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1. Which of the following is the unit of energy? c. pancreas

a. Newton d. nails
b. Joule 9. He came up with the idea about the existence of
c. Watt atom.
d. Hertz a. Aristotle
2. Which of the following substance is an element? b. Socrates
a. air c. Democritus
b. sugar d. Plato
c. water 10. The phenomenon observed by Edwin Hubble
d. mercury which was used to explain the expansion of
3. It refers to the property of a mineral to break universe.
into planes of weakness. a. photons
a. hardness b. gravitational pull
b. color c. redshifts
c. luster d. conservation of momentum
d. cleavage 11. Which of this is not correctly matched?
4. Which is not an evidence in support of the a. Melting = solid to liquid
continental drift theory? b. Sublimation = gas to solid
a. eroding mountains c. Freezing = liquid to solid
b. similar fossils d. Condensation = gas to liquid
c. similar rocks 12. Group I in the periodic table is also known as
d. matching coastlines .
5. Which of the following is arranged properly a. Alkali Metals
from smallest to largest category? b. Transition Metals
a. genus, species, kingdom, family, order, c. Noble Gases
class, phylum d. Halogens
b. species, genus, family, class, order, phylum, 13. He was the first evolutionist to believed that
kingdom organisms change over time.
c. species, genus, family, order, class, phylum, a. Charles Darwin
kingdom b. Jean Baptiste de Lamarck
d. kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, c. Aristotle
genus, species d. Gregor Mendel
6. Which of the following is NOT an 14. The system that connects all your body parts
electromagnetic wave? and transmits signals from one part to another.
a. Infrared a. Circulatory System
b. Sound b. Endocrine System
c. Radio c. Nervous System
d. X-ray d. Respiratory System
7. Which of this is found in both plant and animal 15. Non-metals are substances that does not exhibit
cells? such characteristic properties of metals such as
a. vacuoles hardness. Which of the following element is
b. cell walls non-metal?
c. cytoplasm a. Cobalt
d. lysosome b. Sodium
8. Which of the following organ belongs to c. Nickel
integumentary system? d. Phosphorous
a. spinal cord 16. Your mother is cooking a noodle soup using a
b. stomach pan made of metal. How does heat travel
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through the pan? Heat travels through the pan a. drought

by? b. earthquakes
a. radiation c. predators
b. dispersion d. typhoon
c. convection 24. It occurs when the moon moves through Earth's
d. conduction shadow at full moon.
17. Which of the following is NOT an insulator? a. Solar Eclipse
a. wood b. Lunar Eclipse
b. copper c. Penumbra
c. rubber d. Partial Eclipse
d. hair
18. The layer between 50km and 80km above the 25. Suppose a ball of mass 3.2 kg is hit with a force
Earth surface. Meteors or rock fragments burn of 20N. What will be its acceleration?
up in this layer. a. 0.16m/s2
a. Troposphere b. 0.16m/s
b. Mesosphere c. 6.25m/s2
c. Thermosphere d. 6.25m/s
d. Stratosphere 26. What is the general formula for alkyne?
19. They are soft bodied invertebrates with most of a. CnHn+2
them covered by shell. b. CnH2n
a. Mollusks c. CnH2n+2
b. Cnidarians d. CnH2n-2
c. Echinoderms 27. What do you call the study of tissues?
d. Crustaceans a. Biochemistry
20. A 400kg car has a velocity of 12m/s. What is b. Mycology
the car kinetic energy? c. Genetics
a. 28,800J d. None of the above
b. 28,800N 28. Iron (III) oxide reacts with carbon monoxide to
c. 57,600J form iron and carbon dioxide. What chemical
d. 57,600N equation represents the reaction
21. Which type of biomolecule would cause a a. Fe2O3 + 3 CO -> 2Fe + 3CO2
person to gain more weight? b. Fe2O3 + CO -> Fe + CO2
a. carbohydrate c. 2Fe2O3 + 3 CO -> 4Fe + 3CO2
b. fat d. Fe2O3 + 3 CO -> Fe + 3CO2
c. protein 29. A balloon has a volume of X liters at Y degrees
d. nucleic acid celsius. What would happen to its final volume
22. Which of the following relationships shows when the balloon is cooled to Y/2 degrees
parasitism? celsius at constant pressure?
