Republic of the Philippines

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Region 02
Schools Division of Isabela
DONA AURORA NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
First Quarter Examination (SY 2022-2023)
Science 9
Name: ________________________________________________________________________Score:_____

Direction: Read each question carefully. Write the letter of your answer on the space provided.

_____ 1. What system is responsible for bringing oxygen into our bodies and sends carbon dioxide out?
a. circulatory c. excretory
b. digestive d. respiratory
______2. Which part of the respiratory system is used as an alternative airway when the nasal pathway is
blocked?
a. nose c. pharynx
b. mouth d. larynx
______3. How does the air enter our body?
a. nose nasal passage  trachea  bronchi  bronchioles  alveoli
b. nose nasal passage  trachea  bronchioles  bronchi  alveoli
c. nasal cavity nose  trachea  bronchioles  bronchi  alveoli
d. nasal cavity alveoli  trachea  bronchioles  bronchi  nose
______4. What happens when you breathe in?
a. diaphragm expands c. diaphragm explodes
b. diaphragm contracts d. nothing happens to the diaphragm
______5. All of the following are associated with respiratory problems EXCEPT.
a. asthma c. pollutants
b. enough sleep d. smoking
______6. What is the primary organ of the circulatory system?
a. heart c. veins
b. arteries d. blood
______7. Arrange properly the statements below on how the blood flows in the circulatory system.
a. oxygen- poor blood enters the right atrium of the heart
b. the blood is then pumped into the right ventricle
c. and then to the lungs
d. through the pulmonary artery where the blood is enriched with oxygen and loses carbon dioxide

