s disease 21. ____________ is a metabolism of fat.
Answer: Lipometabolism
5. It is a dietary-deficiency disease resulting from
inadequate intake of niacin. 22. _____________ is caused by lack of calories or
Answer: Pellagra inadequate amount of food.
Answer: Marasmus
6. An irregularity in the rhythm of the heartbeat is
referred to as what? 23. It is a type of cancer of the blood characterized by
Answer: Arrhythmia an abnormal increase of immature white blood
cells called “blasts“.
Answer: Leukemia
 Answer: Lactose
24. The slowness of heart rate is referred to as what?
Answer: Bradycardia 40. These refers to the substances obtained from food
and used in the body to provide energy and structural
25. The first secretion from the mother’s breast is rich materials and to regulate growth, maintenance and
in antibodies and minerals. This is produced after repair of the body’s tissue.
giving birth and before the production of true milk. It Answer: Nutrients
provides newborns with immunity to infections.
Answer: Colostrum 41. __________ is a chronic disease characterized by
excessively high body fat in relation to lean body
26. These are the “building blocks” of protein which is tissue.
an integral part of all body tissues especially muscle. Answer: Obesity
Answer: Amino Acids
42. It is an excess of body weight that includes fat,
27. It is the enlargement of the thyroid gland bone, and muscle.
appearing as a swelling of the front of the neck. Answer: Overweight
Answer: Goiter
43. What is the general term for the people who
28. It helps prevent goiter. exclude meat, poultry, fish, or other animal-derived
Answer: Iodine foods from their diets?
Answer: Vegetarians
29. This refers to the ease with which nutrients,
particularly minerals, can be absorbed from the 44. These are organic, essential nutrients required
digestive tract and utilized by the body. only in small amounts.
Answer: Bio-availability/Bioavailability Answer: Vitamins

30. ___________ is a term to describe minerals that
are attached to other molecules such as proteins or
carbohydrates and used to improve the bio-availability
of minerals.
Answer: Chelates
31. These are the building blocks of fats and oils.
Answer: Fatty Acids
32. It refers to the study of measurement of the
physical characteristics of the body such as height
and weight.
Answer: Anthropometry
45. ________ is a guideline for the amount of energy
and selected nutrients considered adequate to meet
the nutrient needs of practically all healthy people.
Answer: Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDA)
46. It is the breaking down of foodstuffs in the body
into a form that can be absorbed and used or
excreted.
Answer: Digestion
47. It is the state of being healthy and fit, gaining all
nutrients.
Answer: Wellness

33. It is the pressure of the blood on the walls of the 48. It is a lack of adequate fluids in the body.
arteries. Answer: Dehydration
Answer: Blood Pressure
49. It is a deficiency in blood where iron level intake is
34. _________ is the rate of energy used for too low.
metabolism when the body is at complete rest. Answer: Anemia
Answer: Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR)
50. These are foods that are supplemented with
35. It is an eating disorder characterized by binge essential nutrients in quantities greater than already
eating, sometimes followed by vomiting or purging. present.
Answer: Bulimia Answer: Fortified Foods

36. What is the natural stimulant found in coffee, tea, 51. How do you call a healthcare professional with
and chocolate? training in nutrition and diet planning?
Answer: Caffeine Answer: Dietician/Dietitian

37. It is the unit of heat and the measurement of 52. _______ is the science that deals with foods and
energy. their effects on health.
Answer: Calorie Answer: Nutrition

38. ___________ is a monosaccharide, sometimes 53. ________ is a drug or remedy used for treating
known as blood sugar. illness.
Answer: Glucose Answer: Medicine

39. It is the main carbohydrate in milk.

54. It is a lack of healthy foods in the diet, or an 71. Who was the Philippine President who declared
excessive intake of unhealthy foods, leading to July as a month of nutrition?
physical harm. Answer: Ferdinand E. Marcos
Answer: Malnutrition
72. This is often marketed as “superfruits” being rich in
55. What is the best way to determine the nutritional vitamins A and C.
status of an individual? Answer: Guava
Answer: Weighing
73. It is an agency of the Philippine government
56. What substance are nails made of? under the Department of Health responsible for
Answer: Keratin creating a conducive policy environment for national
and local nutrition planning, implementation,
57. Dairy products are generally made from what monitoring and evaluation, and surveillance using
common liquid? state-of the art technology and approaches.
Answer: Milk Answer: National Nutrition Council (NNC)

