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SCIENCE REVIEWER FOR SCIENCE QUIZ ELEMENTARY

Prepared by: Merlyn C. Tadiar

MATTER 16. The atomic number of a chemical element


refers to the number of what found in a
1. What do you call when matter changes from nucleus of an atom?
liquid to solid? Answer: Protons
Answer: freezing
17. What is the chemical symbol of lead?
2. Changing matter from gas to liquid. Answer: Pb
Answer: condensation
18. What is the common name of sodium
3. Changing matter from solid to gas chloride?
Answer: sublimation Answer: table salt

4. Changing matter from solid to liquid 19. What common compound that has a
Answer: melting (fusion) symbol of H2O?
Answer: water
5. It is the smallest part of the property of a
substance. 20. What compound is CO2?
Answer: molecule Answer: carbon dioxide

6. The study of the patterns of the movement 21. What gas is used as a disinfectant in
of gases is called what? drinking water?
Answer: aerodynamics Answer: Chlorine

7. It is the number of protons in the nucleus of 22. What is the fermented juice of apples
an atom better known as?
Answer: atomic number Answer: cider

8. What is the most abundant noble gas? 23. What kind of waste is capable of being
Answer: argon slowly destroyed and broken down into very
small parts by natural processes?
9. It is the substance that capable of Answer: biodegradable
destroying bacteria.
Answer: antibiotic 24. It is the action or process of making land,
water, air dirty and not safe or suitable to use.
10. A BTU is the quantity of heat required to Answer: pollution
raise the temperature of one pound of water
one degree on what temperature scale? 25. It is collecting, processing and
Answer: Fahrenheit manufacturing materials instead of throwing
them away.
11. What is measured by the SI units Bar? Answer: Recycling
Answer: pressure
26. It is a waste material that are recycled as
12. What is measure by the SI units Curie? fertilizer
Answer: Activity of radionuclide Answer: compost

13. What is measured by barn? 27. It is the ability of a material to absorb


Answer: Area water.
Answer: Porosity
14. What is measured by calories?
Answer: Energy 28. The ability or capability of a material to
dissolve another material.
15. This gem stone is the softest of all Answer: solubility
precious stones. What is this green stone that
is composed of mineral beryl? 29. The dissolved substance in a solution.
Answer: Emerald Answer: solute

30. The dissolving substance in a solution


Answer: solvent
REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM
16. Where does fertilization takes place?
Answer: fallopian tube
1. It is a system that enables human being to
reproduce another human. 17. What do you call when an egg or ovum from
Answer: Reproductive system an ovary is released about once a month?
Answer: ovulation
2. It is a process that makes possible the
continuance of life on Earth. 18. It is the finger-like extension of the fallopian
Answer: reproduction tube that drive the fertilized egg to the uterus.
Answer: fimbriae
3. A male reproductive organ where it produces
sperms and the hormone testosterone. 19. It is a hollow, avocado-shaped muscular
Answer: testis organ with thick walls where a fertilized egg
develops.
4. A tube that circle the bladder and the Answer: uterus
excretory duct of testes.
Answer: vas deferens 20. It is called the birth canal because when a
baby is to be born, it is where it passes.
5. It is a sac-like pouch that supports the testes Answer: vagina
in place.
Answer: scrotum 21. It is the neck of the uterus.
Answer: cervix
6. It is a sac that serves as the receptacle of the
urine. 22. It is the union of the sperm and egg cell.
Answer: bladder Answer: fertilization

7. A gland that produces sperms with a fluid that 23. What do you call the fertilized egg?
enables them to move. Answer: zygote
Answer: seminal vesicle
24. What do you call the period of time when the
8. It is the mixture of the sperm and fluid. zygote undergoes development for nine months
Answer: semen in the uterus and until the birth of the baby?
Answer: pregnancy
9. The tube that carries urine out from the body
and also serves as an opening of the sperm. 25. It refers to an unborn child during the first
Answer: urethra two months of pregnancy.
Answer: embryo
10. The male reproductive organ
Answer: penis 26. What do you call the protective membrane
that surrounds the embryo?
11. It is a single cell with a head and a tail. Answer: amniotic sac
Answer: sperm
27. It is a clear fluid filled in the amniotic sac that
12. It is found at the top of each testis and where protects the embryo against harm and keeps
the sperms are stored. the embryo moist.
Answer: epididymis Answer: amniotic cord

13. It provide fluids that lubricate the duct 28. What cord connects the embryo to the
system and nourish the sperm. placenta?
Answer: prostate gland Answer: umbilical cord

14. What human stage on time of development 29. Nutrients and oxygen pass from the mother
when a person become physically able to to the embryo through the __________.
reproduce. Answer: placenta
Answer: Puberty
30. In what week of the pregnancy when the
15. It is a sex glands located in the pelvis, they embryo develops tiny arm and legs with fingers
produce the ova and the sex cells of the female. and toes?
Answer: ovary Answer: 6th-7th weeks
2. Where does the exchange of oxygen and
31. What do you call the embryo after the two carbon dioxide happens in human body?
months of pregnancy and the body organ are Answer: alveoli
now present?
Answer: fetus 3. It is the opening in our nose where air enters.
Answer: nostrils
32. It is a series of changes during which an egg
matures and the uterus is prepared for possible 4. It is where the air gets moistened and
pregnancy. warmed as it enters in the nostrils.
Answer: menstrual cycle Answer: Nasal Cavity

33. It happens when the uterine lining begins to 5. It is a tiny hair-like structure that traps the air
break down and the blood with some uterine against impurities.
tissue and unfertilized egg make their way out Answer: cilia
through the vagina.
Answer: menstruation flow 6. A tube-like passage for both food and air that
found between the nasal cavity and esophagus.
34. How many hours a sperm can survived? Answer: pharynx
Answer: 24-48 hours
7. It is a flap of tissue found at the end of the
35. It refers to the lining of the uterus that pharynx that closes over the larynx when we
becomes thicker in preparation for implantation swallow.
of the fertilized egg. Answer: epiglottis
Answer: endometrium
8. It is where the vocal chords attached that
36. It is the female gonad where the egg is produce sounds when we speak.
produced. Answer: larynx
Answer: ovary
9. An organ below the larynx which is a 12cm
37. How many chromosomes are in the nucleus long tube and made up of C-shaped rings of
of a human sperm? cartilage.
Answer: 23 chromosomes Answer: trachea

38. Sex determination of a child is done by 10. Branch of trachea that carry air into the
whose chromosome? lungs.
Answer: Father Answer: bronchi

39. It is the male gametes. 11. It is a cluster of tiny thin-walled sacs found
Answer: Testicles at the end of each bronchioles.
Answer: alveoli
40. A walnut sized glands located between the
bladder and the penis, it secretes fluid that 12. Substance that produced by the lining of the
nourishes and protects sperm. nasal cavity
Answer: prostate Answer: mucus

41. The female gametes is ___. 13. Tiny hair-like structure that trap the bacteria
Answer: ovaries in the trachea
Answer: mucous membrane and cilia

14. The flow of air to the lungs


Answer: nostrils-nasal cavity-pharynx-
trachea-bronchus- bronchiole- alveoli

RESPIRATORY SYSTEM 15. What do you call the division of the lungs?
Answer: lobes

1. The system that helps a person breathe in 16. It is a thin membrane that surrounds the
oxygen and breathe out carbon dioxide. lungs.
Answer: respiratory system Answer: pleura
17. Bones that protect the lungs
Answer: rib cage 32. It is made out of thin pieces of bone that
separates the nasal passages.
18. How many pairs of rib cage that protect the Answer: Septum
lungs?
Answer: 12 pairs 33. What do you call the two holes in the nose?
Answer: Nostrils
19. A dome-shaped muscle that works with the
lungs to allow breathing in and breathing out. 34. What part of the human anatomy that known
Answer: diaphragm as “voice box”?
Answer: larynx

20. What is the first apparatus used for 35. Where in the human body do alveoli found?
breathing underwater? Answer: lungs
Answer: diving bell
36.
21. What is the first safe underwater breathing
device?
Answer: aqualung

