Grade 7 Science
Higher Concepts
Time Limit: You have at maximum 90 minutes to complete the exam. No extra
time will be given.
No communication in any way. Stay silent throughout the exam. Cheating will
lead to disqualification.
Proper equipment including a pen or a pencil, erasers, etc. must be brought in.
No Phones or Smart Devices: All phones, smartwatches, and electronic devices
must be turned off and put away.
End of Exam: Stop writing immediately when time is called. Failure to do so may
result in disqualification.
There are hundred multiple choice questions each worth one mark.
1. Which of the following is not a 51. What helps forests attract rain?
product of photosynthesis? a) High trees only
a) Oxygen b) Release of oxygen
c) Release of water vapor by
b) Glucose
transpiration
c) Carbon dioxide d) Decomposition of leaves
d) Starch
52.Bacteria in wastewater
2. The human stomach mainly treatment mainly:
digests: a) Produce acid
a) Fats b) Kill other microbes
c) Decompose organic matter
b) Proteins
d) Add chemicals
c) Cellulose
d) Starch 53.Which organism prepares its
own food and also eats insects?
3. When you rub your hands a) Fern
together, they become warm. b) Cactus
This shows: c) Pitcher plant
d) Mushroom
a) Chemical change
b) Heat transfer by radiation
c) Conversion of kinetic energy 54.Saliva starts the digestion of:
to heat a) Proteins
b) Fats
d) Conduction only
c) Starch
d) Vitamins
4. Which acid is naturally found in
lemons? 55.The boiling point of water on
a) Acetic acid Celsius scale is:
b) Citric acid a) 100°C
c) Hydrochloric acid b) 212°C
c) 0°C
d) Sulfuric acid
d) 273°C
5. Burning of paper is: 56.Which of these shows basic
a) Physical change nature?
b) Chemical change a) Lemon juice
c) Temporary change b) Vinegar
d) Reversible change c) Baking soda solution
d) Orange juice
6. Which gas is used by plants and 57.Burning of a candle shows:
animals during respiration? a) Only physical change
a) Carbon dioxide b) Only chemical change
b) Oxygen c) Both physical and chemical
c) Nitrogen changes
d) Temporary change
d) Hydrogen
58.Which gas is released during
7. What prevents the backflow of respiration?
blood in veins? a) Oxygen
a) Thin walls b) Nitrogen
b) Valves c) Carbon dioxide
c) Thicker muscles d) Hydrogen
d) Higher pressure
59.Which chamber of the heart
pumps blood to the whole
8. Which plant part often helps in body?
vegetative reproduction? a) Left atrium
a) Root hairs b) Right atrium
b) Flowers c) Right ventricle
c) Buds d) Left ventricle
d) Cuticle
60.Which is not a type of asexual
reproduction?
9. The SI unit of speed is: a) Budding
a) km/h b) Spore formation
b) m/s c) Seed formation
c) cm/s d) Fragmentation
61. Motion of hands of a clock is:
d) m/h a) Linear motion
b) Oscillatory motion
10. Which device converts electrical c) Circular motion
d) Vibratory motion
energy into mechanical energy?
a) Battery 62.Which metal is used inside
b) Electric motor electric bulbs?
c) Electric bulb a) Copper
d) Generator b) Aluminium
c) Tungsten
11. The bending of light when it d) Silver
passes from air to glass is called:
63.The real image formed by a
a) Reflection concave mirror is:
b) Refraction a) Virtual and erect
c) Dispersion b) Virtual and inverted
d) Scattering c) Real and inverted
d) Real and erect
12. Which is a renewable
64.Decomposers in forests mainly
resource?
include:
a) Coal a) Birds
b) Petroleum b) Insects
c) Forest c) Fungi and bacteria
d) Natural gas d) Squirrels
65.Sludge from wastewater
13. In wastewater treatment, larger
treatment is:
solid particles are removed by: a) Only harmful
a) Sedimentation b) Used as fertilizer
b) Chlorination c) Burned always
c) Filtration d) Released into rivers
d) Aeration
66.Plants that do not have
chlorophyll are:
14. Animals that get nutrition from
a) Autotrophs
dead organic matter are called: b) Heterotrophs
a) Parasites c) Saprotrophs
b) Saprotrophs d) Both b and c
c) Autotrophs
d) Insectivores 67.The finger-like projections in
small intestine are:
a) Cilia
15. Bile helps in digestion by:
b) Villi
a) Breaking down proteins c) Papillae
b) Neutralizing stomach acid d) Nodes
c) Emulsifying fats
d) Digesting starch 68.Which of these can measure
temperature accurately?
