SCIENCE REVIEWER FOR SCIENCE QUIZ

ELEMENTARY
MATTER
16. The atomic number of a chemical element refers
1. What do you call when matter changes from to the number of what found in a nucleus of an
liquid to solid? atom?
Answer: freezing Answer: Protons

2. Changing matter from gas to liquid. 17. What is the chemical symbol of lead?
Answer: condensation Answer: Pb

3. Changing matter from solid to gas 18. What is the common name of sodium chloride?
Answer: sublimation Answer: table salt

4. Changing matter from solid to liquid 19. What common compound that has a symbol of
Answer: melting (fusion) H2O?
Answer: water
5. It is the smallest part of the property of a
substance. 20. What compound is CO2?
Answer: molecule Answer: carbon dioxide

6. The study of the patterns of the movement of 21. What gas is used as a disinfectant in drinking
gases is called what? water?
Answer: aerodynamics Answer: Chlorine

7. It is the number of protons in the nucleus of an 22. What is the fermented juice of apples better
atom known as?
Answer: atomic number Answer: cider

8. What is the most abundant noble gas?
Answer: argon
9. It is the substance that capable of destroying
bacteria.
Answer: antibiotic
10. A BTU is the quantity of heat required to raise
the temperature of one pound of water one degree on
what temperature scale?
Answer: Fahrenheit
11. What is measured by the SI units Bar?
Answer: pressure
12. What is measure by the SI units Curie?
Answer: Activity of radionuclide
13. What is measured by barn?
Answer: Area
14. What is measured by calories?
Answer: Energy
23. What kind of waste is capable of being slowly
destroyed and broken down into very small parts by
natural processes?
Answer: biodegradable
24. It is the action or process of making land, water,
air dirty and not safe or suitable to use.
Answer: pollution
25. It is collecting, processing and manufacturing
materials instead of throwing them away.
Answer: Recycling
26. It is a waste material that are recycled as
fertilizer
Answer: compost
27. It is the ability of a material to absorb water.
Answer: Porosity
28. The ability or capability of a material to
dissolve another material.
Answer: solubility

15. This gem stone is the softest of all precious 29. The dissolved substance in a solution.
stones. What is this green stone that is composed of Answer: solute
mineral beryl?
Answer: Emerald 30. The dissolving substance in a solution
Answer: solvent Answer: ovary
REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM
16. Where does fertilization takes place?
Answer: fallopian tube
1. It is a system that enables human being to
reproduce another human. 17. What do you call when an egg or ovum from an
Answer: Reproductive system ovary is released about once a month?
Answer: ovulation
2. It is a process that makes possible the continuance
of life on Earth. 18. It is the finger-like extension of the fallopian tube
Answer: reproduction that drive the fertilized egg to the uterus.
Answer: fimbriae
3. A male reproductive organ where it produces
sperms and the hormone testosterone. 19. It is a hollow, avocado-shaped muscular organ
Answer: testis with thick walls where a fertilized egg develops.
Answer: uterus
4. A tube that circle the bladder and the excretory duct
of testes. 20. It is called the birth canal because when a baby
Answer: vas deferens is to be born, it is where it passes.
Answer: vagina
5. It is a sac-like pouch that supports the testes in
place. 21. It is the neck of the uterus.
Answer: scrotum Answer: cervix

6. It is a sac that serves as the receptacle of the urine. 22. It is the union of the sperm and egg cell.
Answer: bladder Answer: fertilization

7. A gland that produces sperms with a fluid that 23. What do you call the fertilized egg?
enables them to move. Answer: zygote
Answer: seminal vesicle
24. What do you call the period of time when the
8. It is the mixture of the sperm and fluid. zygote undergoes development for nine months in the
Answer: semen uterus and until the birth of the baby?
Answer: pregnancy
9. The tube that carries urine out from the body and
also serves as an opening of the sperm. 25. It refers to an unborn child during the first two
Answer: urethra months of pregnancy.
Answer: embryo
10. The male reproductive organ
Answer: penis 26. What do you call the protective membrane that
surrounds the embryo?
11. It is a single cell with a head and a tail. Answer: amniotic sac
Answer: sperm
27. It is a clear fluid filled in the amniotic sac that
12. It is found at the top of each testis and where the protects the embryo against harm and keeps the
sperms are stored. embryo moist.
Answer: epididymis Answer: amniotic cord

13. It provide fluids that lubricate the duct system
and nourish the sperm.
Answer: prostate gland
14. What human stage on time of development when
a person become physically able to reproduce.
Answer: Puberty
15. It is a sex glands located in the pelvis, they
produce the ova and the sex cells of the female.
28. What cord connects the embryo to the placenta?
Answer: umbilical cord
29. Nutrients and oxygen pass from the mother to the
embryo through the __________.
Answer: placenta
30. In what week of the pregnancy when the embryo
develops tiny arm and legs with fingers and toes?
Answer: 6th-7th weeks Answer: respiratory system

31. What do you call the embryo after the two months 2. Where does the exchange of oxygen and carbon
of pregnancy and the body organ are now present? dioxide happens in human body?
Answer: fetus Answer: alveoli

32. It is a series of changes during which an egg 3. It is the opening in our nose where air enters.
matures and the uterus is prepared for possible Answer: nostrils
pregnancy.
Answer: menstrual cycle 4. It is where the air gets moistened and warmed as it
enters in the nostrils.
33. It happens when the uterine lining begins to break Answer: Nasal Cavity
down and the blood with some uterine tissue and
unfertilized egg make their way out through the 5. It is a tiny hair-like structure that traps the air
vagina. against impurities.
Answer: menstruation flow Answer: cilia

34. How many hours a sperm can survived? 6. A tube-like passage for both food and air that
Answer: 24-48 hours found between the nasal cavity and esophagus.
Answer: pharynx
35. It refers to the lining of the uterus that becomes
thicker in preparation for implantation of the 7. It is a flap of tissue found at the end of the
fertilized egg. pharynx that closes over the larynx when we
Answer: endometrium swallow.
Answer: epiglottis
36. It is the female gonad where the egg is produced.
Answer: ovary 8. It is where the vocal chords attached that produce
sounds when we speak.
37. How many chromosomes are in the nucleus of a Answer: larynx
human sperm?
Answer: 23 chromosomes 9. An organ below the larynx which is a 12cm long
tube and made up of C-shaped rings of cartilage.
38. Sex determination of a child is done by whose Answer: trachea
chromosome?
Answer: Father 10. Branch of trachea that carry air into the lungs.
Answer: bronchi
39. It is the male gametes.
Answer: Testicles 11. It is a cluster of tiny thin-walled sacs found at the
end of each bronchioles.
40. A walnut sized glands located between the Answer: alveoli
bladder and the penis, it secretes fluid that nourishes
and protects sperm. 12. Substance that produced by the lining of the nasal
Answer: prostate cavity
Answer: mucus
41. The female gametes is ___.
Answer: ovaries 13. Tiny hair-like structure that trap the bacteria in
the trachea
Answer: mucous membrane and cilia

14. The flow of air to the lungs

RESPIRATORY SYSTEM
1. The system that helps a person breathe in oxygen
and breathe out carbon dioxide.
Answer: nostrils-nasal cavity-pharynx-trachea-
bronchus- bronchiole- alveoli
15. What do you call the division of the lungs?
Answer: lobes
16. It is a thin membrane that surrounds the lungs.
Answer: pleura
31. These are sensitive to odor molecules and help the
17. Bones that protect the lungs brain recognize smells?
Answer: rib cage Answer: receptors

18. How many pairs of rib cage that protect the 32. It is made out of thin pieces of bone that separates
lungs? the nasal passages.
Answer: 12 pairs Answer: Septum

19. A dome-shaped muscle that works with the lungs 33. What do you call the two holes in the nose?
to allow breathing in and breathing out. Answer: Nostrils
Answer: diaphragm
34. What part of the human anatomy that known as
“voice box”?
20. What is the first apparatus used for breathing Answer: larynx
underwater?
Answer: diving bell 35. Where in the human body do alveoli found?
Answer: lungs
21. What is the first safe underwater breathing
device? 36.
Answer: aqualung