22. A disease in which the alveoli in the lungs


lose their ability to expand and contract.
Answer: emphysema
URINARY SYSTEM
23. A disease in which too much mucus is
produce in the bronchial tubes.
Answer: chronic bronchitis
1. It is a system of excretory organs that rids
blood of wastes, excess water and excess salt.
24. It is an ailment caused by a virus on which
Answer: Urinary System
there is swelling of the mucus membrane of the
respiratory passages.
2. Two bean-shaped organs that filter blood to
Answer: colds
produce waste liquid called urine.
Answer: kidneys
25. Swelling of the lungs that caused by a virus
and bacteria
3. Where does blood enters going to the
Answer: Pneumonia
kidney?
Answer: renal artery
26. A communicable disease caused by the
bacteria a mycobacterium tuberculosis.
4. Where does blood pass as it leaves the
Answer: pulmonary tuberculosis
kidney?
Answer: renal vein
27. How many receptors in your nose?
Answer: atleast 10 million
5. It is a tiny filtering unit of the kidney that rids
blood of waste liquid called urine.
28. What is behind your nose and connects with
Answer: nephron
the back of the throat?
Answer: Nasal Cavity
6. It holds the urine until it leaves the body.
Answer: bladder
29. What moves back and forth to move the
mucus out of the sinuses and the back if the
7. It carries urine to the outside of the body.
nose?
Answer: urethra
Answer: Cilia
8. It connects the kidney to the urinary bladder.
30. This icky stuff, also known as boogers,
Answer: ureters
helps capture dust, germs and small particles.
Answer: Mucus
9. It helps a defective kidney filter the blood.
Answer: dialysis
31. These are sensitive to odor molecules and
help the brain recognize smells?
10. What is the main excretory organ?
Answer: receptors
Answer: kidney
11. Where does the filtration of blood in the 11. It is a muscle found at the end of the
kidney take place? stomach that closes and opens to allow the flow
Answer: Bowman’s capsule of from the esophagus to the stomach.
Answer: Sphincter muscle
12. It is a waste product excreted through the
urinary system. 12. It is the long coiled connected from the
Answer: Urine stomach.
Answer: Small intestine
13. Cystitis is the infection of ________. There are three parts of the Small
Answer: Urinary bladder Intestine:
 Duodenum – the upper 20 cm. connected
14. What tube connects the kidney to the to the stomach
bladder?  Jejunum – is about 2.5 meters long.
Answer: Ureter
 Ileum – is the longest half coiled through
15. the abdominal cavity
 The last 20 or 30 centimeters of the colon
are called rectum.
13. The softened food is rolled into a ball called
DIGESTIVE SYSTEM the bolus and is pushed by the tongue into the
throat.
1. The process of breaking up and dissolving
the food so that it ca be taken into the blood to 14. How long is an adult’s small intestine?
be used by the body. Answer: 22 feet
Answer: digestion
15. Where does bile made/ production of bile?
2. Where does digestion begin? Answer: Liver
Answer: mouth
16. Your food can spend up to this long in the
3. It is a digestive juice which is secreted by the small intestine.
three pairs of salivary glands that empty into the Answer: 4 hours
mouth.
Answer: saliva 17. The large intestine measures about ___.
Answer: 5 feet long
4. It is the front teeth with sharp edges for biting
and cutting the food. 18. What are the last four teeth a person will
Answer: Incisors get?
Answer: Wisdom teeth
5. It is the pointed teeth which grip and tear the
food. 19. What kind of teeth do babies have?
Answer: Canines Answer: Primary

6. The teeth that crushed and grind the food 20. What makes up the roots of your teeth and
Answer: Premolars attaches to your jawbone?
Answer: Cementum
7. It is the flat teeth used for chewing the food.
Answer: Molars 21. What innermost part of the tooth does the
dentin protect?
8. It is a is a long muscular tube that connects Answer: pulp
the pharynx to the throat to the stomach.
Answer: Esophagus 22. What hard, tough and shiny substances
cover the crown?
9. A rhythmically movement that contracts to Answer: Enamel
move the food through the digestive system.
Answer: Peristalsis 23. What is the part of the tooth you can see
above the gum?
10. It is a large J-shaped organ at the end of the Answer: crown
esophagus, on the left side of the body.
Answer: Stomach
25. What tiny hairs send messages to the brain Answer: villi
that help identify tastes?
Answer: Microvilli 41. It is the undigested food that becomes a soft
solid.
26. How many taste buds does a man has when Answer: feces
he was born?
Answer: 10 thousand 42. The lowest end of the large intestine and
when feces pass out of the body.
27. The back section of the tongue that is part Answer: Rectum
of the immune system.
Answer: Lingual tonsil 43. What is the largest gland in the body that
produces a bile.
28. This is the thin membrane that connects Answer: liver
your tongue to the bottom of your mouth.
Answer: Frenulum 44. It breaks the fats into tiny droplets.
29. What substance in the mouth that helps Answer: bile
break down food?
Answer: Saliva 45. Where does bile stored?
Answer: gall bladder
30. _____ contains taste buds.
Answer: Papillae 46. The organ that produces juice that digest
sugars, starches, proteins, fats and insulin
31. It is the bumps on the top of the tongue. Answer: pancreas
Answer: Papillae
47. It is produced by the pancreas that helps
32. What organ in the digestive system that is control the use of sugar by the body.
responsible for Vitamin B and K absorption? Answer: insulin
Answer: Large intestine
48. What is the hardest material in the body?
33. Where do excess fat soluble vitamins Answer: enamel
typically accumulated?
Answer: Liver 49. Layer of the teeth that is harder than the
bone but softer than the enamel.
34. What enzyme contains in saliva which acts Answer: dentin
on starches and changes them into sugar?
Answer: ptyalin 50. What is the center of the tooth that contains
the nerves and blood vessels?
35. What is the strong muscle that helps the Answer: soft pulp
teeth in digestion?
Answer: tongue 51. What chemical helps to make the teeth
harder?
36. How many permanent teeth does an adult Answer: fluoride
have?
Answer: 32 52. It is a yellow or brownish material formed
37. It is the passageway of food from the from saliva and food that sticks below the gums
pharynx. and becomes hard.
Answer: esophagus Answer: tartar

38. It is the passage of air in the pharynx. 53. What kind of doctor you need to consult
Answer: windpipe when your teeth are poorly aligned, badly
spaced or prodding?
39. It is a squeezing movement of muscles Answer: orthodontist
which help the food moves from the esophagus
towards the stomach. 54. The liver secrets bile which flows through
Answer: peristalsis ducts and into what pear shaped muscular sac?
Answer: gall bladder
40. What lined in the walls of the small
intestines that separate the food nutrients ready 55. How many incisor teeth are there in a full
to be absorbed by the walls from the foods that set of adult teeth?
is not yet ready. Answer: 8
56. In the normal adult human, how many 11. Which part of the ear takes soundwaves
bicuspids are there? and turns them into vibration?
Answer: 8 Answer: middle ear

57. The organ that controls the level of glucose 12. What tiny bone is attached to the eardrum?
in our bodies. Answer: Malleus
Answer: pancreas
13. What is the most delicate bones in your
58. What canal is travelled in digestion? body called?
Answer: alimentary canal Answer: Ossicles

59. Where do digestion most occur? 14. It separates the outer ear from the middle
Answer: small intestine ear?
Answer: Eardrum
60. How many teeth should a human adult
have, including wisdom tooth? 15. What part of the ear that is responsible for
Answer: 32 the popping sensation you feel when you’re
flying in an airplane?
61. It makes insulin to help digest and use Answer: Eustachian tube
glucose.
Answer: pancreas 16. Which part of the ear do people pierce to
wear earrings?
62. It refers to the secretion of substance or Answer: Auricle or Pinna
hormones in the bloodstream.
Answer: Endocrine 17. What name is given to the 33 bones that
make up a person’s spine or spinal cord.
SKELETAL SYSTEM Answer: vertebrae

18. What is the longest bone in the human


1. It is the bone that protects the brain. body?
Answer: cranium/skull Answer: Femur

2. What is the smallest bone in the body? 19. Where is the largest bone in the body
Answer: Stirrup found?
Answer: in the legs
3. It is the part where bones meet.
Answer: Joints 20. A bone is joined to a muscle by what
structure?
4. How many bones that an adult has? Answer: tendon
Answer: 206 bones
21. What is the common name for the scapula?
5. What do you call the bones in your spine? Answer: shoulder blade
Answer: Vertebrae
22. What is protected by the cranium?
6. Where does the patella located? Answer: brain
Answer: Knee
23. An injury to a ligament caused by excessive
7. What’s in the center of the bone? stretching.
Answer: Bone marrow Answer: Sprain

