Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Region VIII
Division of Northern Samar
Las Navas I District
LAS NAVAS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

Assessment Tool
in
Science - 9
Prepared by:

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LIOMERQuarter
M. CREDO
SST – III

PEARL CAMILLE A. TENEDERO

SST – I

Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Regional office VIII
LAS NAVAS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
Las Navas I District

ASSESSMENT TOOL IN SCIENCE 9 (Quarter 1 - Week 1)

Name: __________________Grade and Section: ___________Date:___________Score: ______
I. Directions: Read and answer the questions. Write the letter of your answer on the space
provided before each number.
___________1.Which of the following is the function of the respiratory system?
a. absorption of nutrients c. gas exchange
b. transport of oxygen d. skeletal support
___________2. Which of the following statements describes the function of the diaphragm?
a. It contracts and relaxes during respiration to change the volume of the chest
cavity
b. It serves as the passage of air into the lungs
c. It carries blood throughout the body
d. It is the site of gas exchange
___________3.The lungs bring ______ into the body, and eliminates _____ from the body.
a. carbon monoxide, oxygen c. carbon monoxide , carbon dioxide
b. oxygen, carbon dioxide d. oxygen , carbon monoxide
___________4. Which of the following structures is NOT part of the respiratory system?
a. Alveoli b. Bronchus c. Heart d. Trachea
___________5. A baby swallows her food and accidentally, it does not enter the esophagus. What
structure does not function properly and diverted the food into the respiratory tract instead of
the esophagus?
a. trachea b. epiglottis c. larynx d. bronchus
___________6.Which of the following statements is NOT part of exhalation?
a. The ribcage contracts inward
b. The volume of the chest cavity decreases
c. The diaphragm contracts and pulls downward
d. The pressure within the chest cavity increases
___________7. At what structures in the lungs do the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide take
place?
a. Bronchi b. Alveoli c. Bronchioles d. Trachea
___________ 8. What happens to the pressure in your chest cavity when you inhale?
a. Air pressure remains the same c. Air pressure is increased
b. Air pressure is reduced d. Air pressure changes
____________9.What organ in the circulatory system is responsible for pumping the blood
throughout the body?
a. Heart b. Blood vessels c. Blood d. Arteries
___________10. Which of the following blood vessels is responsible in carrying deoxygenated blood
to the heart?
a. Arteries b. Veins c. Capillaries d. All of the above
___________11. What is the main function of the blood in circulatory system?
a. Carries the gases, nutrients and other molecules to and from the different
parts of the body.
b. Pumps the blood throughout the body
c. Where the exchange of gases and nutrients take place.
d. Where the carbon dioxide is absorb.

___________12.Which type of circuit/ circulation is responsible for the movement of blood from
the heart to the rest of the body, excluding the lungs?
a. Pulmonary Circulation c. Systemic Circulation
b. Coronary Circulation d. Both a and c
___________13. How do the circulatory and respiratory systems work together to circulate blood
and oxygen throughout the body?
a. Air moves in and out of the lungs through the trachea , bronchi, and
bronchioles.
b. Blood moves in and out of the lungs through the pulmonary arteries and veins
 that connect to the heart.
c. Both a and b.
d. Neither a nor b
__________14. All of the following are true about human circulatory system except _____
a. Heart rate changes in response to our physical activity.
b. White blood cells help fight microbes that may cause diseases.
c. Veins have thinner walls than arteries.
d. The atria pump blood out of the heart.
__________15. Which structures of the heart receive blood from the lower and upper parts of the
body?
a. Arteries b. Veins c. Atria d. Ventricles

II. Directions: Describe the function of the following parts of the human respiratory system as
the air enters through them.

1. Nasal cavity

2. Pharynx –

3. Larynx -

4. Bronchi –

5. Alveoli –

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Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Regional office VIII
LAS NAVAS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
Las Navas I District

ASSESSMENT TOOL IN SCIENCE 9 (Quarter 1 - Week 2)