a) Scale
b) Thermometer
16. Which scale measures heat in c) Barometer
Fahrenheit? d) Stopwatch
a) °F
69.Which is neutral?
b) °C
a) Vinegar
c) Kelvin b) Soap solution
d) Rankine c) Distilled water
d) Hydrochloric acid
17. Litmus turns red in:
a) Base 70.The black coating on silver
b) Acid jewelry after some time is:
a) Oxidation
c) Salt solution
b) Sulfide formation
d) Distilled water c) Rust
d) Acid attack
18. Rusting of iron requires:
a) Water and carbon dioxide 71. Blood is purified in:
b) Water and oxygen a) Heart
c) Salt only b) Liver
c) Lungs
d) Heat and light
d) Kidney
19. Which of these has lungs and 72.Pollination is transfer of pollen
skin for breathing? from:
a) Fish a) Stigma to style
b) Earthworm b) Anther to ovary
c) Anther to stigma
c) Frog
d) Ovary to style
d) Bird
73.Motion that repeats itself after
20.Which of these transports water fixed intervals:
in plants? a) Linear motion
a) Xylem b) Oscillatory motion
b) Phloem c) Random motion
d) Circular motion
c) Stomata
d) Cambium 74.Flow of charges is called:
a) Electric pressure
21. The male part of a flower that b) Electric field
produces pollen is called: c) Electric current
a) Stigma d) Electric power
b) Style
75.Shadows are always formed
c) Ovary
because light:
d) Anther a) Is white
b) Travels in straight lines
22.In a distance-time graph, a c) Is slow
horizontal line shows: d) Changes speed
a) Uniform motion
76.Which helps prevent floods?
b) Accelerated motion
a) Urbanization
c) No motion b) Forests
d) Increasing speed c) Concrete roads
d) Dams only
23.Which instrument detects
77.Treated wastewater can be used
electric current? for:
a) Thermometer a) Drinking
b) Galvanometer b) Cooking
c) Barometer c) Irrigation
d) Hydrometer d) Industrial discharge
78.Plant which gets food from
24.The splitting of white light into
another living plant:
seven colors is called: a) Mushroom
a) Reflection b) Cuscuta
b) Refraction c) Rose
c) Dispersion d) Sunflower
d) Scattering
79.Food is churned in:
a) Mouth
25.Trees help prevent soil erosion
b) Small intestine
mainly by: c) Stomach
a) Providing shade d) Large intestine
b) Holding soil with roots
c) Reducing wind speed 80.When hot and cold water are
d) Increasing rainfall mixed, heat transfer occurs by:
a) Conduction
b) Convection
26.Wastewater treatment makes c) Radiation
water: d) Reflection
a) Only colorless
b) Potable and clean 81. Red litmus turns blue in:
c) Salty a) Acid
d) Acidic b) Base
c) Salt
d) Distilled water
27.Rhizobium bacteria fix:
a) Oxygen 82.Burning magnesium ribbon
b) Nitrogen produces:
c) Carbon dioxide a) Carbon dioxide
d) Sulfur b) Water
c) Magnesium oxide
d) Hydrogen
28.Amoeba engulfs food by:
a) Tentacles 83.Breathing rate increases during
b) Pseudopodia exercise because:
c) Cilia a) More heat is needed
d) Flagella b) More CO₂ must be removed
c) Blood becomes thicker
d) Stomach needs oxygen
29.Transfer of heat by movement 84.Blood vessels carrying blood
of fluids is: from heart to body:
a) Conduction a) Veins
b) Arteries
b) Convection
c) Capillaries
c) Radiation d) Bronchi
d) Reflection
85.Which plant part carries male
30.Which of these is a natural gametes?