22. A disease in which the alveoli in the lungs lose

their ability to expand and contract.
Answer: emphysema

23. A disease in which too much mucus is produce in

the bronchial tubes. URINARY SYSTEM
Answer: chronic bronchitis

24. It is an ailment caused by a virus on which there

1. It is a system of excretory organs that rids blood
is swelling of the mucus membrane of the respiratory
of wastes, excess water and excess salt.
passages.
Answer: Urinary System
Answer: colds
2. Two bean-shaped organs that filter blood to
25. Swelling of the lungs that caused by a virus and
produce waste liquid called urine.
bacteria
Answer: kidneys
Answer: Pneumonia
3. Where does blood enters going to the kidney?
26. A communicable disease caused by the bacteria a
Answer: renal artery
mycobacterium tuberculosis.
Answer: pulmonary tuberculosis
4. Where does blood pass as it leaves the kidney?
Answer: renal vein
27. How many receptors in your nose?
Answer: atleast 10 million
5. It is a tiny filtering unit of the kidney that rids
blood of waste liquid called urine.
28. What is behind your nose and connects with the
Answer: nephron
back of the throat?
Answer: Nasal Cavity
6. It holds the urine until it leaves the body.
Answer: bladder
29. What moves back and forth to move the mucus out
of the sinuses and the back if the nose?
7. It carries urine to the outside of the body.
Answer: Cilia
Answer: urethra
30. This icky stuff, also known as boogers, helps
8. It connects the kidney to the urinary bladder.
capture dust, germs and small particles.
Answer: ureters
Answer: Mucus
9. It helps a defective kidney filter the blood. 9. A rhythmically movement that contracts to move the
Answer: dialysis food through the digestive system. Answer:
Peristalsis
10. What is the main excretory organ?
Answer: kidney 10. It is a large J-shaped organ at the end of the
esophagus, on the left side of the body.
11. Where does the filtration of blood in the kidney Answer: Stomach
take place?
Answer: Bowman’s capsule 11. It is a muscle found at the end of the stomach that
closes and opens to allow the flow of from the
12. It is a waste product excreted through the urinary esophagus to the stomach.
system. Answer: Sphincter muscle
Answer: Urine
12. It is the long coiled connected from the stomach.
13. Cystitis is the infection of ________. Answer: Small intestine
Answer: Urinary bladder There are three parts of the Small Intestine:
 Duodenum – the upper 20 cm. connected to the
14. What tube connects the kidney to the bladder? stomach
Answer: Ureter  Jejunum – is about 2.5 meters long.
 Ileum – is the longest half coiled through the
15.
abdominal cavity
 The last 20 or 30 centimeters of the colon are
called rectum.
DIGESTIVE SYSTEM 13. The softened food is rolled into a ball called the
bolus and is pushed by the tongue into the throat.
1. The process of breaking up and dissolving the food
so that it ca be taken into the blood to be used by the 14. How long is an adult’s small intestine?
body. Answer: 22 feet
Answer: digestion
15. Where does bile made/ production of bile?
2. Where does digestion begin? Answer: Liver
Answer: mouth
16. Your food can spend up to this long in the small
3. It is a digestive juice which is secreted by the three intestine.
pairs of salivary glands that empty into the mouth. Answer: 4 hours
Answer: saliva
17. The large intestine measures about ___.
4. It is the front teeth with sharp edges for biting and Answer: 5 feet long
cutting the food.
Answer: Incisors 18. What are the last four teeth a person will get?
Answer: Wisdom teeth
5. It is the pointed teeth which grip and tear the food.
Answer: Canines 19. What kind of teeth do babies have?
Answer: Primary
6. The teeth that crushed and grind the food
Answer: Premolars 20. What makes up the roots of your teeth and
attaches to your jawbone?
7. It is the flat teeth used for chewing the food. Answer: Cementum
Answer: Molars
21. What innermost part of the tooth does the dentin
8. It is a is a long muscular tube that connects the protect?
pharynx to the throat to the stomach. Answer: pulp
Answer: Esophagus
22. What hard, tough and shiny substances cover the
crown?
Answer: Enamel
 Answer: peristalsis
23. What is the part of the tooth you can see above the
gum? 40. What lined in the walls of the small intestines that
Answer: crown separate the food nutrients ready to be absorbed by
the walls from the foods that is not yet ready.
25. What tiny hairs send messages to the brain that Answer: villi
help identify tastes?
Answer: Microvilli 41. It is the undigested food that becomes a soft solid.
Answer: feces
26. How many taste buds does a man has when he
was born? 42. The lowest end of the large intestine and when
Answer: 10 thousand feces pass out of the body.
Answer: Rectum
27. The back section of the tongue that is part of the
immune system. 43. What is the largest gland in the body that
Answer: Lingual tonsil produces a bile.
Answer: liver
28. This is the thin membrane that connects your
tongue to the bottom of your mouth. 44. It breaks the fats into tiny droplets.
Answer: Frenulum Answer: bile
29. What substance in the mouth that helps break
down food? 45. Where does bile stored?
Answer: Saliva Answer: gall bladder

30. _____ contains taste buds. 46. The organ that produces juice that digest sugars,
Answer: Papillae starches, proteins, fats and insulin
Answer: pancreas
31. It is the bumps on the top of the tongue.
Answer: Papillae 47. It is produced by the pancreas that helps control
the use of sugar by the body.
32. What organ in the digestive system that is Answer: insulin
responsible for Vitamin B and K absorption?
Answer: Large intestine 48. What is the hardest material in the body?
Answer: enamel
33. Where do excess fat soluble vitamins typically
accumulated? 49. Layer of the teeth that is harder than the bone but
Answer: Liver softer than the enamel.
Answer: dentin
34. What enzyme contains in saliva which acts on
starches and changes them into sugar? 50. What is the center of the tooth that contains the
Answer: ptyalin nerves and blood vessels?
Answer: soft pulp
35. What is the strong muscle that helps the teeth in
digestion? 51. What chemical helps to make the teeth harder?
Answer: tongue Answer: fluoride

36. How many permanent teeth does an adult have? 52. It is a yellow or brownish material formed from
Answer: 32 saliva and food that sticks below the gums and
37. It is the passageway of food from the pharynx. becomes hard.
Answer: esophagus Answer: tartar

38. It is the passage of air in the pharynx.
Answer: windpipe
39. It is a squeezing movement of muscles which help
the food moves from the esophagus towards the
stomach.
53. What kind of doctor you need to consult when
your teeth are poorly aligned, badly spaced or
prodding?
Answer: orthodontist
54. The liver secrets bile which flows through ducts 8. What age does your bone stop growing?
and into what pear shaped muscular sac? Answer: 25 yrs. Old
Answer: gall bladder
9. How many bones are in the spine?
55. How many incisor teeth are there in a full set of Answer: 33
adult teeth?
Answer: 8 10. What bone protect the lungs, heart and liver?
Answer: rib cage
56. In the normal adult human, how many bicuspids
are there? 11. Which part of the ear takes soundwaves and turns
Answer: 8 them into vibration?
Answer: middle ear
57. The organ that controls the level of glucose in our
bodies. 12. What tiny bone is attached to the eardrum?
Answer: pancreas Answer: Malleus

58. What canal is travelled in digestion? 13. What is the most delicate bones in your body
Answer: alimentary canal called?
Answer: Ossicles
59. Where do digestion most occur?
Answer: small intestine 14. It separates the outer ear from the middle ear?
Answer: Eardrum
60. How many teeth should a human adult have,
including wisdom tooth? 15. What part of the ear that is responsible for the
Answer: 32 popping sensation you feel when you’re flying in an
airplane?
61. It makes insulin to help digest and use glucose. Answer: Eustachian tube
Answer: pancreas
16. Which part of the ear do people pierce to wear
62. It refers to the secretion of substance or hormones earrings?
in the bloodstream. Answer: Auricle or Pinna
Answer: Endocrine
17. What name is given to the 33 bones that make up
SKELETAL SYSTEM a person’s spine or spinal cord.
Answer: vertebrae

1. It is the bone that protects the brain. 18. What is the longest bone in the human body?
Answer: cranium/skull Answer: Femur

2. What is the smallest bone in the body? 19. Where is the largest bone in the body found?
Answer: Stirrup Answer: in the legs

3. It is the part where bones meet. 20. A bone is joined to a muscle by what structure?
Answer: Joints Answer: tendon

4. How many bones that an adult has? 21. What is the common name for the scapula?
Answer: 206 bones Answer: shoulder blade

