Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
BAYOYONG NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
JP Rizal St., Bayoyong, Basista, Pangasinan
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FIRST QUARTERLY ASSESSMENT IN SCIENCE 9

Name: ____________ Grade & Section:

Directions: Choose the letter of the correct answer and write it on your Answer Sheet.

______ 1. At what structures in the lungs do the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide take place?
A. Bronchi B. Alveoli C. Bronchioles D. Trachea
______2. The lungs bring ______ into the body and eliminates _____ from the body.
A. carbon monoxide, oxygen C. carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide
B. oxygen, carbon dioxide D. oxygen, carbon monoxide
______3. Which of the following statements describes the function of the diaphragm?
A. It contracts and relaxes during respiration to change the volume of the chest cavity
B. It serves as the passage of air into the lungs
C. It carries blood throughout the body
D. It is the site of gas exchange
______4. A baby swallows her food and accidentally, it does not enter the esophagus. What structure does not function
properly and diverted the food into the respiratory tract instead of the esophagus?
A. trachea B. epiglottis C. larynx D. bronchus
_____5. How do the circulatory and respiratory systems work together to circulate blood and oxygen
throughout the body?
A. Air moves in and out of the lungs through the trachea, bronchi, and bronchioles.
B. Blood moves in and out of the lungs through the pulmonary arteries and veins that connect to
the heart.
C. Both a and b.
D. Neither a nor b
______6. How does circulatory system and respiratory systems work together?
A. The circulatory and respiratory systems work together through absorbing oxygen from the air and
transfer it to all parts of the body while absorbing carbon dioxide from the body and releasing it into the air.
B. Air moves in and out of the lungs through the trachea, bronchi, and bronchioles.
C. Blood moves in and out of the lungs through the pulmonary arteries and veins that connect to the heart.
D. Both a and b.
______7. What organ in the circulatory system is responsible for pumping the blood throughout the body?
A. Heart B. Blood vessels C. Blood D. Arteries
______8. Which statement is correct concerning the heart?
A. Left ventricle pumps blood to the lungs
B. Right ventricle pumps blood to the lungs
C. Left ventricle pumps blood to the body including lungs
D. Right ventricle pumps blood to the body excluding the lung
_______9. How can you make good choices and stay healthy?
A. Consult health professionals when you are not feeling well.
B. Use internet to diagnose and treat yourself.
C. Buy over the counter medications.
_______10. What is the importance of having a healthy lifestyle?
[Link] will give you diseases
B. It will make you less susceptible to different diseases
C. It will make you popular in social media
[Link] will make you susceptible to different diseases
_______11. How will you prevent diseases in the respiratory and circulatory systems?
A. Cigarette smoking B. Drink alcoholic beverages
C. Eat junk foods D. Regular exercise
_______12. What is the correct method for measuring pulse rate after exercise?
[Link] your hand so that your palm is facing upwards.
[Link] the three middle fingers from your other hand on your wrist in the outside groove below the base of your
thumb.
 [Link] lightly to feel the pulse under your fingers. If you can't feel anything press slightly harder.
IV. Count each beat for a total time of 60 seconds.
A. I,II,III,IV B.I,III,II,IV C. III,I,II,IV D. II,I,IV,III
______13. Results when one allele is not dominant over the other. The resulting heterozygotes exhibit the traits of both
parents just like a roan cow in which the parents are pure red and white cows resulting in the manifestation of
both the white and red color in a single offspring.
A. Codominance B. Incomplete dominance C. Multiple alleles D. None of the above
_____14. In an incomplete dominance setting, what color of the offspring would you get when you cross a pure
(homozygous) red (RR) snapdragon with a pure white (WW) snapdragon?
A. 50% Pink B. 100% Pink C. 100% Red D. 100% White
_____15. If a child has type B blood, what are all the possible blood types for his/her parents?
[Link] and IBIi B. .IBIi and IBIB C. ii and .IAIB D. .IBIi and ii
_____16. Which of the following traits is sex-linked?
A. Baldness B. Color Blindness C. Harelip D. Milk Production
_____17. What will be the sex of a child produced when an egg is fertilized by a sperm that has a Y chromosome?
A. Cannot be determined B. Either male or femaleC. Female D. Male
_____18. A non – Mendelian pattern of inheritance where sometimes even if only two alleles control a trait, there may
actually be more than two types of alleles available. This will also lead to more than two phenotypes expressed.