8. What age does your bone stop growing? 24. It is a break in the bone.
Answer: 25 yrs. Old Answer: Fracture

9. How many bones are in the spine? 25. It is a strong muscle contraction that is very
Answer: 33 painful.
Answer: Cramp
10. What bone protect the lungs, heart and
liver? 26.
Answer: rib cage
decision making occur in the outer gray part of
NERVOUS SYSTEM the cerebrum, what do you call this part?
Answer: cerebral cortex
1. The system that controls everything you do.
Answer: Nervous system 16. What part of the brain controls muscle
coordination and balance?
2. Which part of the body that is the control Answer: cerebellum
center of the nervous system?
Answer: Brain 17. It orders and processes split second
actions and reactions. It is called “little brain”
3. A typical brain weighs how much? because it brings all of the muscle actions
Answer: 3 pounds (1.4 kg) together.
Answer: cerebellum
4. What is the biggest part of the brain?
Answer: 18. The hind part of the brain that holds the
medulla oblongata and the pons.
5. Which part of the brain helps keep your Answer: brain stem
balance so you don’t fall?
Answer: 19. Found in the brain stem that transmits
signals between the spinal cord and the brain.
6. Which part of the brain keeps you breathing?
Answer: Answer: medulla oblongata

7. It is a microscopic cell that creates


connections or pathways.
Answer: neurons
20. Part of the brain that controls autonomic or
8. Your emotions are believed to come from involuntary functions such as heartbeat and
______. breathing.
Answer: Amygdala Answer: Medulla Oblongata

9. It is the part of the brain acts like 21. It is partly made up of tracts that connect
switchboard that allows the communication the spinal cord with higher brain levels. It also
from the brain to the other parts of the nervous contains cell groups that transfer information
system. from the cerebrum to the cerebellum.
Answer: Midbrain Answer: Pons

10. What makes up 80% of the human brain? 22. The wrinkled folds of the brain are called
Answer: water _____________.
Answer: gyri or convolutions
11. It is the organ which receives, processes
and stores information from inside and outside 23. Heartbeat is controlled by the ________.
the body. It decides what to do with the Answer: Medulla Oblongata
received information and sends signals to the
body to react, decide or move. 24. It is the downward extension of the brain.
Answer: Brain Answer: Spinal Cord

12. It is the seat of human intelligence. 25. This are bundles of fibers (axons) from
Answer: Brain neurons and which are held together by
connective tissue.
13. The brain of an adult human weighs about Answer: Nerves
______.
Answer: 2.5 to 3 pounds 26. It is the basic unit of the nervous system.
Answer: neuron
14. It is the largest part of the brain.
Answer: cerebrum 27. Fibers of nerve cells that pick up
information from the receptors. (Receptors are
15. It receives, stores and recalls all the parts of the body, either nerves or sense
information the body picks up. Cognitive organs, that can pick up stimuli from the
processes such as thinking, memorizing and environment or from within the body).
Answer: dendrites Answer: sensory neurons

28. What contains the nucleus of the cell as 38. What neurons carry impulses from the
well as other structures that help keep the cell brain or spinal cord to the muscles?
alive? Answer: motor neurons
Answer: cell body
39. What part of the midbrain that regulates
29. Where do information received by the body functions such as thirst, hungers, sleep
dendrites go after? patterns and emotions?
Answer: cell body Answer: hypothalamus

30. What is the gap or space between axon 40. What is the main endocrine gland that is
and dendrites called? located at the base of the brain?
Answer: synapse Answer: Pituitary gland

31. _________ is an infection of the fluid of a 41. What part of the neuron carries messages
person’s spinal cord and the fluid that surrounds to the cell body?
the brain. Answer: dendrites

Answer: Meningitis 42. What part of the neuron carries messages


away from the cell body?
Answer: axon
32. Buboy was 2 years old when he started
having seizures. Without warning, he would
just fall to the ground and his body would start 43. Sensory messages are taken to the brain
convulsing. Afterwards he would lose by _________.
consciousness and wake up after several Answer: nerves and hormones
minutes. What chronic disorder of the function
of the cerebrum is this? 44. A large ductless gland in the neck that
Answer: epilepsy makes hormones to regulate growth and
development through the rate of metabolism.
33. It is a degenerative disease of nerve cells Answer: Thyroid Gland
in the cerebral cortex that often characterized
as the lapses of memory? 45. The glands that control the calcium in our
Answer: Alzheimer’s disease bodies?
Answer: Parathyroid gland
34. Muhammad Ali was a world-famous boxer.
After he retired, he developed constant 46. Located on top of each kidney, produce
trembling of his hands. He also experiences hormone that you can’t live without including
tremors in his legs which make him walk and sex hormones and cortisol
move very slowly. What is this progressive Answer: Adrenal
disorder in which the chemicals that facilitate
electrical transmission between neurons are 47.
defected?
Answer: Parkinson’s disease
35. What chemical substance do synapse
released? INTEGUMENTARY SYSTEM
Answer: neurotransmitter 1. What do you call the natural oil in the skin?
Answer: Sebum
36. Anything that the receptors of the sense
organ collect from the environment called
2. Each hair on your body grows out of a tiny
what?
tube in the skin called ____.
Answer: stimuli
Answer: Follicle
37. What neurons gather information from the
3. What gives the skin color?
sense organs and send impulses to the spinal
Answer: Melanin
cord and brain for processing?
4. What is the outermost layer of the skin? 24. What is the meaning of the scientific suffix
Answer: Epidermis –derm?
Answer: skin
5. What is the body’s largest organ?
Answer: skin

6. When a nail curves down into the skin as it CIRCULATORY SYSTEM


grows, causing pain and infection, it is called
___.
1. It is the movement of the blood as it
Answer: Ingrown nail
distributes food and oxygen to the cells of the
body and remove waste material form them
7. What it is called when a loose strip of dead
Answer: circulation
skin hangs from the edge of your fingernails?
Answer: Hangnail
2. It is the fluid component that circulates
throughout the body, carries nutrients to the
8. Where does the nail meet the skin?
cells and delivers oxygen in the tissue.
Answer: cuticle
Answer: Blood
9. Nail start growing from the ___.
3. A tube-like structure where blood travels.
ANSWER: Nail root
Answer: Blood vessels
10. On your nail, what is the pale half-circle part
4. What organ pumps blood to the different
above the cuticle?
parts of the body.
Answer: Lunula
Answer: heart
11. What does the nails made out of?
5. The system that considered as the main
Answer: Keratin
transport of the body.
Answer: circulatory system
16. Why do you get goosebumps when you’re
cold?
6. How big is human’s heart?
Answer: Pilomotor reflex
Answer: human’s fist
17. What is the deepest layer of the skin?
7. It is a very thin but very strong sac that
Answer: subcutaneous fatty tissue
enclosed the heart.
Answer: pericardium or pericardial sac
18. It refers to the moisture produce by sweat
glands.
8. It is the chamber of the heart with thicker
Answer: perspiration
walls because it pumps blood to the different
part of the body.
19. It is the inflammation of the sebaceous
Answer: ventricles
glands due to increase oil production in the skin.
Answer: acne
9. What chamber of the heart receives oxygen-
rich oxygen from the lungs?
20. What is the thickest layer of the skin?
Answer: left auricle
Answer: dermis
10. What is the alternating relaxation and
21. What layer of the skin that produce sebum
contraction of the heart?
the natural oil that lubricates the skin?
Answer: cardiac cycle
Answer: dermis
11. What is the muscular wall that completely
separates the left and right chambers of the
22. What disorder when a man’s skin has very
heart?
little melanin that cause the skin looks very
Answer: septum
white and have blonde hair.
Answer: Albinism
12. It is the specialized region of the heart that
makes sure that the heart never skips a beat?
23. It is the part of the nails that connects the
Answer: pacemaker
skin?
Answer: cuticle
13. What circulatory circuit that transport blood
between the heart and the lungs?
Answer: pulmonary circuit Answer: Blood vessels

