SCIENCE QUIZ BEE QUESTIONS

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Direction: Read carefully the questions and choose the letter of the correct
answer. ENCIRCLE THE LETTER ONLY.
NOTE: NO ERASURE. USE ONLY BLACK/BLUE BALLPEN. NO CHEATING. 😊

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 c. vitamins d. water
2. Sensory messages are taken to the brain by _________?
a. Arteries and veins
b. Arteries and hormones
c. nerve and hormones
d. muscles and veins
3. Why do stars seems to twinkle?
a. They are too hot
b. Their size and color vary
c. They are covered with clouds
d. Light bends as it passes through layers of the atmosphere
4. The oxygen rich-blood flow from the heart flows to the largest artery known
as___?
a. Superior vena cava b. inferior vena cava c. coronary artery d. Aorta
5. What layer of the Earth is inferred to be in liquid form?
a. Crust b. Mantle c. outer core d. inner core
6. Why does boiling of water in a kettle overflow and spill?
a. Water increases its volume when hearted
b. Water form bubbles when heated
c. Water expands when heated
d. Water overflow when heated
7. Which BEST describes the movement of plates that make up Earth’s surface
cover millions 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.
8. 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.
9. In general, the pages of books turn brown after a number of years. Why?
a. The paper has become dusty.
b. The paper has become dry.
c. The paper has reacted with oxygen from the air.
 d. The paper has reacted with pollutants in the air.
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.
11. All matter consists of tiny particles known as atoms. The different types of atoms
are known as:
a. Elements b. Compounds c. Molecules d. Chemicals
12. The long-term record of precipitation, wind and temperature for an area is:
a. Weather b. Climate c. Meteorology d. Seasons

13. The idea that continents move slowly on Earth’s surface is known as:
a. Sea-floor spreading
b. Mountain hiking
c. continental drift
d. convection cells
14. This type of rock is formed by sediments of any dead animals and plants.
a. Igneous rocks b. Metamorphic rock c. Sedimentary rock d. Rock cycle
15. If humans put too much pollution in the environment, what will happen?
a. Plants and animals die
b. Habitats can be destroyed
c. Animals move to cleaner areas
d. All of the above
16. The length of a planet’s day is defined by it’s?
a. Mass b. Period of rotation c. density d. period of revolution
17. Which of the following is most responsible for causing changing seasons on
Earth each year?
a. Closeness of the Earth to the Sun
b. Speed of Earth’s rotation
c. Tilt of the Earth’s axis
d. Number of meteorites in the sky
18. During which phase of the moon does solar eclipse happen?
a. Full moon b. New Moon c. Wanning Gibbous d. first Quarter
19. The state of water as solid, liquid and gas in the water cycle is most affected by:
a. Humidity b. wind c. amount of water d. Temperature
20. What do you call the imaginary line that is vertical to the Earth’s longitudinal
line?
a. Prime meridian b. Latitude line c. Longitude line d. Contour line
21. In the frequency terms of radio, what does P.M mean?
a. b. Post Meridian c. Premium Meridian d.Past Meridian
22. How many stages does water cycle have?
a. 2 b. 3 c. 4 d. 5
23. What is velocity?
a. The speed of an object.
b. The potential an object has to move.
c. The direction of an object.
 d. The speed and direction of an object.
24. A gas has_____?
a. Definite volume and shape
b. Definite shape only
c. Definite volume only
d. No definite volume and space
25. A solid rock that usually covered by soil, gravel and sand.
a. Top soil b. Sub-soil c. Bedrock d. Clay
26. A speedometer shows the ______ speed of a vehicle.
a. Velocity b. Direction c. instantaneous d. average
27. What is the formula for momentum?
a. Mass x velocity b. distance/ time c. force x mass d. force x distance
28. What is the name of the Earth’s moon?
a. Io b. Ganymede c. Luna d. Europa
29. How many well-known moon names does Jupiter have?
a. 51 b. 67 c. 64 d. 30

30. What do you call the names of the largest moon of Jupiter?
a. IO, Ganymede, Callisto and Europa
b. Almathea, Valetudo, Adrastea and Carme
c. Elarta, Thebe, Eupheme and Arche
d. Themisto, Carpo, Luna and Aoede
31. Refraction can separate white light into?
a. infrared rays
b. different colors
c. ultraviolet light
d. longer wavelengths
32. An electromagnetic wave can _____?
a. Never moves.
b. Can travel only through empty space.
c. Cannot travel through matter.
d. Can travel through empty space of matter.
33. How long does the Earth’s revolution take?
a. 367 days b. 365 days c. 365 and ¼ days d. 366 days
34. How many years does leap year can occur?
a. Every 2 years
b. Every 3 years
c. Every 4 years
d. Every 5 years
35. What do you call the seasons in the Philippines?
a. Hot and cold b. wet and dry c. autumn and spring d. summer and winter
36. What do you call the electrons in the outermost shell?
a. Atoms b. Electrons c. Valence d. Protons
37. It changes water vapor into tiny droplets of water?
a. Precipitation
b. Condensation
c. Evaporation
d. Air Pressure
38. When iron rusts, it is reacting with ____in the air.
a. Oxygen
 b. Nitrogen
c. Water
d. Carbon dioxide
39. The inner layer or the so called “weather layer” of the atmosphere is known
as__?
a. Mesosphere
b. Troposphere
c. Thermosphere
d. Stratosphere
40. Which of the following allows electricity to pass through?
a. Insulator
b. Conductor
c. Semi-insulator
d. Semi-conductor
41. What type of radioactive element does nuclear energy used?
a. Uranium-234 b. Uranium-235 c. Uranium-236 d. Uranium-237
42. It is the process of removing waste materials in the body?
a. Excretion b. Digestion c. Vomiting d. Secretion
43. What do you call the center of the cell?
a. Membrane b. Golgi body c. Arterial wall d. Nucleus
44. During night time at the beach, what cools faster?
a. Sand b. water c. rocks d. Both a and b
45. What does ATP stand for?
a. Adenosine Triplephosphate
b. Adenosine Tiphosphate
c. Ademosine Triphosphate
d. Adenosine Triphosphate
46. What green pigment that is used for plants for food making production?
a. Chloroplasts b. Chlorophyll c. Flower d. water
47. Who proposed the planetary model of an atom?
a. Ernest Rutherford
b. Galileo Galilei
c. Albert Einstein
d. Isaac Newton
48. Who is the father of Evolution?
a. Alfred Russel Wallace
b. Jose Rizal
c. Charles Darwin
d. Isaac Newton
49. This instrument is used to magnify objects such as cells, hundreds or thousand
times.
a. Seismograph
b. Periscope
c. Microscope
d. Spectroscope
50. What color of stars is the coolest?
a. Red b. yellow c. orange d. Blue-white