1st PERIODICAL TEST (SY 2019-2020)

LONG TEST
GRADE 9 SCIENCE

Direction: Read each statement carefully. Write the letter of your answer on your paper.
1. What system is responsible for the exchange of oxygen and carbon b. Valves closing
dioxide between the air and the cells? c. The heart skipping beats
a. circulatory c. excretory d. Your ears playing tricks on you
b. digestive d. respiratory 15. Arrange properly the statements below on how the heart works.
2. Which part of the respiratory system filters and warm the air upon A. When the heart contracts, the right lower ventricle will pump
entering it? the blood into the lungs, where the carbon dioxide is
a. air sac c. nasal cavity exchanged for oxygen.
b. bronchi d. diaphragm B. The heart receives oxygen-deficient blood from the body into
3. How does the air enter our body? the right upper atrium.
a. nose > nasal passage > trachea > bronchi > bronchioles C. Oxygen-rich blood flows from the left upper atrium into the left
> alveoli lower ventricle.
b. nose > nasal passage > trachea > bronchioles > bronchi > D. After the exchange, the blood containing fresh oxygen flows
alveoli into the left upper atrium.
c. nasal cavity > nose > trachea > bronchioles > bronchi > E. When the heart contracts, the left lower ventricle will force the
alveoli blood out to the body through a network of arteries.
d. nasal cavity > alveoli > trachea > bronchioles > bronchi > a. A, B, C, D, E c. B, E, A, C, D
nose b. A, E, B, C, D d. B, A, D, C, E
4. During inhalation, _______. 16. You can keep your heart strong by:
a. the diaphragm moves down and contracts the chest a. Eating heart-shaped candy
cavity. b. Doing activities, like playing outside, riding your bike, and
b. the diaphragm moves down and expands the chest swimming
cavity. c. Smoking
c. the diaphragm moves up and contracts the chest cavity. d. Sleeping 18 hours a day
d. the diaphragm moves up and expands the chest cavity. 17. Inflammation of larynx is termed
5. All of the following are associated with respiratory problems a. laryngitis c. arthritis
EXCEPT b. phlebitis d. bronchitis
a. unbalanced diet c. pollutants 18. Which two respiratory system problems are treated with medicine
b. enough sleep d. smoking that dilates the airways?
6. What is the role of ALVEOLI in the transport of GASES in the body? a. Sinusitis and bronchitis
a. They serve as the linkage from the respiratory system b. Emphysema and tuberculosis
and the circulatory system. c. Asthma and bronchitis
b. They serve as the carrier of the deoxygenated blood. d. Emphysema and pneumonia
c. They serve as the carrier of the oxygenated blood. 19. Atherosclerosis is a disease in which plaque builds up inside your
d. They serve as the linkage from the respiratory system arteries. Plaque is made up of fat, cholesterol, calcium, and other
and the digestive system. substances found in the blood. Over time, plaque hardens and
7. Which of the following statements is TRUE? narrows your arteries. This limits the flow of oxygen-rich blood to
a. As the blood leaves the lungs, the blood is saturated with your organs and other parts of your body.
about 97% oxygen. Why is atherosclerosis especially serious when it develops in
b. As the blood leaves the heart, the blood is saturated with the coronary arteries?
about 97% oxygen. a. It can then go on to affect the aorta.
c. As the blood enters the lungs, the blood is saturated with b. It can make red blood cells die.
about 97% oxygen. c. It can lead to a heart attack.
d. As the blood enters the heart, the blood is saturated with d. It can limit the functioning of white blood cells.
about 97% oxygen. 20. What is the basic unit of heredity?
8. ___________________________________. a. Gene c. autosome
i. Increase your walking speed. b. DNA d. chromosome
ii. Maintain a healthy weight.
iii. Stay hydrated. For 21-22, A plant with red flowers is crossed with a white-flowered plant
iv. Avoid smoking. of the same species. All the seeds, when grown, produce plants with red
Which of the following belongs in the blank space above? flowers. (Assume that the flower color is controlled by a single pair of
a. Causes of respiratory problems alleles)
b. Ways on how to avoid respiratory problems.
c. Kinds of common respiratory diseases. 21. Which allele is dominant
d. Results of bad lifestyle. a. Red color c. Pink color
9. What is the primary organ of the circulatory system? b. White color d. Red & Pink Stripe
a. Heart c. veins 22. Which is recessive?
b. Arteries d. blood a. Red color c. Pink color
10. A type of circulation which is described by the movement of blood b. White color d. Red & Pink Stripe
through the tissues of the HEART. 23. In cats, the allele (S) for short fur is dominant to the allele (s) for
a. Pulmonary c. Systemic long fur. What is the phenotype of a cat with a genotype Ss?
b. Coronary d. Respiratory a. Short fur c. medium fur
11. The _______ prevents the back flow of blood. b. Long fur d. no fur
a. atrium c. ventricle 24. In rabbits, assume that the dominant allele (B) produces black fur.
b. valve d. septum The allele (b) for white fur is recessive to B.
For 12-13, use the image below.
Rabbit 1 Rabbit 2 Rabbit 3 Rabbit 4
Genotype BB Bb bB bb

Which rabbits will have gray coat color?

