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SCIENCE

1. Why do seasons occur on Earth?


A. The sun rotates on its axis
B. Earth revolves on its axis
C. Earth’s axis is titled
D. Earth rotates on its axis
2. Which part of the flower develops into fruits?
A. Ovule
B. Ovary
C. Petal
D. Anther
3. Trace the energy transformation when a flashlight is on.
A. chemical light electrical
B. electrical chemical light
C. chemical electrical light
D. electrical light chemical
4. Which of the following is the unit of structure all living things?
A. Tissue
B. Organ
C. Cell
D. Muscle
5. Which is the correct sequence of the stages of mitosis?
A. Telophase, Anaphase, Metaphase, Prophase
B. Metaphase, Anaphase, Telophase, Prophase
C. Anaphase, Prophase, Metaphase, Telophase
D. Prophase, Metaphase, Anaphasse, Telophase
6. The propulsion of jets and rockets is based on Newton’s Law of __________?
A. Acceleration
B. Interaction
C. Inertia
D. Gravitation
7. Why are shadows formed?
A. Lights travel through opaque objects
B. Light is reflected
C. Light is refracted
D. Light travels in a straight line
8. What produces the tremendous energy of the sun?
A. Nuclear disintegration
B. Nuclear fission
C. Nuclear fusion
D. Nuclear decomposition
9. Which has a higher specific heat?
A. Sand
B. Water
C. Soil
D. Wood
10. Sound travels fastest in ____________.
A. Gas
B. Liquid
C. Solid
D. Air
11. Which explain the absence of weather on the moon?
A. Moon rotates on its axis fast
B. Moon revolves very fast
C. Moon’s gravity is high
D. Moon has no atmosphere
12. Which law states that heat flows from bodies at high temperature to one at low temperature?
A. Thermodynamics
B. Energy change
C. Transformation of Energy
D. Retention of Energy
13. Which atomic particle determines the isotope of an element?
A. Positron
B. Proton
C. Electron
D. Neutron

