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Fourth Quarter Examination

Grade 8 Science

Direction: Choose the letter of the correct answer and write your answer before the number.

1. Digestion begins in the mouth. Which of the following statements is INCORRECT?

A. The tongue aids in the digestion of food.
B. The saliva changes some of the starches in the food to sugar.
C. The tongue keeps the food in place in the mouth while the food is being chewed.
D. The digestive juices can react more easily with the food when chewed.
2. What happens when food reaches the stomach?
A. No digestion occurs in the stomach
B. Food moves quickly into the small intestine.
C. Food is completely digested and is absorbed by tiny blood vessels in the walls of the stomach.
D. The stomach muscles mix the food and liquid with digestive juices
3. Which of the following refers to the muscle contraction of the esophagus that help food moves down to the
stomach?
A. Ingestion C. Peristalsis
B. Absorption D. Excretion
4. ___________softens, wets the food in the mouth and starts initially the chemical digestion with with the help of
enzymes.
A. Mucosa C. stomach juices
B. Saliva D. Villi
5. What do you think will be the effect if one of the digestive processes will not take place?
A. nutrients cannot be transported to the different parts of the body.
B. nutrients are absorbed by each cell of the body in the form of energy.
C. waste cannot be eliminated out of the body
D. no available nutrients for energy, growth and cell repair.
Predict the possible offspring of these garden peas when Mendel crossed the heterozygous yellow seed garden peas
(Yy) and homozygous green seed garden peas (yy).
6. What is the chance of having a homozygous green seed garden pea?
A. 10% B. 25% C. 50% D. 75%
7. What will be the possible results?
A. 1YY, 2Yy, 1yy B. 2YY, 2yy C. 2Yy, 2yy D. 4Yy
8. A gray rabbit that is heterozygous (gray is dominant to white) would have a genotype?
A. gg B. Gg C. GG D. gG
9. A heterozygous rabbit mates with a white rabbit. What are the possible phenotypes of their offspring?
A. 100% gray B. 1:1 gray to white C. 2:2 gray to white D. 100% white
10. If a true breeding tall pea plant is crossed with a true breeding short pea plant, what will be the phenotype of the F 1
generation?
A. All short B. All tall C. 3:1 short:tall D. 1:3 short:tall
11. What is the longest stage in the cell cycle?
A. Interphase B. Anaphase C. Metaphase D. Cytokinesis
12. During which phase of mitosis do the chromosomes line up along the middle of the cell?
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A. Anaphase B. Metaphase C. Prophase D. Telophase
13. Which of the following statement is a correct statement about the events of the cell cycle?
A. Little happens during the G1, and G2 phases.
B. DNA replicates during cytokinesis.
C. The mitotic phase is usually the longest phase.
D. Interphase consists of the G1, S, and G2 phases.
14. During which stage of interphase do cells copy their DNA?
A. G1 phase B. G2 phase C. Cytokinesis D. S phase
15. Which is NOT a process of the cell cycle?
A. death B. division C. development D. growth
16. When clouds get to heavy to hold water in the water cycle, what happens?
A. The water falls to the Earth. C. The water evaporates.
B. Another cloud forms. D. The clouds get very large.
17. Which stage is NOT part of the water cycle?
A. Condensation B. Evaporation C. Melting D. Precipitation
18. In the water cycle what is it called when water goes up through a plant and is turned into a vapor?
A. Condensation B. Evaporation C. Melting D. Precipitation
19. Which is the lowest level of taxonomic hierarchy?
A. Class B. Kingdom C. Order D. Species
20. What gas is being released by the animals which needed by the plants.
A. Carbon dioxide B. Nitrogen C. Oxygen D. Hydrogen
II. Supply the following data. Get your answer on the box provided.

Anus Esophagus Large intestine Mouth Small intestine Rectum Stomach

21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27.

31

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28.________________29.________________30. ________________
31. What diagram shown in numbers 28-30? __________________
30
28

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33. _____________
34. _____________
35. _____________
36. _____________
37. _____________
38. 39. 40.