5. What do you call the bones in your spine? 22. What is protected by the cranium?
Answer: Vertebrae Answer: brain

6. Where does the patella located? 23. An injury to a ligament caused by excessive
Answer: Knee stretching.
Answer: Sprain
7. What’s in the center of the bone?
Answer: Bone marrow 24. It is a break in the bone.
Answer: Fracture
 Answer: 2.5 to 3 pounds
25. It is a strong muscle contraction that is very
painful. 14. It is the largest part of the brain.
Answer: Cramp Answer: cerebrum

26. 15. It receives, stores and recalls all the information

the body picks up. Cognitive processes such as
thinking, memorizing and decision making occur in
NERVOUS SYSTEM the outer gray part of the cerebrum, what do you
call this part?
1. The system that controls everything you do. Answer: cerebral cortex
Answer: Nervous system
16. What part of the brain controls muscle
2. Which part of the body that is the control center of coordination and balance?
the nervous system? Answer: cerebellum
Answer: Brain
17. It orders and processes split second actions and
3. A typical brain weighs how much? reactions. It is called “little brain” because it brings
Answer: 3 pounds (1.4 kg) all of the muscle actions together.
Answer: cerebellum
4. What is the biggest part of the brain?
Answer: 18. The hind part of the brain that holds the medulla
oblongata and the pons.
5. Which part of the brain helps keep your balance so Answer: brain stem
you don’t fall?
Answer: 19. Found in the brain stem that transmits signals
between the spinal cord and the brain.
6. Which part of the brain keeps you breathing?
Answer: Answer: medulla oblongata

7. It is a microscopic cell that creates connections or

pathways.
Answer: neurons
20. Part of the brain that controls autonomic or
8. Your emotions are believed to come from ______. involuntary functions such as heartbeat and
Answer: Amygdala breathing.
Answer: Medulla Oblongata
9. It is the part of the brain acts like switchboard
that allows the communication from the brain to the 21. It is partly made up of tracts that connect the
other parts of the nervous system. spinal cord with higher brain levels. It also contains
Answer: Midbrain cell groups that transfer information from the
cerebrum to the cerebellum.
10. What makes up 80% of the human brain? Answer: Pons
Answer: water
22. The wrinkled folds of the brain are called
_____________.
11. It is the organ which receives, processes and
Answer: gyri or convolutions
stores information from inside and outside the body.
It decides what to do with the received information
23. Heartbeat is controlled by the ________.
and sends signals to the body to react, decide or
Answer: Medulla Oblongata
move.
Answer: Brain
24. It is the downward extension of the brain.
Answer: Spinal Cord
12. It is the seat of human intelligence.
Answer: Brain
25. This are bundles of fibers (axons) from neurons
and which are held together by connective tissue.
13. The brain of an adult human weighs about
Answer: Nerves
______.
26. It is the basic unit of the nervous system. Answer: stimuli
Answer: neuron
37. What neurons gather information from the sense
27. Fibers of nerve cells that pick up information organs and send impulses to the spinal cord and
from the receptors. (Receptors are parts of the body, brain for processing?
either nerves or sense organs, that can pick up Answer: sensory neurons
stimuli from the environment or from within the
body). 38. What neurons carry impulses from the brain or
Answer: dendrites spinal cord to the muscles?
Answer: motor neurons
28. What contains the nucleus of the cell as well as
other structures that help keep the cell alive? 39. What part of the midbrain that regulates body
Answer: cell body functions such as thirst, hungers, sleep patterns and
emotions?
29. Where do information received by the dendrites Answer: hypothalamus
go after?
Answer: cell body 40. What is the main endocrine gland that is located
at the base of the brain?
30. What is the gap or space between axon and Answer: Pituitary gland
dendrites called?
Answer: synapse 41. What part of the neuron carries messages to the
cell body?
31. _________ is an infection of the fluid of a Answer: dendrites
person’s spinal cord and the fluid that surrounds the
brain. 42. What part of the neuron carries messages away
from the cell body?
Answer: Meningitis Answer: axon

32. Buboy was 2 years old when he started having
seizures. Without warning, he would just fall to the
ground and his body would start convulsing.
Afterwards he would lose consciousness and wake
up after several minutes. What chronic disorder of
the function of the cerebrum is this?
Answer: epilepsy
33. It is a degenerative disease of nerve cells in the
cerebral cortex that often characterized as the lapses
of memory?
Answer: Alzheimer’s disease
43. Sensory messages are taken to the brain by
_________.
Answer: nerves and hormones
44. A large ductless gland in the neck that makes
hormones to regulate growth and development
through the rate of metabolism.
Answer: Thyroid Gland
45. The glands that control the calcium in our
bodies?
Answer: Parathyroid gland

34. Muhammad Ali was a world-famous boxer. 46. Located on top of each kidney, produce hormone
After he retired, he developed constant trembling of that you can’t live without including sex hormones
his hands. He also experiences tremors in his legs and cortisol
which make him walk and move very slowly. What is Answer: Adrenal
this progressive disorder in which the chemicals that
facilitate electrical transmission between neurons are 47.
defected?
Answer: Parkinson’s disease
35. What chemical substance do synapse released?
INTEGUMENTARY SYSTEM
Answer: neurotransmitter
1. What do you call the natural oil in the skin?
36. Anything that the receptors of the sense organ
Answer: Sebum
collect from the environment called what?
 22. What disorder when a man’s skin has very little
2. Each hair on your body grows out of a tiny tube in melanin that cause the skin looks very white and have
the skin called ____. blonde hair.
Answer: Follicle Answer: Albinism

3. What gives the skin color? 23. It is the part of the nails that connects the skin?
Answer: Melanin Answer: cuticle

4. What is the outermost layer of the skin? 24. What is the meaning of the scientific suffix –
Answer: Epidermis derm?
Answer: skin
5. What is the body’s largest organ?
Answer: skin

6. When a nail curves down into the skin as it grows, CIRCULATORY SYSTEM
causing pain and infection, it is called ___.
Answer: Ingrown nail
1. It is the movement of the blood as it distributes food
and oxygen to the cells of the body and remove waste
7. What it is called when a loose strip of dead skin
material form them
hangs from the edge of your fingernails?
Answer: circulation
Answer: Hangnail
2. It is the fluid component that circulates throughout
8. Where does the nail meet the skin?
the body, carries nutrients to the cells and delivers
Answer: cuticle
oxygen in the tissue.
Answer: Blood
9. Nail start growing from the ___.
ANSWER: Nail root
3. A tube-like structure where blood travels.
Answer: Blood vessels
10. On your nail, what is the pale half-circle part
above the cuticle?
4. What organ pumps blood to the different parts of
Answer: Lunula
the body.
Answer: heart
11. What does the nails made out of?
Answer: Keratin
5. The system that considered as the main transport
of the body.
16. Why do you get goosebumps when you’re cold?
Answer: circulatory system
Answer: Pilomotor reflex
6. How big is human’s heart?
17. What is the deepest layer of the skin?
Answer: human’s fist
Answer: subcutaneous fatty tissue
7. It is a very thin but very strong sac that enclosed
18. It refers to the moisture produce by sweat glands.
the heart.
Answer: perspiration
Answer: pericardium or pericardial sac
19. It is the inflammation of the sebaceous glands due
8. It is the chamber of the heart with thicker walls
to increase oil production in the skin.
because it pumps blood to the different part of the
Answer: acne
body.
Answer: ventricles
20. What is the thickest layer of the skin?
Answer: dermis
9. What chamber of the heart receives oxygen-rich
oxygen from the lungs?
21. What layer of the skin that produce sebum the
Answer: left auricle
natural oil that lubricates the skin?
Answer: dermis
10. What is the alternating relaxation and contraction
of the heart?
Answer: cardiac cycle
11. What is the muscular wall that completely
separates the left and right chambers of the heart?
Answer: septum
12. It is the specialized region of the heart that makes
sure that the heart never skips a beat?
Answer: pacemaker
26. The protein that platelets release when there is cut
or damage in the blood vessels.
Answer: fibrin
27. It is a jelly-like red mass fibrin.
Answer: clot

13. What circulatory circuit that transport blood 28. Who first discovered blood circulation?
between the heart and the lungs? Answer: Dr. William Harvey
Answer: pulmonary circuit
29. The passageways of blood
14. The circulatory circuit that transport or carries Answer: Blood vessels
blood between the heart and the rest of the body and
back to the heart. 30. Blood vessels that carry blood away from the
Answer: systemic circuit heart.
Answer: arteries
15. How many liters of blood that an average healthy
person has? 31. Blood vessels that carry blood toward the heart
Answer: 4.5 to 6 liters Answer: veins