Best example would be the human ABO blood typing.
A. Codominance B. Incomplete dominance C. Multiple allele D. Dominance
_____19. Which among the following statements does NOT describe the importance of codominance?
A. Codominance promotes variation among organisms.
B. Codominance maintains the purity of the breed of organisms.
C. Codominance produces offspring of the same characteristics with that of the parents.
D. Codominance promotes extinction among organisms for it introduces invasive species.
_____20. Which among the following conditions of parents will have a child that is hemophiliac?
A. When both her parents are hemophiliac.
B. When both her parents are normal (not hemophiliac).
C. When her father is normal and her mother is carrier of hemophilia.
D. When her father is hemophiliac and her mother is normal.
_____21. What do you call the traits controlled by the sex chromosomes?
A. X-linked traits C. Sex-limited traits
B. Sex-linked traits D. Sex-influenced traits
_____22. Which among the following statements about sex determination is TRUE?
[Link] an X chromosome from a sperm cell fertilizes an egg cell, the resulting offspring is male.
[Link] will be a female offspring when two Y chromosomes served as the sex chromosomes.
[Link] a Y chromosome from a sperm cell fertilizes an egg cell, the resulting offspring is male.
[Link] A and B are correct.
_____23. Which among the following situations show codominance?
A. A cross between X and Y chromosomes gives rise to XY.
B. A cross between red cattle and white cattle resulted in roan cattle.
C. A cross between long radish and short radish gives rise an oblong radish.
D. A cross between a red and a white Four o’clock flower gives rise to pink flowers.
_____24. In an incomplete dominance setting, what color of the offspring would you get when you cross a pure
(homozygous) red (RR) cow with a pure white (WW) cow?
A. Red B. Roan [Link] D. None of the following choices
_____25. What will be the blood type of the child if the father has A blood and the mother has type O blood?
A. Type A B. Type B C. Type AB D. Type O
____26. Which among the following statements BEST describes incomplete dominance?
A. It involves a cross where the gender of an individual is determined.
B. It states that there is masking of the dominant trait over the recessive trait.
C. It is a form of inheritance where one allele is not completely dominant over the other.
D. It is a type of inheritance where both traits of a given allele are expressed in a heterozygote.
____27. Hemophilia has X-linked recessive inheritance. A woman carrier has children with a man without hemophilia.
What is the chance that their children will have hemophilia?
[Link] of the females and half of the males have a chance of getting hemophilia.
[Link] of the males and half of the females have a chance of getting hemophilia.
[Link] of their children have a chance of getting hemophilia.
[Link] their children have a chance of getting hemophilia.
____28.”Bent” is a dominant X-linked gene in mice. It results in a short, crooked tail. It’s recessive allele that produce
normal tails. If normal-tailed female-tailed female is mated to a bent-tailed male, what is the probability of having
a Bent-tailed baby mice?
A. 0 % B. 25% C. 50% D. 100%
____29. Which of the following items is the major cause of wildlife depletion?
A. deforestation B. eutrophication C. overfishing D. pollution
____30. Kaingin farming, illegal logging, forest fires, and typhoons are just some of the causes of this recent
environmental problem. These results to the rapid rate of decline in the number of trees in forests. What problem
is this?
A. Acid Precipitation B. Deforestation C. Water Pollution D. Wildlife Depletion
____31. How is the forest ecosystem affected when trees are cut down?
A. Nutrients are lost in the soil.
B. Animals who depend on forests lose their shelter and food.
C. Oxygen will no longer be available for everyone.
D. There will be available space for humans in building houses and other infrastructures.
____32. Why is biodiversity important for agriculture?
A. Many organisms pollinate our crops
B. Pollinators save people money
C. Pollinators save people time
D. All statements above refer to the importance of biodiversity in agriculture
____33. The following are consequences of water pollution EXCEPT
A. accumulation of toxic chemicals B. infectious diseases
C. increased dissolved oxygen for marine life D. oversupply of plant nutrients
____34. Trees in the forest compete for limited resources like space, sunlight and soil nutrients. Some small plants like
grasses and shrubs can’t grow well therefore, population decreases. Which limiting factor greatly affects the
population of grasses and shrubs in the forest ecosystem?