58. He is a Polish-American chemist considered as 74. It is a medical condition in which the eye fails to
the “Father of Vitamin Therapy” and was the first to produce tears caused by a deficiency in vitamin A.
coin the term “vitamin” as vital factors in the diet. Answer: Xerophthalmia
Answer: Casimir Funk
75. He is referred to as the “Father of Medicine”.
59. It is the only sugar manufactured my mammals. Answer: Hippocrates
Answer: Lactose
76. _______ is a thiamine-deficiency disease.
60. Axerophthol is the same as what vitamin? Answer: Beriberi
Answer: Vitamin A
77. What Presidential Decree, known as the “Nutrition
61. It is a malignant growth of cells. Act of the Philippines” which created the National
Answer: Cancer Nutrition Council (NNC) as the highest policy-making
on nutrition, was promulgated on 1974?
62. Cardiopathy is known to be as what sort of Answer: P.D. 491
disease? 78. What Executive Order, which named the
Answer: Heart Disease Department of Health as the chair of the NNC?
Answer: Executive Order No. 472
63. It is a disease caused by a deficiency of Vitamin
D. 79. What is the process of removing harmful
Answer: Rickets pathogens from various types of food.
Answer: Pasteurization
64. What vitamin is a viosterol?
Answer: Vitamin D2 80. It protects the child from measles and is given only
once as early as nine months.
65. What nutrient is needed as the main structural Answer: Measles Vaccine
component of the body?
Answer: Protein 81. It protects the unborn child from the tetanus and is
given to the mother twice.
66. What vitamin helps in blood clotting and is known Answer: Tetanus Toxoid
as naphthoquinone?
Answer: Vitamin K 82. It is the current vaccine for tuberculosis.
Answer: Bacillus Calmette Guerin (BCG)
67. What vitamin is needed for a healthy immune
system and strong connective tissue? 83. What is the substance found in colostrum that
Answer: Vitamin C/Ascorbic Acid fights against infection and creates antibodies that
stimulates immunity?
68. It is also known as tocopherol and is necessary for Answer: Immunoglobulin
normal reproduction.
Answer: Vitamin E 84. ________ is a hidden hunger.
Answer: Malnutrition
69. What is the cheapest source of iodine in our
household? 85. It is also called “Night Blindness” and is a poor
Answer: Iodized salt vision in relatively low light.
Answer: Nyctalopia
70. What fruit is an alligator pear?
Answer: Avocado 86. Malunggay have different parts. One of these is
the fruit/seed. For what is the use of this fruit/seed?
Answer: Arthritis
87. _________ is slowness in eating.
Answer: Bradyphagia
88. A person who stores too much sugar in the body
may suffer from ___________.
Answer: Diabetes
89. Who discovered the vitamin D and the role of the
vitamin in preventing rickets?
Answer: Edward Mellanby
90. What is the medical term for the inflammation of
the protective membranes covering the brain and
spinal cord, known collectively as the meninges?
Answer: Meningitis
91. ____________ is a great toe displacement toward
other toes.
Answer: Hallux varus
92. This disease happens when the flow of oxygen-
rich blood to a section of heart muscle suddenly
becomes blocked and the heart can’t get oxygen.
Answer: Heart Attack
93. It is a part of the vitamin B complex, which is vital
for red blood cells, and thus used in the treatment of
pernicious and macrocytic anemia and gastrointestinal
disorders.
Answer: Folic Acid / Folacin / Folate / vitamin M /
vitamin B9 / vitamin Bc
94. _________ means hernia of the stomach.
Answer: Gastrocele
95. _________ is any illness resulting from the
consumption of contaminated food or foods which
contain poisonous substances.
Answer: Food Poisoning
96. What is the stable food of Filipinos that is served
every meal?
Answer: Rice
97. When protein reaches the intestines for it to be
digested, in what unit is it broken?
Answer: Amino Acid
98. It is a statement or information on food labels
indicating the nutrient(s) and the quantity of said
nutrient found or added in the processed foods or food
products.
Answer: Nutrition Facts
99. ________ is the addition of nutrients to processed
foods or food products at levels above the natural
state.
Answer: Fortification / Food Fortification
100. This is a strategy to encourage food
manufacturers to fortify processed foods or food
products with essential nutrients at levels approved by
the Department of Health (DOH).
Answer: Sangkap Pinoy Seal Program
101. It is the process of introducing vaccine into the
body to stimulate the formation of antibodies which
fight germs that cause diseases.
Answer: Immunization
102. What do you call the medical condition in which a
person’s spine is curved from side to side?
Answer: Scoliosis