16. It is a protein-rich fluid and that consists of 32. Blood vessels that allow the exchange of
plasma, RBC, WBC and platelets? nutrients, gases and wastes in the cells of the body.
Answer: Blood Answer: capillaries

17. It is 55% of the blood volume, 90% water and 33. Which vitamin is primarily responsible for blood
10% solute. clotting?
Answer: Plasma Answer: Vitamin K

18. The most abundant cells in the blood that contains 34. It is the exerted force as the blood flows inside the
hemoglobin. walls of the blood vessels
Answer: Red Blood cells Answer: blood pressure

19. What is the other name of red blood cells?
Answer: Erythrocytes
20. It gives red color of the blood.
Answer: hemoglobin
21. Where does hemoglobin produced?
Answer: Red marrow of flat bones
22. It is the composition of blood that also known as
leukocytes.
Answer: White blood cells
23. They are the soldiers of the body because they
fight infections.
Answer: White blood cells
24. It is a yellowish liquid consisting of dead WBC,
bacteria and other foreign materials in the blood.
Answer: pus
25. The smallest elements in the blood that play an
important role in blood clotting.
Answer: Platelets
35. Instrument that measured blood pressure quickly
and easily.
Answer: sphygmomanometer
36. Blood pressure 120/90
120 (systolic pressure) – higher pressure of the heart
that occurs during contraction of the ventricles
90 (diastolic pressure) – low pressure of the heart
that occurs when relaxed
37. It is the introduction of blood of a blood donor to
the blood stream of a recipient.
Answer: Blood transfusion
38. Who performed the first human to human blood
transfusion?
Answer: Jean-Baptiste Denis
39. It is a specialized protein secretes by lymphocytes
that help protect the body against foreign bodies.
Answer: antibodies
40. It is a sudden rise in blood pressure.
Answer: hypertension 55. Blood vessels that allows the exchange of
nutrients, gases and waste in the cells of the body.
41. A disease occur when there is an increase in white Answer: capillaries
blood cell.
Answer: leukemia 56. It is the inflammation of the lungs.
Answer: Pneumonia
42. It occurs when a blood clot or fat get lodged in
blood vessels. 57.
Answer: heart attack

43. It happens when a blood clot blocks an artery in

the brain and reduces the blood supply.
Answer: stroke

44. It is a condition caused by fat or cholesterol SENSES

deposit in the aerial wall.
Answer: Atherosclerosis 1. Part of the eyes which focuses on the retina.
Answer: lens
45. It is a protein in the blood, primarily carries
oxygen throughout the body. 2. “Baby teeth” are also known as deciduous teeth.
Answer: hemoglobin How many deciduous teeth does the average person
develop when young?
46. What bacteria caused rheumatic fever. Answer: 20
Answer: streptococcus bacteria
3. What is the colored part around the pupil of the
47. What is the largest artery where oxygen-rich eye?
blood from the heart flows? Answer: iris
Answer: Aorta
4. What is the strongest muscle in the body?
48. A hereditary blood disorder wherein blood clots Answer: tongue
very slowly affecting only males but transmitted in
genes of females.
Answer: Hemophilia
NUTRITION RELATED QUESTIONS
49. What blood cells that defend our bodies against
illnesses?
1. It makes up most of your blood and help carry
Answer: white blood cells
oxygen and food to the cells in your body. It helps
your body get rid of wastes through urine and sweat.
50.How many coronary arteries has a human heart?
Answer: Water
Answer: 2
2. What food nutrient is our body’s main source of
51. What is the name of the main artery that carries
energy?
blood from the heart?
Answer: Carbohydrates
Answer: Aorta
3. They are very important for building strong bones.
52. Where are red blood cells made?
Answer: Calcium
Answer: bone marrow
4. It is a degenerative brain disorder that causes a
53. When a physician puts a stethoscope to your
gradual and irreversible decline in memory and
chest, two sounds are heard. What sounds represents
eventually, the ability to care for oneself.
the opening and closing of the valves?
Answer: Alzheimer’s disease
Answer: lub-dub, lub-dub
5. It is a dietary-deficiency disease resulting from
54. Why do blood cells do not shrink in blood?
inadequate intake of niacin.
Answer: Because blood is isotonic
Answer: Pellagra
6. An irregularity in the rhythm of the heartbeat is
referred to as what?
Answer: Arrhythmia
7. It is a water-soluble vitamin found in fruits and
leafy vegetables and is also called as ascorbic acid.
Answer: Vitamin C
8. A prolonged deficiency of Vitamin C in the diet
causes what disease?
Answer: Scurvy
9. It is an ailment that can develop from low red
blood cells count or deficiency in hemoglobin.
Answer: Anemia
10. What is the protein food found in milk?
Answer: Casein
11. What is the cheapest source of Vitamin D?
Answer: Sunlight/Morning Sunshine
12. What is the scientific name of guava?
Answer: Psidium guajava
13. The package of simple ready-to-cook foods
designed as a supplement to the usual diet of the
child is called what?
Answer: Nutri-Pak
14. What severe form of child malnutrition is caused
by inadequate intake of protein?
Answer: Kwashiorkor
15. It refers to the food that a person usually
consumes.
Answer: Diet
16. This vitamin is extracted from liver which is
essential for red blood cell formation.
Answer: Vitamin B12/Cyanocobalamin
17. It is a relapse or recurrence of an illness or
disease.
Answer: Palindromia
18. It is the scientific regulation of diet in treating
disease.
Answer: Dietotherapy
19. Any substance that nourishes a person to enable
him to live and grow.
Answer: Food
20. It is a condition characterized by sleepiness,
indifference, and lack of energy.
Answer: Lethargy
21. ____________ is a metabolism of fat.
Answer: Lipometabolism
22. _____________ is caused by lack of calories or
inadequate amount of food.
Answer: Marasmus
23. It is a type of cancer of the blood characterized
by an abnormal increase of immature white blood
cells called “blasts“.
Answer: Leukemia
24. The slowness of heart rate is referred to as
what?
Answer: Bradycardia
25. The first secretion from the mother’s breast is
rich in antibodies and minerals. This is produced
after giving birth and before the production of true
milk. It provides newborns with immunity to
infections.
Answer: Colostrum
26. These are the “building blocks” of protein which
is an integral part of all body tissues especially
muscle.
Answer: Amino Acids
27. It is the enlargement of the thyroid gland
appearing as a swelling of the front of the neck.
Answer: Goiter
28. It helps prevent goiter.
Answer: Iodine
29. This refers to the ease with which nutrients,
particularly minerals, can be absorbed from the
digestive tract and utilized by the body.
Answer: Bio-availability/Bioavailability
30. ___________ is a term to describe minerals that
are attached to other molecules such as proteins or
carbohydrates and used to improve the bio-
availability of minerals.
Answer: Chelates
31. These are the building blocks of fats and oils.
Answer: Fatty Acids
32. It refers to the study of measurement of the
physical characteristics of the body such as height
and weight.
Answer: Anthropometry
33. It is the pressure of the blood on the walls of the
arteries.
Answer: Blood Pressure 46. It is the breaking down of foodstuffs in the body
into a form that can be absorbed and used or
34. _________ is the rate of energy used for excreted.
metabolism when the body is at complete rest. Answer: Digestion
Answer: Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR)
47. It is the state of being healthy and fit, gaining
35. It is an eating disorder characterized by binge all nutrients.
eating, sometimes followed by vomiting or purging. Answer: Wellness
Answer: Bulimia
48. It is a lack of adequate fluids in the body.
36. What is the natural stimulant found in coffee, Answer: Dehydration
tea, and chocolate?
Answer: Caffeine 49. It is a deficiency in blood where iron level intake
is too low.
37. It is the unit of heat and the measurement of Answer: Anemia
energy.
Answer: Calorie 50. These are foods that are supplemented with
essential nutrients in quantities greater than already
38. ___________ is a monosaccharide, sometimes present.
known as blood sugar. Answer: Fortified Foods
Answer: Glucose
51. How do you call a healthcare professional with
39. It is the main carbohydrate in milk. training in nutrition and diet planning?
Answer: Lactose Answer: Dietician/Dietitian

40. These refers to the substances obtained from 52. _______ is the science that deals with foods and
food and used in the body to provide energy and their effects on health.
structural materials and to regulate growth, Answer: Nutrition
maintenance and repair of the body’s tissue.
Answer: Nutrients 53. ________ is a drug or remedy used for treating
illness.
41. __________ is a chronic disease characterized by Answer: Medicine
excessively high body fat in relation to lean body
tissue. 54. It is a lack of healthy foods in the diet, or an
Answer: Obesity excessive intake of unhealthy foods, leading to
physical harm.
42. It is an excess of body weight that includes fat, Answer: Malnutrition
bone, and muscle.
Answer: Overweight 55. What is the best way to determine the nutritional
status of an individual?
43. What is the general term for the people who Answer: Weighing
exclude meat, poultry, fish, or other animal-derived
foods from their diets? 56. What substance are nails made of?
Answer: Vegetarians Answer: Keratin

44. These are organic, essential nutrients required 57. Dairy products are generally made from what
only in small amounts. common liquid?
Answer: Vitamins Answer: Milk

45. ________ is a guideline for the amount of
energy and selected nutrients considered adequate to
meet the nutrient needs of practically all healthy
people.
Answer: Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDA)
58. He is a Polish-American chemist considered as
the “Father of Vitamin Therapy” and was the first
to coin the term “vitamin” as vital factors in the diet.
Answer: Casimir Funk
59. It is the only sugar manufactured my
mammals.
Answer: Lactose

60. Axerophthol is the same as what vitamin?
Answer: Vitamin A
61. It is a malignant growth of cells.
Answer: Cancer
62. Cardiopathy is known to be as what sort of
disease?
Answer: Heart Disease
63. It is a disease caused by a deficiency of Vitamin
D.
Answer: Rickets
64. What vitamin is a viosterol?
Answer: Vitamin D2
65. What nutrient is needed as the main structural
component of the body?
Answer: Protein
66. What vitamin helps in blood clotting and is
known as naphthoquinone?
Answer: Vitamin K
67. What vitamin is needed for a healthy immune
system and strong connective tissue?
Answer: Vitamin C/Ascorbic Acid
68. It is also known as tocopherol and is necessary
for normal reproduction.
Answer: Vitamin E
69. What is the cheapest source of iodine in our
household?
Answer: Iodized salt
70. What fruit is an alligator pear?
Answer: Avocado
71. Who was the Philippine President who declared
July as a month of nutrition?
Answer: Ferdinand E. Marcos
72. This is often marketed as “superfruits” being
rich in vitamins A and C.
Answer: Guava
73. It is an agency of the Philippine government
under the Department of Health responsible for
creating a conducive policy environment for national
and local nutrition planning, implementation,
monitoring and evaluation, and surveillance using
state-of the art technology and approaches.
Answer: National Nutrition Council (NNC)
74. It is a medical condition in which the eye fails to
produce tears caused by a deficiency in vitamin A.
Answer: Xerophthalmia
75. He is referred to as the “Father of Medicine”.
Answer: Hippocrates
76. _______ is a thiamine-deficiency disease.
Answer: Beriberi
77. What Presidential Decree, known as the
“Nutrition Act of the Philippines” which created the
National Nutrition Council (NNC) as the highest
policy-making on nutrition, was promulgated on
1974?
Answer: P.D. 491
78. What Executive Order, which named the
Department of Health as the chair of the NNC?
Answer: Executive Order No. 472
79. What is the process of removing harmful
pathogens from various types of food.
Answer: Pasteurization
80. It protects the child from measles and is given
only once as early as nine months.
Answer: Measles Vaccine
81. It protects the unborn child from the tetanus and
is given to the mother twice.
Answer: Tetanus Toxoid
82. It is the current vaccine for tuberculosis.
Answer: Bacillus Calmette Guerin (BCG)
83. What is the substance found in colostrum that
fights against infection and creates antibodies that
stimulates immunity?
Answer: Immunoglobulin
84. ________ is a hidden hunger.
Answer: Malnutrition
85. It is also called “Night Blindness” and is a
poor vision in relatively low light.
Answer: Nyctalopia
86. Malunggay have different parts. One of these is
the fruit/seed. For what is the use of this fruit/seed?
Answer: Arthritis
87. _________ is slowness in eating.
Answer: Bradyphagia
88. A person who stores too much sugar in the body
may suffer from ___________.
Answer: Diabetes

89. Who discovered the vitamin D and the role of the
vitamin in preventing rickets?
Answer: Edward Mellanby
90. What is the medical term for the inflammation of
the protective membranes covering the brain and
spinal cord, known collectively as the meninges?
Answer: Meningitis
91. ____________ is a great toe displacement
toward other toes.
Answer: Hallux varus
92. This disease happens when the flow of oxygen-
rich blood to a section of heart muscle suddenly
becomes blocked and the heart can’t get oxygen.
Answer: Heart Attack
93. It is a part of the vitamin B complex, which is
vital for red blood cells, and thus used in the
treatment of pernicious and macrocytic anemia and
gastrointestinal disorders.
Answer: Folic Acid / Folacin / Folate / vitamin M /
vitamin B9 / vitamin Bc
94. _________ means hernia of the stomach.
Answer: Gastrocele
95. _________ is any illness resulting from the
consumption of contaminated food or foods which
contain poisonous substances.
Answer: Food Poisoning
96. What is the stable food of Filipinos that is
served every meal?
Answer: Rice
97. When protein reaches the intestines for it to be
digested, in what unit is it broken?
Answer: Amino Acid
98. It is a statement or information on food labels
indicating the nutrient(s) and the quantity of said
nutrient found or added in the processed foods or
food products.
Answer: Nutrition Facts
99. ________ is the addition of nutrients to
processed foods or food products at levels above the
natural state.
Answer: Fortification / Food Fortification
100. This is a strategy to encourage food
manufacturers to fortify processed foods or food
products with essential nutrients at levels approved
by the Department of Health (DOH).
Answer: Sangkap Pinoy Seal Program
101. It is the process of introducing vaccine into the
body to stimulate the formation of antibodies which
fight germs that cause diseases.
Answer: Immunization
102. What do you call the medical condition in which
a person’s spine is curved from side to side?
Answer: Scoliosis
103. What is the act establishing the Philippine Food
Fortification Program?
Answer: R.A. 8976
104. This results from a disproportion among
essential nutrients with or without the absolute
deficiency of any nutrients.
Answer: Imbalance
105. What is the other name for vetsin, which we
usually used in cooking that give flavor to the foods
we eat?
Answer: Monosodium glutamate / Sodium
glutamate
106. ________ is a substance formed by protein in
the blood that is used by the immune system to
identify and neutralize foreign objects such as
bacteria and viruses.
Answer: Antibody
107. It is the removal of mineral or calcium ions
from the bone or other calcified tissue to make them
flexible and easy for pathological investigation.
Answer: Decalcification
108. These are smaller amounts of vitamins or
minerals consumed.
Answer: Micronutrients
109. What hormone is produced in the pancreas that
regulates the metabolism of glucose? [The lack of
this hormone causes diabetes.]
Answer: Insulin
110. __________ are portions and types of foods
and beverages consumed on a regular basis.
Answer: Diet
111. It is a standardized ratio of weight to height.
Answer: Body Mass Index (BMI)
112. In what part of the body does digestion begin?
Answer: Mouth
113. What group of foods builds and repairs worn-
out tissues?
Answer: Grow Foods
114. In what year was it discovered that citrus fruit
juices aided in the treatment of scurvy, now known
as vitamin C deficiency disease?
Answer: 1720
115. What basic food group provides the body with
heat and energy?
Answer: Energy-Giving Foods (Go Foods)
116. It is a deficiency of calcium in elderly.
Answer: Osteoporosis
117. What is the poor man’s meat?
Answer: Monggo
118. What vitamin do we get from yellow foods?
Answer: Vitamin A
119. What mineral makes our teeth harder?
Answer: Calcium, Iron, Phosphorus
120. What are the water-soluble vitamins?
Answer: Vitamin C and Vitamins B complex
121. What vitamin helps in preventing hemorrhage
and known as bandage vitamin?
Answer: Vitamin K
122. What do you call the thrombocytes that are tiny
colorless disk-shaped and plays an important part
in the clotting process?
Answer: Platelets
123. What do you call the cholesterol that comes
from food?
Answer: Dietary Cholesterol
124. What do you call the cholesterol that circulates
in your blood?
Answer: Serum Cholesterol/Blood Cholesterol
125. What is the body’s most essential nutrient?
Answer: Water
126. What are the fat-soluble vitamins?
Answer: Vitamins A, D, E, and K
127. It must accompany smart eating for weight
control.
Answer: Regular Exercise
128. _______ is a guideline for helping people
choose a varied, balanced, and moderate diet.
Answer: Daily Food Guide
129. It is a fatlike substance found only in animal
sources of food.
Answer: Cholesterol
130. What is the governmental agency responsible
for food labels?
Answer: Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
131. These are the substances added for a specific
effect.
Answer: Additives
132. ___________ is an excess body fat.
Answer: Obesity
133. How many calories are there in a pound?
Answer: 3,500 calories
134. It is an eating disorder characterized by an
irrational fear of becoming obese.
Answer: Anorexia nervosa
135. It refers to the eating of large amounts of
starches on days leading up to athletic competition.
Answer: Carbohydrate Loading
136. It is when the body’s immune system overreacts
to food substances.
Answer: Food Allergy
137. ___________ is using a medicine in a way that
is not intended.
Answer: Medicine misuse
138. It is the ability to be physically active.
Answer: Physical Fitness
139. Of the existing 22 amino acids, how many are
considered to be essential in the diet?
Answer: 9 amino acids
140. What are the complex carbohydrates?
Answer: Starches
141. What mineral helps build red blood cells?
Answer: Iron
142. It is a fat-soluble vitamin that enhances the
absorption of calcium and therefore aids in the
formation and maintenance of bones and teeth.
Answer: Vitamin D
143. What are the simple carbohydrates?
Answer: Sugars
144. What is the primary role of carbohydrates in
the body?
Answer: To provide energy
145. ____________ is the sole source of energy used
by the brain.
Answer: Glucose

