Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
REGION VIII – EASTERN VISAYAS
SCHOOLS DIVISION OF EASTERN SAMAR
LLORENTE NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL (303513)
LLORENTE DISTRICT

First Quarter Examination in Science 9

Name:______________________________ Date:_________________________
Grade & Section: __________________ Score:________________________

Direction: Read each question carefully and write only the letter of the correct answer.

1. In which part of the respiratory system does 7. Which chemical in tobacco smoke is an
gas exchange occur? addictive drug?
A. in the heart A. tar
B. in the alveoli B. nicotine
C. in the trachea C. nitrogen
D. in the pharynx D. carbon monoxide
2. During gas exchange, which substance moves 8. What common disorder occurs when a
from the alveoli into the blood? deficiency in your red blood cells blocks delivery
A. water of oxygen throughout your body?
B. oxygen A. anemia
C. nitrogen B. asthma
D. carbon dioxide C. emphysema
3. The respiratory system’s role is to bring what D. atherosclerosis
substance into the body? 9. Which of the following allows air to be exhaled
A. water from the lungs?
B. oxygen A. When the lungs contract and then
C. red blood cells expand.
D. carbon dioxide B. When the chest cavity expands and
4. What do you call the dome-shaped muscle that grows larger.
plays an important role in breathing? C. When the diaphragm relaxes and moves
A. larynx upward.
B. alveolus D. When the rib muscles contract and move
C. bronchus outward.
D. diaphragm 10. Cigarette smoking can irritate the breathing
5. Which of the following substances are passages, which may become congested with
produced during respiration? mucus over time. What do you call this condition?
A. water and oxygen A. bronchitis
B. carbon dioxide and water B. lung cancer
C. oxygen and red blood cells C. emphysema
D. carbon dioxide and red blood cells D. heart attacks
11. What specific material contains the
6. What will happen to an organism if oxygen is information needed to form and control the
not transported by the blood to the different physical make-up and chemical processes of an
parts of the body? organism?
A. it will cause no harm to an organism A. traits
B. cellular processes will go on even without B. alleles
oxygen C. gametes
C. cells in the body would not be able to D. deoxyribonucleic acid
release the energy in food for power 12. Which of the following should a person avoid
D. cells will continue to perform its vital in order to prevent diseases in the respiratory and
functions such as powering muscles and circulatory systems?
the movement of materials into and out of A. balanced diet and adequate rest
cells. B. regular health check-up and physical
screening
C. alcohol drinking and irregular exercise

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Department of Education
REGION VIII – EASTERN VISAYAS
SCHOOLS DIVISION OF EASTERN SAMAR
LLORENTE NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL (303513)
LLORENTE DISTRICT

D. proper hygiene and avoiding vices 19. Use the formula of computing population
13. What non-Mendelian pattern of inheritance is density, calculate the density of grass.
shown in hemophilia? A. 1.8
A. sex-linked B. 1.2
B. Y-linked C. 0.9
C. sex-limited D. 3.6
D. sex-influenced 20. Which of the following below is an example of
14. What is extinction? deforestation?
A. Changes of habitats that threaten A. forest fire
organisms. B. eutrophication
B. It occurs when the last member of that C. overharvesting
species dies. D. global warming
C. Species that declines so fast that it 21. Using the figure on number 24, compute the
becomes endangered. population density of the rose.
D. Species population becomes so low that A. 1.6
only a few remain. B. 1.3
15. Below are natural causes of extinction, which C. 0.9
is NOT one of them. D. 3.6
A. Climate change 22. ___________ occurs in the chloroplast found
B. diseases/epidemic in the leaves of plants.
C. cosmic radiation
D. dynamite fishing A. ATP
16. Which blood vessels carry blood away from B. Respiration
the heart? C. Calvin cycle
A. veins D. Photosynthesis
B. arteries 23. Which of the following happens when
C. capillaries ventricles contract?
D. lymphatic vessels A. As both ventricles contract, blood leaves
17. When species is at risk of extinction in near the heart through the aortic valve, into the
future it is said to be? aorta and to the body.
A. distinct B. As the right ventricle contracts, blood
B. extinct leaves the heart through the aortic valve,
C. threatened into the aorta and to the body.
D. endangered C. As the right ventricle contracts, blood
18. When a pink four o’clock flower is crossed leaves the heart through the pulmonic
with a red four o’clock flower, how many percent valve, into the pulmonary artery and to
of the offspring will be pink? the lungs.
A. 25% D. As the left ventricle contracts, blood
B. 50% leaves the heart through the pulmonic
C. 75% valve, into the pulmonary artery and to
D. 100% the lungs.
24. Which of the following is an example of a
pigment?
15cm A. sucrose
B. NADPH
C. pyruvate
D. chlorophyll
C
C
ROSE SANTAN GRASS

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Department of Education
REGION VIII – EASTERN VISAYAS
SCHOOLS DIVISION OF EASTERN SAMAR
LLORENTE NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL (303513)
LLORENTE DISTRICT