base? a) Stigma
a) Vinegar b) Style
c) Pollen grain
b) Lime water
d) Ovule
c) Lemon juice
d) Hydrochloric acid 86.The rate of motion is called:
a) Time
31. Chemical changes are usually: b) Distance
a) Reversible c) Speed
b) Irreversible d) Acceleration
c) Temporary
87.Fuse wire melts when:
d) Slow only a) Current is low
b) Current exceeds safe value
32.Exchange of gases in human c) Circuit is off
lungs takes place in: d) Circuit is incomplete
a) Trachea
88.Sunlight consists of:
b) Bronchi
a) Only red light
c) Alveoli b) Only white light
d) Bronchioles c) Seven colors
d) Black light
33.Which liquid transports
nutrients in humans? 89.Forest soil becomes fertile
a) Water mainly due to:
a) Animals
b) Plasma
b) Humus
c) Bile c) Wind
d) Saliva d) Rain
34.Bryophyllum reproduces by: 90.Wastewater released from
a) Seeds homes is rich in:
b) Roots a) Minerals
b) Organic matter
c) Leaf buds
c) Metals
d) Spores d) Alcohol
35.Speed = distance ÷ ____ 91. The green pigment in plants:
a) Mass a) Carotene
b) Area b) Chlorophyll
c) Anthocyanin
c) Time
d) Xanthophyll
d) Volume
92.Amoeba moves by:
36.A fuse wire is made of metal a) Cilia
b) Flagella
with:
c) Pseudopodia
a) Low melting point d) Tentacles
b) High melting point
c) High resistance only 93.Which thermometer can
d) Low density measure below 0°C?
a) Clinical thermometer
37.Image formed by plane mirror b) Laboratory thermometer
c) Wall thermometer
is:
d) None
a) Real, inverted
b) Virtual, same size 94.Baking soda is:
c) Magnified a) Acidic
d) Smaller b) Basic
c) Neutral
d) Metallic
38.Which part of the digestive 95.Respiration in yeast produces:
system absorbs water? a) Carbon dioxide and water
only
a) Stomach
b) Alcohol and carbon dioxide
b) Small intestine c) Oxygen
c) Large intestine d) Nitrogen
d) Oesophagus
96.The largest artery in the human
39.The acid found in our stomach body:
that helps digestion: a) Vein
b) Aorta
a) Nitric acid
c) Pulmonary artery
b) Hydrochloric acid d) Capillary
c) Sulfuric acid
d) Citric acid 97.New plant from potato can
grow from:
40.Why are metal pots often a) Seeds
b) Roots
provided with wooden handles?
c) Eyes
a) Wood is cheaper d) Flowers
b) Wood is a poor conductor
c) Wood is shiny 98.Uniform motion means:
d) Wood melts easily a) Equal distances in equal time
b) Changing direction
41.When an acid reacts with a c) Changing speed
d) Acceleration
base, the product is:
a) Only salt 99.Device to open/close an electric
b) Salt and water circuit:
c) Only water a) Fuse
b) Bulb
d) Acidic solution c) Switch
d) Motor
42.Respiration in plants occurs:
100. Forests reduce air pollution
a) Only in leaves
by:
b) Only in roots a) Making wind
c) In all parts b) Absorbing CO₂
d) Only during day c) Producing dust
d) Blocking sunlight
43.What transports food in plants?
a) Xylem
b) Phloem
c) Cortex
d) Cambium
44.Which part of the flower
becomes the fruit?
a) Stigma
b) Petals
c) Ovary
d) Anther
45.Which of these always shows
uniform speed?
a) Walking person
b) Running horse
c) Electric fan at constant
setting
d) Car in city
46.Which device converts
mechanical energy to electrical
energy?
a) Generator
b) Motor
c) Switch
d) Battery
Answer Key
1c 21 d 41 c 61 c 81 b
2b 22 c 42 b 62 c 82 c
3c 23 b 43 b 63 c 83 b
4b 24 c 44 b 64 c 84 b
5b 25 b 45 c 65 b 85 c
6b 26 b 46 b 66 d 86 c
7b 27 b 47 c 67 b 87 b
8c 28 b 48 c 68 b 88 c
9b 29 b 49 a 69 c 89 b
10 b 30 b 50 c 70 b 90 b
11 b 31 b 51 c 71 c 91 b
12 c 32 c 52 c 72 c 92 c
13 a 33 b 53 c 73 b 93 b
14 b 34 c 54 c 74 c 94 b
15 c 35 c 55 a 75 b 95 b
16 a 36 a 56 c 76 b 96 b
17 b 37 b 57 c 77 c 97 c
18 b 38 b 58 c 78 b 98 a
19 c 39 b 59 d 79 c 99 c
20 a 40 b 60 c 80 b 100 b