a. 1, 2 and 3 c. 2 and 3
b. 1 and 4 d. 1, 2, 3 and 4
25. If rabbits 1 and 4 were mated together and had 12 babies, how
many of these would you expect to be gray?
a. 0 c. 8
b. 4 d. 12
26. What is a type of inheritance where both alleles are expressed
equally in the phenotype of the heterozygote?
a. Complete dominance
b. Incomplete dominance
c. Codominance
d. Multiple allele
12. What is letter A in the picture?
27. A red cow is crossed with a white cow and produced an offspring
a. Septum c. Lungs
that is a roan cow. What is a roan cow?
b. Left Ventricle d. Tricuspid Valve
a. A purebred red cow.
13. What is letter B in the picture?
b. A purebred white cow.
c. Septum c. Lungs
c. A pink cow.
d. Left Ventricle d. Tricuspid Valve
d. A cow with red hair and white blotches.
14. The beating sound your heart makes comes from:
a. Blood going in the wrong direction
 d. all of the above

For 28-29, use the table below. 41. Acid deposition _____.
a. is only a problem where sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide
are emitted
b. occurs when sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide combine
with water to produce acids
c. stimulates the growth of plants that prefer acid soil
d. all of the above
42. Which is associated with air pollution?
28. The alleles controlling the ABO blood groups are given the letters a. global warming
IA (group A), IB (group B) and i (group O). This type of inheritance b. destruction of the ozone shield
is called ________. c. acid deposition
a. Complete dominance d. all of the above
b. Incomplete dominance 43. What is the formula for photosynthesis?
c. Codominance a. 6CO2 + 6H2O + light energy → C6H12O6 + 6O2
d. Multiple allele b. 6CO2 + 6O2 + light energy ----> C6H12O6 + 6H2O
29. What is/are the possible blood type/s of an offspring if both parents c. 6CO2 + 6H2O ----> C6H12O6 + 6O2 + light energy
are type O? d. 6CO2 + 6H2O ----> C6H12O6 + 6O2
a. A and B c. A, B and AB 44. Which of the following molecules is a waste product of
b. A and AB d. O only photosynthesis?
30. In humans, maleness or femaleness is determined by a pair of sex a. Oxygen c. Water
chromosomes called X and Y. What is the genotype for males? b. Carbon dioxided. Sugar
a. XX c. XXY 45. Chlorophyll is mostly located above the leaf of the plant to
b. XY d. XO _________.
31. Which of the following traits is not controlled by multiple genes? a. collect carbon dioxide.
a. color blindness c. freckles b. collect light energy.
b. eye color d. hair texture c. release oxygen.
For 32-33, the genetic disorder phenylketonuria (PKU) is caused by a d. release glucose.
recessive allele (n). The family tree below shows the incidence of the 46. Iodine is used to detect the presence of starch produced in
disease over three generations. photosynthesis. This works when ______.
a. its brown color has not changed.
b. its brown color turned into dark blue.
c. its brown color become colorless.
d. its brown color become yellow.

For 47-48, use the diagram on the topmost right.

47. This process begins with the production of Acetyl-CoA:

a. Chemiosmosis
b. Electron Transport Chain
c. Glycolysis
d. Krebs cycle or Citric Acid Cycle
48. Which of the following is the products of the Krebs cycle?
32. What is the genotype of Jane's husband? a. ATP c. FADH
a. XX c. XY b. NADH d. all of these
b. XnX d. XnY
33. Then Jane’s husband is a ________.
a. Normal male
b. Normal, carrier male
c. Male with PKU
d. None of the above
34. It is a hereditary material and is also known as the blue print of life.
a. DNA c. mRNA
b. RNA d. tRNA
35. Which of the following statements is true?
a. The gene is the basic unit of heredity and is found in the
chromosome.
b. The chromosome is the basic unit of heredity and is
found in the gene
c. The gene determines the sex of humans and the
chromosomes carry the traits.
d. The gene carries the traits inside the 20 pairs of
chromosomes in humans.
36. A DNA strand has the following bases: A A G C C A. What are the
bases on its complementary strand?
a. A A G C C A c. T T C G G T
b. A C C G A A d. C C A T T C
37. Extinction means
a. population of a species begins declining rapidly 49. Cramps during exercise are caused by:
b. population has become so low a. alcohol fermentation
c. occurs when the last member of that species dies b. glycolysis inhibition
d. when the population is stable. c. lactic acid fermentation
38. A major benefit to come from the release of wolves into the d. chemiosmosis
Yellowstone National Park is 50. Which of the following processes produces the most ATP?
a. increased numbers of elk a. glycolysis
b. control of coyotes that kill cattle b. oxidative phosphorylation
c. control of the explosive population growth of domestic c. fermentation
cats that menace campgrounds d. Krebs’ cycle
d. control of the grizzly bears
39. It happens when there is removing or clearing of forest to include
cutting of all trees, mostly for agricultural or urban use.
a. Eutrophication
b. Acid rain precipitation
c. Water pollution
d. deforestation
40. A conservation biologist would _____.
a. work with government officials to establish a plan for the
protection of endangered species
b. analyze organism characteristics that help them survive
in particular locations
c. investigate the impact of industrial pollutants on an
ecosystem