Name: __________________Grade and Section: ___________Date:___________Score: ______
I. Directions: Read and answer the questions. Write the letter of your answer on the space
provided before each number.
_________1. Which of the following is another name for the flu?
A. Pneumonia B. Asthma
C. Influenza D. Tuberculosis
_________2. How virus infection can be spread directly?
A. Taking a bath regularly B. Sneezing, coughing and talking
C. Washing of hands thoroughly D. Taking vitamins and minerals
_________3. Which one of these is NOT a disease in circulatory system?
A. Stroke B. Asthma
C. Hypertension D. Heart Attack
_________4. Which of the following is called the silent killer because it typically has no
symptoms?
A. Stroke B. Atherosclerosis
C.Heart Attack D. Hypertension
_________5. Which of the following is the best form of physical exercise?
A. Playing computer games B. Playing chess
C. Jogging D. Watching TV
_________6. Which of the following defines stress?
A. Just a normal part of human life.
B. Body’s reaction to controllable situation.
C. Situation that is not harmful.
D. It is a body’s reaction to physical or emotional tension.
_________7. Which of the following will benefit our body in eating a balanced diet?
A. It improves body’s health and reduces diseases.
B. It can leads to depression.
C. We are feeling empty and stress.
D. Our body will become malnourished.
_________8. What are some things you can do to help support your lungs health?
A. Smoking regularly B. Drink alcohol excessively
C. Regular exercise and balanced diet D. Stress all the time
_________9. Which of these best describe what a personal hygiene is?
A. Having a shower but wearing the same clothes
B. Washing your hands
C. Using soap to clean yourself
D. Both B and C
_________10. How can you make good choices and stay healthy?
A. Consult health professionals when you are not feeling well.
B. Use internet to diagnose and treat yourself.
C. Buy over the counter medications.
D. Listen to anybody that gives you piece of advice.

II. Directions: Answer the following questions.

1. Why should you take care of the respiratory and circulatory system?
2. How does smoking affect one’s health?

3. How does exercise prevent heart disease?

4. How does unhealthy lifestyle shorten one’s life?

Parent’s Signature:________________________

Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Regional office VIII
LAS NAVAS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
Las Navas I District

ASSESSMENT TOOL IN SCIENCE 9 (Quarter 1 - Week 3)

Name: __________________Grade and Section: ___________Date:___________Score: ______
I. Directions: Read and answer the questions. Write the letter of your answer on the space
provided before each number.
_______1. Which of the following statements is TRUE about non-Mendelian inheritance? 
A. It is a pattern of inheritance which follows the Law of Segregation. 
B. It is a pattern of inheritance which does not follow Mendel's Genetic Laws. 
C. It is a pattern of inheritance which was proposed by Sir Alexander Fleming. 
D. It is a pattern of inheritance that solely explains the existence of dominant and
recessive traits. 
_______2. Which of the following is the correct use of a Punnett square?
A. testing for the presence of the recessive allele
B. determining the DNA sequence of a given gene
C. identifying the gene locus where allelic variations are possible
D. predicting the result of genetic crosses between organisms of known genotype
_______3. What non-Mendelian pattern of inheritance occurs when the phenotype of the
offspring somewhere in between the phenotypes of both parents and a completely
dominant allele does not occur?
A. dominance B. codominance
C. multiple alleles D. incomplete dominance
_______4. In incomplete dominance, the heterozygote offspring shows __________.
A. A phenotype of the dominant parent.
B. A phenotype of the recessive parent.
C. A phenotype that is intermediate between the 2 homozygous phenotypes.
D. A phenotype that is a combination between the 2 homozygous phenotypes.
_______5. In ABO Blood Group system, O is recessive. Therefore, for this blood type to be
expressed, ___________.
A. Two O alleles must be present.
B. One O allele and 1 B allele must be present.
C. The alleles A, B and O must all be present.
D. The alleles A, B and O must all be present.
________6. What type of non-Mendelian inheritance is shown in the picture below?

A. Codominance
B. Multiple Allelism
C. Polygenic Inheritance
D. Incomplete Dominance

__________7. In the ABO blood group systems in humans, what two alleles are codominant?
A. A & A B. A & B
C. A & O D. B & O
__________8.ABO blood types are an example of____.
A. codominance B. dominance
C. incomplete dominance D. multiple alleles
__________9. All the offspring of a cross between a red-flowered plant and a white-flowered plant
have pink flowers. This means that the allele for red flowers is ________ to the allele for white
flowers.
A. codominant B. dominant
C. incompletely dominant D. pleiotropic
__________10. What would be the genotype of a pink flower if it follows the rules for incomplete
dominance, given that R= red and W= white?
A. p B. pp C. rw D. RW
___________11. Pink four o’ clock flowers are obtained from a cross between pure bred red flower
(RR) and white flower (WW) plant? What is the genotype of the pink flowers?
A. RR B. RW C. WW D. red and white
___________12. A black chicken and a white chicken mate and produce a gray chick. Which type
of inheritance would this be an example of?
A. Codominance B. dominance
C. Incomplete dominance D. recessive
___________13. A cross between a white rooster and a black hen results in 100% gray offspring.
When two of these gray offspring are mated, the probable phenotypic percentage seen in the
offspring would be
A.100% gray B. 75% black, 25% white
C. 75% gray, 25% white D. 25%black, 50% gray, 25%white
____________14. A non - Mendelian pattern which results when one allele is not dominant over
the other which means both alleles are shown equally in the phenotypes of the heterozygote.
A. Codominance B. Dominance
C. Incomplete Dominance D. Multiple Alleles
____________15. If one of your parents is blood type A and the other is type B, which of the
following blood types would you likely be?
A. A B. AB C. B D. O