14. The circulatory circuit that transport or 30. Blood vessels that carry blood away from
carries blood between the heart and the rest of the heart.
the body and back to the heart. Answer: arteries
Answer: systemic circuit
31. Blood vessels that carry blood toward the
15. How many liters of blood that an average heart
healthy person has? Answer: veins
Answer: 4.5 to 6 liters
32. Blood vessels that allow the exchange of
16. It is a protein-rich fluid and that consists of nutrients, gases and wastes in the cells of the
plasma, RBC, WBC and platelets? body.
Answer: Blood Answer: capillaries

17. It is 55% of the blood volume, 90% water 33. Which vitamin is primarily responsible for
and 10% solute. blood clotting?
Answer: Plasma Answer: Vitamin K

18. The most abundant cells in the blood that 34. It is the exerted force as the blood flows
contains hemoglobin. inside the walls of the blood vessels
Answer: Red Blood cells Answer: blood pressure

19. What is the other name of red blood cells? 35. Instrument that measured blood pressure
Answer: Erythrocytes quickly and easily.
Answer: sphygmomanometer
20. It gives red color of the blood.
Answer: hemoglobin 36. Blood pressure 120/90
120 (systolic pressure) – higher pressure of
21. Where does hemoglobin produced? the heart that occurs during contraction of the
Answer: Red marrow of flat bones ventricles

22. It is the composition of blood that also 90 (diastolic pressure) – low pressure of the
known as leukocytes. heart that occurs when relaxed
Answer: White blood cells
37. It is the introduction of blood of a blood
23. They are the soldiers of the body because donor to the blood stream of a recipient.
they fight infections. Answer: Blood transfusion
Answer: White blood cells
38. Who performed the first human to human
24. It is a yellowish liquid consisting of dead blood transfusion?
WBC, bacteria and other foreign materials in Answer: Jean-Baptiste Denis
the blood.
Answer: pus 39. It is a specialized protein secretes by
lymphocytes that help protect the body against
25. The smallest elements in the blood that play foreign bodies.
an important role in blood clotting. Answer: antibodies
Answer: Platelets
40. It is a sudden rise in blood pressure.
26. The protein that platelets release when Answer: hypertension
there is cut or damage in the blood vessels.
Answer: fibrin 41. A disease occur when there is an increase
in white blood cell.
27. It is a jelly-like red mass fibrin. Answer: leukemia
Answer: clot
42. It occurs when a blood clot or fat get lodged
28. Who first discovered blood circulation? in blood vessels.
Answer: Dr. William Harvey Answer: heart attack

29. The passageways of blood


43. It happens when a blood clot blocks an
artery in the brain and reduces the blood
supply.
Answer: stroke
SENSES
44. It is a condition caused by fat or cholesterol
deposit in the aerial wall. 1. Part of the eyes which focuses on the retina.
Answer: Atherosclerosis Answer: lens

45. It is a protein in the blood, primarily carries 2. “Baby teeth” are also known as deciduous
oxygen throughout the body. teeth. How many deciduous teeth does the
Answer: hemoglobin average person develop when young?
Answer: 20
46. What bacteria caused rheumatic fever.
Answer: streptococcus bacteria 3. What is the colored part around the pupil of
the eye?
47. What is the largest artery where oxygen-rich Answer: iris
blood from the heart flows?
Answer: Aorta 4. What is the strongest muscle in the body?
Answer: tongue
48. A hereditary blood disorder wherein blood
clots very slowly affecting only males but
transmitted in genes of females.
Answer: Hemophilia NUTRITION RELATED QUESTIONS
49. What blood cells that defend our bodies
1. It makes up most of your blood and help
against illnesses?
carry oxygen and food to the cells in your
Answer: white blood cells
body. It helps your body get rid of wastes
through urine and sweat.
50.How many coronary arteries has a human
Answer: Water
heart?
Answer: 2
2. What food nutrient is our body’s main
source of energy?
51. What is the name of the main artery that
Answer: Carbohydrates
carries blood from the heart?
Answer: Aorta
3. They are very important for building strong
bones.
52. Where are red blood cells made?
Answer: Calcium
Answer: bone marrow
4. It is a degenerative brain disorder that
53. When a physician puts a stethoscope to
causes a gradual and irreversible decline in
your chest, two sounds are heard. What sounds
memory and eventually, the ability to care for
represents the opening and closing of the
oneself.
valves?
Answer: Alzheimer’s disease
Answer: lub-dub, lub-dub
5. It is a dietary-deficiency disease resulting
54. Why do blood cells do not shrink in blood?
from inadequate intake of niacin.
Answer: Because blood is isotonic
Answer: Pellagra
55. Blood vessels that allows the exchange of
6. An irregularity in the rhythm of the heartbeat
nutrients, gases and waste in the cells of the
is referred to as what?
body.
Answer: Arrhythmia
Answer: capillaries
7. It is a water-soluble vitamin found in fruits
56. It is the inflammation of the lungs.
and leafy vegetables and is also called as
Answer: Pneumonia
ascorbic acid.
Answer: Vitamin C
57.
8. A prolonged deficiency of Vitamin C in the
diet causes what disease?
Answer: Scurvy
24. The slowness of heart rate is referred to as
9. It is an ailment that can develop from low what?
red blood cells count or deficiency in Answer: Bradycardia
hemoglobin.
Answer: Anemia 25. The first secretion from the mother’s breast
is rich in antibodies and minerals. This is
10. What is the protein food found in milk? produced after giving birth and before the
Answer: Casein production of true milk. It provides newborns
with immunity to infections.
11. What is the cheapest source of Vitamin D? Answer: Colostrum
Answer: Sunlight/Morning Sunshine
26. These are the “building blocks” of protein
12. What is the scientific name of guava? which is an integral part of all body tissues
Answer: Psidium guajava especially muscle.
Answer: Amino Acids
13. The package of simple ready-to-cook
foods designed as a supplement to the usual 27. It is the enlargement of the thyroid gland
diet of the child is called what? appearing as a swelling of the front of the
Answer: Nutri-Pak neck.
Answer: Goiter
14. What severe form of child malnutrition is
caused by inadequate intake of protein? 28. It helps prevent goiter.
Answer: Kwashiorkor Answer: Iodine

15. It refers to the food that a person usually 29. This refers to the ease with which
consumes. nutrients, particularly minerals, can be
Answer: Diet absorbed from the digestive tract and utilized
by the body.
16. This vitamin is extracted from liver which is Answer: Bio-availability/Bioavailability
essential for red blood cell formation.
Answer: Vitamin B12/Cyanocobalamin 30. ___________ is a term to describe
minerals that are attached to other molecules
17. It is a relapse or recurrence of an illness or such as proteins or carbohydrates and used to
disease. improve the bio-availability of minerals.
Answer: Palindromia Answer: Chelates

18. It is the scientific regulation of diet in 31. These are the building blocks of fats and
treating disease. oils.
Answer: Dietotherapy Answer: Fatty Acids

19. Any substance that nourishes a person to 32. It refers to the study of measurement of the
enable him to live and grow. physical characteristics of the body such as
Answer: Food height and weight.
Answer: Anthropometry
20. It is a condition characterized by
sleepiness, indifference, and lack of energy. 33. It is the pressure of the blood on the walls
Answer: Lethargy of the arteries.
Answer: Blood Pressure
21. ____________ is a metabolism of fat.
Answer: Lipometabolism 34. _________ is the rate of energy used for
metabolism when the body is at complete rest.
22. _____________ is caused by lack of Answer: Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR)
calories or inadequate amount of food.
Answer: Marasmus 35. It is an eating disorder characterized by
binge eating, sometimes followed by vomiting
23. It is a type of cancer of the blood or purging.
characterized by an abnormal increase of Answer: Bulimia
immature white blood cells called “blasts“.
Answer: Leukemia
36. What is the natural stimulant found in 49. It is a deficiency in blood where iron level
coffee, tea, and chocolate? intake is too low.
Answer: Caffeine Answer: Anemia