103. What is the act establishing the Philippine Food
Fortification Program?
Answer: R.A. 8976
104. This results from a disproportion among essential
nutrients with or without the absolute deficiency of any
nutrients.
Answer: Imbalance
105. What is the other name for vetsin, which we
usually used in cooking that give flavor to the foods
we eat?
Answer: Monosodium glutamate / Sodium
glutamate
106. ________ is a substance formed by protein in the
blood that is used by the immune system to identify
and neutralize foreign objects such as bacteria and
viruses.
Answer: Antibody
107. It is the removal of mineral or calcium ions from
the bone or other calcified tissue to make them flexible
and easy for pathological investigation.
Answer: Decalcification
108. These are smaller amounts of vitamins or
minerals consumed.
Answer: Micronutrients
109. What hormone is produced in the pancreas that
regulates the metabolism of glucose? [The lack of this
hormone causes diabetes.]
Answer: Insulin
110. __________ are portions and types of foods and
beverages consumed on a regular basis.
Answer: Diet
111. It is a standardized ratio of weight to height.
Answer: Body Mass Index (BMI)
112. In what part of the body does digestion begin?
Answer: Mouth
113. What group of foods builds and repairs worn-out
tissues?
Answer: Grow Foods
114. In what year was it discovered that citrus fruit
juices aided in the treatment of scurvy, now known as
vitamin C deficiency disease?
Answer: 1720
115. What basic food group provides the body with
heat and energy?
Answer: Energy-Giving Foods (Go Foods)
116. It is a deficiency of calcium in elderly.
Answer: Osteoporosis
117. What is the poor man’s meat?
Answer: Monggo
118. What vitamin do we get from yellow foods?
Answer: Vitamin A
119. What mineral makes our teeth harder?
Answer: Calcium, Iron, Phosphorus
120. What are the water-soluble vitamins?
Answer: Vitamin C and Vitamins B complex
121. What vitamin helps in preventing hemorrhage
and known as bandage vitamin?
Answer: Vitamin K
122. What do you call the thrombocytes that are tiny
colorless disk-shaped and plays an important part in
the clotting process?
Answer: Platelets
123. What do you call the cholesterol that comes from
food?
Answer: Dietary Cholesterol
124. What do you call the cholesterol that circulates in
your blood?
Answer: Serum Cholesterol/Blood Cholesterol
125. What is the body’s most essential nutrient?
Answer: Water
126. What are the fat-soluble vitamins?
Answer: Vitamins A, D, E, and K
127. It must accompany smart eating for weight
control.
Answer: Regular Exercise
128. _______ is a guideline for helping people choose
a varied, balanced, and moderate diet.
Answer: Daily Food Guide
129. It is a fatlike substance found only in animal
sources of food.
Answer: Cholesterol
130. What is the governmental agency responsible for
food labels?
Answer: Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
131. These are the substances added for a specific
effect.
Answer: Additives
132. ___________ is an excess body fat.
Answer: Obesity
133. How many calories are there in a pound?
Answer: 3,500 calories
134. It is an eating disorder characterized by an
irrational fear of becoming obese.
Answer: Anorexia nervosa
135. It refers to the eating of large amounts of
starches on days leading up to athletic competition.
Answer: Carbohydrate Loading
136. It is when the body’s immune system overreacts
to food substances.
Answer: Food Allergy
137. ___________ is using a medicine in a way that is
not intended.
Answer: Medicine misuse
138. It is the ability to be physically active.
Answer: Physical Fitness
139. Of the existing 22 amino acids, how many are
considered to be essential in the diet?
Answer: 9 amino acids
140. What are the complex carbohydrates?
Answer: Starches
141. What mineral helps build red blood cells?
Answer: Iron
142. It is a fat-soluble vitamin that enhances the
absorption of calcium and therefore aids in the
formation and maintenance of bones and teeth.
Answer: Vitamin D
143. What are the simple carbohydrates?
Answer: Sugars
144. What is the primary role of carbohydrates in the
body?
Answer: To provide energy
145. ____________ is the sole source of energy used
by the brain.
Answer: Glucose
146. It is a B vitamin that is a factor in energy
metabolism and supports normal vision and skin
health.
Answer: Vitamin B2 or Riboflavin
147. ___________ is an excessively rapid heartbeat.
Answer: Tachycardia
148. It is a bad breath.
Answer: Halitosis
149. ____________ is a condition in which a person
can no longer control his or her need or desire for a
drug.
Answer: Drug Addiction
150. It is any chemical or agent that causes cancer.
Answer: Carcinogen
ANIMALS

