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Time -– 20 minutes SCHOOL: _________________________
40 Questions

For each question, decide which is the best answer choice, and darken the corresponding oval on the answer sheet.

1. What type of soil is most suitable for plant 6. Why are most fungi parasitic?
growth? A. They can kill their host.
A. loam B. They take nutrients from their host.
B. sand C. They can cause diseases or infections.
C. silt D. They stick to the other organisms.
D. clay
7. Convert 104F to Celsius.
2. What instrument measures earthquakes? A. 27C
A. seismograph B. 30C
B. barograph C. 40C
C. thermograph D. 100C
D. polygraph
8. If your mass on Earth is 54 kg, what is your
3. What is believed to be the composition of the weight on the moon?
earth’s core? A. 90 kg
A. heavy liquid B. 54 kg
B. heavy solid C. 88 N
C. soft liquid D. 540 N
D. soft gases
9. Which of the following is true about acids?
4. Where are nutrients mostly absorbed? A. It tastes bitter.
A. small intestine B. It feels slippery.
B. large intestine C. Its pH is more than 7.
C. stomach D. It turns blue litmus paper into red.
D. esophagus
10. Which of the following produces the greatest
5. Why are whales considered mammals? acceleration?
A. They nourish their young with milk. A. F = 16 N, m = 4 kg
B. They give birth to live youngs and not B. F = 10 N, m = 5 kg
hatched from eggs. C. F = 5 N, m = 1 kg
C. They use lungs to breathe. D. F = 2 N, m = 15 kg
D. All of the these

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11. Which of the following is the function of the 16. The principal quantum number of an atom is 5,
liver? what can you conclude?
A. It filters waste materials from the blood. A. There are 10 orbitals.
B. It manufactures bile to aid fat digestion and B. There are 5 subshells.
remove toxins from the blood. C. The electron has very low energy.
C. It supplies most enzymes for digestion. D. The maximum number of electrons is 25.
D. It destroys old red blood cells, produces
lymphocytes, which is a type of white blood 17. What is the longest fault?
cells, and stores blood. A. San Andreas Fault
B. Marikina Fault
12. Which of the following chemical equations
C. Chaman Fault
shows a composition reaction?
D. Calaveras Fault
A. Cl2 + NaBr  NaCl + Br2
B. C20H42 + O2  CO2 + H2O
18. The half life of radon is four days. If at start,
C. Na + O2  Na2O
you have 32 grams, how many grams will be
D. NaOH + HCl  NaCl + H2O
left after 20 days?
A. 4
13. Why is it warmer in the regions near the
B. 2
equator than those near the poles?
C. 1
A. Regions near the equator receive vertical
D. 0.5
rays of the sun.
B. The air above the equator is thicker.
19. How many 1.5-volt dry cells can you put in a
C. Regions near the equator have longer days
circuit that has a 12-volt lamp to give
than night.
maximum light without breaking the lamp?
D. Sunlight is converted into heat faster near
A. 6
the equator.
B. 8
14. The atomic mass of iron is 56 and its atomic C. 9
number is 26. How many neutrons does an D. 12
atom of iron have?
A. 26 20. What do you call a hail rain?
B. 28 A. precipitation
C. 30 B. mixture
D. 32 C. solution
D. condensation
15. What is the most abundant gas in the Earth’s
atmosphere?
A. oxygen
B. nitrogen
C. carbon dioxide
D. hydrogen

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21. A plant’s leaves have parallel veins and each of 26. Barnacles adhering to the skin of a whale is an
its flower has 6 petals; to which group does it example of
belong? A. mutualism.
A. monocot B. commensalism.
B. dicot C. parasitism.
C. cannot be determined D. predation.
D. neither monocot nor dicot
27. Which of the following is true?
22. What is the largest classification of animals? A. pH of less than 7 is basic.
A. Kingdom B. pH of more than 7 is acidic.
B. Phylum C. Acids are bitter.
C. Class D. None of the above.
D. Species
28. When blood passes through the lungs, what do
23. If the resistance of the circuit is decreased, the lungs do on the blood?
what happens to the current? A. Supply oxygen to the blood
A. Decreases B. Filters waste from the blood
B. Increases C. Supplies carbon dioxide to the blood
C. Stays the same D. Takes away oxygen from the blood
D. None of these
29. What is the part of the earth in which living
24. If the distance between two objects is doubled, organisms exist?
what happens to the force of attraction between A. lithosphere
them? B. hydrosphere
A. Decreases C. biosphere
B. Increases D. atmosphere
C. Stays the same
D. None of these 30. How many alleles can be formed in a person
with AaBb genotype?
25. If you would travel from Earth to Mars, your A. 1
A. mass would stay same but your weight B. 2
would be different. C. 3
B. mass and weight would both stay the same. D. 4
C. mass would be different but your weight
would stay the same.
D. mass and weight would both change.

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31. Temperatures have risen during the last 30 For numbers 36 and 37, refer to the v-t graph below.
v (m/s)
years. As the Earth warms up, seawater level
30
rises. Why is there an expected increase in
seawater level when the temperature increases?
0 t (s)
A. The oceans spread or expand. 3 7

B. The mountain glaciers melt.

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C. The ice in the north and south poles melt.
D. All of these
36. What is the slope of the line segment from 3 s
to 5 s?
32. Where are chromosomes located?
A . –15
A. nucleolus
B . 15
B. nucleus
C . –30
C. plasma membrane
D . 30
D. cytoplasm
37. To what does the slope of the graph refer?
33. Lightning can be defined as A. distance
A. collision of cold air and hot air. B. displacement
B. the expansion of rapidly heated air. C. velocity
C. violent disturbance of the atmosphere with D. acceleration
strong winds and usually rain. 38. What does the stomach produce other than
D. massive electrostatic discharge between hydrochloric acid?
electrically charged regions within clouds. A. pepsin
B. lipase
34. What is the moho? C. citric acid
A. inner core D. lactic acid
B. outer core
39. A projectile is launched at an angle from the
C. boundary between the outer and inner core
ground. What becomes zero as the projectile
D. boundary between the crust and the mantle
approaches the ground?
A. vertical displacement
35. Where is chlorophyll found?
B. speed
A. stomata
C. acceleration
B. chloroplasts
D. velocity
C. chromoplasts
D. leucoplasts 40. Why can you smell perfume in an open bottle?
A. Molecules are moving.
B. Molecules attract one another.
C. Molecules of air have large spaces between
them.
D. Air has no definite volume.

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