37. It is the unit of heat and the measurement 50. These are foods that are supplemented
of energy. with essential nutrients in quantities greater
Answer: Calorie than already present.
Answer: Fortified Foods
38. ___________ is a monosaccharide,
sometimes known as blood sugar. 51. How do you call a healthcare professional
Answer: Glucose with training in nutrition and diet planning?
Answer: Dietician/Dietitian
39. It is the main carbohydrate in milk.
Answer: Lactose 52. _______ is the science that deals with
foods and their effects on health.
40. These refers to the substances obtained Answer: Nutrition
from food and used in the body to provide
energy and structural materials and to regulate 53. ________ is a drug or remedy used for
growth, maintenance and repair of the body’s treating illness.
tissue. Answer: Medicine
Answer: Nutrients
54. It is a lack of healthy foods in the diet, or
41. __________ is a chronic disease an excessive intake of unhealthy foods,
characterized by excessively high body fat in leading to physical harm.
relation to lean body tissue. Answer: Malnutrition
Answer: Obesity
55. What is the best way to determine the
42. It is an excess of body weight that includes nutritional status of an individual?
fat, bone, and muscle. Answer: Weighing
Answer: Overweight
56. What substance are nails made of?
43. What is the general term for the people Answer: Keratin
who exclude meat, poultry, fish, or other
animal-derived foods from their diets? 57. Dairy products are generally made from
Answer: Vegetarians what common liquid?
Answer: Milk
44. These are organic, essential nutrients
required only in small amounts. 58. He is a Polish-American chemist
Answer: Vitamins considered as the “Father of Vitamin Therapy”
and was the first to coin the term “vitamin” as
45. ________ is a guideline for the amount of vital factors in the diet.
energy and selected nutrients considered Answer: Casimir Funk
adequate to meet the nutrient needs of
practically all healthy people. 59. It is the only sugar manufactured my
Answer: Recommended Dietary mammals.
Allowances (RDA) Answer: Lactose

46. It is the breaking down of foodstuffs in the 60. Axerophthol is the same as what vitamin?
body into a form that can be absorbed and Answer: Vitamin A
used or excreted.
Answer: Digestion 61. It is a malignant growth of cells.
Answer: Cancer
47. It is the state of being healthy and fit,
gaining all nutrients. 62. Cardiopathy is known to be as what sort of
Answer: Wellness disease?
Answer: Heart Disease
48. It is a lack of adequate fluids in the body.
Answer: Dehydration 63. It is a disease caused by a deficiency of
Vitamin D.
Answer: Rickets
highest policy-making on nutrition, was
64. What vitamin is a viosterol? promulgated on 1974?
Answer: Vitamin D2 Answer: P.D. 491
78. What Executive Order, which named the
65. What nutrient is needed as the main Department of Health as the chair of the NNC?
structural component of the body? Answer: Executive Order No. 472
Answer: Protein
79. What is the process of removing harmful
66. What vitamin helps in blood clotting and is pathogens from various types of food.
known as naphthoquinone? Answer: Pasteurization
Answer: Vitamin K
80. It protects the child from measles and is
67. What vitamin is needed for a healthy given only once as early as nine months.
immune system and strong connective tissue? Answer: Measles Vaccine
Answer: Vitamin C/Ascorbic Acid
81. It protects the unborn child from the
68. It is also known as tocopherol and is tetanus and is given to the mother twice.
necessary for normal reproduction. Answer: Tetanus Toxoid
Answer: Vitamin E
82. It is the current vaccine for tuberculosis.
69. What is the cheapest source of iodine in Answer: Bacillus Calmette Guerin (BCG)
our household?
Answer: Iodized salt 83. What is the substance found in colostrum
that fights against infection and creates
70. What fruit is an alligator pear? antibodies that stimulates immunity?
Answer: Avocado Answer: Immunoglobulin

71. Who was the Philippine President who 84. ________ is a hidden hunger.
declared July as a month of nutrition? Answer: Malnutrition
Answer: Ferdinand E. Marcos
85. It is also called “Night Blindness” and is a
72. This is often marketed as “superfruits” poor vision in relatively low light.
being rich in vitamins A and C. Answer: Nyctalopia
Answer: Guava
86. Malunggay have different parts. One of
73. It is an agency of the Philippine these is the fruit/seed. For what is the use of
government under the Department of this fruit/seed?
Health responsible for creating a conducive Answer: Arthritis
policy environment for national and local
nutrition planning, implementation, monitoring 87. _________ is slowness in eating.
and evaluation, and surveillance using state-of Answer: Bradyphagia
the art technology and approaches.
Answer: National Nutrition Council (NNC) 88. A person who stores too much sugar in the
body may suffer from ___________.
74. It is a medical condition in which the eye Answer: Diabetes
fails to produce tears caused by a deficiency in
vitamin A. 89. Who discovered the vitamin D and the role
Answer: Xerophthalmia of the vitamin in preventing rickets?
Answer: Edward Mellanby
75. He is referred to as the “Father of
Medicine”. 90. What is the medical term for the
Answer: Hippocrates inflammation of the protective membranes
covering the brain and spinal cord, known
76. _______ is a thiamine-deficiency disease. collectively as the meninges?
Answer: Beriberi Answer: Meningitis

77. What Presidential Decree, known as the 91. ____________ is a great toe displacement
“Nutrition Act of the Philippines” which created toward other toes.
the National Nutrition Council (NNC) as the Answer: Hallux varus
92. This disease happens when the flow of 104. This results from a disproportion among
oxygen-rich blood to a section of heart muscle essential nutrients with or without the absolute
suddenly becomes blocked and the heart can’t deficiency of any nutrients.
get oxygen. Answer: Imbalance
Answer: Heart Attack
105. What is the other name for vetsin, which
93. It is a part of the vitamin B complex, which we usually used in cooking that give flavor to
is vital for red blood cells, and thus used in the the foods we eat?
treatment of pernicious and macrocytic anemia Answer: Monosodium glutamate / Sodium
and gastrointestinal disorders. glutamate
Answer: Folic Acid / Folacin / Folate /
vitamin M / vitamin B9 / vitamin Bc 106. ________ is a substance formed by
protein in the blood that is used by the immune
94. _________ means hernia of the stomach. system to identify and neutralize foreign
Answer: Gastrocele objects such as bacteria and viruses.
Answer: Antibody
95. _________ is any illness resulting from the
consumption of contaminated food or foods 107. It is the removal of mineral or calcium
which contain poisonous substances. ions from the bone or other calcified tissue to
Answer: Food Poisoning make them flexible and easy for pathological
investigation.
96. What is the stable food of Filipinos that is Answer: Decalcification
served every meal?
Answer: Rice 108. These are smaller amounts of vitamins or
minerals consumed.
97. When protein reaches the intestines for it Answer: Micronutrients
to be digested, in what unit is it broken?
Answer: Amino Acid 109. What hormone is produced in the
pancreas that regulates the metabolism of
98. It is a statement or information on food glucose? [The lack of this hormone causes
labels indicating the nutrient(s) and the diabetes.]
quantity of said nutrient found or added in the Answer: Insulin
processed foods or food products.
Answer: Nutrition Facts 110. __________ are portions and types of
foods and beverages consumed on a regular
99. ________ is the addition of nutrients to basis.
processed foods or food products at levels Answer: Diet
above the natural state.
Answer: Fortification / Food Fortification 111. It is a standardized ratio of weight to
height.
100. This is a strategy to encourage food Answer: Body Mass Index (BMI)
manufacturers to fortify processed foods or
food products with essential nutrients at levels 112. In what part of the body does digestion
approved by the Department of Health (DOH). begin?
Answer: Sangkap Pinoy Seal Program Answer: Mouth

101. It is the process of introducing vaccine 113. What group of foods builds and repairs
into the body to stimulate the formation of worn-out tissues?
antibodies which fight germs that cause Answer: Grow Foods
diseases.
Answer: Immunization 114. In what year was it discovered that citrus
fruit juices aided in the treatment of scurvy,
102. What do you call the medical condition in now known as vitamin C deficiency disease?
which a person’s spine is curved from side to Answer: 1720
side?
Answer: Scoliosis 115. What basic food group provides the body
with heat and energy?
103. What is the act establishing the Philippine Answer: Energy-Giving Foods (Go Foods)
Food Fortification Program?
Answer: R.A. 8976 116. It is a deficiency of calcium in elderly.
Answer: Osteoporosis 132. ___________ is an excess body fat.
Answer: Obesity
117. What is the poor man’s meat?
Answer: Monggo 133. How many calories are there in a pound?
Answer: 3,500 calories
118. What vitamin do we get from yellow
foods? 134. It is an eating disorder characterized by
Answer: Vitamin A an irrational fear of becoming obese.
Answer: Anorexia nervosa
119. What mineral makes our teeth harder?
Answer: Calcium, Iron, Phosphorus 135. It refers to the eating of large amounts of
starches on days leading up to athletic
120. What are the water-soluble vitamins? competition.
Answer: Vitamin C and Vitamins B complex Answer: Carbohydrate Loading