1. What do you call the animals with backbone?

Answer: vertebrates

2. Animals without backbone is called _________.

Answer: invertebrates

3. Warm blooded animals with fur and mammary

glands.
Answer: mammals

4. Vertebrates that have dry scaly skin, covered with

scales or plates, lay eggs and can live both land and
water.
Example: turtles, crocodiles
Answer: reptiles
5. Vertebrates that has moist skin and can live both
land and water.
Examples: frog
Answer: amphibians
6. _________ are animals that live in water when they
are young and when become old, their lungs are now
developed and they can now live in land?
Answer: amphibians
20. What group of animals that have a hard outer
body covering, have five pairs of legs ad characterized
by the presences of antenna located on the head?
Example: crabs, lobster, shrimps
Answer: crustaceans
21. What animals that have 3 body parts that includes
the head, thorax and abdomen?
Answer: insects

7. Vertebrates that covered with scales and used gills 22. How many legs that an insect has?
for breathing. Answer: six legs
Answer: fish
23. What animals belong in arthropods that has 4
8. Vertebrates covered with feathers, lay eggs and pairs of legs, two body segments and no antennae.
adapted to flight. Example: scorpions, spiders
Answer: Birds Answer: arachnids

9. What is the largest bird? 24. What do you call the animals that have hundred
Answer: ostrich feet?
Answer: centipede
10. Invertebrates that are marine animals that full of
pores or holes. 25. Animals with thousand feet
Example: sponges Answer: millipede
Answer: Porifera
26. Animals with many legs?
11. Invertebrates that describe as animals with hollow- Answer: Myriapods
bodied or soft bodied. 27. Single-celled animals that are microscopic in size
Example: hydras, jellyfish, anemone, corals Answer: Protozoa
Answer: Cnidaria
28. How many segments make up the thorax of an
12. Invertebrates that describes as animals with soft- insect?
bodied shelled animals. Answer: 3
Examples: snail, slugs, squid, octopus, clamps
Answer: mollusks 29. Extinct sea bird known as the Atlantic penguin
Answer: auk
13. Invertebrates that are spiny-skinned sea animals.
Example: starfish, sea urchins 30. It is the largest animal phylum.
Answer: Echinoderms Answer: arthropod

14. Organism that has bilateral symmetry and no 31. Types of these animals includes the gorilla
digestive system, flatworms belong to this group. and chimpanzee.
Answer: Platyhelminthes Answer: ape

15. Unsegmented worms that has long, thin round 32. It is the bony out-growth on the head of a deer
bodies pointed at both ends and covered by a touch Answer: antler
cuticle. Roundworms belong to this group.
Answer: nematodes 33. It refers to animals that eat other animals.
Answer: carnivores
16. Segmented worms that has no respiratory system
but absorbs oxygen and gives of carbon dioxide 34. It is a collection of interacting organism within an
through the thin skin. ecosystem.
Answer: annelids Answer: community

17. What is the largest group in the animal kingdom? 35. It is a system of unlocking food chains
Answer: arthropods Answer: food web

18. They are joint legged animals. 36. Animals that are carnivores at some times and
Answer: arthropods herbivore at others.
Answer: omnivores
19. Arthropods are animals with bodies and legs made
up of section and they have outside shell. What do 37. Pollination by birds is called _____.
you call the outside shell of arthropods? Answer: Ornithophily
Answer: exoskeleton
38. Which insects spread kala-azar?
Answer: Sand fly 7. Relationships among living organism where they
obtain their foods by living together.
39. It is the transmission of sound waves to locate Answer: symbiosis
object, this is where bats rely to help them find their
food. 8. A kind of hunter-prey relationship between a
Answer: Echolocation parasite and a host.
(Example: Tapeworm in human’s stomach, tapeworm-
40. It is the way or biological process by which parasite; human’s stomach-host)
insects develop after birth or hatching, usually Answer: parasitism
accompanied by change of habitat or behavior.
Answer: metamorphosis 9. A relationship where an organism benefits from
another without harming it.
41. It refers to the total number of animals in a Answer: commensalism
particular habitat or community.
Answer: population 10. What part of the plant that receives the pollen from
the male parts of the flower?
42. It is an ecological or environmental area that is Answer: stigma
inhabited by a particular species of animal, plant or
other type of organism. 11. Female parts of a flower that produce ovules that
Answer: habitat become seeds
Answer: Carpels
43. It is the protective coloration that allows some
animals to blend with their surroundings. 12. What is produce by the male parts of the flower?
Answer: Camouflage Answer: pollen

44. The imitation of animals of the shape, smell,
tastes, colors and sounds of other animals to protect
them against enemies.
Answer: mimicry
45. It is the structure or behavior that helps an
organism survive in its environment.
Answer: adaptation
46. The process in which the pollens are transferred
from the anther to the stigma in a flower.
Answer: Pollination
13. It is a plant that bears cones.
Answer: coniferous plant
14. The interrelationship between species from the
Greek word that means “to live together”
Answer: symbiosis
15. This type of relationship is characterized by an
organism sapping nutrients from the body of a living
host.
Answer: parasitism
16. In this relationship, both organisms benefit from
the relationship.
Answer: mutualism

