SENATOR RENATO COMPAÑERO CAYEANO MEMORIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY HIGH SCHOOL

PRE-TEST IN ENHANCED SCIENCE 9 S.Y 2023-2024

Name:________________________________ Year &Section:_________ Score:___________

Teacher:______________________________ Principal: Quinn Norman O.Arreza

MULTIPLE CHOICE: Choose the letter of the correct answer. Write the letter on the space before the number.

______1. Which type of blood vessels carries blood away from the heart?
a. Veins b. arteries c. capillaries d. arteries, veins, and capillaries
______2. A hollow tube that serves as passageway of air into the lungs is called
a. Bronchi c. nose
b. Nasal passages d. trachea
______3. What is the organ that pumps blood all throughout the human body?
a. The lungs
b. The heart
c. The kidneys
d. The blood vessels and capillaries
_____4. What happens to blood when it is pumped into the thin-walled blood vessels of the lungs?
a. Platelets are exchanged for plasma.
b. Carbon dioxide is replaced with oxygen.
c. Blood fills the lungs and causes coughing
d. Nothing the lungs are just a place blood goes through on its way to the heart.
_____5. What is the another name for windpipe?
a. Lungs b. Larynx c. Trachea d. esophagus
_____6. What is the important activity takes place in the lungs?
a. Food is digested.
b. Liquid waste is filtered from the blood.
c. Oxygen is exchanged for the carbon dioxide.
d. The trachea is exchanged for the larynx.
_____7. Which organ is made up of air carrying tubes and tiny sacs?
a. The brain b. The lungs c. the stomach d. The diaphragm
_____8. When we breathe in, we inhale many gases, including oxygen. What happens to the gases that
the body can’t use?
a. They are exhaled
b. They are changed into the oxygen by the lungs.
c. They circulate through the body and are disposed later.
d. They are absorbed into the digestive system and used to create energy.
_____9. What system is known as the life support structure that nourishes your cells with nutrients from
the food you eat and oxygen from the air you breathe?
a. Skeletal system c. Digestive system
b. Respiratory System d. Circulatory system
_____10. A condition in which there is thickening and hardening of the arteries is called..
a. Emphysema b. Pulmonary c. arteriosclerosis d. none of these
_____11. A type of pulmonary disease involving damage to the air sacs.
a. Emphysema b. Arteriosclerosis c. Coronary d. Hypertension
_____12. A different form of a gene that controls a certain trait.
a. Allele b. gametes c. chromosomes d. none of these
_____13. Are reproductive cells that unite during sexual reproduction to form a new cell called a zygote.
a. Gamete b. allele c. antigen d. actigen
____14. All of the following bases are found in DNA except
a. Uracil b. Adenine c. Guanine d. Thymine
____15. Two dominant alleles of a contrasting pair fully expressed at the same time in the
heterozygous individual is called…
a. Codominance b. Incomplete Dominance c. Sex- linked traits d. Sex-limited traits
_____16. Which of the following is an example of Sex- Influence traits?
a. Cattle lactation b. hemophilia c. colorblindness d. pattern of baldness
_____17. A cross between black chicken (BB) and a white chicken (WW). What would be the phenotype
of the offspring in the F1 generation. Legend : Black( BB), White(WW), Checkerd(BW)
a. All black chicken
b. All white chicken
c. All checkerd chicken
d. All of the above
_____18. A cross between plant red flowers and one with white flowers. What color of flowers
produced? Legend: RR- for pure red, WW- for white, RW- for pink
a. All pure white flowers
b. All pure red flowers
c. All pink flower
d. All of the above
_____19. Complete the punnett square showing all the possible blood types for the offspring produced
by a type O mother and a type AB father. What are the phenotype percentage of the offspring?
a. 25% Type A and B b. 75% Type A and B c. 50% Type A and B d. 10% type A and B
_____20. Ron has type O blood, Fred and George have type A blood , Ginny has the type B blood and
Percy has type AB blood. Therefore, what is the genotypes of Mr. & Mrs. Weasley?
a. IA i & IBi b. ii & IAIA c. IBIB & ii d. IAIA & IBi
_____21. A roan bull (male) is mated a white cow ( female). What are the possible offspring? Give the
phenotype percentages. Legend: CRCR- red , CWCW- white, CRCW- roan
a. 50% red and white cows b. 50% roan cows c. 50% white cows d. 50% white and roan cows
_____22. A cross between a white eyed female (xrxr) with a red-eyed male ( xRY). What is the phenotype
percentages of the offspring?
a. 50% heterozygous red-eyed female and 50% white- eyed male
b. 50% white- eyed female and 50% red-eyed male
c. 50% red-eyed male and 50% red-eyed female
d. 50% white- eyed male and 50% red-eyed female
_____23. A cross between a man who has hemophilia with a woman who is carrier. What is the
percentages of the offspring? ( with disease only, carrier not included). Legend: XHXH- female, normal,
XHXh-female, carrier , XhXh- female hemophiliac, XHY- male, normal, XhY- male hemophiliac
a. 50% male b. 50% female c. 25% male& female d. 25% female only
_____24. Predict the phenotypic ratio in the offspring if the mother is bald and the father is not bald.
Legend: XXBB- female bald, XYbb- male not bald, XYBB- male bald, XYBb- male bald, XXBb- female
