Table of Specification of the Diagnostic Test

Science V
S.Y. 2014 - 2015
Learning Competencies
Item
Percentage

Number of
Items

Placement

1. Identify the male and female reproductive system

and its major parts.

2%
2. Explain the process of fertilization in humans
2%
3. Explain certain physical changes during puberty
2%
4. Identify health habits to keep the reproductive organs healthy

2%
5. Identify the respiratory system and its major parts
2%
6. Explain the function of each part of the respiratory system
2%
7. Trace the path of air and what happens to it in different
parts of the respiratory system

2%
8. Describe proper ways of caring for the respiratory system

2%
9. Identify the urinary system and its major parts

2%
10.Describe how urine is formed and eliminated from the body

10

2%
11.Explain how other body wastes are removed

11

2%
12.Describe how animals get/eat their food using certain body parts

12

13

2%

2%
13.Infer the kind of food an animal eats from the appearance of
its mouth parts

14.Describe how animals adapt to a particular

environment for protection and survival

14

2%
15.Identify characteristics of vertebrates/invertebrates

15

2%
16.Identify ways of saving the coral reefs
2%

16

17. Infer that plants need air, water, sunlight for food making

17

18

2%
18. Identify plant/plant parts used for food, medicine, etc.
2%
19. Describe the special characteristics of plants which help them adapt
to the environment and reproduce their own kind

19

20

21

22

2%
20. Cite examples of plants that grow in specific environments
2%
21. Identify the characteristics of each group of plants
2%
22. Observe the no new material is formed in physical change
2%
23. Observe that the product of chemical change cannot be brought
back to its original form

24. Cite the conditions/factors that bring about changes in materials

23

2%

24

2%
25. Infer that everything in the environment is changing

25

26

2%
26. Identify the parts of an electric circuit, e.g. conductor, insulator,
switch, fuse, source

2%
27. Differentiate a parallel from a series connection

27

28

2%
28. Cite advantages and disadvantages of parallel and series circuits
2%
29. Describe how an electromagnet works

29

2%
30. Explain the use of electricity in the home and community

30

e.g. unplugging electrical appliances during brownouts or thunderstorms. 1

31

2%
31. Practice precautionary measures related to electricity

2%
32. Identify the main parts of each kind of simple machines

32

33

2%
33. Describe how each simple machine makes works easier and faster

2%
34. Identify activities where simple machines are used

34

2%
35. Practice precautionary measures in using simple machine

2%

35

36. Identify igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic

36

2%
37. Infer that certain conditions/situations lead to the
formation of different kinds of rocks

37

2%
38. Infer how soil is formed

39. Identify the processes involved in water cycle

2%

38
1

39

2%
40.Describe what a typhoon is

41.Explain the meaning of typhoon signals

40
1

2%
41

2%
42. Explain why planets stay in orbit as they revolve around the sun

42

2%
43. Tell that the sun is also a star

43

2%

44. Describe each part of the sun

44

2%

45. Identify the effects of sunspots on earth

45

2%

46. Explain why the sun is the main source of energy on earth

46

2%
47. Relate the relative period of revolution of each planet
to their relative distances from the sun

47

2%

48

2%

49

48. Identify the unique characteristics of each planet that differentiates

one from the other e.g. satellites, atmosphere, rings, orbits,
relative period of rotation and revolution

49. Identify the other members of the solar system

2%
50. Explain why there are high and low tides about every twelve hours 1

50

2%
Total

50

100%

Prepared by:

Checked by:

ROWENA D. BALUBAL
Teacher III

MARIBEL M. MANANGAN
Master Teacher II

Noted by:
ROGELIO A. PAMITTAN
Principal II

FOURTH PERIODIC TEST IN SCIENCE V

S.Y. 2014 2015

Name: ________________________________________________________
_________

Score:

Directions: Read the following carefully. Write the letter of the correct answer on
your answer sheets.
1. What are the male reproductive organs?
a. Testes/testicles
b. vas deferens
c. urethra
d. penis
2. What happen when fertilization takes place?
a. The sperm dies.
c. The uterus lining breaks and flows
out
b. The egg cell dies
d. The egg and sperm cells unite.
3. The changes that take place in the body of a teen age boy or girl are due to
a. Sperm cell
b. egg cell
c. uterus
d. sex hormones
4. Which is a good personal hygiene practice?
a. Change underwear as often as possible.
b. Wash genitals with soap and water as often as necessary.
c. Use your own underwear only.
d. All of these
5. Where does exchange of gases takes place?
a. Diaphragm
b. lungs
c. bronchi
d. alveoli
6. Which controls breathing?
a. Diaphragm
b. nostril
c. lungs
d. trachea
7. Which of the following is the function of the kidney?
a. It filters blood by removing water and nitrogenous wastes to form urine.
b. It serves as a passageway that carries urine out of the body.
c. It acts as a temporary storage of urine.
d. It is a tube that allows urine to pass outside the body.
8. Which is the proper way of caring for the respiratory system?
a. Maintain personal hygiene
c. keep away from polluted air.
b. Drink plenty of water everyday.
d. none of these
9. Which is responsible for filtering impurities from the blood?
a. ovary
b. kidney
c. lungs
d. skin
10.Body waste such as water, salts and uric acid are eliminated from our body through the
__________.
a. Reproductive system
c. urinary system
b. Respiratory system
d. excretory system
11.What body system is responsible for the elimination of body waste?
a. Reproductive system
c. urinary system
b. Respiratory system
d. excretory system
12.How do frogs catch their prey?
a. They take a bath in the water all the time.
b. They catch the fish while they swim.
c. They play with other animals in the water.
d. They float with only their eyes and nostrils seen above the water.
13.What structure do butterflies possess to gather nectar?
a. Long tusk
b. powerful mouthparts
c. long, coiled suckers
d. piercing tubes
14.A grasshopper is not easily seen in the grass. Why?
a. It does not move.
C. It appears only at night.
b. Its color resembles the grass
d. It moves very fast.
15.All of the following are vertebrates except one. Which among them?
a. Jelly fish
b. milk fish
c. frog
d. dolphin
16.Why are coral reefs important?
a. They serve as habitat , hatchery/nursery of different marine animals.
b. They protect coastal villages.
c. They serve as tourist attractions.
d. All of these
17.What two substances are needed by plants in order to make sugar?