14. Who proposed the theory of evolution that is based on natural selection?
A. Watson
B. Darwin
C. Lamarck
D. Mendel
15. What gas is released during photosynthesis?
A. Carbon dioxide
B. Oxygen
C. Nitrogen
D. Hydrogen
16. Which instrument is used to detect earthquake intensity?
A. Anemometer
B. Barograph
C. Seismograph
D. Clinometers
17. Which off the following radioactive emissions are arranged in the order of increasing penetrating power?
A. Alpha, Gamama, Alpha
B. Alpha, Beta, Gamma
C. Gamma, Beta, Alpha
D. Beta, Gamma, Apha
18. When light falls on soap bubbles, the band of the seven colors seen is due to ______?
A. Diffraction
B. Reflection
C. Scattering
D. Interference
19. Why can mirrors from clear images?
A. Light is regularly refracted
B. Light is irregularly reflected
C. The angle of incidence is equal to angle of reflection
D. The angle of reflection is equal to the angle of refraction.
20. Why do we see the sun rising in the east?
A. Earth rotates from west to east
B. Earth revolves from east to west
C. Earth rotates from east to west
D. Earth’s axis is titled
21. A community of living organisms interacting with their nonliving environment constitutes a/an __________.
A. Population
B. Ecosystem
C. Species
D. Biosphere
22. Choose a possible food chain.
A. Corn Rat Cat
B. Corn Man Cat
C. Rice Rat Man
D. Rice Cat Rat
23. In the energy pyramid which is at the highest point?
A. Second order producers
B. Producers
C. First order consumers
D. Third order consumer
24. Which of the following parts demonstrates symbiosis?
A. Man and lice
B. Monkey and banana
C. Chick and corn plants
D. Butterfly and bean flower
25. The zigzag road to Baguio represent which kind of simple machine?
A. Lever
B. Wheel and axie
C. Wedge
D. Inclined Plane
26. Why does mercury in a thermometer rise when in contact with hot water?
A. Heat increase the number of molecules.
B. Heat makes molecules become bigger and farther apart
C. Heat makes molecules move faster and farther apart
D. Heat makes the molecules move slower.
27. Which blood type is a universal donor?
A. A
B. O
C. AB
D. B
28. Which nerve transmits the message receive to the center of hearing in the brain?
A. Sensory
B. Optic
C. Olfactory
D. Auditory
29. Which disease affects the air sacs of the lungs and is common among cigarette smokers?
A. Asthma
B. Tuberculosis
C. Emphysema
D. Tracheal disorder
30. What type of joint is responsible for being our arms and legs?
A. Hinge
B. Pivot
C. Ball and socket
D. Fibrinogen
31. Which protein found in the plasma is responsible for blood clotting?
A. Globulin
B. Albumin
C. Serum
D. Fibrinogen
32. Which part of the brain is responsible for memory and intelligence?
A. Cerebellum
B. Cerebrum
C. Medulla
D. Thalamus
33. The Philippines belong to a type of biome called
A. Decidous forest
B. taiga
C. tropical rainforest
D. grassland
34. The factors that significantly contribute to an increase in human population are ________.
A. immigration and natality
B. emigration and natality
C. immigration and mortality
D. emigration and mortality
35. What is the common cause of the temporary wilting of plants at noon?
A. Increased condensation
B. Rapid respiration
C. Rapid transpiration
D. Increased oxidation.
36. How can we identify a dicot leaf from a monocot lead?
A. A dicot leaf has smooth surface.
B. A dicot leaf has netted venation
C. A dicot leaf has parallel venation
D. A dicot leaf has a wide marhin
37. When the stems of vines grow around poles of fences, what kind of response is exhinited?
A. Geotropism
B. Thigmotropism
C. Hydrotropism
D. Phototropism
38. Which of the following is the greatest contributor to our “greenhouse effect?”
A. Increase of Oxygen
B. Teaching of the soil
C. Increase of herbivores
D. Cutting forest trees
39. Why does a tree slowly die when is bark all around it is removed?
A. The cambium is injured
B. The phloem vessels are cut
C. the tree cannot manufacture food
D. its protective layer is cut
40. Which is the method of growing vegetables and low plants in a nutrient-packed, aerated solution with soil and all?
A. Vegetative cultivation
B. Natural farming
C. Hydroponics
D. Aerial cultivation
41. When you carry a heavy load with one arm, you tend to hold your free hand away from your body in order to _____.
A. change the weight of your body and load
B. change the mass of our body
C. be ready to grab something in case you fall
D. change the center of gravity of your body and load.
42. Why are door knobs placed at the edge of the door rather that in the center?
A. to increase the lever arm
B. to increase the force on the door
C. to help give more momentum to the door
D. closer to the edge of the doorway
43. Why is a dam built at the bottom that at the top?
A. To withstand the great pressure at the bottom
B. To balance the pressure at the top
C. It holds up the dam better than at the center
D. It anchor the dam better.
44. Archimedes’ principle states that an object is buoyed up by a force that is equal to the _____.
A. volume of the fluid
B. weight of the fluid displaced
C. mass of the fluid displaced
D. mass of the object.