II. Directions: Solve the given problems below.

A. A male cattle with roan coat (CRCW) mates with a female which has a red coat (CRCR).
A Punnett square of the cross is given below with the genotypes of the offspring.
CR CR
CR CRCR CRCR
W R W
C C C CRCW

1. Identify the possible phenotypes of the offspring. ________________________

2. Give its phenotypic ratio. ________________________

B. A homozygous A male marries a heterozygous B female. Fill up the Punnett square

below and answer the question.
IB i
A
I
IA

1. What would be the possible blood types of their children? _____________________

2. What is the percentage of having a type O child? _____________________

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Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Regional office VIII
LAS NAVAS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
Las Navas I District

ASSESSMENT TOOL IN SCIENCE 9 (Quarter 1 - Week 4)

Name: __________________Grade and Section: ___________Date:___________Score: ______
I. Directions: Read and answer the questions. Write the letter of your answer on the space
provided before each number.
___________1. Biodiversity is a short term for ____________.
a. biological diversity c. biological diverse
b. biological diversified d. bio diversified
___________2. Environments always have both living and _________.
a. non-living factors c. biogeochemical cycles
b. nutrients d. ecosystem
___________3. The ocean is the __________ ecosystem in the world.
a. shortest c. largest
b. smallest d. longest
___________4. Abiotic factors are non-living things which determine the survival of an organism.
Which of the following items is an abiotic factor?
a. habitat c. temperature
b. food d. organism
__________5. Biodiversity can affect the ________ of ecosystems and the _________ of populations.
a. sustainability ; stability c. stability ; sustainability
b. life ; existence d. existence; life
__________6. The environmental conditions that keep a population from increasing in size and
help balance ecosystems is called ________.
a. limiting factor c. abiotic factor
b. biotic factor d. environmental factor
__________7. Biodiversity and the survival of ecosystems have a direct proportional relationship.
This means that if biodiversity will increase, the chances of survival will also _______.
a. decrease c. increase then decrease
b. increase d. cannot be determined
_________ 8. Trees in the forest compete for limited resources like space, sunlight and soil
nutrients. Some small plants like grasses and shrubs can’t grow well therefore,
population decreases. Which limiting factor greatly affects the population of grasses
and shrubs in the forest ecosystem?
a. space c. soil nutrients
b. sunlight d. altitude
_________9. The main source/s of oceanic pollution is/are
a. plastics, volcanic ashes, nitric oxide c. oil, ozone, methane
b. detergent, nitric oxide, oil d. petroleum, oil, detergent
________10. Where do all water pollutants eventually end up?
a. streams c. oceans
b. rivers d. lakes
________11. The air pollutants responsible for acid rain are
a. Nitric Oxide (NO) and Aluminum (Al) b. Methane (CH 4) and Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
c. Ozone (O3) and Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) d. Sulfur dioxide (SO2) and Nitrogen
Oxides (NOx)
________12. Which of the following items is the major cause of wildlife depletion?
a. pollution c. overfishing
b. deforestation d. eutrophication
________13. How is the forest ecosystem affected when trees are cut down?
a. Nutrients are lost in the soil.
b. Animals who depend on forests lose their shelter and food.
c. Oxygen will no longer be available for everyone.
d. There will be available space for humans in building houses and other
infrastructures.
________14. What does eutrophication mean?
a. Forests are cleared to make the land available for other purposes.
b. People collect, capture, or harvest marine organisms such as coral reefs, fish,
 sea turtles, and others in a large quantity.
c. The weakening or death of trees caused by Nitrogen Oxides (NOx) and Sulfur
dioxide (SO2) that reacts with water, oxygen, and other chemicals in the
atmosphere.
d. An increase of organic nutrients brought about by the chemicals and garbage
thrown into the bodies of water which stimulates the growth of algae and in turn,
lessens the available oxygen for other aquatic animals.
________15. The following are consequences of water pollution EXCEPT
a. infectious diseases b. oversupply of plant nutrients
c. accumulation of toxic chemicals d. increased dissolved oxygen for marine life

II. Directions: Complete the concept map. Choose your answer from the box below.

Climate Change Organisms Temperature Food

Biodiversity Habitat Destruction Ecosystem Life

Overexploitation Survival Limiting Factors Biotic

Abiotic Sunlight Soil Nutrients Altitude

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Department of Education
Regional office VIII
LAS NAVAS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
Las Navas I District