PLANTS 17. One of the partners’ benefits while the other

neither helped or harmed.
1. In a food chain, plants are the _______. Answer: commensalism
Answer: producer
18. A botanist calls a ripe ovule before germination
2. An environment where both living and non-living what reproductive item?
things exist and interact with one another? Answer: seed
Answer: ecosystem
19. Plant hormone produced in growing tips of plant
3. It is the transfer of solar energy from plants to stems
animals and eventually to decomposers when they Answer: auxin
die.
Answer: food chain 20. Golden algae would be found in what kingdom?
Answer: Protista
4. What is the process when tissues are breakdown to
its simplest form? 21. The process where plants make their own food.
Answer: decomposition Answer: Photosynthesis

5. They are microorganisms that change complex 22. The emergent, canopy and understory layers all
substances. form part of what?
Answer: decomposers Answer: rainforest

6. It is the relationship between a prey and a predator. 23. What is the name given to the female part of a
Answer: predation flower?
Answer: Pistil 43. The female reproductive organ of a flower.
Answer: pistil
24. What gas do plants absorb from the atmosphere?
Answer: Carbon dioxide 44. A type of reproduction that does not involve
fertilization of egg and sperm
25. It is the science that study plants. Answer: Asexual Reproduction
Answer: Botany

26. What kind of plants that has no roots, stem or

leaves?
Answer: fungus

27. What are gum trees better known as?

Answer: Eucalyptus trees

28. What tree produces acorns?

Answer: oak tree

29. A plant that produce seed but not fruit.

Answer: mint

30. Soya bean is a good source of _________.

Answer: protein

31. Parthenogenesis is seen generally in what fruit?

Answer: Grapes

32. Some plants grow better if bone meal is spread

around their roots. What does bone meal supply to the
plants that makes them grow faster?
Answer: minerals

33. It is the process in which the embryo or baby plant

gets energy from the stored food in the see and starts
grow.
Answer: Germination

35. Seeds with one cotyledon.

Answer: Monocot

36. Seeds with two cotyledon

Answer: Dicot

37. It is the outer covering of the seed. It protects the

seed from injuries.
Answer: Seed coat

38. What do you call the young plant or immature

plant found inside the seed?
Answer: Embryo

39. It is the off white and the biggest part of the

seed.
Answer: Cotyledon

40. What is the other term for aquatic animals that

adaptive to living with aquatic environment.
Answer: hydrophytes

41. What do you call the plants that grow on land?

Answer: terrestrial plants

42. The male reproductive organ in a flower. ASTRONOMY

Answer: stamen
1. What is the more common name for the Answer: Galaxy
constellation Canis Minor?
Answer: Little dog 19. What was the name of the space mission that
landed the first humans on the moon?
2. Approximately, how many days does it take the Answer: Apollo 11
moon to complete one rotation around the earth?
Answer: 28 days 20. Which planet do the moons of Phobos and
Deimos belong to?
3. What comet with shortest known orbital period? Answer: Mars
Answer: Encke’s comet
21. Which planet was the Galileo spacecraft sent to
4. Besides hydrogen, what is the next major study?
component of Jupiter’s atmosphere? Answer: Jupiter
Answer: Helium
22. What part of the sun is easily visible only during
5. What is the highest volcanic mountain in the solar total solar eclipse?
system that is located on Mars? Answer: Corona
Answer: Olympus Mons
23. How many minutes does it take for light from the
6. What is the highest mountain on Earth? Sun to reach Earth?
Answer: Mount Everest Answer: 5 minutes

7. It is a scale-like pattern of cirrocumulus clouds that 24. How many planets are there in the solar system?
also known as “buttermilk sky”. Answer: 8 planets
Answer: mackerel sky
25. Who was the first person to land on the moon?
8. Envelope of gases surrounding a planet Answer: Neil Armstrong
Answer: atmosphere
26. What is the outermost layer of the earth’s surface?
9. What layer of the earth is inferred to be liquid in Answer: crust
form?
Answer: Outer core 27. What is the hottest layer of the Earth’s surface?
Answer: inner core
10. It is the space shuttle sent to Venus to investigate
its atmosphere. 28. What layer of the earth is inferred to be liquid in
Answer: Pioneer-Venus 2 form?
Answer: outer core
11. Who formulated the mathematical equation that
probe the Big Bang Theory? 29. What instrument can view the heavenly bodies
Answer: Albert Einstein clearly and without the filtering effect of Earth’s
atmosphere?
12. What feature in the sun appears like billowing Answer: space telescope
arches of glowing gases?
Answer: Prominences 30. What is the closest planet in the sun?
Answer: Mercury
13. A galaxy that comprises two to three percent of
the total number of galaxies. 31. What is the name of the second biggest planet in
Answer: irregular galaxy the solar system?
Answer: Saturn
14. For a rocket to orbit the earth and become a
satellite, its speed must be around __. 32. What is the hottest planet in our solar system?
Answer: 29,000 kph Answer: Venus

