GENERAL SCIENCE

ELEMENTARY LEVEL
EASY ROUND

1. A substance which takes the shape of its container and has a definite volume is a?
a. Solid
b. Liquid
c. Gas
d. Crystals
2. Choose the correct order of food moving through the digestive system.
a. mouth, stomach, esophagus, small intestine, large intestine
b. mouth, small intestine, large intestine, esophagus, stomach
c. mouth, esophagus, stomach, large intestine, small intestine
d. mouth, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine
3. Which describes a change that takes place when a chocolate bar melts?
a. A solid becomes a gas.
b. A liquid becomes a gas.
c. A solid becomes a liquid.
d. A liquid becomes a solid.
4. When you leave a glass of water standing on the counter, water forms on the outside the glass.
This is an example of .
a. Condensation
b. a solid
c. evaporation
d. a liquid
5. Which object is opaque?
a. glass window
b. ice cube
c. sunglass lens
d. wooden door
6. Sensory messages are taken to the brain by ________?
a. Arteries
b. Arteries and hormones
c. Nerve and hormones
d. Muscles and veins
7. Why do stars 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.
8. The oxygen-rich blood from the heart that flows to the largest artery is known as?
a. Superior vena cava
b. Inferior vena cava
c. Coronary artery
d. Aorta
9. 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 temperature.
c. Regulates the rise of the body temperature.
d. Carries impurities to the cells.
10. 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 to 45 ml. What does the change in the level of the
water represents?
a. Volume of water
b. Weight of the stone
c. Volume of stone
d. Weight of stone
11. What layer of the earth is inferred to be liquid in form?
a. Crust
b. Mantle
c. Outer core
d. Inner core
12. Why does boiling of water in a kettle overflow and spill?
a. Water increases its volume when heated.
b. Water forms bubbles when heated.
c. Water expands when heated.
d. Water overflow when heated.
13. The uterus is a size of a fist. How can it accommodate a full term baby which weighs more than
three kilos?
a. uterus is elastic
b. uterus is rigid
c. uterus is rounded
d. uterus is elongated
14. Which of the following substances has a higher melting point than water?
a. Salt
b. Sugar
c. flour
d. all of the above
15. What feature is shown by ALL insects?
a. External Skeleton
b. Two Pairs of legs
 c. Jumping Legs
d. Stinging Mechanism
16. Water molecules remaining in somewhat definite positions with relatively little motion and vibrate
back and forth to a limited extent would be characteristic of .
a. Water
b. Steam
c. Ice
d. Plasma
17. Why is fluorescent lamp advisable to use than incandescent lamp?
a. Brighter light
b. durable and less expensive
c. more heat
d. bright light and same amount at same wattage
18. It contains water, urea, nitrogenous waste, salt and other substances which are in excess of what
our body needs.
a. Blood
b. Water
c. Sweat
d. Urine
19. Which of the following organisms’ exhibits hermaphrodism in which both organs appears in
different parts of the body?
a. Snake
b. Earthworm
c. Chicken
d. Fly
20. Which of the following allows you to bend your knees?
a. Muscles
b. Joints
c. Femur
d. Tendons
21. Which structure is made of fats and proteins that surround the cell?
a. Cytoplasm
b. Cell wall
c. Plasma membrane
d. Cell envelope
22. Which type of the following clouds are high feathery clouds made of ice crystals?
a. Cirrus
b. Nimbus
c. Cumulus
d. Stratus
23. Which statement best describe why different clouds form?
 a. the way water condenses from a gas to a liquid produces different clouds
b. the way water changes from a liquid to a gas produces a different type of cloud
c. different weather conditions produce different clouds
d. wind blowing from different directions produces different clouds
24. Which shows an effect of humans on an environment?
a. a nest made of dead branches
b. a river eroding away a riverbank
c. a trail built by cutting down trees
d. a group of butterflies landing on flowers
25. Veins of leaves contain vascular bundles known as_____?
a. Closed stoma
b. Open stoma
c. Phylum
d. Xylem