ASSESSMENT TOOL IN SCIENCE 9 (Quarter 1 - Week 5 & 6)

Name: __________________Grade and Section: ___________Date:___________Score: ______
I. Directions: Read and answer the questions. Write the letter of your answer on the space
provided before each number.
___________1. What do you call the process wherein plants make their own food?
A. cellular respiration C. protein synthesis
B. photosynthesis D. carbon fixation
___________2. Which of the following is NOT a requirement of photosynthesis?
A. oxygen C. light energy
B. water D. carbon dioxide
___________3. Mesophyll layer of the leaf plays an important role in trapping light energy from the
sun upon which photosynthesis mostly take place in this layer. Why is this so?
A. because it contains air spaces
B. because it is transparent allowing light to penetrate
C. because it has the greatest number of chloroplasts
D. because it provides an entrance and exit for gases
__________4. What are the products of light-dependent reaction used to power the light-
independent reaction?
A. Sugar and ATP C. NADPH and ATP
B. Oxygen and NADPH D. NADPH and carbon dioxide
__________5. Cellular respiration starts with glycolysis, which occurs in the cytoplasm, producing
2 pyruvic acid. Which of the following processes will allow cellular respiration to continue in case
oxygen is absent?
A. Krebs Cycle C. aerobic respiration
B. Electron Transport Chain D. anaerobic respiration
__________6.  All organisms get energy from food to perform different life processes. It is done by
converting stored energy from food into chemical energy for cell use. Which of the following
is associated with the production of chemical energy?
A. vacuole C. mitochondrion
B. chloroplast D. nucleus
__________7.  How many ATP molecules are needed to split glucose into two?
A. 2 ATP C. 6 ATP
B. 4 ATP D. 8 ATP
__________8. In glycolysis, glucose is broken down into two molecules of pyruvate, a 3- carbon
molecule. This is accompanied by a net gain of how many ATP and NADH molecules?
A. 4 ATP and 2 NADH C. 4 ATP and 4 NADH
    B. 2 ATP and 4 NADH D. 2 ATP and 2 NADH
__________9. Why does Calvin cycle needs the products of light phase?
A. Because it is needed to convert oxygen into sugar.
B. Because it is needed to convert sugar into oxygen.
C. Because it is needed to convert carbon dioxide into sugar.
D. Because it is needed to convert sugar into carbon dioxide.
_________10. How are photosynthesis and cellular respiration related to each other?
A. The products of one process are the reactants of the other.
B. The products of photosynthesis and cellular respiration are just the same.
C. The reactants of photosynthesis and cellular respiration are just the same.
D. The reactant and the product of photosynthesis and cellular respiration are just
the same.
__________11. What is the final output of photosynthesis?
A. water C. glucose
B. oxygen D. sunlight
__________12. Why is that aerobic respiration more efficient than anaerobic respiration?
A. aerobic respiration produces less ATP.
B. aerobic respiration needs less oxygen.
C. aerobic respiration needs more oxygen.
D. aerobic respiration produces more ATP.
__________13. Where do respiration and cellular respiration take place?
 A. Respiration and photosynthesis both occur in plants
B. Respiration and photosynthesis both occur in animals
C. Respiration occurs in chloroplast and photosynthesis occurs in
mitochondria
D. Respiration occurs in mitochondria and photosynthesis occurs in
Chloroplast
___________14. Which of the following is true about photosynthesis and cellular respiration?
A. Photosynthesis is just a reverse equation of cellular respiration.
B. Autotrophs and heterotrophs do not need each other to be able to survive.
C. Photosynthesis needs glucose and oxygen to produce carbon dioxide,
water and energy.
D. Cellular respiration needs carbon dioxide, water and energy to produce
glucose and oxygen.
____________15. Which of these molecules completes the process of cellular respiration?
glucose + oxygen ----> water + _________ + _______

A. ATP , carbon dioxide C. NADH, oxygen

B. ADP, oxygen D. oxygen, ADP

II. Directions: Answer the following questions by completing the sentence using the phrases
inside the box.
absorb energy from light facilitate gas exchange
water, carbon dioxide and energy 6H2O (water)
C6H12O6 (glucose) it is the number one source of food
O6 (oxygen)

1.What do plants need for photosynthesis?

Plants need_____________________________________________________________________________
2. What is the function of the stomata?
The function of the stomata is to ________________________________________________________
3. What is the function of the chlorophyll?
The function of the chlorophyll is to _____________________________________________________
4. Give the importance of photosynthesis to plants and other organisms.
Photosynthesis is very important because _______________________________________________
5. Write the summary equation of photosynthesis.

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