15. Who figured out that the sun was the center of the 33. What planet in famous because of its big red spot?
solar system? Answer: Jupiter
Answer: Copernicus
34. What planet is famous for the beautiful rings that
16. What is the darkest part of a shadow? surround it?
Answer: umbra Answer: Saturn

17. The movement of the earth on its axis is called 35. What planet is known as red planet?
_______. Answer: Mars
Answer: rotation
36. It is the force that holding us on Earth.
18. What is the collection of stars called? Answer: Gravity
 55. An eclipse when the moon passes directly behind
37. What is the name NASA’s most famous space the Earth and into its shadow.
telescope? Answer: Lunar eclipse
Answer: Hubble Space Telescope
56. An eclipse when an observer on Earth passes
38. In which galaxy does earth located? through the shadow cast by the moon which fully or
Answer: Milky Way Galaxy partially block.
Answer: solar eclipse
39. What is the first satellite sent into space?
Answer: Sputnik 57. It is the partial shadow in an eclipse.
Answer: penumbra
40. Ganymede is a moon in which planet?
Answer: Jupiter 58.

41. What is the name of Saturn’s largest moon?

Answer: Titan

42. Olympus Mons is a large volcanic mountain on

which planet?
Answer: Mars

43. How many days are there in a leap year?

Answer: 366 days

44. What is the imaginary line on which Earth’s rotates

on its axis?
Answer: orbit

45. If the earth has completed three revolutions, how

many rotations has it completed?
Answer: 1095 ¾

46. It is the earth’s movement on its axis.

Answer: rotation ASTRONOMY

47. It is the Earth’s rotation around the sun. 1. What is the more common name for the
Answer: revolution constellation Canis Minor?
Answer: Little dog

48. How long does the earth travel around the sun?
Answer: 365 ¼ days
49. How many seasons does the Philippines has?
Answer: 2 seasons (wet ad dry)
50. What law that states that energy can be
transformed from one form to another, but can be
neither created or destroyed.
Answer: Law of Conservation of Energy
2. Approximately, how many days does it take the
moon to complete one rotation around the earth?
Answer: 28 days
3. What comet with shortest known orbital period?
Answer: Encke’s comet
4. Besides hydrogen, what is the next major
component of Jupiter’s atmosphere?
Answer: Helium

51. It is an astronomical body orbiting a star or stellar 5. What is the highest volcanic mountain in the solar
remnant. system that is located on Mars?
Answer: planet Answer: Olympus Mons

52. What is the largest star? 6. What is the highest mountain on Earth?
Answer: Eta Carinae Answer: Mount Everest

53. It is an astronomical event that occurs when an 7. It is a scale-like pattern of cirrocumulus clouds that
astronomical object temporarily obscured. also known as “buttermilk sky”.
Answer: eclipse Answer: mackerel sky

54. A group of star. 8. Envelope of gases surrounding a planet

Answer: constellation Answer: atmosphere
9. What layer of the earth is inferred to be liquid in Answer: crust
form?
Answer: Outer core 27. What is the hottest layer of the Earth’s surface?
Answer: inner core
10. It is the space shuttle sent to Venus to investigate
its atmosphere. 28. What layer of the earth is inferred to be liquid in
Answer: Pioneer-Venus 2 form?
Answer: outer core
11. Who formulated the mathematical equation that
probe the Big Bang Theory? 29. What instrument can view the heavenly bodies
Answer: Albert Einstein clearly and without the filtering effect of Earth’s
atmosphere?
12. What feature in the sun appears like billowing Answer: space telescope
arches of glowing gases?
Answer: Prominences 30. What is the closest planet in the sun?
Answer: Mercury
13. A galaxy that comprises two to three percent of
the total number of galaxies. 31. What is the name of the second biggest planet in
Answer: irregular galaxy the solar system?
Answer: Saturn
14. For a rocket to orbit the earth and become a
satellite, its speed must be around __. 32. What is the hottest planet in our solar system?
Answer: 29,000 kph Answer: Venus

15. Who figured out that the sun was the center of the 33. What planet in famous because of its big red spot?
solar system? Answer: Jupiter
Answer: Copernicus
34. What planet is famous for the beautiful rings that
16. What is the darkest part of a shadow? surround it?
Answer: umbra Answer: Saturn

