NATURAL SCIENCE (2) finding traced the cause to: 

a. congestion on the bus 

1) Wild plants and animals that stay
b. food poisoning 
deposited for thousand of years are
c. excitement 
known for the source of: 
d. excessive fat
a. gas 
b. oil  7) In June, classes in home economics
c. mineral  are asked to prepare fruits into: 
d. pearls a. Preserved fruit juices 
b. Preserved fruit confections 
2) Gemillina is a tree propagated lately
c. Conserved fruit juices 
for electrical posts. However, this specie
d. Preserved fruit products
was found destructive if allowed to stay
long since: 8) The areas of Navotas, Valenzuela
a. The tree is not resistant to wind  and Caloocan are always flooded during
b. The roots absorb a lot of water  rainy season. The engineers account
c. The body spreads wide  this to high tide especially in July and
d. The bark is filled with woms August. But really it is: 
a. below sea level 
3) Propagation of a new carabao breed
b. approximately of sea level 
in Central Luzon State University is due
c. under sea level 
to: 
d. above sea level
a. a sexual propagation 
b. law of heredity  9) Theresa is a campaign against
c. law of mutation  cholera. How can the pupils get
d. genetic cloning protected catching the disease? 
a. Contact the parents for a meeting 
4) Children of obese parents have
b. Teach children to wash their hands
natural tendencies to be obese. Doctors
before and after meals 
advise parents on maintaining the right
c. Open up a store in the classroom for
weight of children age 0-12 by: 
children’s recess snack 
a. giving balanced diets with
d. Allow children to eat food sold by
accompanying exercise 
peddlers
b. reducing milk intake 
c. reducing intake of chocolates, 10) Poisoning of farmers during
candies and pasties  fertilizing field is traced to: 
d. encouraging more intake of soda a. smoking during and after spraying 
drinks b. using bottle drinking 
c. failure to use hand gloves 
5) Kitchen fuel that caused big
d. spraying fields at high noon
conflagration in homes and cites are: 
a. Use of electrics stoves  11) Australian experts were asked to
b. Use of firewood  explore a better way of generating
c. Use of saw dust for fuels  electricity. This is through:
d. Use of gas stove a. undersea cable transmission 
b. sulphuric reserve actuation 
6) Excursions are encouraged to allow
c. waterfall reserve actuation 
participants to see places. All the 400
d. geothermal utilization
personnel fell ill. Doctors laboratory
12) DOGS are often affected by rabies c. Gumamela 
but lately other animals have been d. Cosmos
identified and they are: 
18) A diet full of animal fat usually come
a. birds 
up with patients found ill of ________.
b. cats 
a. Diabetes 
c. pigs 
b. Kidney malfunction 
d. snakes
c. Hypertension 
13) Transplanting of human organs are d. Sclerosis
no longer impossible. The most recent
19) Sea turtles multiply fast because
discovery in Russia is: 
they propagate through: 
a. heart transplant 
a. egg hatching 
b. kidney transplant 
b. transfusion 
c. retina eye transplant 
c. migrate 
d. placenta transplant
d. mutation
14) Honey is extracted from bees. To
20) Clogged blood vessels often cause
ensure a supply of honey for food and
heart ailment. What process is used by
medicine. What has been resorted
cardiologists whereby clogged arteries
lately? 
are replaced? 
a. Discourage the use of pesticides in
a. Angioplasty 
honey farms 
b. Plastic surgery 
b. Gather honey from the forest 
c. Heart bypass 
c. Encourage bee farm in chosen areas 
d. X-ray
d. Culture honey bees for propagation
21) To avoid the thinning of the ozone
15) Mosquitoes have been identified of
layer, what should be avoided in waste
having caused illness among children
disposal? 
bitten in the morning. This fever is: 
a. Dumping waste in the river 
a. Asthma 
b. Dumping waste into landfills 
b. Malaria 
c. Dumping waste into the sea 
c. Dengue 
d. Burning garbage in pits
d. Diarrhea
22) Children with smallpox, chickenpox,
16) The people of Montalban in Rizal
or measles should be segregated or
raised protest on the landfill since: 
quarantined. When should this be
a. Water seepage would pollute water
done? 
source 
a. The set of the fever 
b. People were disturbed by garbage
b. The first days of skin wound healing 
trucks 
c. The first week upon skin eruption 
c. Air pollution could not be controlled 
d. The most infections stage is within 2
d. Garbage cold be recycled
days of the fever
17) There had been plants discovered
23) Immunization is done by health
as effective insect repellants. Which of
authorities to children age 2 months to 2
these plants belong to the group? 
years old. Vaccination is to stop the
a. Orchids 
spread of: 
b. Bouganvilla 
a. Chlolera 
b. Rabies  28) Which of the following is the BEST
c. Meads  example of self-preservation? 
d. Diptheria a. A mouse runs when it sees a cat. 
b. A dog barks when it sees its owner. 
24) Which one should be TRUE if
c. A young man decides to quit smoking 
Earth's rotation axis did not tilt? 
d. A salmon swims back to the place of
I. Days and nights would be the same
its birth to lay eggs.
length everywhere on Earth. 
II. There would be no hours of darkness 29) Which of the following internal
on points along the equator.  forces interrupt the external forces of
III. Earth would have no seasons. erosion? 
IV. Each part of the Earth would have I. Forces that cause volcanoes 
the same daily temperature pattern.  II. Forces that cause ocean trenchers 
a. II and IV  III. Forces that create mountains 
b. III and IV  a. I, II and III 
c. IVand I  b. I and III 
d. I and III c. II and III 
d. I and II
25) Tides, caused by the moon's gravity,
create a frictional force that is gradually 30) Which location should have most
slowing down Earth's rotation speed. nearly twelve hours of daylight and
One million years from now, scientist twelve hours of darkness during
may discover that compared to today, December? A town that is located:
Earth's  a. halfway between the Equator and the
a. day is shorter  South Pole
b. year is longer  b. close to the Equator
c. day is longer  c. close to the North Pole
d. year is shorter d. close to the South Pole
26) What indoor relative humidity range 31) At which time during the year does
would probably be comfortable when the the ozone level present a particular
outside temperature and humidity levels health threat in urban areas for people
are extremely low?  with respiratory problems? 
a. 90 to 100%  a. Spring 
b. 50 to 70%  b. Fall 
c. 20 to 30%  c. Summer 
d. 30 to 40% d. Winter
27) Which of the following facts support 32) Which of the following procedures
the Big Bang theory's explanation of the used by a farmer is NOT related directly
creation of the universe?  to preventing erosion? 
a. The universe does not expand nor a. Contour plowing around a hill 
contract.  b. Planting more seeds than are
b. The universe seldoms expand.  necessary to yield a bountiful crop. 
c. The universe will have background c. Planting grass in gullies to act as a
radiation.  filter 
d. The universe has no beginning nor d. Planting crops in alternate rows (strip
end. farming)
33) A nation in which loess would likely c. The right parietal lobe 
be found today is? d. The right occipital lobe
a. Iceland 
38) Scientists also find that other stalky
b. United States 
vegetables such as carrots also help
c. Japan 
lower blood pressure. This statements is
d. Ecuador
BEST classified as: 
34) Which one explains why oxygen, a a. experiment 
gas, is the largest component of the b. nonessential fact 
Earth’s crust?  c. finding 
a. Oxygen gives Earth's crust its d. prediction
lightness 
39) The Jones family has had four
b. Oxygen is the most abundant element
children, all girls. The fifth child born is a
in the world 
boy. This change is the result of: 
c. Oxygen is capable of combining with
a. conception classes taken by the
most of the elements in the Earth's
parents. 
crust. 
b. the timing of the fertility cycles. 
d. Oxygen is needed to sustain all life on
c. the father's contribution of a "Y"
Earth.
chromosome. 
35) Which is the BEST evidence that d. the "law of averages" finally catching
helium gas is lighter than air?  up.
a. Helium has the lowest boiling point of
40) Which of the following should you
all elements. 
expect to be true about the rate of
b. Helium atoms do not combine with
cellular respiration for a group of
other air atoms. 
students who are the same age, height,
c. Helium-filled balloons rise in air. 
and weight? 
d. By volume, helium makes up only
a. Athletes would tend to have higher
0.0005% of air.
rates of cellular respiration than non-
36) In which kingdom should MOLD be athletes. 
classified?  b. Africans would have a higher rate of
a. Protista  cellular respiration than Asians. 
b. Plantae  c. Boys would have a higher rate of
c. Fungi  cellular respiration than girls. 
d. Animalia d. Non-athletes would have higher rates
of cellular respiration than athletes.
37) Damage to the ________ can result
in what is called "Gerstmann's 41) What is the function of DIFFUSION
Syndrome." It includes difficulty with in the human body? 
writing (agraphia) and difficulty with a. Regulates blood flow 
mathematics (acalculia). It can also b. Plays an insignificant role in the
produce disorders of language (aphasia) body's functioning 
and the inability to perceive objects c. Allows an even distribution of
normally (agnosia). substances throughout all cells of the
a. The left occipital lobe  body 
b. The left parietal lobe  d. Comes into play in times of extreme
illness
42) What is the MOST likely reason for a. Cloning 
a desert plant to have a few or no b. Sexual reproduction 
leaves?  c. Asexual reproduction 
a. To increase photosynthesis  d. Cellular reproduction
b. To decrease photosynthesis 
48) What does a stick of unlit dynamite
c. To increase transpiration 
demonstrate? 
d. To decrease transpiration
a. Chemical Energy 
43) It was also discovered that the b. Nuclear Energy 
chemical 3m butylphthalide can lower c. Kinetic Energy 
the blood pressure of rats. This d. Potential Energy
statement is classified as 
49) The principle under which a
a. prediction 
thermostat operates is the same when: 
b. experiment 
a. a gas expands to fill the container in
c. finding 
which it is held. 
d. nonessential fact
b. a pendulum swings when it is set into
44) Which kingdom should motion. 
STREPTOCOCCUS be classified?  c. a chemical reaction occurs when two
a. Protista  substances combine. 
b. Plantae  d. the level of mercury rises or falls in a
c. Fungi  glass tube
d. Monera
50) What do you predict will happen
45) Which of the following methods can when you bring two bar magnets closer
all diabetics control their condition and together? 
avoid heart disease and blindness?  a. They will repel each other. 
I. Regulating their intake of glucose  b. They will create an alternating
II. Increasing the levels of insulin in the current. 
body by taking insulin injections  c. Nothing will happen. 
III. Maintaining a reasonable exercise d. They will attract each other.
regimen to keep weight down. 
ANSWERS:
a. I 
b. II  1. B
c. I and II  2. B
d. I and III 3. D
4. A
46) Without the process of meiosis, we
5. B
can infer that offspring from sexual
6. B
reproduction would: 
7. D
a. have a high degree of genetic variety 
8. A
b. have twice the assigned number of
9. B
chromosomes 
10. C
c. be identical 
11. A
d. have a number of mutations
12. B
47) Which method of reproduction 13. D
provides for the most variety of 14. D
offspring?  15. C
16. A
17. D
18. C
19. A
20. C
21. D
22. A
23. D
24. D
25. A
26. A
27. C
28. C
29. B
30. B
31. C
32. B
33. A
34. C
35. C
36. B
37. B
38. C
39. D
40. C
41. C
42. D
43. B
44. C
45. D
46. D
47. B
48. D
49. A
50. D