121. What vitamin helps in preventing 136. It is when the body’s immune system
hemorrhage and known as bandage vitamin? overreacts to food substances.
Answer: Vitamin K Answer: Food Allergy

122. What do you call the thrombocytes that 137. ___________ is using a medicine in a
are tiny colorless disk-shaped and plays an way that is not intended.
important part in the clotting process? Answer: Medicine misuse
Answer: Platelets
138. It is the ability to be physically active.
123. What do you call the cholesterol that Answer: Physical Fitness
comes from food?
Answer: Dietary Cholesterol 139. Of the existing 22 amino acids, how many
are considered to be essential in the diet?
124. What do you call the cholesterol that Answer: 9 amino acids
circulates in your blood?
Answer: Serum Cholesterol/Blood 140. What are the complex carbohydrates?
Cholesterol Answer: Starches

125. What is the body’s most essential 141. What mineral helps build red blood cells?
nutrient? Answer: Iron
Answer: Water
142. It is a fat-soluble vitamin that enhances
126. What are the fat-soluble vitamins? the absorption of calcium and therefore aids in
Answer: Vitamins A, D, E, and K the formation and maintenance of bones and
teeth.
127. It must accompany smart eating for Answer: Vitamin D
weight control.
Answer: Regular Exercise 143. What are the simple carbohydrates?
Answer: Sugars
128. _______ is a guideline for helping people
choose a varied, balanced, and moderate diet. 144. What is the primary role of carbohydrates
Answer: Daily Food Guide in the body?
Answer: To provide energy
129. It is a fatlike substance found only in
animal sources of food. 145. ____________ is the sole source of
Answer: Cholesterol energy used by the brain.
Answer: Glucose
130. What is the governmental agency
responsible for food labels? 146. It is a B vitamin that is a factor in energy
Answer: Food and Drug Administration metabolism and supports normal vision and
(FDA) skin health.
Answer: Vitamin B2 or Riboflavin
131. These are the substances added for a
specific effect. 147. ___________ is an excessively rapid
Answer: Additives 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 Answer: Echinoderms

1. What do you call the animals with 14. Organism that has bilateral symmetry and
backbone? no digestive system, flatworms belong to this
Answer: vertebrates group.
Answer: Platyhelminthes
2. Animals without backbone is called
_________. 15. Unsegmented worms that has long, thin
Answer: invertebrates round bodies pointed at both ends and
covered by a touch cuticle. Roundworms
3. Warm blooded animals with fur and belong to this group.
mammary glands. Answer: nematodes
Answer: mammals
16. Segmented worms that has no respiratory
4. Vertebrates that have dry scaly skin, system but absorbs oxygen and gives of
covered with scales or plates, lay eggs and carbon dioxide through the thin skin.
can live both land and water. Answer: annelids
Example: turtles, crocodiles
Answer: reptiles 17. What is the largest group in the animal
kingdom?
5. Vertebrates that has moist skin and can live Answer: arthropods
both land and water.
Examples: frog 18. They are joint legged animals.
Answer: amphibians Answer: arthropods

6. _________ are animals that live in water 19. Arthropods are animals with bodies and
when they are young and when become old, legs made up of section and they have outside
their lungs are now developed and they can shell. What do you call the outside shell of
now live in land? arthropods?
Answer: amphibians Answer: exoskeleton

7. Vertebrates that covered with scales and 20. What group of animals that have a hard
used gills for breathing. outer body covering, have five pairs of legs ad
Answer: fish characterized by the presences of antenna
located on the head?
8. Vertebrates covered with feathers, lay eggs Example: crabs, lobster, shrimps
and adapted to flight. Answer: crustaceans
Answer: Birds
21. What animals that have 3 body parts that
9. What is the largest bird? includes the head, thorax and abdomen?
Answer: ostrich Answer: insects

10. Invertebrates that are marine animals that 22. How many legs that an insect has?
full of pores or holes. Answer: six legs
Example: sponges
Answer: Porifera 23. What animals belong in arthropods that
has 4 pairs of legs, two body segments and no
11. Invertebrates that describe as animals with antennae.
hollow-bodied or soft bodied. Example: scorpions, spiders
Example: hydras, jellyfish, anemone, corals Answer: arachnids
Answer: Cnidaria
24. What do you call the animals that have
12. Invertebrates that describes as animals hundred feet?
with soft-bodied shelled animals. Answer: centipede
Examples: snail, slugs, squid, octopus, clamps
Answer: mollusks 25. Animals with thousand feet
Answer: millipede
13. Invertebrates that are spiny-skinned sea
animals. 26. Animals with many legs?
Example: starfish, sea urchins Answer: Myriapods
27. Single-celled animals that are microscopic Answer: habitat
in size
Answer: Protozoa 43. It is the protective coloration that allows
some animals to blend with their surroundings.
28. How many segments make up the thorax Answer: Camouflage
of an insect?
Answer: 3 44. The imitation of animals of the shape,
smell, tastes, colors and sounds of other
29. Extinct sea bird known as the Atlantic animals to protect them against enemies.
penguin Answer: mimicry
Answer: auk
45. It is the structure or behavior that helps an
30. It is the largest animal phylum. organism survive in its environment.
Answer: arthropod Answer: adaptation

31. Types of these animals includes the 46. The process in which the pollens are
gorilla and chimpanzee. transferred from the anther to the stigma in a
Answer: ape flower.
Answer: Pollination
32. It is the bony out-growth on the head of a
deer
Answer: antler
PLANTS
33. It refers to animals that eat other animals.
Answer: carnivores 1. In a food chain, plants are the _______.
Answer: producer
34. It is a collection of interacting organism
within an ecosystem. 2. An environment where both living and non-
Answer: community living things exist and interact with one
another?
35. It is a system of unlocking food chains Answer: ecosystem
Answer: food web
3. It is the transfer of solar energy from plants
36. Animals that are carnivores at some times to animals and eventually to decomposers
and herbivore at others. when they die.
Answer: omnivores Answer: food chain

37. Pollination by birds is called _____. 4. What is the process when tissues are
Answer: Ornithophily breakdown to its simplest form?
Answer: decomposition
38. Which insects spread kala-azar?
Answer: Sand fly 5. They are microorganisms that change
complex substances.
39. It is the transmission of sound waves to Answer: decomposers
locate object, this is where bats rely to help
them find their food. 6. It is the relationship between a prey and a
Answer: Echolocation predator.
Answer: predation
40. It is the way or biological process by which
insects develop after birth or hatching, usually 7. Relationships among living organism where
accompanied by change of habitat or behavior. they obtain their foods by living together.
Answer: metamorphosis Answer: symbiosis

41. It refers to the total number of animals in a 8. A kind of hunter-prey relationship between a
particular habitat or community. parasite and a host.
Answer: population (Example: Tapeworm in human’s stomach,
tapeworm-parasite; human’s stomach-host)
42. It is an ecological or environmental area Answer: parasitism
that is inhabited by a particular species of
animal, plant or other type of organism.
9. A relationship where an organism benefits 24. What gas do plants absorb from the
from another without harming it. atmosphere?
Answer: commensalism Answer: Carbon dioxide

10. What part of the plant that receives the 25. It is the science that study plants.
pollen from the male parts of the flower? Answer: Botany
Answer: stigma
26. What kind of plants that has no roots, stem
11. Female parts of a flower that produce or leaves?
ovules that become seeds Answer: fungus
Answer: Carpels
27. What are gum trees better known as?
12. What is produce by the male parts of the Answer: Eucalyptus trees
flower?
Answer: pollen 28. What tree produces acorns?
Answer: oak tree
13. It is a plant that bears cones.
Answer: coniferous plant 29. A plant that produce seed but not fruit.
14. The interrelationship between species from Answer: mint
the Greek word that means “to live together”
Answer: symbiosis 30. Soya bean is a good source of _________.
Answer: protein
15. This type of relationship is characterized
by an organism sapping nutrients from the 31. Parthenogenesis is seen generally in what
body of a living host. fruit?
Answer: parasitism Answer: Grapes

