DISTRICT SUPER QUIZ BEE

SCIENCE TEST QUESTIONS

GRADE VI
EASY
1. A materials that release heat and light come
from buried remains of living things
Answer: fossil fuels
2. Substances necessary for blood clotting.
Answer: fibrinogens
3. Trees that lose their leaves during a certain
part of the year
Answer : deciduous trees
4. An organisms in legumes like mongo that
convert nitrogen in air into nitrate that is a form
which
plant can use.
Answer: nitrogen-fixing bacteria
5. A direct nervous pathway from sense organs to
the spinal cord by passing the
brain to an
organ that will do the action.
Answer: reflex arc
6. What do you call a space between neurons?
Answer: synapse
7. It is the most abundant mineral on Earth.
Answer : silica
8. Who came up with the tuning fork classification
for galaxies?
Answer : Edwin Hubble
9. What is the worlds most active volcano?
Answer: Mt. Kilavea
10. The apparent change in the position of an
object when you look at it from different places.

Answer: parallax
11. The scientist that gave us the laws of motion.
Answer : Isaac Newton
12. A disease of structural changes in the brain
resulting in the irreversible deterioration that
progresses forgetfulness.
Answer : Alzheimer Disease
13. The regulation of steady life maintaining
conditions inside an organism is called __________.
Answer : homeostasis
14. An organ that primarily destroys old and
damaged red blood cells.
Answer: spleen
15. What is the harmful effect of a rusty iron?
Answer: tetanus
16. These are the group of stars that form patterns
in the sky.
Answer: constellation
16. What will you do to protect and conserve
tropical rainforest?
Answer: plant more trees
17. Sound travels best through _______.
Answer: solid
18. What form of energy comes from hot springs
and volcanoes?
Answer: thermal
19. What kind of nerve cells that stimulate the
effector organs like glands and muscles?
Answer: motor nerve
20. It is the basic unit of the nervous system.
Answer: nerve cell

AVERAGE

1. Man-made satellites which circle the earth to

get information about the earth and its
atmosphere and other bodies in space.
Answer: artificial satellites
2. A substance released by the body in allergic
reactions that lowers the blood circulation
Answer: Histamine
3. Part of cerebral hemispheres of the brain
concerned with movement and speech.
Answer: frontal lobe
4. What do you call the muscular wall of the heart?
Answer: myocardium
5. An organized plan for finding an answer to a
problem.
Answer: scientific method
6. A big wave on the surface of the lake caused by
an earthquake
Answer: seiche
7. When the switch is on the electric circuit is
_______.
Answer: closed
8. What simple machines makes up a pencil
sharpener?
Answer: wheel and axle
9. It is the type of lens focuses/ narrows light?
Answer: convex lens
10. An example of non-contact friction force is
______.
Answer: gravity
11. It is the scientific instrument that collects light
by means of a camera attached to the device.
Answer: spectrograph

12. What season of the year when there is an

abundance of sunlight?
Answer: summer
13. It is the distance expressed in degrees east or
west of prime meridians.
Answer: longitude
14. Valve that connects the two chambers on the
left side of the heart.
Answer: mitral valve
15. A type of energy that is radiated, or given off
in the form of transverse waves from all matter not
at absolute zero.
Answer: electromagnetic energy
16. A nutrient cycle with gaseous component
(carbon, sulphur and nitrogen)
Answer: global cycle
17. A process by which mountains can form
oceanic plate dives beneath a continental plate.
Answer: subduction
18. Hot fragments of rock and magma emitted
during an explosive eruption.
Answer: pyroclastics
19. The deflection of the planetary wind due to
Earths rotation.
Answer: Coriolis Effect
20. Chemical used in pesticides and paints.
Answer: carbon tetrachloride

DIFFICULT
1. The process that causes movement of the
earths crust , resulting in the formation of
continents mountains, plateaus

Answer: diastrophism
2. The continuous splitting of atom.
Answer: Chain reaction
3. A type of tropical cyclones which maximum wind
speed is 63 to 117 kilometers per hour.
Answer: Storm
4. It is a region of tropical grassland which is
found in the African forests.
Answer: Savannah
5. The first man-made satellite was launched by
Russian scientists.
Answer: Sputnik 1
6. A jeepney travels in 12o kilometres in 3 hours.
What is its average speed?
Answer: 40 km/h
7. A disease of brain chemistry causing a distorted
cognitive and emotional perception of ones
environment.
Answer: schizophrenia
8. Bacteria use ammonia in soil as sole energy
source.
Answer : nitrosomonas
9. The newest space telescope that will launched
into space in 2018 and contains foldable mirrors.
Answer: James Webb Space Telescope
10. Hormone released by renal cells that induces
red blood maturation.
Answer: erythropoietin
11. Protein that maintains osmotic pressure in the
blood.
Answer: serum albumin

12. An upward fold in the rock is called _______.

Answer : anticline
13. Magma that is squeezed into a horizontal crack
between rock layers and hardens.
Answer : sill
14. If the heat strikes the black and colored
objects, heat absorbed _________.
Answer: slightly
15. What do you call the random movement of
heat?
Answer: molecules
16. It is the absorption of energy that cause
chemical reaction.
Answer: burning
17. It is a group of related organisms, which have
many characters in common.
Answer: genus
18. It is the gradual movement of land masses.
Answer: continental drift
19. Dark patches that appear on the surface of the
sun.
Answer: sunspots
20. A device that generates an intense beam of
light of a single wave length.
Answer: laser

CLINCHER
1. An abnormal multiplication of cells or structural

elements of a part of organ .

Answer: Hyperplasia
2. A food web which begins with green plants or
algae then to plant eaters to flesh eaters.
Answer: Grazing web

3. It is a device that transforms mechanical energy

to electrical energy.
Answer: generator
4. Communication between two hemisphere.
Answer: corpus collosum
5. Largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century.
Answer: Novarupta