EASY ROUND Answer: D

1. Some plants grow better if bone meal
(ground-up bones) is spread around their roots.
What does bone meal supply to the plants that
makes them grow better?
A. energy
B. minerals
6. What is the most important function of the
blood?
A. Collects food nutrients and oxygen from the
body.
B. Carries food nutrients and oxygen to all parts
of the body.

C. vitamins C. Regulates the rise of the body temperature.

D. water D. Carries impurities to the cells.

Answer: B Answer: B

2. Sensory messages are taken to the brain by 7. A beaker was filled with water up to 40 mL
____________. mark. A small stone was slowly lowered into the
beaker and it was observed that the level rose
A. arteries and veins to 45 ml. What does the change in the level of
B. arteries and hormones the water represents?

C. nerve and hormones A. volume of water

D. muscles and veins B. weight of the stone

Answer: C C. volume of stone

D. weight of the stone

3. Alexander Fleming noticed that bacteria
growing on a plate of agar did not grow next Answer: C
to a mold that was growing on the same plate.
He wrote in his laboratory report “The mold 9. What layer of the earth is inferred to be liquid
may be producing a substance that kills in form?
bacteria”. This statement is best described as A. crust
_________.
B. mantle
A. an observation
C. outer core
B. a hypothesis
D. inner core
C. a generalization
Answer: C
D. a conclusion
10. Why does boiling of water in a kettle
Answer: B overflow and spill?
4. Why do stars seem to twinkle? A. Water increases its volume when heated.
A.They are too hot B. Water forms bubbles when heated.
B.Their size and color vary C. Water expands when heated.
C.They are covered with clouds D. Water overflow when heated.
D.Light bends as it passes through layers of the Answer C
atmosphere

Answer: D

5. The oxygen - rich blood from the heart flows

to the largest artery known as

A. superior vena cava

B. inferior vena cava

C. coronary artery

D. aorta
 AVERAGE ROUND
1. The movie “Twilight Zone” has a wolf -
character portrayed by Taylor Lutner. There are
scenes, he, as a wolf place his scent on trees.
Wolves most likely do this in order to ________.
A. attract prey
B. attract female wolves.
C. mark their territory against other wolves.
D. mark the location of their shelter and food.
Answer: C
2. Which BEST describes the movement of the
plates that make up Earth’s surface over million
of years?
A. They have never moved.
B. They have been continually moving.
C. They stayed the same millions of years but
are now moving.
D. They moved for millions of years but have
now stopped.
Answer: B
4. Why do mountain climbers use oxygen
equipment at the top of the world’s highest
mountain?
A. There is less oxygen in the air at great
heights.
B. There is little nitrogen in the air at great
heights.
C. There is a hole in the ozone layer.
D. There is no air at the top of very high
mountains.
Answer: A
5. Two potatoes of equal mass were boiled,
one in Baguio and one in Manila. Where will
the potato cook faster and why?
A. In Baguio, the higher the altitude the higher
the temperature.
B. In Baguio, the higher the altitude the lower
the temperature.
C. In Manila, the lower the altitude the higher
the temperature.
D. In Manila, the higher the altitude the lower
the temperature.
Answer: C
6. Which of the following characterizes
varicose veins?
A. Veins in the brain swell.
B. Veins in the lower extremity shrink.
C. Valves of veins in the legs fail to function
properly.
D. Valves of veins in the heart fail to function
properly.
Answer: C
7. Why was Pioneer - Venus 2 sent to Venus?
A. To investigate the atmosphere of Venus.
B. To examine the soil in Venus.
C. To probe the interior part of Venus.
D. To discover the possible life forms in Venus.
Answer: A
8. In general, pages of books turn brown after
a number of years. Why?
A. The paper has become dusty.
B. The paper has become very dry.
C. The paper has reacted with oxygen from
the air.
D. The paper has reacted with pollutants in the
air.
Answer: C
9. Which of the following best describes the
energy of a ball as it bounces up and down?
A. Potential Energy and Kinetic energy change
at the same time.
B. Potential Energy increases as it moves down.
C. Kinetic energy increases as it moves up.
D. Potential Energy and Kinetic energy remains
the same.
Answer: A
10. The mathematical questions that probe the
Big Bang Theory were formulated by ________
A. Alexander Friedman
B. Albert Einstein
C. Edwin Hubble
D. Edwin Aldrin Jr.
Answer: B
 DIFFICULT ROUND Answer: lub-dub, lub-dub

2. Insecticides are used to control insect
population so that they do not destroy crops.
Overtime some insecticides become less
effective at killing insects and new insecticides
must be developed. What is most likely reason
why insecticides become less effective
overtime?
2. A hereditary blood disorder wherein blood
clots very slowly affecting only males but
transmitted in genes of females.
Answer: Hemophilia
3. For a rocket to orbit the earth and become
a satellite, its speed must be around _____

A. Surviving insects have learned to include Answer: 29 000 kph

insecticides as a food source.
B. Surviving insects pass their resistance to
insecticides to their offspring.
C. Insecticides build up in the soil.
D. Insecticides are concentrated at the
bottom of the food chain.
Answer: B
3. . The graph shows the progress made by a
car travelling along a straight line. What is the
speed of the car? TIME ( MINUTES) DISTANC E
(kms).
Answer: 100 Km/Hr
5. What feature in the sun appears like
billowing arches of glowing gases?
4. Why do sailors avoid the doldrums?
A. because their ships woud just stay in a
particular area and would not move
B. because theirips would sail so fast that they
may hit the rocks
C. because their ships would hit polar icebergs
D. both A and C
Answer: A
5. Which instrument can view the heavenly
bodies clearly and without the filtering effect
of Earth's atmosphere?
A. radio telescope
B. spectrograph

Answer: Prominences C. space telescope

6. Which part of the brain acts like a D. space colony

switchboard that allows the communications
Answer: C
from the brain to the other parts of the nervous
system.

Answer: Midbrain

7. A galaxy that comprises two to three

percent of the total number of galaxies.

Answer: Irregular galaxy

8. Where can the lowest point on the earth's

crust be found?

Answer: Marianas Trench

9. Why do you see lightning spark first before

you hear thunder during a thunderstorm?

Answer: Because light travels faster than sound.

10. What season is characterized with the most

amount of leaves falling from trees?

Answer: Autumn

CLINCHER ROUND

1. When a physician puts a stethoscope to your

chest , two sounds are heard. What sound
represents the opening and closing of the
valves?