First Quarter Examination

Science 9

Name:______________________________ Grade @ Section:__________ Score:____

Encircle the letter of the correct answer.

1. What is the name of the sugar that is formed during photosynthesis?

a. Glucose b. fructose c. lactose d. maltose
2. The part of photosynthesis that does not require light is known as
a. Light reaction b. calvin cycle c. krebs cycle d. Darwin cycle
3. Which type of blood vessels carries blood away from the heart?
A. arteries b. viens c. capillaries d. aorta
4. What is the raw material of photosynthesis that enters the leaf mainly through the stomata?
a. oxygen. Carbon dioxide c. hydrogen d. water
5. To be able to photosynthesize, an organisms must have
a. leaf b. chlorophyll c. cuticle d. stomata
6. Water enters the plant through the
a. roots b. leaves c. flowers d. stem
7. Which of the following serves as the site of photosynthesis?
a. cuticle b. stomata c. leaf d. chloroplast
8. Oxygen is essential in cellular respiration. What is the role of oxygen in cellular respiration?
a. it provides a high energy proton c. it serve as the final acceptor
b. it releases an electron d. it forms water
9. Which of the following are products of cellular respiration?
a. ATP, carbon dioxide and water c. oxygen and water
b. oxygen and ATP d. oxygen, glucose and carbon dioxide
10.It is an empty TUBE THAT SERVES AS the passage way of air into the lungs.
a. trachea b. bronchi c. bronchioles d. alveoli
11. Are the two branching tubes that connects the trachea to the lungs
a. trachea b.bronchi c. bronchioles d. alveoli
12. What happens to the diaphragm when you inhale?
a. expands b. contracts c. relaxes d. increases
13. It is the body’s breathing system.
a. digestive system b. circulatory system c. respiratory system d. nervous system
14. Which of the following is NOT a disease of respiratory?
a. chicken pox b. pneumonia c. cancer d. asthma
15. Which of the following is NOT part OF THE BREATHING SYSTEM?
a. trachea b. bronchi c. esophagus d.nose
16. It is the blood vessel that carries deoxygenated blood from the body to the right side of the heart.
a. pulmonary vein b. pulmonary artery c. aorta d.vena cava
17. When oxygen-rich blood leaves the lungs to the heart, it enters the heart through the pulmonary vein
into what part of the heart?
a. right atrium b. left atrium c. right ventricle d. left ventricle
18. What is the phenotype of a heterozygous four o’clock flower plant?
a. red b. white c. pink d. all of the above
19. Which blood vessel is involved in the exchange of materials between the blood and the other body
tissues?
a. arteries b. capillaries d. veins d. aorta
20. The pumping organ of the body.
a. heart b. lungs c. diaphragm d. alveoli
21. What is the phetype of the F2 generation if two pink four o’clock flower were crossed?
Show your Punnet Square.
a. RR,WW b. RR,RW c. RR,RW,WW d. ALL OF THE ABOVE
22. One chain of a DNA MOLECULE HAS THE NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE G, G,C,G,A. What is the sequence of the
nucleotides on its partner chain?
a.G,G,A,G,T B. G,G,C,G,T C. C,C,G,C,T D. G,G,C,G,U
23. What are the two common parts of a nucleotide?
a. sugar and phosphate c. sugar and nitrogen base
b.
24. What is the pairing arrangement of nitrogen base?
a. A-T and A-C b. A-T and C-G C. A-T and G-A D. A-U and G-A
25. It is the largest blood vessel leaving the heart.
a. artery b. capillary c. veins d. aorta
26. Identify the pumps of the heart.
a. left atrium only b. left ventricle only c.right and left atria d. right and left ventricle
27. Predict the phenotypic ratios of offspring when a homozygous white cow is crossed with a roan bull. Show your
Punnet square.
a.1:1 b.2:2 c. 1:2:1 d.1:3:0
28. What is the name of the in heritance pattern in which both alleles are expressed equally?
a. incomplete dominance b. codominance c. segregation d. sex-linked traits
29. How many chambers does the heart have?
a. 2 b. 3 c. 4 d.6
30. The movement of blood through the heart and the body is called
a. circulation b. locomotion c. ventriculation d. heart pump
31. With circulation, your heart provides your body with:
a. oxygen b. nutrients c. a way to get rid of wastes d. all of the above
32. You can keep your heart strong by:
a. eating heart-shaped candy c. doing activities like playing outside,riding your bike and swimming
b. smoking d. sleeping 18 hours aday
33. The number of different species in an area is referred to as __________.
a. habitat fragmentation b. climate c. biodiversity d. niche diversity
34.If 40 carabaos live in a 1 ½ sq. m area,what is their population density per sq. kilometer?
a. 27 per sq. km b. 24 per sq. km c. 25 per sq.km d. 26 per sq. km
35. A species in danger of becoming extinct in the near future is referred to as a(an) _____ species.
a. keystone b. exotic c. endangered d. threatened
36. If Joe Schmoe has a blood type AB+,what type(s) of blood can he accept if needs a transfusion?
a. Anything, as long as it’s from a human b. AB+ only c. AB- only d.A+ and B+ only
Refer this problem for numbers 37-39.
A cross between a blue blahblah bird @ a white blahblahbirdproduces offspring that are silver.The color of
blahblah birds is determined by just two alleles.
37. What are the genotypes of the parent blahblah birds in the original cross?(use B and W)
a. BB x WW B.BBx BW C. BWx BW D. all of the above
38. What is/are the genotype(s) of the silver offspring?
a.BW b.WW C. BB d. all of the above
39. What would be the phenotypic ratios of offrspringproducd by two silver blahblahbirds?Show your
Punnetsquarea.
a.4:0 b1:3 c. 1:2:1 d. 2:2
40. Risk factor for high blood pressure include all of these except
a. excess cholesterol b. obesity c. exercise d. smoking