a. Sunlight and chlorophyll

c. oxygen and carbon dioxide
b. Water and carbon dioxide
d. sugar and starch
18.Which is the most edible part of the plant?
a. Roots
b. flowers
c. leaves
d. fruits
19.What structure of the cactus and rose plants keep their enemies away?
a. Their thorns b. their beautiful colors
c. their bad smell
d. their big
stem
20.Which plant lives best in desert?
a. Cactus
b. talahib
c. mango tree
d. bamboo
21.Which is not a tube plant?
a. Fern
b. grass
c. pine
d. mosses
22.It is a change of matter in form only, not in composition.
a. Physical change
c. climate change
b. chemical change
d. environmental change
23.What happen to a substance when it undergo chemical change?
a. The substance remains the same.
b. The substance cannot be brought back to its original form.
c. Nothing change
d. None of these
24.It happens every day on earth.
a. Physical change
b. chemical changec. environmental change d.
all
of
these
25.What causes change in weather and climate?
a. Ozone depletion
b. acid rain
c. global warming
d.
all
of
these
26.Which of these controls the flow of current?
a. Conductor
b. load
c. switch
d. source
27.Which electrical connection will continue to work even if you take away one load?
a. Series
b. parallel
c. adjacent
d. cross
28.Parallel connection is better than series connection. Why?
a. It is easier to connect.
b. It has only one switch thus less time consume.
c. It continues to work even if one load is taken away.
d. None of these
29.Which of the following is attracted by electromagnet?
a. Hair pin
b. bits of paper
c. small piece of cloth
d. pencil
30.Which of the following activities can you use electricity best?
a. Ironing of clothes
b. watering the plants
c. fetching water d.
taking a bath
31.Which of the following does not show wise use of electricity?
a. Dusting of bulbs
b. Opening the windows for lighting and ventilation
c. Using octopus connection
d. Ironing clothes ones a week
32.This refers to the point on which lever turns?
a. Resistance
b. effort force
c. fulcrum
d. load
33.Which of these pulleys does not increase force and its mechanical advantage is one?
a. Fixed pulley
c. block and tackle pulley
b. fixed with movable pulley
d. none of these
34.You are going to make an apron as project in your EPP class. What type of simple
machine will you use to cut a cloth?
a. Wedge
b. lever
c. inclined plane
d.
screw
35.All of the following are precautionary measure in handling simple machine except one.
Which among these?
a. Play with simple machines.
b. Keep the simple machines/tools in a cabinet or in a safe place.
c. Before using simple machines, be sure it is in good condition.
d. When handling a tool, make sure that its sharp edges point downward facing the
ground.

36.Which kind of rock is formed from sediments deposited in bodies of water?

a. Extrusive rock
b. intrusive rock
c. sedimentary rock
d. metamorphic rock
37.Metamorphic rocks are formed due to __________.
a. Heat only
c. pressure only
b. heat and pressure
d. extreme heat and pressure
38.Which is a product of weathering?
a. Soil
b. rock
c. seashore
d.
river
banks
39.Which of the following is a part of a water cycle?
a. Evaporation
b. condensation
c. precipitation
d. all
of these
40.Which is not a characteristic of a tropical cyclone?
a. Its center has a very low pressure area.
b. Its surrounding has a very high pressure area
c. It accumulates clockwise in northern hemisphere
d. It circulates counterclockwise
41. Typhoon signals issued by PAGASA warn the public of the coming tropical cyclones.
What signal will be announced if storm signal is expected in at least 36 hours for wind
less than 60 kph velocity?
a. Signal #1
b. Signal #2
c. Signal #3
d.
Super Typhoon
42. Which prevents the planets in the universe to be drawn together into one single
mass?
a. inertia
b. gravitation
c. motion
d. none of
these
43.
What kind of heavenly body is the Sun?
a. star
b. planet
c. meteor
d. asteroid
44. Which of these appears as a thin layer of red light around the Sun during an eclipse?
a. Chromospheres
b. corona
c. photosphere
d. sunspot
45. Which of these is true about sunspots?
a. They are never found near the poles.
c. Sunspots grow smaller and smaller.
b. The number of sunspots remains the same. d. It is where all the suns energy is
produced.
46. The sun is the main source of energy on earth. What kind of energy coming from the
sun is used
by plants in photosynthesis?
a. Electrical Energy
b. Mechanical Energy
c. Solar Energy
_d. Chemical Energy
47. Which of these relates to the relative distance of the planet from the sun?
a. Period of revolution
c. distance from the sun
b. Period of rotation
d. both a and b
48. Which of these planets experiences the greenhouse effect?
a. Venus
b. Mercury
c. Mars
d. Pluto
49. How do asteroids revolve around the sun?
a. Clockwise
b. counterclockwise
c. left ot right
d. top to
bottom
50. Which of these Earths motions bring about tides?
a. Revolution
b. rotation
c. orbit
d. gravitational pull

Prepared by:

ROWENA D. BALUBAL
Teacher III