a. When it rains the ferns get nutrients from a. Halved
rotting leaves and other organic materials b. Decreases insignificantly
that collect at the root base of the fern plant. c. Doubled
b. The insect larva get its nutrients by eating d. Increases insignificantly
the leaves,-thereby, damaging the plant. 30. What will you have if you integrate the jerk
c. The ants consume honeydews as food. The function of a moving object twice?
ants in turn, protect the aphids from their a. Jolt
insect predators. b. Acceleration
d. Animals kill and eat other animals. c. Velocity
23. The following are abiotic factors that may affect d. None of the above
the populations of organisms EXCEPT.
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31. Which of the following are conserved if all the 38. A large tree shading another tree is an example
forces acting on an object are conservative? of which type of population interaction?
a. Mechanical energy a. Competition
b. Kinetic Energy b. Cooperation
c. Momentum c. Amensalism
d. Velocity d. Parasitism
32. The acceleration due to gravity on Mars is 3.7 39. Why do chloroplasts have to be hugely
m/s^2. Compared with her mass and weight on contained in the palisade and spongy tissues?
Earth, Tereshkova’s mass and weight on mars a. Both are functionally related to the vascular
are: cylinder.
a. Less mass, less weight b. The orientation of palisade and spongy
b. More mass, more weight tissues in the leaf provide for regulated
c. Same mass, more weight absorbance of light by the chloroplasts.
d. None of the above c. Within both, chloroplasts have better access
33. You pushed your ex-boyfriend from a cliff. to the stomates.
After he has fallen 30.m, his velocity is d. The chloroplasts are protected in the lower
. and upper epidermis with both.
a. 21 m/s downward 40. Who among the following is not a National
b. 69 m/s downward Scientist of the Philippines?
c. 88 m/s downward a. Mudjie Santos
d. 24 m/s downward b. Benito S. Vergara
34. What intermolecular forces exist in a crystal of c. GavinoTrono
ice? d. All are National Scientists.
a. London Forces 41. The thick filaments of muscles are made up of
b. Hydrogen Bonds what protein?
c. Dipole-Dipole Forces a. Actin
d. Polar covalent bond b. Troponin
35. Which of the given substances has the greatest c. Myosin
number of molecules? d. Trypsin
a. 18 grams of water 42. If Jonel’s DNA content of his diploid cell in G1
b. 8 grams of helium phase is p, then what will be the DNA content
c. 44 grams of carbon dioxide of the his cell in Metaphase I?
d. 70 grams of chlorine gas a. p/2
36. Several atomic models were proposed since the b. p
time of Democritus. Which atomic model c. 2p
proposed that electrons are both “particle-like” d. 4p
and “wave-like”? 43. Which of the following is not a mineral?
a. Quantum Mechanical a. Diamond
b. Bohr's b. Gold
c. Nuclear c. Ice
d. Raisin Bread d. Pearl
37. Almost all organs of the musculo-skeletal 44. It is the aftermath of a supernova if it is thrice
system are completely derived from which more than the original mass of a red supergiant.
primordial cell layer? a. Neutron star
a. Ectoderm b. Black hole
b. Endoderm c. Black dwarf
c. Mesoderm d. Planetary Nebula
d. All of the above 45. On what period did the earliest humans
dominate and the Ice Age ended?
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a. Cretaceous a. epidemiology
b. Quarternary b. oncology
c. Tertiary c. paleontogy
d. None of the above d. pathology
46. Which prefix is often used with scientific terms 49. The study of how people use tools to perform
to indicate that something is the same, equal or work and how people physically relate to their
constant? working environment is called:
a. Iso a. Engineering
b. Mega b. Ergonomics
c. Meta c. Agronomy
d. Quasi d. Physiology
47. The study of phenomena at very low 50. What famous scientist and inventor participated
temperatures is called: in the invention of the Aqua-Lung?
a. heat transfer a. Thomas Edison
b. morphology b. Isaac Newton
c. crystallography c. Leonardo da Vinci
d. cryogenics d. Jacques Cousteau
48. The branch of medical science which is
concerned with the study of disease as it affects
a community of people is called: