SCIENCE QUIZ BEE QUESTIONS

FOR GRADE SIX

EASY

1. What kind of energy does a waterfall exhibit?

Answer: mechanical energy

Reference: Exploring and Protecting Our World (TM) xxvii

2. What is the continuous exchange of gases between animals and plants called?

Answer: oxygen-carbon dioxide cycle

Reference: Exploring and Protecting Our World (TM) xxvii

3. What theory states that the universe began when there was a big explosion that
scattered matter in all directions?

Answer: Big Bang Theory

Reference: Exploring and Protecting Our World (TM) p.1

4. Blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart are called________________.

Answer: arteries
Reference: Exploring and Protecting Our World (TX) p.6

5. This is the process by which the body converts food into energy and living tissue.

Answer: metabolism
Reference: Exploring and Protecting Our World (TX) p.49
AVERAGE
1. What is the disease caused by the abnormal production of white blood cells

Answer: leukemia
Reference: Exploring and Protecting Our World (TM) xxiv

2. What hormone is responsible for the “flight or fight “ response during a dangerous
situation?

Answer: adrenaline
Reference: Exploring and Protecting Our World (TM) xxiv

3. The process by which energy is released when the center of an atom splits is
called_____________.

Answer: nuclear fission

Reference: Exploring and Protecting Our World (TM) xxvii

4. What gas is produced when rice straw and animal manure are fermented?

Answer: methane
Reference: Exploring and Protecting Our World (TM) xxviii

5. What force causes winds moving across the earth to be deflected westward instead of
moving northward or southward?

Answer: Coriolis Force

Reference: Exploring and Protecting Our World (TM) xxx
DIFFICULT

1. A rare blood disease which is due to the inability of the blood to clot normally when an
injury occurs.

Answer: hemophilia
Reference: Elementary Science Explorer, p.17

2. These are structures that respond when stimulated by nerve impulses.

Answer: effectors
Reference: Elementary Science Explorer, p.33

3. This food additive contributes to urinary tract infection (UTI) and to certain type of
kidney ailment.

Answer: tartrazine
Reference: Elementary Science Explorer, p.129

4. He is the proponent of the Continental Drift Theory?

Answer: Alfred Wegener

Reference: Elementary Science Explorer, p.191

5. A space probe which was launched in 2001 with a mission to collect information about
Mars.

Answer: Mars Odyssey

Reference: Elementary Science Explorer, p.258

Prepared by:

AISA G. LUPAC
Teacher

NOTED:

NELLY L. ATIENZA
Principal