17. The movement of the earth on its axis is called 35. What planet is known as red planet?
_______. Answer: Mars
Answer: rotation
36. It is the force that holding us on Earth.
18. What is the collection of stars called? Answer: Gravity
Answer: Galaxy
37. What is the name NASA’s most famous space
19. What was the name of the space mission that telescope?
landed the first humans on the moon? Answer: Hubble Space Telescope
Answer: Apollo 11
38. In which galaxy does earth located?
20. Which planet do the moons of Phobos and Answer: Milky Way Galaxy
Deimos belong to?
Answer: Mars 39. What is the first satellite sent into space?
Answer: Sputnik
21. Which planet was the Galileo spacecraft sent to
study? 40. Ganymede is a moon in which planet?
Answer: Jupiter Answer: Jupiter

22. What part of the sun is easily visible only during 41. What is the name of Saturn’s largest moon?
total solar eclipse? Answer: Titan
Answer: Corona
42. Olympus Mons is a large volcanic mountain on
23. How many minutes does it take for light from the which planet?
Sun to reach Earth? Answer: Mars
Answer: 5 minutes
43. How many days are there in a leap year?
24. How many planets are there in the solar system? Answer: 366 days
Answer: 8 planets
44. What is the imaginary line on which Earth’s rotates
25. Who was the first person to land on the moon? on its axis?
Answer: Neil Armstrong Answer: orbit

26. What is the outermost layer of the earth’s surface?

45. If the earth has completed three revolutions, how
many rotations has it completed?
Answer: 1095 ¾

46. It is the earth’s movement on its axis. MIXED QUESTIONS

Answer: rotation
47. It is the Earth’s rotation around the sun.
Answer: revolution
48. How long does the earth travel around the sun?
Answer: 365 ¼ days
49. How many seasons does the Philippines has?
Answer: 2 seasons (wet ad dry)
50. What law that states that energy can be
transformed from one form to another, but can be
neither created or destroyed.
Answer: Law of Conservation of Energy
1. What type of lens is used to diverse light rays?
Answer: Concave lens
2. Name the deposits left by a melted glacier.
Answer: till
3. The deposits left by windblown dust.
Answer: loess
4. What do you call death caused by electric current?
Answer: electrocution
5. Name the long, narrow deposit of sand formed
where a shoreline changes direction?
Answer: spit

51. It is an astronomical body orbiting a star or stellar 6. The structure made by deposits left by windblown
remnant. sand.
Answer: planet Answer: dunes

52. What is the largest star? 7. Anorthosite is from what primary rock classification?
Answer: Eta Carinae Answer: Igneous rocks

53. It is an astronomical event that occurs when an 8. The science that deal with the development of the
astronomical object temporarily obscured. universe.
Answer: eclipse Answer: cosmogony

54. A group of star. 9. Where can the lowest point on the earth’s crust be
Answer: constellation found?
Answer: Marianas Trench
55. An eclipse when the moon passes directly behind
the Earth and into its shadow. 10. It is the deepest part of the earth.
Answer: Lunar eclipse Answer: Marianas Trench

56. An eclipse when an observer on Earth passes
through the shadow cast by the moon which fully or
partially block.
Answer: solar eclipse
57. It is the partial shadow in an eclipse.
Answer: penumbra
11. What season is characterized with the most
amount of leaves falling from trees?
Answer: autumn
12. What is we call the breaking of white light into all
the colors of the visible spectrum?
Answer: diffraction

58. 13. 128 ounces is equivalent to one what?

Answer: gallon

14. What is created when an electron is added to a

proton?
Answer: neutron

15. The study of phenomena at very low temperature.

Answer: Cryogenics

16. The branch of science which is concerned with the

study of disease as it affects a community of people.
Answer: Epidemiology

17. What number is neutral measured at on the PH

Scale?
Answer: 7
18. To split an atom is _________. 38. Who invented the telephone?
Answer: fission Answer: Alexander Graham Bell

19. To clash an atom is called _________. 39. Who invented telescope?

Answer: fusion Answer: Galileo Galilei

20. What is the most common element found in the 40. Who discovered penicillin in 1928?
Earth’s atmosphere? Answer: Alexander Fleming
Answer: nitrogen
41. What is the lightest metal?
21. What type of paper is used to indicate acids and Answer: Lithium
alkalis?
Answer: Litmus paper 42. Scientists that devise the three laws of motion.
Answer: Isaac Newton
22. Energy produced inside the Earth.
Answer: geothermal energy 43. What is the name of the device used to convert
sound to electricity?
23. It is the center of an atom. Answer: microphone
Answer: nucleus
44. What is needed to change the velocity of an
24. Amperes measures what current? object?
Answer: electrical current Answer: force