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Pre-Final Exam
Grade 10

I. Write the letter of the correct answer before the number.

1. A gas is an environment that has a volume of 16.8 L and a pressure of 3.2 atm. If the volume changes to 10.6 L,
what will be the new pressure?
A. 5.07 atm B. 2.02 atm C. 6.75 atm D. 4.24 atm
2. Xenon gas was measured to have a volume of 15.5 kL. If the volume changes to 0.6 kL and the pressure becomes
44 Pa, what was the original pressure?
A. 0.20 Pa B. 1.70 Pa C. O.40 Pa D. 0.78 Pa
3. The volume of ammonia is changed 6.1 L. The change occurred when the pressure was changed from 520 mmHg to
790 mmHg. What was the original volume?
A. 9.3 L B. 4.0 L C. 9.2 L D. 4.1 L
4. What is the resulting temperature of the gas if 200 mL of a gas sample at 27 oC expands to 500 mL?
A. 450 K B. 524 K C. 675 K D. 750 K
5. A gas under 25 atm pressure occupies 35.0 L at 127oC. What is the volume of the gas under standard conditions
(1atm)?
A. 0 L B. 597.2 L C. 1880.9 L D. 3000 L
6. Gab wants to have a portable oxygen tank. A 5-liter oxygen gas exerts a pressure of 1.00 atmosphere. How much
pressure is needed for this gas to be compressed in 2-liter cylinder, provided there is no temperature change?
A. 3.0 atm B. 2.5 atm C. 2.0 atm D. 1.5 atm
7. Which example has particles that can be drawn closer smaller volume?
A. fruit juice B. block of wood C. air inside the syringe D. ice cube
8. Which of the following phenomena does NOT involve the application of gas?
A. burning fuels B. falling leaves C. vulcanizing tires D. rising hot air balloons
9. What is most likely to happen when an aerosol can is heated?
A. The can be deformed. C. The can will eventually explode.
B. The can will stay the same. D. The can will tarnish.
10. Jane can still pump air in the party balloon even though it is already inflated. What explains this phenomenon?
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A. balloons look better if its size is bigger C. the air inside the balloon is hot
B. balloons are made up of plastic. D. air molecules can be compressed.
11. Which of the following samples is highly compressible at high temperature and expandable at high temperature?
A. oxygen gas B. aluminum sheet C. water D. ice
12. Which of the following is NOT a major source of protein?
A. fish B. egg C. milk D. vegetable
13. Which of the following contains the most lipids?
A. banana B. champorado C. olive oil D. cheese
14. Which of the following is a correct pair?
A. glucose: disaccharide C. starch: polysaccharide
B. sucrose: monosaccharide D. triglyceride: polysaccharide
15. Nutritional chemists have found that burning 1 gram of fat releases twice the amount of heat energy as burning 1
gram of starch. Based on this information, which type of biomolecule would cause a person to gain more weight?
A. carbohydrate B. fat C. protein D. nucleic acid
16. Amino acids are the building blocks of which group of biomolecules?
A. proteins B. carbohydrates C. lipids D. nucleic acids
17. Which of the following elements is NOT present in carbohydrates?
A. carbon B. oxygen C. nitrogen D. hydrogen
18. Which of the following sugars are the components of lactose?
A. glucose & galactose B. fructose & galactose C. glucose & fructose D. glucose & glucose
19. Which of the following sugars are the components of maltose?
A. glucose & galactose B. fructose & galactose C. glucose & fructose D. glucose & glucose
20. The sugar in RNA is ___________, the sugar in DNA is _________________.
A. deoxyribose, ribose C. ribose, phosphate
B. ribose, deoxyribose D. ribose, uracil

II. Classify the following unbalanced chemical equations according to the six types of chemical reactions.
A. Combination B. Decomposition C. Single displacement
D. Double displacement E. Combustion F. Acid-base

21. NaOH + KNO3 ---- NaNO3 + KOH

22. CH4 + O2 ---- CO2 + 2 H2O
23. Fe + NaBr ---- FeBr3 + Na
24. CaSO4 + Mg(OH)2 ---- Ca(OH)2 + MgSO4
25. NH4OH + HBr ---- H2O + NH4Br
26. P4 + O2 ---- P2O5
27. NaNO3 ---- NaNO2 + O2
28. C18H18 + O2 ---- CO2 + H2O
29. H2SO4 + NaOH ---- NaSO4 + H2O
30. NiSO4 + LiPO4 ---- Ni3(PO4)2 + Li2SO4

III. Classify the following foods according types of biomolecules.

A. Carbohydrates B. Proteins C. Fat
31. Margarine
32. Rice
33. Beef
34. Egg white
35. Olive oil
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36. Sweet potato
37. Wheat
38. Butter
39. Chicken meat
40. Cereals

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