16. In this relationship, both organisms benefit 32. Some plants grow better if bone meal is
from the relationship. spread around their roots. What does bone
Answer: mutualism meal supply to the plants that makes them
grow faster?
17. One of the partners’ benefits while the Answer: minerals
other neither helped or harmed.
Answer: commensalism 33. It is the process in which the embryo or
baby plant gets energy from the stored food in
18. A botanist calls a ripe ovule before the see and starts grow.
germination what reproductive item? Answer: Germination
Answer: seed
35. Seeds with one cotyledon.
19. Plant hormone produced in growing tips of Answer: Monocot
plant stems
Answer: auxin 36. Seeds with two cotyledon
Answer: Dicot
20. Golden algae would be found in what
kingdom? 37. It is the outer covering of the seed. It
Answer: Protista protects the seed from injuries.
Answer: Seed coat
21. The process where plants make their own
food. 38. What do you call the young plant or
Answer: Photosynthesis immature plant found inside the seed?
Answer: Embryo
22. The emergent, canopy and understory
layers all form part of what? 39. It is the off white and the biggest part of
Answer: rainforest the seed.
Answer: Cotyledon
23. What is the name given to the female part
of a flower? 40. What is the other term for aquatic animals
Answer: Pistil 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.


Answer: stamen

43. The female reproductive organ of a flower.


Answer: pistil

44. A type of reproduction that does not


involve fertilization of egg and sperm
Answer: Asexual Reproduction
ASTRONOMY
16. What is the darkest part of a shadow?
1. What is the more common name for the Answer: umbra
constellation Canis Minor?
Answer: Little dog 17. The movement of the earth on its axis is
called _______.
2. Approximately, how many days does it take Answer: rotation
the moon to complete one rotation around the
earth? 18. What is the collection of stars called?
Answer: 28 days Answer: Galaxy

3. What comet with shortest known orbital 19. What was the name of the space mission
period? that landed the first humans on the moon?
Answer: Encke’s comet Answer: Apollo 11

4. Besides hydrogen, what is the next major 20. Which planet do the moons of Phobos and
component of Jupiter’s atmosphere? Deimos belong to?
Answer: Helium Answer: Mars

5. What is the highest volcanic mountain in the 21. Which planet was the Galileo spacecraft
solar system that is located on Mars? sent to study?
Answer: Olympus Mons Answer: Jupiter

6. What is the highest mountain on Earth? 22. What part of the sun is easily visible only
Answer: Mount Everest during total solar eclipse?
Answer: Corona
7. It is a scale-like pattern of cirrocumulus
clouds that also known as “buttermilk sky”. 23. How many minutes does it take for light from
Answer: mackerel sky the Sun to reach Earth?
Answer: 5 minutes
8. Envelope of gases surrounding a planet
Answer: atmosphere 24. How many planets are there in the solar
system?
9. What layer of the earth is inferred to be liquid Answer: 8 planets
in form?
Answer: Outer core 25. Who was the first person to land on the
moon?
10. It is the space shuttle sent to Venus to Answer: Neil Armstrong
investigate its atmosphere.
Answer: Pioneer-Venus 2 26. What is the outermost layer of the earth’s
surface?
11. Who formulated the mathematical equation Answer: crust
that probe the Big Bang Theory?
Answer: Albert Einstein 27. What is the hottest layer of the Earth’s
surface?
12. What feature in the sun appears like Answer: inner core
billowing arches of glowing gases?
Answer: Prominences 28. What layer of the earth is inferred to be
liquid in form?
13. A galaxy that comprises two to three Answer: outer core
percent of the total number of galaxies.
Answer: irregular galaxy 29. What instrument can view the heavenly
bodies clearly and without the filtering effect of
14. For a rocket to orbit the earth and become Earth’s atmosphere?
a satellite, its speed must be around __. Answer: space telescope
Answer: 29,000 kph
30. What is the closest planet in the sun?
15. Who figured out that the sun was the center Answer: Mercury
of the solar system?
Answer: Copernicus
31. What is the name of the second biggest 48. How long does the earth travel around the
planet in the solar system? sun?
Answer: Saturn Answer: 365 ¼ days

32. What is the hottest planet in our solar 49. How many seasons does the Philippines
system? has?
Answer: Venus Answer: 2 seasons (wet ad dry)

33. What planet in famous because of its big red 50. What law that states that energy can be
spot? transformed from one form to another, but can
Answer: Jupiter be neither created or destroyed.
Answer: Law of Conservation of Energy
34. What planet is famous for the beautiful rings
that surround it? 51. It is an astronomical body orbiting a star or
Answer: Saturn stellar remnant.
Answer: planet
35. What planet is known as red planet?
Answer: Mars 52. What is the largest star?
Answer: Eta Carinae
36. It is the force that holding us on Earth.
Answer: Gravity 53. It is an astronomical event that occurs when
an astronomical object temporarily obscured.
37. What is the name NASA’s most famous Answer: eclipse
space telescope?
Answer: Hubble Space Telescope 54. A group of star.
Answer: constellation
38. In which galaxy does earth located?
Answer: Milky Way Galaxy 55. An eclipse when the moon passes directly
behind the Earth and into its shadow.
39. What is the first satellite sent into space? Answer: Lunar eclipse
Answer: Sputnik
56. An eclipse when an observer on Earth
40. Ganymede is a moon in which planet? passes through the shadow cast by the moon
Answer: Jupiter which fully or partially block.
Answer: solar eclipse
41. What is the name of Saturn’s largest moon?
Answer: Titan 57. It is the partial shadow in an eclipse.
Answer: penumbra
42. Olympus Mons is a large volcanic mountain
on which planet? 58.
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

47. It is the Earth’s rotation around the sun.


Answer: revolution
ASTRONOMY
16. What is the darkest part of a shadow?
1. What is the more common name for the Answer: umbra
constellation Canis Minor?
Answer: Little dog 17. The movement of the earth on its axis is
called _______.
2. Approximately, how many days does it take Answer: rotation
the moon to complete one rotation around the
earth? 18. What is the collection of stars called?
Answer: 28 days Answer: Galaxy

3. What comet with shortest known orbital 19. What was the name of the space mission
period? that landed the first humans on the moon?
Answer: Encke’s comet Answer: Apollo 11

4. Besides hydrogen, what is the next major 20. Which planet do the moons of Phobos and
component of Jupiter’s atmosphere? Deimos belong to?
Answer: Helium Answer: Mars

5. What is the highest volcanic mountain in the 21. Which planet was the Galileo spacecraft
solar system that is located on Mars? sent to study?
Answer: Olympus Mons Answer: Jupiter

6. What is the highest mountain on Earth? 22. What part of the sun is easily visible only
Answer: Mount Everest during total solar eclipse?
Answer: Corona
7. It is a scale-like pattern of cirrocumulus
clouds that also known as “buttermilk sky”. 23. How many minutes does it take for light from
Answer: mackerel sky the Sun to reach Earth?
Answer: 5 minutes
8. Envelope of gases surrounding a planet
Answer: atmosphere 24. How many planets are there in the solar
system?
9. What layer of the earth is inferred to be liquid Answer: 8 planets
in form?
Answer: Outer core 25. Who was the first person to land on the
moon?
10. It is the space shuttle sent to Venus to Answer: Neil Armstrong
investigate its atmosphere.
Answer: Pioneer-Venus 2 26. What is the outermost layer of the earth’s
surface?
11. Who formulated the mathematical equation Answer: crust
that probe the Big Bang Theory?
Answer: Albert Einstein 27. What is the hottest layer of the Earth’s
surface?
12. What feature in the sun appears like Answer: inner core
billowing arches of glowing gases?
Answer: Prominences 28. What layer of the earth is inferred to be
liquid in form?
13. A galaxy that comprises two to three Answer: outer core
percent of the total number of galaxies.
Answer: irregular galaxy 29. What instrument can view the heavenly
bodies clearly and without the filtering effect of
14. For a rocket to orbit the earth and become Earth’s atmosphere?
a satellite, its speed must be around __. Answer: space telescope
Answer: 29,000 kph
30. What is the closest planet in the sun?
15. Who figured out that the sun was the center Answer: Mercury
of the solar system?
Answer: Copernicus
31. What is the name of the second biggest 48. How long does the earth travel around the
planet in the solar system? sun?
Answer: Saturn Answer: 365 ¼ days