146. It is a B vitamin that is a factor in energy

metabolism and supports normal vision and skin
health.
Answer: Vitamin B2 or Riboflavin

147. ___________ is an excessively rapid heartbeat.

Answer: Tachycardia

148. It is a bad breath.

Answer: Halitosis

149. ____________ is a condition in which a person

can no longer control his or her need or desire for a
drug.
Answer: Drug Addiction

150. It is any chemical or agent that causes cancer.

Answer: Carcinogen
 Answer: Porifera

11. Invertebrates that describe as animals with

hollow-bodied or soft bodied.
Example: hydras, jellyfish, anemone, corals
Answer: Cnidaria

12. Invertebrates that describes as animals with

soft-bodied shelled animals.
Examples: snail, slugs, squid, octopus, clamps
Answer: mollusks

13. Invertebrates that are spiny-skinned sea

animals.
Example: starfish, sea urchins
Answer: Echinoderms
ANIMALS
14. Organism that has bilateral symmetry and no
1. What do you call the animals with backbone? digestive system, flatworms belong to this group.
Answer: vertebrates Answer: Platyhelminthes

2. Animals without backbone is called _________. 15. Unsegmented worms that has long, thin round
Answer: invertebrates bodies pointed at both ends and covered by a touch
cuticle. Roundworms belong to this group.
3. Warm blooded animals with fur and mammary Answer: nematodes
glands.
Answer: mammals 16. Segmented worms that has no respiratory system
but absorbs oxygen and gives of carbon dioxide
4. Vertebrates that have dry scaly skin, covered with through the thin skin.
scales or plates, lay eggs and can live both land and Answer: annelids
water.
Example: turtles, crocodiles 17. What is the largest group in the animal
Answer: reptiles kingdom?
Answer: arthropods
5. Vertebrates that has moist skin and can live both
land and water. 18. They are joint legged animals.
Examples: frog Answer: arthropods
Answer: amphibians
19. Arthropods are animals with bodies and legs
6. _________ are animals that live in water when made up of section and they have outside shell.
they are young and when become old, their lungs are What do you call the outside shell of arthropods?
now developed and they can now live in land? Answer: exoskeleton
Answer: amphibians
20. What group of animals that have a hard outer
7. Vertebrates that covered with scales and used gills body covering, have five pairs of legs ad
for breathing. characterized by the presences of antenna located on
Answer: fish the head?
Example: crabs, lobster, shrimps
8. Vertebrates covered with feathers, lay eggs and Answer: crustaceans
adapted to flight.
Answer: Birds 21. What animals that have 3 body parts that
includes the head, thorax and abdomen?
9. What is the largest bird? Answer: insects
Answer: ostrich
22. How many legs that an insect has?
10. Invertebrates that are marine animals that full Answer: six legs
of pores or holes.
Example: sponges
23. What animals belong in arthropods that has 4 Answer: Echolocation
pairs of legs, two body segments and no antennae.
Example: scorpions, spiders 40. It is the way or biological process by which
Answer: arachnids insects develop after birth or hatching, usually
accompanied by change of habitat or behavior.
24. What do you call the animals that have hundred Answer: metamorphosis
feet?
Answer: centipede 41. It refers to the total number of animals in a
particular habitat or community.
25. Animals with thousand feet Answer: population
Answer: millipede
42. It is an ecological or environmental area that is
26. Animals with many legs? inhabited by a particular species of animal, plant or
Answer: Myriapods other type of organism.
27. Single-celled animals that are microscopic in size Answer: habitat
Answer: Protozoa
43. It is the protective coloration that allows some
28. How many segments make up the thorax of an animals to blend with their surroundings.
insect? Answer: Camouflage
Answer: 3
44. The imitation of animals of the shape, smell,
29. Extinct sea bird known as the Atlantic penguin tastes, colors and sounds of other animals to protect
Answer: auk them against enemies.
Answer: mimicry
30. It is the largest animal phylum.
Answer: arthropod 45. It is the structure or behavior that helps an
organism survive in its environment.
31. Types of these animals includes the gorilla Answer: adaptation
and chimpanzee.
Answer: ape 46. The process in which the pollens are transferred
from the anther to the stigma in a flower.
32. It is the bony out-growth on the head of a deer Answer: Pollination
Answer: antler

33. It refers to animals that eat other animals.

Answer: carnivores PLANTS

34. It is a collection of interacting organism within 1. In a food chain, plants are the _______.
an ecosystem. Answer: producer
Answer: community
2. An environment where both living and non-living
35. It is a system of unlocking food chains things exist and interact with one another?
Answer: food web Answer: ecosystem

36. Animals that are carnivores at some times and 3. It is the transfer of solar energy from plants to
herbivore at others. animals and eventually to decomposers when they
Answer: omnivores die.
Answer: food chain
37. Pollination by birds is called _____.
Answer: Ornithophily 4. What is the process when tissues are breakdown to
its simplest form?
38. Which insects spread kala-azar? Answer: decomposition
Answer: Sand fly
5. They are microorganisms that change complex
39. It is the transmission of sound waves to locate substances.
object, this is where bats rely to help them find their Answer: decomposers
food.
6. It is the relationship between a prey and a Answer: Protista
predator.
Answer: predation 21. The process where plants make their own food.
Answer: Photosynthesis
7. Relationships among living organism where they
obtain their foods by living together. 22. The emergent, canopy and understory layers all
Answer: symbiosis form part of what?
Answer: rainforest
8. A kind of hunter-prey relationship between a
parasite and a host. 23. What is the name given to the female part of a
(Example: Tapeworm in human’s stomach, flower?
tapeworm-parasite; human’s stomach-host) Answer: Pistil
Answer: parasitism
24. What gas do plants absorb from the atmosphere?
9. A relationship where an organism benefits from Answer: Carbon dioxide
another without harming it.
Answer: commensalism 25. It is the science that study plants.
Answer: Botany
10. What part of the plant that receives the pollen
from the male parts of the flower? 26. What kind of plants that has no roots, stem or
Answer: stigma leaves?
Answer: fungus
11. Female parts of a flower that produce ovules
that become seeds 27. What are gum trees better known as?
Answer: Carpels Answer: Eucalyptus trees

12. What is produce by the male parts of the flower? 28. What tree produces acorns?
Answer: pollen Answer: oak tree

13. It is a plant that bears cones.
Answer: coniferous plant
14. The interrelationship between species from the
Greek word that means “to live together”
Answer: symbiosis
29. A plant that produce seed but not fruit.
Answer: mint
30. Soya bean is a good source of _________.
Answer: protein

15. This type of relationship is characterized by an 31. Parthenogenesis is seen generally in what fruit?
organism sapping nutrients from the body of a Answer: Grapes
living host.
Answer: parasitism 32. Some plants grow better if bone meal is spread
around their roots. What does bone meal supply to
16. In this relationship, both organisms benefit from the plants that makes them grow faster?
the relationship. Answer: minerals
Answer: mutualism
33. It is the process in which the embryo or baby
17. One of the partners’ benefits while the other plant gets energy from the stored food in the see and
neither helped or harmed. starts grow.
Answer: commensalism Answer: Germination