25. It is a large group of wind turbines. 45. What do the letters Ph stand for?
Answer: wind farm Answer: Power of Hydrogen

26. What is the name of the lightest substance? 46. It is the branch of biology that study about
Answer: hydrogen relationship between living things and their
environment.
27. What is the chemical symbol for iron? Answer: Ecology
Answer: Fe
47. It has the longest wave length.
28. Which is the only metal that is liquid at room Answer: Infrared radiation
temperature?
Answer: Mercury 48. Bacteria that converts atmospheric nitrogen into
nitrogen compound.
29. Global warming is caused by too much of which Answer: Nitrogen Fixing Bacteria
type of gas?
Answer: Carbon dioxide 49. At constant temperature, the product of pressure
and volume of a given amount of gas is constant,
30. Which element has atomic number of 2? whose law is this?
Answer: Helium Answer: Boyle’s Law
50. What degree does water boils?
31. Which metals make the strongest magnets? Answer: 100 degrees Celsius
Answer: Iron
51. In what degree that water becomes solid.
32. What device is used to measure air pressure? Answer: 0 degree Celsius
Answer: barometer
52. In which enzyme is Urea converted into ammonia
and carbon dioxide?
33. What two elements made up water? Answer: Urease
Answer: Hydrogen and oxygen
53. What is addictive poisonous substance can be
34. Which gas has the chemical formula CO? found in tobacco leaves?
Answer: carbon monoxide Answer: Nicotine

35. Who invented the gramophone? 54. Who discovered the law of gravity?
Answer: Thomas Edison Answer: Isaac Newton

36. What vitamin does sunlight provide to human? 55. Cumulus, cirrus and stratus are kinds of ____.
Answer: Vitamin D Answer: Clouds

37. What two metals combined to make bronze? 56. What do DNA means?
Answer: copper and tin Answer: Deoxyribonucleic acid
 Answer: Topsoil
57. What is the freezing point of water?
Answer: 0 degrees Celsius or 32 degrees Celsius 75. What is the lowest layer of the soil?
Answer: Bedrock
58. What does an anemometer measure?
Answer: Speed of Wind 76. It is a system in which energy and matter from the
sun, the atmosphere and living organisms penetrate
59. What is the largest flower in the world? and interact.
Answer: Rafflesia Answer: soil

60. What is the process by which plants release water 77. It is the type of soil that is a mixture of sand and
from their leaves? clay.
Answer: Transpiration Answer: Loam

61. It is the process by which the condensed water 78. It is a blanket of air that surrounds the earth.
vapor falls back on the earth’s surface in the forms of Answer: atmosphere
rain, hail, snow and sleet.
Answer: Precipitation 79. It is the primary source of energy.
Answer: sun
62. The process of changing water vapor in liquid
water. 80. The sound that is reflected or returned sound.
Answer: Condensation Answer: Echo

63. It is the process of changing liquid water into gas 81. It is the softness and loudness of sound.
or water vapor Answer: volume
Answer: Evaporation
82. What type of energy made by vibrations?
64. How do sun’s heat and light reaches the surface of Answer: Sound
the earth? 83. It is the transfer of heat from one place to another
Answer: radiation by movement of fluids.
Answer: Convection
65. What do you call when food makes their own
foods. 84. It is the transfer of heat through solid materials.
Answer: photosynthesis Answer: Conduction

85. It is the push and pull of magnets.

66. The device used in telling the direction of the Answer: magnetism
wind?
Answer: wind vane 86. It is the ability to do work.
Answer: energy
67. What is used to measure air temperature?
Answer: thermometer 87. The energy from electromagnetic waves.
Answer: Radiant energy
68. It is the hotness and coldness of the air around us.
Answer: Temperature 88. It is the energy of a moving object.
Answer: Kinetic energy
69. What do you call the water part of the earth or
“water sphere”? 89. The energy that is stored in a substance.
Answer: hydrosphere Answer: Potential energy

70. The process in which water continuously moved in 90. It is also called as heat energy.
the earth’s surface. Answer: thermal energy
Answer: Water cycle
91. Energy that stored in the bonds of chemical
71. What kind of water is found beneath the earth’s compounds like atom and molecules.
surface? Answer: Chemical energy
Answer: Groundwater
92. It is the amount of moisture in the air.
72. What kind of water is called hard water? Answer: humidity
Answer: Seawater
93. It is a weather condition of a place over a period of
73. What kind of water is also called surface water? time.
Answer: Freshwater Answer: climate

74. It is the uppermost layer of the soil.