45. When an ice cube in a glass of water melts, the water level _________.
A. falls
B. remains the same
C. rises
D. varies
46. Two pots of the same size are filled with boiling water. One pot is colored white and the other is black. In which pot will water
cool faster?
A. Will cool at the same rate
B. In white pot
C. In black pot
D. In both pots
47. You inherited tallness from your father. Physical traits are transmitted from parents to off springs through ________.
A. gametes
B. chromosomes
C. alleles
D. genes
48. The handle of a spoon dipped in a cup of hot water becomes warm. What is the method of heat transfer?
A. Condensation
B. Radiation
C. Convention
D. Conduction
49. The force required to maintain an object at a constant speed in free space is equal to ___________.
A. weight of the object
B. mass of the object
C. zero
D. force required to stop it
50. Two people pull on a rope in tug-of-war, each pull with a 400 N force. What is the tension in the rope?
A. 800 N
B. 0
C. 400 N
D. 200 N
51. Why does a pressure cooker cook food faster?
I. Water boils faster.
II. It raises the boiling point of water.
III. It raises the cooking temperature of food.
IV. It is tightly closed
A. II and III
B. I, II and IV
C. I, II and III
D. II and IV
52. You noticed that big industries have tower-like tall stacks. What is the structure for?
A. To control emission of hazardous gases
B. To induce rain and air pressure
C. To get enough air from the atmosphere
D. To make the interior cool
53. Steam burns are more damaging than burns caused by boiling water because steam _______.
A. has a higher temperature than boiling water
B. has more energy per kilogram than boiling water
C. is vapor of water molecules during boiling
D. occupies more spaces that water during boiling
54. The removal of broken pieces of rocks from the parent rock by the action of wind or water is termed ________.
A. erosion
B. deposition
C. weathering
D. silting
55. The voltage across a transformer primary coil that has 100 turns in 10 V. What is the voltage across the secondary coil which
has 20 V turns?
A. 100 V
B. 10 V
C. 2 V
D. 20 V
56. Trace the conversion of energy that occurs when plants manufacture food.
A. Radiant energy to chemical energy
B. Radiant energy to kinetic energy
C. Mechanical to potential energy
D. Light energy to kinetic energy
57. Riders in a bus are pushed forward during a sudden stop. Which law of motion provides an explanation?
A. Law of Inertia
B. Law of Interaction
C. Law of Universal Gravitation
D. Hooke’s Law
58. What type of eclipse occurs when the moon is directly between the sun and the earth?
A. partial Lunar
B. Lunar
C. Stellar
D. Solar
59. In our daily weather forecast, the region where two tropical wind systems converge, characterized by showers and widespread
thunderstorm is called ________.
A. warm and cold fronts
B. intertropical convergent zone
C. trade winds
D. local disturbance zone
60. While traveling at night, you lost direction. Which star should you look for and in what constellation?
I. Polaris
II. Rigel
III. Ursa Minor
IV. Ursa Major
A. I and IV
B. I and III
C. II and III
D. II and IV
61. At present, a patient fights cancer either by surgery or by drug treatment called _________.
A. irradiation
B. viral treatment
C. chemotherapy
D. immune therapy
62. The U.S was able to produce a test-tube baby through a process called _________.
A. gene pairing
B. internal fertilization
C. protoplast fusion
D. in vitro fertilization
63. Patients suffering from malfunction of the kidney are now assisted by a machine that serves as artificial kidney called
________.
A. hemoscope
B. pacemaker
C. hemodializer
D. homeostatic machine
64. The sun appears more reddish at sunset than at noon. Which of the following phenomena is responsible for this effect?
A. Dispersion
B. Reflection
C. Scattering
D. Interference
65. Why do we hear thunder some seconds after seeing lightning?
A. Light travels faster than sound
B. Sound travels at 1,331 m/s
C. Sound is released later actually
D. Light appears brighter in the sky.

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Removing the bark of a tree all around it leads to its gradual death because it damages the phloem vessels, which are responsible for transporting nutrients and sugars produced by photosynthesis from the leaves to the rest of the tree. Without these essential nutrients, the tree cannot sustain its biological functions and eventually dies. This process interrupts the tree’s ability to distribute food and maintain its health .

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Seasons occur on Earth primarily due to its axial tilt, which is approximately 23.5 degrees relative to its orbit around the sun. This tilt causes different regions of Earth to receive varying amounts of sunlight throughout the year. When a hemisphere is tilted toward the sun, it experiences warmer temperatures and longer days, resulting in summer. Conversely, when a hemisphere is tilted away from the sun, it experiences cooler temperatures and shorter days, resulting in winter. Thus, the axial tilt is crucial in creating seasonal variations .

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Sound travels through different states of matter by vibrating molecules. It travels fastest in solids because molecules are more closely packed in solids than in liquids and gases, allowing for more efficient transfer of energy between molecules. The proximity of molecules in solids facilitates a quicker propagation of sound waves compared to the relatively loose molecular arrangements in liquids and gases .

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When a thermometer containing mercury is placed in hot water, the mercury levels rise because heat causes the mercury molecules to gain kinetic energy. This energy increase makes the molecules move faster and farther apart, resulting in expansion. As the mercury expands, it rises up the narrow tube of the thermometer, providing a measure of the temperature of the water .

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D. Retention of Energy 13. Which atomic particle determines the isotope of an element? A. Positron B. Proton C. Electron D. N
C. Chick and corn plants D. Butterfly and bean flower 25. The zigzag road to Baguio represent which kind of simple machine? A
C. A dicot leaf has parallel venation D. A dicot leaf has a wide marhin 37. When the stems of vines grow around poles of fenc
B. Radiation C. Convention D. Conduction 49. The force required to maintain an object at a constant speed in free space is eq
A. warm and cold fronts B. intertropical convergent zone C. trade winds D. local disturbance zone 60. While traveling at nigh

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