18. A botanist calls a ripe ovule before germination 35. Seeds with one cotyledon.
what reproductive item? Answer: Monocot
Answer: seed
36. Seeds with two cotyledon
19. Plant hormone produced in growing tips of plant Answer: Dicot
stems
Answer: auxin 37. It is the outer covering of the seed. It protects the
seed from injuries.
20. Golden algae would be found in what kingdom? Answer: Seed coat
38. What do you call the young plant or immature
plant found inside the seed?
Answer: Embryo

39. It is the off white and the biggest part of the

seed.
Answer: Cotyledon

40. What is the other term for aquatic animals that

adaptive to living with aquatic environment.
Answer: hydrophytes

41. What do you call the plants that grow on land?

Answer: terrestrial plants

42. The male reproductive organ in a flower.

Answer: stamen

43. The female reproductive organ of a flower.

Answer: pistil

44. A type of reproduction that does not involve

fertilization of egg and sperm
Answer: Asexual Reproduction
 Answer: Albert Einstein

12. What feature in the sun appears like billowing

arches of glowing gases?
Answer: Prominences

13. A galaxy that comprises two to three percent of

the total number of galaxies.
Answer: irregular galaxy

14. For a rocket to orbit the earth and become a

satellite, its speed must be around __.
Answer: 29,000 kph

15. Who figured out that the sun was the center of the
solar system?
Answer: Copernicus
ASTRONOMY
16. What is the darkest part of a shadow?
1. What is the more common name for the Answer: umbra
constellation Canis Minor?
Answer: Little dog 17. The movement of the earth on its axis is called
_______.
2. Approximately, how many days does it take the Answer: rotation
moon to complete one rotation around the earth?
Answer: 28 days 18. What is the collection of stars called?
Answer: Galaxy
3. What comet with shortest known orbital period?
Answer: Encke’s comet 19. What was the name of the space mission that
landed the first humans on the moon?
4. Besides hydrogen, what is the next major Answer: Apollo 11
component of Jupiter’s atmosphere?
Answer: Helium 20. Which planet do the moons of Phobos and Deimos
belong to?
5. What is the highest volcanic mountain in the solar Answer: Mars
system that is located on Mars?
Answer: Olympus Mons 21. Which planet was the Galileo spacecraft sent to
study?
6. What is the highest mountain on Earth? Answer: Jupiter
Answer: Mount Everest
22. What part of the sun is easily visible only during
7. It is a scale-like pattern of cirrocumulus clouds total solar eclipse?
that also known as “buttermilk sky”. Answer: Corona
Answer: mackerel sky
23. How many minutes does it take for light from the
8. Envelope of gases surrounding a planet Sun to reach Earth?
Answer: atmosphere Answer: 5 minutes

9. What layer of the earth is inferred to be liquid in 24. How many planets are there in the solar system?
form? Answer: 8 planets
Answer: Outer core
25. Who was the first person to land on the moon?
10. It is the space shuttle sent to Venus to investigate Answer: Neil Armstrong
its atmosphere.
Answer: Pioneer-Venus 2 26. What is the outermost layer of the earth’s
surface?
11. Who formulated the mathematical equation that Answer: crust
probe the Big Bang Theory?
 43. How many days are there in a leap year?
27. What is the hottest layer of the Earth’s surface? Answer: 366 days
Answer: inner core
44. What is the imaginary line on which Earth’s
28. What layer of the earth is inferred to be liquid in rotates on its axis?
form? Answer: orbit
Answer: outer core
45. If the earth has completed three revolutions, how
29. What instrument can view the heavenly bodies many rotations has it completed?
clearly and without the filtering effect of Earth’s Answer: 1095 ¾
atmosphere?
Answer: space telescope 46. It is the earth’s movement on its axis.
Answer: rotation
30. What is the closest planet in the sun?
Answer: Mercury 47. It is the Earth’s rotation around the sun.
Answer: revolution
31. What is the name of the second biggest planet in
the solar system?
Answer: Saturn 48. How long does the earth travel around the sun?
Answer: 365 ¼ days
32. What is the hottest planet in our solar system?
Answer: Venus 49. How many seasons does the Philippines has?
Answer: 2 seasons (wet ad dry)
33. What planet in famous because of its big red
spot? 50. What law that states that energy can be
Answer: Jupiter transformed from one form to another, but can be
neither created or destroyed.
34. What planet is famous for the beautiful rings that Answer: Law of Conservation of Energy
surround it?
Answer: Saturn 51. It is an astronomical body orbiting a star or
stellar remnant.
35. What planet is known as red planet? Answer: planet
Answer: Mars
52. What is the largest star?
36. It is the force that holding us on Earth. Answer: Eta Carinae
Answer: Gravity
53. It is an astronomical event that occurs when an
37. What is the name NASA’s most famous space astronomical object temporarily obscured.
telescope? Answer: eclipse
Answer: Hubble Space Telescope
54. A group of star.
38. In which galaxy does earth located? Answer: constellation
Answer: Milky Way Galaxy
55. An eclipse when the moon passes directly behind
39. What is the first satellite sent into space? the Earth and into its shadow.
Answer: Sputnik Answer: Lunar eclipse

40. Ganymede is a moon in which planet? 56. An eclipse when an observer on Earth passes
Answer: Jupiter through the shadow cast by the moon which fully or
partially block.
41. What is the name of Saturn’s largest moon? Answer: solar eclipse
Answer: Titan
57. It is the partial shadow in an eclipse.
42. Olympus Mons is a large volcanic mountain on Answer: penumbra
which planet?
Answer: Mars 58.
 11. Who formulated the mathematical equation that
probe the Big Bang Theory?
Answer: Albert Einstein

12. What feature in the sun appears like billowing

arches of glowing gases?
Answer: Prominences

13. A galaxy that comprises two to three percent of

the total number of galaxies.
Answer: irregular galaxy

14. For a rocket to orbit the earth and become a

satellite, its speed must be around __.
Answer: 29,000 kph

15. Who figured out that the sun was the center of the
solar system?
Answer: Copernicus
ASTRONOMY
16. What is the darkest part of a shadow?
1. What is the more common name for the Answer: umbra
constellation Canis Minor?
Answer: Little dog 17. The movement of the earth on its axis is called
_______.
2. Approximately, how many days does it take the Answer: rotation
moon to complete one rotation around the earth?
Answer: 28 days 18. What is the collection of stars called?
Answer: Galaxy
3. What comet with shortest known orbital period?
Answer: Encke’s comet 19. What was the name of the space mission that
landed the first humans on the moon?
4. Besides hydrogen, what is the next major Answer: Apollo 11
component of Jupiter’s atmosphere?
Answer: Helium 20. Which planet do the moons of Phobos and Deimos
belong to?
5. What is the highest volcanic mountain in the solar Answer: Mars
system that is located on Mars?
Answer: Olympus Mons 21. Which planet was the Galileo spacecraft sent to
study?
6. What is the highest mountain on Earth? Answer: Jupiter
Answer: Mount Everest
22. What part of the sun is easily visible only during
7. It is a scale-like pattern of cirrocumulus clouds total solar eclipse?
that also known as “buttermilk sky”. Answer: Corona
Answer: mackerel sky
23. How many minutes does it take for light from the
8. Envelope of gases surrounding a planet Sun to reach Earth?
Answer: atmosphere Answer: 5 minutes

9. What layer of the earth is inferred to be liquid in 24. How many planets are there in the solar system?
form? Answer: 8 planets
Answer: Outer core
25. Who was the first person to land on the moon?
10. It is the space shuttle sent to Venus to investigate Answer: Neil Armstrong
its atmosphere.
Answer: Pioneer-Venus 2
26. What is the outermost layer of the earth’s 42. Olympus Mons is a large volcanic mountain on
surface? which planet?
Answer: crust Answer: Mars

27. What is the hottest layer of the Earth’s surface? 43. How many days are there in a leap year?
Answer: inner core Answer: 366 days

28. What layer of the earth is inferred to be liquid in 44. What is the imaginary line on which Earth’s
form? rotates on its axis?
Answer: outer core Answer: orbit