25. What is the summary equation of 32. When a pure red-flowered four o’clock plant is
photosynthesis? crossed with a pure white-flowered four o’clock
A. water + oxygen ATP + plant, the offspring produced are all pink. What
glucose type of inheritance is exhibited in the given
B. carbon dioxide + water sunlight
situation?
glucose + oxygen A. sex-linked
C. oxygen + carbon dioxide B. codominance
water + glucose C. multiple alleles
D. glucose + oxygen D. incomplete dominance
carbon dioxide +water + ATP 33. In photosynthesis there are two stages one of
26. Which of the following serve as a reactant in it is the Light-dependent reaction, when does this
photosynthesis and a product in cellular reaction happens?
respiration? A. In the presence of light
A. O2 B. In the presence of water
B. CO2 C. In the presence of oxygen
C. ATP D. In the presence of carbon dioxide
D. Sunlight 34.Where does the energy for photosynthesis
27. The following are the products of the light comes from?
reactions of photosynthesis except. A. ATP
A. ATP B. Water
B. oxygen C. Energy
C. glucose D. Sunlight
D. NADPH 35. In cell organelles, the steps of the Krebs cycle
28.___________ occurs in the mitochondria of and the electron transport system occur in the
the cells. _________.
A. ATP A. chloropyll
B. Calvin cycle B. mitochondria
C. Photosynthesis C. cell membrane
D. Cellular respiration D. endoplasmic reticulum
29. The sun is considered the ultimate source of 36. Photosynthesis occurs in the _________
energy for life on Earth because________. found in the leaves of plants.
A. The sun heats the Earth’s atmosphere A. cells
B. All organisms carry out photosynthesis B. organism
C. All organisms carry out cellular C. chloroplast
respiration D. mitochondria
D. Either photosynthetic organisms or 37. How is the extinction related to biodiversity?
organisms that have eaten them provide A. Extinction has no impact on biodiversity.
energy for all other organisms on Earth B. Extinction contributes to a decrease in
30. Plants undergo photosynthesis to make their biodiversity
own food. The following are required for C. Extinction contributes to an increase in
this process except.. biodiversity.
A. water D. Extinction randomly changes biodiversity in
B. oxygen one direction or the other.
C. sunlight 38. What is the most important product of cellular
D. carbon dioxide respiration and it is the ability to do work?
31. What do you mean by endangered species? A. Water
A. A species that is very aggressive B. Energy
B. A species that has become domesticated C. Oxygen
C. A species that is at risk of becoming extinct D. Carbon dioxide
D. A species that is included in catch and
release programs

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Department of Education
REGION VIII – EASTERN VISAYAS
SCHOOLS DIVISION OF EASTERN SAMAR
LLORENTE NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL (303513)
LLORENTE DISTRICT

39. As a result of the photosynthetic process, D. Mendel square

which product is formed?
A. Water 46. Snapdragon flower is an example of this
B. Oxygen pattern of inheritance in which two true-breeding
C. Sunlight parents crossed to produce an intermediate
D. Carbon dioxide offspring resulting in a new phenotype
40. In algae, photosynthesis takes place A. Complete Dominance
in___________. B. Incomplete Dominance
A. organism C. Codominance
B. chloroplast D. Multiple Alleles
C. mitochondria
D. cell membrane 47. Which statement is TRUE about incomplete
41. Which is the process of introducing unnatural dominance?
chemicals that contaminate the air, soil, and A. It happens when two or more alleles
seas? control the inheritance of a character.
A. Acidification B. It refers to traits that are controlled by
B. Eutrophication genes located on the same-sex chromosomes.
C. Neutralization C. It occurs when two dominant alleles of
D. Pollution a contrasting pair are fully expressed at
42.Structure(s) that keep the blood flowing in one the same time in a heterozygous
direction. individual.
A. Valve(s) D. It occurs when the phenotype of the
B. Septum(s) offspring is somewhere in between the
C. Neuron(s) phenotype of both parents
D. Bronchiole(s)
43.Which of the following circulation if it carries
deoxygenated blood to the lungs and carries 48. Which is the correct formula in calculating
oxygenated blood back to the heart? population density?
A. Coronary Circulation A. D = population/area
B. Pulmonary circulation B. D = population x area
C. Systemic Circulation C. D = number of runs/total population
D. None of the Above D. D = number of runs x total population
44.It is a branch of biology concerned with genes,
genetic information and heredity of organism 49. Which pertains to the largest number of
individuals in a species that an environment
A. Variation sustains for a long period of time?
B. Genetics A. Biodiversity
C. Environmental Science B. Limiting factor
D. Consumer Chemistry C. Carrying capacity
45.It is a graphical representation in which all of D. Population density
the possible outcomes for a genetic cross
between two individuals with known genotype 50. Who is the father of genetics?
A. Punnett square A. Gregor Mendel
B. Pie graph B. Earnest Rutherford
C. Bar graph C. Charles Darwin
D. Michael Faraday