a. abcd c. cbda
b. dcba d. abdc
______8. What part of the human heart sends blood to the lungs?
a. right ventricle c. atria
b. left ventricle d. pulmonary artery
______ 9. Which will keep your heart strong?
a. eating heart-shaped candy
b. doing activities like playing, riding your bike, and swimming
c. smoking
d. sleeping 18 hours a day
_____10. Why exactly is the heart so important?
a. it pumps blood throughout the body
b. it supplies oxygen and nutrients to the tissues
c. removes carbon dioxide and other wastes
d. all of the above
_____11. Who discovered the rules of inheritance using pea plants?
a. Gregor Mendel c. Jean Baptiste Lamarck
b. Charles Darwin d. Isaac Newton
_____12. What is the basic unit of heredity?
a. DNA c. nucleus
b. Gene d. chromosome
_____13. Which term refers to physical characteristics that are studied in genetics?
a. traits c. generation
b. offspring d. hybrids
_____ 14., What does co- dominance mean in genetics?
a. both alleles are dominant
b. both alleles are recessive
c. the alleles are neither dominant or recessive
d. each allele is both dominant and recessive
_____ 15. Which combination of sex chromosome results in a male human being?
a. XX c. XY
b. YY d. XX and XY
______16. What does the notation tt mean to genetics?
a. two dominant alleles
b. two recessive alleles
c. at least one dominant allele
d. one dominant and one recessive allele
For 17 - 18 A plant with red flowers is crossed with a white –flowered plant of the same species. All the
seeds, when grown, produce plants with red flowers.
______ 17. Which allele is dominant?
a. red color c. pink color
b. white color d. red and pink stripe
______18. Which is recessive?
a. red color c. white color
b. pink color d. red and pink stripe
______19. In cats, the allele (S) for short fur is dominant to the allele (s) for long fur. What is the phenotype
of a cat with a genotype Ss.
a. short fur c. medium fur
b. long fur d. no fur
______20. If a homozygous black guinea pig (BB) is crossed with a homozygous white guinea pig (bb) ,
what is the probability that an offspring will have black fur?
a. 25 percent c. 75 percent
b. 50 percent d. 100 percent
______21. Why are males more likely to be affected by sex- linked disorders?
a. because they are more likely to inherit a dominant allele
b. because they are more likely inherit a recessive allele
c. because they have two X chromosomes
d. None of the above
______ 22. What are sex- influenced traits?
a. these are traits expressed in one sex
b. can be expressed in both sexes but more common in males
c. Instances in which a particular gene may exist in three or more allelic forms.
d. All of the above
______ 23. What are examples of sex limited traits?
a. sickle cell anemia, hemophilia
b. harelip, gout, baldness
c. barred color , fanlike tail feather
d. hypertrichosis pinnae auris
______ 24. What does a punnet square show?
a. all the possible outcomes of genetic cross
b. only the dominant allele in a genetic cross
c. only the recessive allele in a genetic cross
d. all the impossible outcomes of genetic cross
______ 25. Which is not one of the three levels of biodiversity?
a. Genetic diversity c. ecosystem diversity
b. Species diversity d. habitat diversity
______ 26. Which of the following can cause an animal to become extinct?
a. habitat destruction c. hunting
b. pollution d. all of the above
______ 27. What is the population density if there are 32 fish in an area that is 250 m3?
a. 2.5 fish / m3 c. 0.128 fish / m3
b. 1.3 fish / m3 d. 0. 523 fish / m3
______ 28. What is the population density if there are 1068 birds in a field that is 100 m wide and 250 m
long?
a. 0.043 birds/ m2 c. 1.042 birds/ m2
b. 0.053 birds/ m2 d. 2.042 birds/ m2
______ 29. How many different types of species are there in a dataset? Use the given below.
number of species- 5 number of runs- 6 total number of animals- 30
a. 0.67 c. 0.88
b. 0.99 d. 0.22
______ 30. Who is the scientist formulated the theory of evolution through natural selection?
a. Charles Darwin c. Charles Lyell
b. James Hutton d. Jean Baptiste Lamarck
______ 31. Which aspect of Lamarck’s theory is incorrect?
a. acquired traits are inherited
b. new species evolved from previous species
c. DNA is the mechanism for inheritance
d. evolution works at the population level
______ 32. The earth is about 6,000 years and was created by a supernatural. Which of the ideas is best
summarized by this statement?
a. Evolution via Darwinism c. Young Earth creationism
b. Intelligent design d. Evolution via Lamarckism
______ 33. Why decomposers are important to ecosystems?
a. return vital nutrients to the environment
b. are producers
c. capture energy from the sun
d. can be omnivores
______ 34. Herbivores are which of the following?
a. producers c. primary consumers
b. secondary consumers d. decomposers
______ 35. In an energy pyramid, what is the term for the organisms that eat the producers?
a. tertiary consumers c. apex predators
b. quaternary consumers d. primary consumers
______ 36. Which of these animals is not a carnivore?
a. wolf c. bear
b. eagle d. horse
______ 36. Which of these animals are omnivores?
a. dog c. horse
b. lion d. deer
______ 37. Which of the following is an autotroph?
a. algae c. fungi
b. animals d. bacteria
______ 38. What do the arrows in a food chain and food web represents?
a. they point to the organism that is being eaten
b. it shows how sunlight flows within an ecosystem
c. they show what direction the energy is flowing between organism
d. they represent how water is transferred within a habitat
_____ _39. Why humans are dependent on a healthy ecosystem?
a. humans are dependent on ecosystem service to survive
b. we need it to get the food we eat, and the water we drink
c. to transform raw materials into our everyday products
d. all of the above
______ 40. What will happen if an organism removed from a food chain?
a. it spoils the flow of energy and nutrient in the ecosystem
b. it disrupts the balance of the food chain
c. the organism which depend on others for food will die due to starvation
d. all of the above
______ 41. In which organism does photosynthesis happen?
a. Plants c. plants and animals
b. Animals d. none of the above
______ 42. Which of the following need oxygen to survive?
a. Plants c. plants and animals
b. Animals d. none of the above
______ 43. Thinking about photosynthesis and respiration in plants, which statement is correct?
a. Photosynthesis is the opposite of respiration
b. Photosynthesis and respiration both occur in plants
c. Respiration for maintenance and growth only occurs in the dark
d. none of the above
______ 44. What is the formula for photosynthesis?
 a. 6CO2 + 6H2O + light energy  C6H1206+ 6O2
b. 6CO2 + 6H2O + C6H1206+ 6O2 light energy
c. 6CO2 + HO + light energy  C6H1206+ 6O2
d. 6CO2 + 6H2O  C6H12O6+ 6O2
______ 45. Which is the best definition for a respiration?.
a. production of energy
b. the movement of air
c. exchanging of gases
d. occurs when an organism processes oxygen and glucose into carbon dioxide, water and ATP
energy
______ 46. In which organism does photosynthesis occur?
a.plants c. some bcteria
b. algae d. all of these
______ 47. In which part of the cell does photosynthesis take place?
a. vacuole c. cell wall
b. mitochondria d. chloroplast
______ 48. What gas do producers need in order to perform photosynthesis?
a. oxygen c. hydrogen
b. carbon dioxide d. nitrogen
______ 49. What gas do producers give off as a result of photosynthesis?
a. oxygen c. hydrogen
b. carbon dioxide d. nitrogen
______ 50. How do plants get the carbon they need?
a. from the air c. from the soil
b. from the water d. from fertilizer

Prepared by:
JHAMEL A. GRAGANTA
(Substitute Teacher)