non bald, XXbb- female non bald.
a. 2 female bald : 2 male non bald
b. 2 female non bald : 2 male bald
c. 2 male bald : 2 female non bald
d. 2 female non bald : 2 male non bald
____25. Sex- linked genetically inherited traits
a. Can appear in both males and female
b. Are only found in males
c. Are only found in females
d. Result from premarital sexual intercourse
____26. Y- linked traits are inherited:
a. Only by females
b. Only by males
c. By both males and females
___ _27. In determining the phenotype for the ABO blood system
a. O is dominant over A
b. B is dominant over A
c. O is recessive
d. All of the above
_____28. A person who inherits the A and the O blood type alleles possess which blood type?
a. A b. B c. AB d. O
_____29.The universal donors for the ABO system are type:
a. A b. B c. AB d. O
_____30.An individual’s ABO blood type is normally determined by:
a. Genetic inheritance and environmental influences during life
b. Environmental influences alone
c. The inheritance of 1 of 3 possible alleles(A,B,O) from each parent
d. None of these
_____31. What would the population density be if 100 ants live in an 8 sq m plot of grass?
a. 12.5 ants per sq. b. 13.5 ants per sq. c. 14.5 ants per sq. d. 15.5 ants per sq.
____32. If 40 carabaos live in a 1 ½ sq m area, what is their population density per sq.km. ?
a. 27 per sq. km b. 28 per sq.km c. 29 per sq.km d. 30per sq.km
____33. How many monkeys would have to live in a ¾ sq. km. area to have the same population density
as the carabao?
a. 20 monkeys b. 30 monkeys c. 40 monkeys d. 50 monkeys
___34. All of the following are principal causes of deforestation except one;
a. Illegal logging b. kaingin farming c. forest fire d. eutrophication
__35. Pollutants dumped into the rivers and streams eventually find their way to
a. The ocean b. the atmosphere c. ground supplies d. none of these
__ 36. The average temperature of the earth’s atmosphere may rise as a result of
a. the greenhouse effect b. water pollution c. garbage dumping d. none of these
___37. Many (a. non-renewable b. alternative c. expensive d. none of these) energy sources are being
developed to replace fossil fuels.
____38. Some endangered species of plants in tropical rain forests may be sources of
a. fossil fuel b. medicine c. hazardous waste d. none of these
____39. Humans are using (a. fewer b. better c. more) natural resources than they did 100 years ago.
____40.An endangered species is
a. A species in danger of extinction
b. A species growing on public land
c. An organism brought to place where it has not lived before
d. A species that has disappeared entirely
____41.The current rate of species extinction is
a. Slower than at any other time in this century.
b. Attributable to the actions of humans.
c. The result of natural environmental processes.
d. Little consequences to earth’s long –term survival.
____42. When animals are placed in controllable or restrictive environments, they
a. Become immune to infectious diseases that are common in the wild.
b. May have difficulty meeting their basic survival.
c. Have a low rate of genetic disorders because their gene pool is large.
d. Are less likely to compete.
____43. The ecosystem approach to conservation is partly based on the idea that
a. All rare species should be relocated to region preserves.
b. Human needs are of secondary importance.
c. Keystone species are genetically superior to other organisms.
d. A healthy biosphere requires intact ecosystems.
____44.The major human causes of extinction today are
a. Hunting and destroying habitats
b. Polluting and introducing non- native species.
c. Dumping of garbage
d. None of these
____45. Reasons for preserving biodiversity include all of the following except
a. Isolating unique genetic material so it can be incorporated into existing crops
b. Increasing the chances of discovering organisms with medicinal value.
c. Preventing natural evolution.
____46.the level of biodiversity that involves a variety of habits and communities is
a. Ecosystem diversity c. population diversity
b. Genetic diversity d. species diversity
____47.Sugar cane juice use in making table sugar which is extracted from the stem of the plant. Trace the path of
sugar molecules found in the stem from where they are produced.
a. Root- stem c. Flowers- leaf- stem
b. Leaf- stem d. roots- leaf- stem
____48.Which of the following materials are cycled-out by the chloroplast and mitochondrion?
a. Carbon dioxide, water, oxygen, and ATP
b. Carbon dioxide, water, sugar, and oxygen
c. Sugar, water, oxygen, and ATP
d. Sugar, water, sunlight, and oxygen
_____49.Why light is necessary in the process of photosynthesis?
I. Split up water III. Provides oxygen for the body metabolism
II .To convert into ATP IV. To activate chlorophyll pigments
a. IV only b. III only c. I and IV only d. I and II
____50. Why is water necessary in photosynthesis?
a. It reacts with carbon dioxide to form sugar.
b. It transfers electrons during the production of NADPH.
c. It aids in the transport of ATP molecules.
d. It is used in the production of hydrogen ions, electrons

Prepared by:
IRIN M.ORINES .MAED
Subject Teacher