Department oF Education

Region VI Western Visayas

Division of Iloilo City
FELICIANA JAVA KELLY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Mandurriao, Iloilo Cty
NAME___________________________________________________________

Write the correct letter of your answer on the space provided.

__________1. Which of the following causes population to increase?
a. Fewer births, more deaths
b. More births, fewer deaths
c. No births, no deaths
d. More births, more deaths
__________2. What is the result when population increases faster than the supply of
food?
a. Food production
c. food storage
b. Food double
d. food festival
__________3. Why are there more garbage cans in a city than in a barrio?
a. The city has a bigger area.
b. The city has a bigger population.
c. The city has no garbage collectors.
d. The city has no incinerators.
__________4. The population of a community increased rapidly in two years. What
could be its effect on water supply?
a. More water available to the people
b. Less water available to the people
c. Contamination of water
d. Purification of water
__________5. What can help increase food production?
a. Good seeds
b. good soil
c. irrigation
d. all
of these
__________6. What is one way of conserving our resources?
a. Mining
b. exploring
c. recycling
d. importing
__________7. Which of the following shows concern for the environment?
a. Burning of garbage in open areas
b. Participating in clean and green projects
c. Hunting wildlife in the forest
d. Throwing wastewater into a river
__________8. In what way does burning of fuels affect the environment?
a. It makes the lower atmosphere warmer.
b. It makes the lower atmosphere cooler.
c. It contributes to the formation of acid rain.
d. It causes the depletion of forest resources.
__________9. What is the effect of too much inorganic fertilizers in the soil?
a. The soil becomes very fertile.
b. The soil loses some of its nutrients.
c. The soil becomes more loose.
d. The soil becomes ard.
_________10. Which of the following is a proof of environment degradation?
a. A polluted river
c. Tubbataha Reef
b. A virgin forest
d. Mt. Makiling National Park
_________11. Which of the following destroys the balance of an ecosystem?
a. Planting of more trees
b. Disruption of the nutrient cycle
c. Recycling materials
d. Conservation of natural resources
__________12. One of the additives used in processing meat is sugar. Why is sugar
used as an additive?
a. Sugar will enhance the appearance of meat.
b. Sugar will add to the nutritive value of meat.
c. Sugar will enhance the taste of meat.
d. Sugar will add to the color of meat.
__________13. What property of glass makes it a popular material for manufacturing
drinking containers?
a. It is brittle.
c. It is heat proof.
b. It is transparent.
d. It can be melted.

__________14. What property of steel makes it a good construction material?

a. It is rigid and strong.
c. It has luster.
b. It can be stretched.
d. It is a conductor of
heat.
__________15. Why is plastic considered a very important material?
a. It can be manufactured into many different kinds of product.
b. It is easy and cheap to produce.
c. It is available any time.
d. It takes a long time to decompose.
__________16. What are synthetic products?
a. Products made from plastic.
b. Products made from manufactured products instead of natural
materials.
c. Products that have natural properties.
d. Products made from raw materials?
__________17. Why are metals in their natural form except copper not used for
manufacturing products?
a. They are expensive.
c. They are difficult to process.
b. They are rare.
d. They are soft and weak.
__________18. What is an alloy?
a. It is mixture of different plastics.
c. It is a very strong
metal.
b. It is mixture of metals.
d. It is a rare metal.
__________19. What metals are mixed to form brass?
a. Iron and copper
c. zinc and tin
b. Copper and zinc
d. lead and zinc
__________20. Plastic may be mixed with paper or cloth and compressed into a thin
sheet. What is this sheet called?
a. Plastic sheet
b. plastic fiber
c. plastic laminate d.
plastic pad
__________21. What is the purpose of adding gelatin when processing food?
a. As emulsifier
b. as thickener
c. as a coloring
d. as sweetener
__________22. Most of these materials are for maintaining cleanliness at home.
Which may be omitted from the list?
a. soap
c. floor wax
b. detergent
d. Lysol
Match the materials in Column A with their properties in Column B. Write
the letter in a space provided.
__________23.
__________24.
__________25.
__________26.
__________27.
__________28.
__________29.
__________30.

A
Plastic
Paper
Wood
Ceramic
rubber
Glass
Metal
Cloth

B
a. plastic
b. good conductor of heat
c. transparent
d. can be soft or hard
e. good construction material
f. absorbent
g. resistant to acids
h. good electrical insulator

True or False
_________31. Food , water and air are the basic needs of people.
_________32. The need for water in a community remains the same even if the
population increases.
_________33. The more people there are in a community, the more food is needed.
_________34. When the demand for food is greater than the supply of food, then the
people will be hungry.
_________35. Communicable diseases spread rapidly in an overcrowded community.
_________36.Different materials have different specific properties.
_________37. Synthetics are man made products.
_________38. Metal is a raw material which is soft and strong.
_________39. Household materials should be used, stored and disposed of properly.
_________40. Expired materials should be used.
_________41. When buying product, read the labels to get important information
about it for safe handling , use storage and disposal.
_________42. Ecological balance means there is disruption in an ecosystem.
_________43. The greenhose effect can eventually lead to making the climate warm,
thus melting polar ice caps and causing flood in coastal areas.
_________44. Food is not an important household material.

_________45. Metal is the most common synthetic material that we use.

Why is recycling a good practice? (5 points)