29. What instrument can view the heavenly bodies 45. If the earth has completed three revolutions, how
clearly and without the filtering effect of Earth’s many rotations has it completed?
atmosphere? Answer: 1095 ¾
Answer: space telescope
46. It is the earth’s movement on its axis.
30. What is the closest planet in the sun? Answer: rotation
Answer: Mercury
47. It is the Earth’s rotation around the sun.
31. What is the name of the second biggest planet in Answer: revolution
the solar system?
Answer: Saturn
48. How long does the earth travel around the sun?
32. What is the hottest planet in our solar system? Answer: 365 ¼ days
Answer: Venus
49. How many seasons does the Philippines has?
33. What planet in famous because of its big red Answer: 2 seasons (wet ad dry)
spot?
Answer: Jupiter 50. What law that states that energy can be
transformed from one form to another, but can be
34. What planet is famous for the beautiful rings that neither created or destroyed.
surround it? Answer: Law of Conservation of Energy
Answer: Saturn
51. It is an astronomical body orbiting a star or
35. What planet is known as red planet? stellar remnant.
Answer: Mars Answer: planet

36. It is the force that holding us on Earth. 52. What is the largest star?
Answer: Gravity Answer: Eta Carinae

37. What is the name NASA’s most famous space 53. It is an astronomical event that occurs when an
telescope? astronomical object temporarily obscured.
Answer: Hubble Space Telescope Answer: eclipse

38. In which galaxy does earth located? 54. A group of star.

Answer: Milky Way Galaxy Answer: constellation

39. What is the first satellite sent into space? 55. An eclipse when the moon passes directly behind
Answer: Sputnik the Earth and into its shadow.
Answer: Lunar eclipse
40. Ganymede is a moon in which planet?
Answer: Jupiter 56. An eclipse when an observer on Earth passes
through the shadow cast by the moon which fully or
41. What is the name of Saturn’s largest moon? partially block.
Answer: Titan Answer: solar eclipse

57. It is the partial shadow in an eclipse.

Answer: penumbra Answer: Marianas Trench

58. 11. What season is characterized with the most

amount of leaves falling from trees?
Answer: autumn

12. What is we call the breaking of white light into all

the colors of the visible spectrum?
Answer: diffraction

13. 128 ounces is equivalent to one what?

Answer: gallon

14. What is created when an electron is added to a

proton?
Answer: neutron

15. The study of phenomena at very low temperature.

Answer: Cryogenics

16. The branch of science which is concerned with the

study of disease as it affects a community of people.
Answer: Epidemiology
MIXED QUESTIONS
17. What number is neutral measured at on the PH
1. What type of lens is used to diverse light rays? Scale?
Answer: Concave lens Answer: 7

2. Name the deposits left by a melted glacier. 18. To split an atom is _________.
Answer: till Answer: fission

3. The deposits left by windblown dust. 19. To clash an atom is called _________.
Answer: loess Answer: fusion

4. What do you call death caused by electric current? 20. What is the most common element found in the
Answer: electrocution Earth’s atmosphere?
Answer: nitrogen
5. Name the long, narrow deposit of sand formed
where a shoreline changes direction? 21. What type of paper is used to indicate acids and
Answer: spit alkalis?
Answer: Litmus paper
6. The structure made by deposits left by windblown
sand. 22. Energy produced inside the Earth.
Answer: dunes Answer: geothermal energy

7. Anorthosite is from what primary rock 23. It is the center of an atom.

classification? Answer: nucleus
Answer: Igneous rocks
24. Amperes measures what current?
8. The science that deal with the development of the Answer: electrical current
universe.
Answer: cosmogony 25. It is a large group of wind turbines.
Answer: wind farm
9. Where can the lowest point on the earth’s crust be
found? 26. What is the name of the lightest substance?
Answer: Marianas Trench Answer: hydrogen

10. It is the deepest part of the earth.

27. What is the chemical symbol for iron?
Answer: Fe 45. What do the letters Ph stand for?
Answer: Power of Hydrogen
28. Which is the only metal that is liquid at room
temperature? 46. It is the branch of biology that study about
Answer: Mercury relationship between living things and their
environment.
29. Global warming is caused by too much of which Answer: Ecology
type of gas?
Answer: Carbon dioxide 47. It has the longest wave length.
Answer: Infrared radiation
30. Which element has atomic number of 2?
Answer: Helium 48. Bacteria that converts atmospheric nitrogen into
nitrogen compound.
31. Which metals make the strongest magnets? Answer: Nitrogen Fixing Bacteria
Answer: Iron
49. At constant temperature, the product of pressure
32. What device is used to measure air pressure? and volume of a given amount of gas is constant,
Answer: barometer whose law is this?
Answer: Boyle’s Law
50. What degree does water boils?
33. What two elements made up water? Answer: 100 degrees Celsius
Answer: Hydrogen and oxygen
51. In what degree that water becomes solid.
34. Which gas has the chemical formula CO? Answer: 0 degree Celsius
Answer: carbon monoxide
52. In which enzyme is Urea converted into ammonia
35. Who invented the gramophone? and carbon dioxide?
Answer: Thomas Edison Answer: Urease

36. What vitamin does sunlight provide to human? 53. What is addictive poisonous substance can be
Answer: Vitamin D found in tobacco leaves?
Answer: Nicotine
37. What two metals combined to make bronze?
Answer: copper and tin 54. Who discovered the law of gravity?
Answer: Isaac Newton
38. Who invented the telephone?
Answer: Alexander Graham Bell 55. Cumulus, cirrus and stratus are kinds of ____.
Answer: Clouds
39. Who invented telescope?
Answer: Galileo Galilei 56. What do DNA means?
Answer: Deoxyribonucleic acid
40. Who discovered penicillin in 1928?
Answer: Alexander Fleming 57. What is the freezing point of water?
Answer: 0 degrees Celsius or 32 degrees Celsius
41. What is the lightest metal?
Answer: Lithium 58. What does an anemometer measure?
Answer: Speed of Wind
42. Scientists that devise the three laws of motion.
Answer: Isaac Newton 59. What is the largest flower in the world?
Answer: Rafflesia
43. What is the name of the device used to convert
sound to electricity? 60. What is the process by which plants release water
Answer: microphone from their leaves?
Answer: Transpiration
44. What is needed to change the velocity of an object?
Answer: force
61. It is the process by which the condensed water 76. It is a system in which energy and matter from
vapor falls back on the earth’s surface in the forms the sun, the atmosphere and living organisms
of rain, hail, snow and sleet. penetrate and interact.
Answer: Precipitation Answer: soil

62. The process of changing water vapor in liquid 77. It is the type of soil that is a mixture of sand and
water. clay.
Answer: Condensation Answer: Loam

63. It is the process of changing liquid water into gas 78. It is a blanket of air that surrounds the earth.
or water vapor Answer: atmosphere
Answer: Evaporation
79. It is the primary source of energy.
64. How do sun’s heat and light reaches the surface Answer: sun
of the earth?
Answer: radiation 80. The sound that is reflected or returned sound.
Answer: Echo
65. What do you call when food makes their own
foods. 81. It is the softness and loudness of sound.
Answer: photosynthesis Answer: volume

82. What type of energy made by vibrations?

66. The device used in telling the direction of the wind? Answer: Sound
Answer: wind vane 83. It is the transfer of heat from one place to another
by movement of fluids.
67. What is used to measure air temperature? Answer: Convection
Answer: thermometer
84. It is the transfer of heat through solid materials.
68. It is the hotness and coldness of the air around Answer: Conduction
us.
Answer: Temperature 85. It is the push and pull of magnets.
Answer: magnetism
69. What do you call the water part of the earth or
“water sphere”? 86. It is the ability to do work.
Answer: hydrosphere Answer: energy

70. The process in which water continuously moved in 87. The energy from electromagnetic waves.
the earth’s surface. Answer: Radiant energy
Answer: Water cycle
88. It is the energy of a moving object.
71. What kind of water is found beneath the earth’s Answer: Kinetic energy
surface?
Answer: Groundwater 89. The energy that is stored in a substance.
Answer: Potential energy
72. What kind of water is called hard water?
Answer: Seawater 90. It is also called as heat energy.
Answer: thermal energy
73. What kind of water is also called surface water?
Answer: Freshwater 91. Energy that stored in the bonds of chemical
compounds like atom and molecules.
74. It is the uppermost layer of the soil. Answer: Chemical energy
Answer: Topsoil
92. It is the amount of moisture in the air.
75. What is the lowest layer of the soil? Answer: humidity
Answer: Bedrock
93. It is a weather condition of a place over a period
of time.
Answer: climate