32. What is the hottest planet in our solar 49. How many seasons does the Philippines
system? has?
Answer: Venus Answer: 2 seasons (wet ad dry)

33. What planet in famous because of its big red 50. What law that states that energy can be
spot? transformed from one form to another, but can
Answer: Jupiter be neither created or destroyed.
Answer: Law of Conservation of Energy
34. What planet is famous for the beautiful rings
that surround it? 51. It is an astronomical body orbiting a star or
Answer: Saturn stellar remnant.
Answer: planet
35. What planet is known as red planet?
Answer: Mars 52. What is the largest star?
Answer: Eta Carinae
36. It is the force that holding us on Earth.
Answer: Gravity 53. It is an astronomical event that occurs when
an astronomical object temporarily obscured.
37. What is the name NASA’s most famous Answer: eclipse
space telescope?
Answer: Hubble Space Telescope 54. A group of star.
Answer: constellation
38. In which galaxy does earth located?
Answer: Milky Way Galaxy 55. An eclipse when the moon passes directly
behind the Earth and into its shadow.
39. What is the first satellite sent into space? Answer: Lunar eclipse
Answer: Sputnik
56. An eclipse when an observer on Earth
40. Ganymede is a moon in which planet? passes through the shadow cast by the moon
Answer: Jupiter which fully or partially block.
Answer: solar eclipse
41. What is the name of Saturn’s largest moon?
Answer: Titan 57. It is the partial shadow in an eclipse.
Answer: penumbra
42. Olympus Mons is a large volcanic mountain
on which planet? 58.
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

47. It is the Earth’s rotation around the sun.


Answer: revolution
MIXED QUESTIONS 16. The branch of science which is concerned
with the study of disease as it affects a
1. What type of lens is used to diverse light community of people.
rays? Answer: Epidemiology
Answer: Concave lens
17. What number is neutral measured at on the
2. Name the deposits left by a melted glacier. PH Scale?
Answer: till Answer: 7

3. The deposits left by windblown dust. 18. To split an atom is _________.


Answer: loess Answer: fission

4. What do you call death caused by electric 19. To clash an atom is called _________.
current? Answer: fusion
Answer: electrocution
20. What is the most common element found in
5. Name the long, narrow deposit of sand the Earth’s atmosphere?
formed where a shoreline changes direction? Answer: nitrogen
Answer: spit
21. What type of paper is used to indicate acids
6. The structure made by deposits left by and alkalis?
windblown sand. Answer: Litmus paper
Answer: dunes
22. Energy produced inside the Earth.
7. Anorthosite is from what primary rock Answer: geothermal energy
classification?
Answer: Igneous rocks 23. It is the center of an atom.
Answer: nucleus
8. The science that deal with the development
of the universe. 24. Amperes measures what current?
Answer: cosmogony Answer: electrical current

9. Where can the lowest point on the earth’s 25. It is a large group of wind turbines.
crust be found? Answer: wind farm
Answer: Marianas Trench
26. What is the name of the lightest substance?
10. It is the deepest part of the earth. Answer: hydrogen
Answer: Marianas Trench
27. What is the chemical symbol for iron?
11. What season is characterized with the most Answer: Fe
amount of leaves falling from trees?
Answer: autumn 28. Which is the only metal that is liquid at room
temperature?
12. What is we call the breaking of white light Answer: Mercury
into all the colors of the visible spectrum?
Answer: diffraction 29. Global warming is caused by too much of
which type of gas?
13. 128 ounces is equivalent to one what? Answer: Carbon dioxide
Answer: gallon
30. Which element has atomic number of 2?
14. What is created when an electron is added Answer: Helium
to a proton?
Answer: neutron 31. Which metals make the strongest magnets?
Answer: Iron
15. The study of phenomena at very low
temperature. 32. What device is used to measure air
Answer: Cryogenics pressure?
Answer: barometer
33. What two elements made up water? 50. What degree does water boils?
Answer: Hydrogen and oxygen Answer: 100 degrees Celsius

34. Which gas has the chemical formula CO? 51. In what degree that water becomes solid.
Answer: carbon monoxide Answer: 0 degree Celsius

35. Who invented the gramophone? 52. In which enzyme is Urea converted into
Answer: Thomas Edison ammonia and carbon dioxide?
Answer: Urease
36. What vitamin does sunlight provide to
human? 53. What is addictive poisonous substance can
Answer: Vitamin D be found in tobacco leaves?
Answer: Nicotine
37. What two metals combined to make
bronze? 54. Who discovered the law of gravity?
Answer: copper and tin Answer: Isaac Newton

38. Who invented the telephone? 55. Cumulus, cirrus and stratus are kinds of
Answer: Alexander Graham Bell ____.
Answer: Clouds
39. Who invented telescope?
Answer: Galileo Galilei 56. What do DNA means?
Answer: Deoxyribonucleic acid
40. Who discovered penicillin in 1928?
Answer: Alexander Fleming 57. What is the freezing point of water?
Answer: 0 degrees Celsius or 32 degrees
41. What is the lightest metal? Celsius
Answer: Lithium
58. What does an anemometer measure?
42. Scientists that devise the three laws of Answer: Speed of Wind
motion.
Answer: Isaac Newton 59. What is the largest flower in the world?
Answer: Rafflesia
43. What is the name of the device used to
convert sound to electricity? 60. What is the process by which plants release
Answer: microphone water from their leaves?
Answer: Transpiration
44. What is needed to change the velocity of an
object? 61. It is the process by which the condensed
Answer: force water vapor falls back on the earth’s surface in
the forms of rain, hail, snow and sleet.
45. What do the letters Ph stand for? Answer: Precipitation
Answer: Power of Hydrogen
62. The process of changing water vapor in
46. It is the branch of biology that study about liquid water.
relationship between living things and their Answer: Condensation
environment.
Answer: Ecology 63. It is the process of changing liquid water into
gas or water vapor
47. It has the longest wave length. Answer: Evaporation
Answer: Infrared radiation
64. How do sun’s heat and light reaches the
48. Bacteria that converts atmospheric surface of the earth?
nitrogen into nitrogen compound. Answer: radiation
Answer: Nitrogen Fixing Bacteria
65. What do you call when food makes their
49. At constant temperature, the product of own foods.
pressure and volume of a given amount of gas Answer: photosynthesis
is constant, whose law is this?
Answer: Boyle’s Law
66. The device used in telling the direction of 83. It is the transfer of heat from one place to
the wind? another by movement of fluids.
Answer: wind vane Answer: Convection

67. What is used to measure air temperature? 84. It is the transfer of heat through solid
Answer: thermometer materials.
Answer: Conduction
68. It is the hotness and coldness of the air
around us. 85. It is the push and pull of magnets.
Answer: Temperature Answer: magnetism

69. What do you call the water part of the earth 86. It is the ability to do work.
or “water sphere”? Answer: energy
Answer: hydrosphere
87. The energy from electromagnetic waves.
70. The process in which water continuously Answer: Radiant energy
moved in the earth’s surface.
Answer: Water cycle 88. It is the energy of a moving object.
Answer: Kinetic energy
71. What kind of water is found beneath the
earth’s surface? 89. The energy that is stored in a substance.
Answer: Groundwater Answer: Potential energy

72. What kind of water is called hard water? 90. It is also called as heat energy.
Answer: Seawater Answer: thermal energy

73. What kind of water is also called surface 91. Energy that stored in the bonds of chemical
water? compounds like atom and molecules.
Answer: Freshwater Answer: Chemical energy

74. It is the uppermost layer of the soil. 92. It is the amount of moisture in the air.
Answer: Topsoil Answer: humidity

75. What is the lowest layer of the soil? 93. It is a weather condition of a place over a
Answer: Bedrock period of time.
Answer: climate
76. It is a system in which energy and matter
from the sun, the atmosphere and living
organisms penetrate and interact.
Answer: soil

77. It is the type of soil that is a mixture of sand


and clay.
Answer: Loam

78. It is a blanket of air that surrounds the earth.


Answer: atmosphere

79. It is the primary source of energy.


Answer: sun

80. The sound that is reflected or returned


sound.
Answer: Echo

81. It is the softness and loudness of sound.


Answer: volume

82. What type of energy made by vibrations?


Answer: Sound

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