A. altitude B. soil nutrients C. space D. sunlight
____35. What do you call the process wherein plants make their own food?
A. cellular respiration B. carbon fixation C. photosynthesis D. protein synthesis
____36. Which of the following is NOT a requirement of photosynthesis?
A. carbon dioxide B. light energy C. oxygen D. water
____37. What is the final output of photosynthesis?
A. glucose B. oxygen C. sunlight D. water
____38. Why do plants appear green?
A. They absorb green light.
B. They excite electrons which emit green light in the visible spectrum.
C. They reflect green light.
D. They absorb electrons by green pigments when exposed to sunlight.
____39. All organisms get energy from food to perform different life processes. It is
done by converting stored energy from food into chemical energy for cell use.
Which of the following is associated with the production of chemical energy?
A. chloroplast B. nucleus C. mitochondrion D. vacuole
____40. The energy from the sun is absorbed by _________ inside a photosynthetic organelle.
A. Chloroplast B. Palisade mesophyll C. Pigment D. Spectrophotometers
____41. In glycolysis, glucose is broken down into two molecules of pyruvate, a 3-
carbon molecule. This is accompanied by a net gain of how many ATP and NADH molecules?
A. 4 ATP and 2 NADH B. 2 ATP and 4 NADH C. 4 ATP and 4 NADH D. 2 ATP and 2 NADH
___42. Which of these molecules completes the process of cellular respiration?
glucose + oxygen ----> water + _________ + _______
A. ATP, carbon dioxide B. ADP, oxygen C. NADH, oxygen D. oxygen, ADP
____43. Mesophyll layer of the leaf plays an important role in trapping light energy from the sun upon which
photosynthesis mostly take place in this layer. Why is this so?
A. because it contains air spaces
B. because it is transparent allowing light to penetrate
C. because it has the greatest number of chloroplasts
D. because it provides an entrance and exit for gases
____44. Cellular respiration starts with glycolysis, which occurs in the cytoplasm, producing 2 pyruvic acid. Which of the
following processes will allow cellular respiration to continue in case oxygen is absent?
A. Krebs Cycle C. aerobic respiration
B. Electron Transport Chain D. anaerobic respiration
____45. Why does Calvin cycle need the products of light phase?
A. Because it is needed to convert oxygen into sugar.
B. Because it is needed to convert sugar into oxygen.
C. Because it is needed to convert carbon dioxide into sugar.
D. Because it is needed to convert sugar into carbon dioxide.
____46. How are photosynthesis and cellular respiration related to each other?
A. The products of one process are the reactants of the other.
A. The products of photosynthesis and cellular respiration are just the same.
B. The reactants of photosynthesis and cellular respiration are just the same.
C. The reactant and the product of photosynthesis and cellular respiration are just the same.
____47. Which of the following is true about photosynthesis and cellular respiration?
 A. Photosynthesis is just a reverse equation of cellular respiration.
B. Autotrophs and heterotrophs do not need each other to be able to survive.
C. Photosynthesis needs glucose and oxygen to produce carbon dioxide, water and energy.
D. Cellular respiration needs carbon dioxide, water and energy to produce glucose and oxygen.
____48. Which of the following statements is/are correct about Light Reaction:
I. In this reaction light energy is absorbed by chlorophyll pigments and converted into chemical energy.
II. Energy is stored in the form of ATP
III. NADPH2 is generated
A. Both I and II are correct B. Both I and III are correct C. Only II is correct D. All I,II and III are correct
____49. Corals are colonies of marine animals that contain photosynthetic algae inside their cells. Environmental changes
can result in coral bleaching, where the pigmented algae are lost from the corals. Which statements support the
idea that algal photosynthesis is important to corals?
Statement 1: Bleached corals grow more slowly.
Statement 2: Corals receive carbohydrates from the algae they host.
Statement 3: Carbon dioxide from coral respiration is used by the algae in their cells.
A. 1,2, AND 3 B. 1 AND 2 ONLY C. 2 AND 3 ONLY D. 1 ONLY
____50. Farmers can increase the yield of raspberries by growing the plants in plastic tunnels fitted with irrigation
systems. Which statements explain the improved yield of raspberries in a plastic tunnel?
Statement 1: Less air movement reduces transpiration.
Statement 2: Higher temperature in the tunnel increases the rate of the light independent reaction.
Statement 3: The tunnels exclude birds, reducing loss of fruit before picking.
A. 1,2, AND 3 B. 1 AND 2 ONLY C. 2 AND 3 ONLY D. 1 ONLY