AVERAGE

1. What is the name of the closest star to the earth?

a. Betelgeuse
b. Rigel
c. Sirius
d. Sun
2. Which BEST describes the movement of the plates that makes up the Earth’s surface over
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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. What are the differences between plants and animal cells?
a. Animal cells have a cell wall, chloroplasts, and one large vacuole.
b. Plant cells have a cell wall, chloroplasts, and one large vacuole.
c. Plant cells are eukaryotic, and animal cells are prokaryotic.
d. Animal cells are eukaryotic, and plant cells are prokaryotic.
9. What is the most important reason why endangered species should be protected?
a. People pay a lot of money to visit zoos and see endangered animals.
b. Protecting endangered species removes pollution from the environment.
c. Endangered species are viewed as unique by the people in the community.
d. When any endangered species dies, it affects other animals within the ecosystem.
10. The smallest unit of biological structure that meets the functional requirements of living is the
_______.
a. Organ c. cell
b. Organelle d. macromolecules
11. Insecticides are used to control insect population so that they do not destroy crops. Overtime
some insecticides must be developed. What is most likely reason why insecticides become less
effective overtime?
a. Surviving insects have learned to include 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 food chain.
12. Which of the following are NONRENEWABLE sources of energy?
a. wind, water, sunlight
b. water, wood, wind
c. sunlight and water
d. coal, oil, and natural gas
13. A change to the environment that has a negative effect on living things is called?
a. a renewable resource
b. a non-renewable resource
c. population growth
d. pollution
14. Why are there more animal fossils than plant fossils?
a. Animals eat plants.
b. Plants are smaller than animals.
c. Plants have softer body parts than animals.
d. There were more ancient animals than ancient plants.
15. Which is an example of a human impact on the atmosphere?
a. burning fossil fuels
b. mining for mineral ores
c. building a dam for hydroelectric energy
d. hunting an animal to extinction
16. What do you call the wave-like movement that moves the food through the digestive system?
a. chyme
b. mechanical digestion
c. peristalsis
d. chemical digestion
17. What organ is responsible for producing the bile that breaks down fats into smaller particles
that can be more easily digested?
a. Lungs
b. Liver
c. Heart
d. Stomach
18. A substance has to pass through various parts of a plant cell before reaching the nucleus.
Which of the following shows the correct order of these parts?
a. cell wall, cytoplasm, cell membrane
b. cell wall, cell membrane, cytoplasm
c. cell membrane, cell wall, cytoplasm
d. cell membrane, cytoplasm, cell wall
19. When the nuclei of hydrogen atoms are forced to combine, tremendous energy is produced.
What is this process called?
a. Nuclear Change
b. Nuclear Fusion
c. Nuclear Fission
d. Nuclear Transformation
20. When surveyors find oil pockets in the ground, what other fossil fuel most likely will be in the
same spot?
a. Coal
b. Gasoline
c. Natural Gas
d. None of the above
21. What do you call the imaginary line on which the earth turns and which runs from pole to
pole?
a. Equator
b. Longitude
c. Latitude
d. Axis
 22. What do you call the spines and thorns of some plants which they can use to protect themselves
from danger?
a. Enemies of plants
b. Plant disease
c. Adaptive structure
d. Camouflage
23. Man interfere with the balance of nature when he ____________.
a. Disposes his garbage properly
b. Practices selective logging
c. Helps control over population by practicing family planning
d. All of the above
24. There are some muscles which are both voluntary and involuntary. Which of the following
belongs to voluntary muscle?
a. Intestines
b. Heart and lungs
c. Arms and legs
d. Eyelids
25. If you are exposed to garbage, what kind of illness would you probably get?
a. Heart failure
b. Asthma
c. Goiter
d. Nose bleed

DIFFICULT

1. Respiration involves breathing. You breathe so that you can get oxygen from the air into your
body. Oxygen is used by the body cells as burning food. As food burns, what are given off as
waste during this process?
2. How is static electricity produced?
3. What is winnowing? Where it is used?
4. Explain why Pluto is no longer a planet.
5. Impurities settled at the bottom when muddy water was kept overnight in a bucket. The clear water
was then poured off from the top. The process of separation used in this example is called?
6. Lemonade is prepared by mixing lemon juice and sugar in water. You wish to add ice to cool it.
Should you add ice to the lemonade before or after dissolving sugar? In which case would it be
possible to dissolve more sugar?
7. What feature in the sun appears like billowing arches of glowing gases?
8. Which part of the brain acts like a switchboard that allows the communication from the brain to the
other parts of the nervous system?
9. Where can the lowest point on the earth’s crust be found?
10. Why do you see lightning spark first before you hear thunder during a thunderstorm?
11. It is a non- renewable substance known as “black gold”?
12. The method where plants use seeds, stems, leaves to produce other plants is called?
13. What do you call the air around the earth?
14. What makes your palm hot when you rub them together?
15. A mother hen sits on her eggs to provide warmth needed for the eggs to hatch. What is this process
called?
16. When mayonnaise is mixed with water, the mixture becomes cloudy and the particles remains
suspended. Mayonnaise is what kind of mixture?
17. Skeletal muscles are attached to the bones by rubber- like cords called tendons. Tendons are
stretched as the muscles and bones move. What are the tough fibers of proteins in tendons called?
18. Muscles and bones worked liked levers. If the bone serves as a lever, ______________ act as a
fulcrum.
19. When do tides occur?
20. What is the only planet in the solar system that has a day which lasts longer than its year?
21. Airplanes drop particles of silver iodide or dry ice in the atmosphere. Water vapour sticks to these
particles and forms ice crystals when it is cold. When they fall to the ground, they melt into
raindrops. What method is used?
22. What device first proved that earth rotates on its axis?
23. A device used for appliances like refrigerators and air conditioners to keep temperature evenly is
called____________?
24. How can an electromagnet’s strength be increased?
25. It is a tide that occurs at the first and third quarter of the moon?
1. b. Liquid
2. d. mouth, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine
3. c. A solid becomes a liquid.
4. a. Condensation
5. d. wooden door
6. c. Nerve and hormones
7. d. Light bends as it passes through layers of the atmosphere.
8. d. Aorta
9. b. Carries food nutrients and oxygen to all parts of the body temperature.
10. c. Volume of stone
11. c. Outer core
12. c. Water expands when heated.
13. a. Uterus is elastic
14. a. Salt
15. a. External Skeleton
16. c. Ice
17. b. durable and less expensive
18. d. Urine
19. b. Earthworm
20. b. Joints
21. c. Plasma membrane
22. a. Cirrus
23. a. the way water condenses from a gas to a liquid produces different clouds
24. c. a trail built by cutting down trees
25. d. Xylem

Average Difficulty:

1. d. Sun
2. b. They have been continually moving.
3. a. There is less oxygen in the air at great heights.
4. b. In Baguio, the higher the altitude the lower the temperature.
5. c. Valves of veins in the legs fail to function properly.
6. c. The paper has reacted with oxygen from the air.
7. a. Potential energy and Kinetic energy change at the same time.
8. b. Plant cells have a cell wall, chloroplasts, and one large vacuole.
9. d. When any endangered species dies, it affects other animals within the ecosystem.
10. c. cell
11. b. Surviving insects pass their resistance to insecticides to their offspring.
12. d. coal, oil, and natural gas
13. d. pollution
14. a. Animals eat plants.
15. a. burning fossil fuels
16. c. peristalsis
17. b. Liver
18. b. cell wall, cell membrane, cytoplasm
19. b. Nuclear Fusion
20. c. Natural Gas
21. d. Axis
22. c. Adaptive structure
23. b. Practices selective logging
24. c. Arms and legs
25. b. Asthma

Difficult:
1. Carbon dioxide and water (CO2 and H2O) are given off as waste during the process of burning
food.
2. Static electricity is produced when certain materials are rubbed together, causing an exchange of
electrons between them.
3. Winnowing is a method of separating grain from chaff or impurities by tossing them in the air,
allowing the wind to blow away the lighter chaff while the heavier grain falls back down.
4. Pluto is no longer considered a planet because the International Astronomical Union redefined
the criteria for what constitutes a planet in 2006, and Pluto did not meet those criteria.
5. The process of separation used in this example is called sedimentation and decantation.
6. It’s best to add ice to the lemonade after dissolving sugar because sugar dissolves more easily in
warm water than in cold water.
7. The billowing arches of glowing gases on the sun’s surface are called solar prominences.
8. The part of the brain that acts like a switchboard for communication with the nervous system is
the thalamus.
9. The lowest point on Earth’s crust can be found in the Mariana Trench in the Western Pacific
Ocean.
10. Lightning is seen before thunder is heard because light travels much faster than sound.
11. “Black gold” refers to oil.
12. The method where plants use seeds, stems, and leaves to produce other plants is called asexual
reproduction.
13. The air around the Earth is called the atmosphere.
14. Rubbing your palms together generates heat due to friction.
15. The process of a mother hen sitting on her eggs to provide warmth for hatching is called
incubation.
16. Mayonnaise is an example of a colloid, a type of mixture in which small particles remain
suspended in a liquid.
17. The tough fibers of proteins in tendons are called collagen fibers.
18. When a bone serves as a lever, the joints act as a fulcrum.
19. Tides occur due to the gravitational pull of the moon and the sun on Earth’s oceans.
20. Venus is the only planet in the solar system with a day longer than its year.
21. The method used to create rain by seeding clouds with silver iodide or dry ice is called cloud
seeding.
22. The Foucault pendulum first proved that Earth rotates on its axis.
23. A device used for appliances like refrigerators and air conditioners to keep temperature evenly
is called a thermostat.
24. The strength of an electromagnet can be increased by increasing the current flowing through
the coil or by adding more turns of wire to the coil.
25. The tide that occurs at the first and third quarter of the moon is called a neap tide.