Second Quarter Exam for Science VII

Name: _______________________________________ Date: _______________ Score: __________

Grade & Section: ____________________ Teacher: Mr. Vince Jayson V. Yabo

Instruction: Read and understand each question that follows. Choose your answer from the choices given
and write the letter of the correct answer legibly on the space provided before each number.

Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do. - Dr. Spock

____1. What device is used to view very small things that cannot be seen by the naked eyes?
a. Endoscope b. Microscope c. Stethoscope d. Telescope

____2. What part of the microscope is used to reflect light from the external environment up through the stage?
a. Arm b. Base c. Mirror d. Objective Lenses

____3. John Brylle would like to see clearly the specimen he wanted to observe using the microscope. What
part of the microscope will he adjust for him to do what he want?
a. Course Adjustment b. Fine adjustment c. Objective lenses d. Eyepiece

____4. Which of the following is TRUE about the invention of the microscope?
a. The first inventor of the microscope are the Greeks
b. The glass was discovered by the Italians living in Rome
c. The first to invent the compound microscope were Zacharias and Hans Janssen
d. All of the above

____5. Sheenagh wants to observe the onion cells under the microscope. Which of the following will she do to
achieve her goal?
a. Sheenagh will adjust the mirror so the light could go up through the stage and into the specimen
b. Sheenagh will switch the lens from low powered objective to high power objective
c. Sheenagh will adjust the course adjustment so she could see clearly the specimen
d. All of the above

____6. Which part of the microscope is used to hold the slides in place?
a. Stage b. Stage clips c. Objective lenses d. Mirror

____7. What is considered the basic structural and functional unit of life?
a. Cell b. Organ c. Organ systems d. Tissue

____8. Which of the following scenarios signify a community?

a. A group of dogs in a farm
b. A group of cats in a farmhouse
c. A group of horse in a farmland
d. A group of cows together with a group of carabaos in a farmland

____9. Which of the following differentiates organs from tissues?

a. Organs make up tissues; tissues make up organs
b. Tissues make up organs; cells make up tissues
c. Organs and tissues make up an organ system
d. Organs and tissues are made up of cells

____10. Cancer starts from cells that start to grow uncontrollably fast. They destroy tissues and organs. What
does this say about the effects of the diseased cells on the higher levels of organization in an
organism?
a. Diseased cells do not affect the other parts of the organism.
b. Cancer involves only certain kinds of cells and does not affect any other kind of cell.
c. Diseased cells affect only the next higher levels of organization that they make up the tissues.
d. Diseased cells damage the higher levels of organization they make up: tissues, organs, organ
systems and eventually, the whole organism.

____11. The organ systems of plants consist of the root and shoot systems. Why is it important for these organ
systems to work together?
a. To grow and survive c. To survive floods and strong winds
b. To avoid pests and other animals d. To survive droughts and earthquakes

____12. Which is the correct sequence – from bigger to smaller – of the levels of organization in an organism?
a. Cell – organ – organ system – Tissue c. Tissue – cell – organ – organ system
b. Organ – organ system – tissue – cell d. organ system – organ – tissue – cell

____13. What part of the cell is responsible for producing fats and lipids?
a. Cytoplasm c. Rough Endoplasmic Reticulum
b. Nucleus d. Smooth Endoplasmic Reticulum

____14. Which part of the cell is known as the control center of the cell?
a. Cell Membrane b. Nucleolus c. Nucleus d. Ribosomes

____15. Which part of the plant cell contains chlorophyll which absorbs energy from the sun to make food for
plants?
a. Chloroplast b. Cytoplasm c. Nucleus d. Vacuoles

____16. Which part of the cell is known as the powerhouse of the cell which converts glucose to a form of
energy usable by the cells?
a. Cell Membrane b. Cytoplasm c. Mitochondria d. Nucleus

____17. What part of the animal cell that is not present in plant cells?
a. Cell Membrane c. Centrioles c. Nucleus d. Vacuoles

____18. What are the parts of the plant cells that are not present in the animal cells?
a. Chloroplast and Cytoplasm c. Cell Membrane and Nucleolus
b. Chloroplast and Cell Wall d. Vacuoles and Ribosomes

____19. Why is the cell wall important to plant cells?

a. Because it converts energy from the sun to a form usable to the cell
b. Because it helps in the production of spindle fibers during cell division
c. Because it serves as another level of protection and it gives shape to plant cells
d. Because it digests unnecessary waste/trash in the cell

____20. If the chloroplast of the plant cell is damaged, which of the following will it be unable to do?
a. Protects the cell c. excretes waste materials
b. Make food for the cell d. give instruction for cell to reproduce

____21. Which of the following statement is TRUE about nucleolus?

a. It is located inside the nucleus
b. It is responsible for producing ribosomes
c. Both a and b
d. None of the above

____22. Why can’t animals survive on their own?

a. Because they don’t have nucleus that makes food for them
b. Because they don’t have cytoplasm that makes food for them
c. Because they don’t have chloroplast in their cell to make food for them
d. Because they don’t have centrioles that make the food for them

____23. Which of the following set of cell organelles is present both in plant and animal cells?
a. Nucleus, cell membrane and cytoplasm c. Cell Membrane, cytoplasm and cell wall
b. Nucleus, centrioles and nucleolus b. Cell Membrane, ribosomes and chloroplast

____24. Which cell organelle is consisted of jelly-like substance where all other cell organelles are located?
a. Cell Membrane b. Cytoplasm c. nucleus d. ribosomes

____25. What is the shape of the DNA of Prokaryotic Cells?

a. Circular b. Linear c. Angular d. curvilinear

____26. What is the shape of the DNA of the Eukaryotic Cells?

a. Circular b. Linear c. Angular d. curvilinear

____27. Nucleus keeps the DNA of the cell. Prokaryotic cells have no true nucleus. Where do you think the
prokaryotic cells keep their DNA?
a. In the cytoplasm b. in the nucleoid c. in the ribosomes d. in the lysosomes

____28. What is common to organisms belonging to the prokaryotes group?

a. They are mostly multicellular organisms c. they reproduce via binary fission
b. They are unicellular organisms d. they are mostly anaerobic

____29. Which set of cell organelles is present in both prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells?
a. Ribosomes, nucleus and nucleolus d. nucleus, nucleoid and cytoplasm
b. Ribosomes, cell membrane and cytoplasm c. cytoplasm, cell membrane and nucleoid

____30. In terms of cell organization, why is eukaryotic cell more organized compared to prokaryotic cells?
a. Because each organelles of the eukaryotic cells are membrane-bounded
b. Because the cell organelles directly float around the cytoplasm
c. Because the eukaryotic cells have cell membrane that encloses the cell
d. None of the above

____31. Which kingdom of life does not belong to the eukaryotes group?
a. Animalia b. Plantae c. Fungi d. Archaebacteria

____32. A group of bacteria lives in the vent of the volcano. To which kingdom of life does the group of
bacteria belong?
a. Animalia b. Eubacteria c. Fungi D. Plantae

____33. Which of the following sets of organisms belong to the Kingdom Protista?
a. Cat, dogs and Pigs c. Gumamela, Narra and Mahogany
b. Euglena, algae and amoeba d. e. coli, lactobacillus casei and lactobacillus protektus

____34. Which characteristic is unique only to Kingdom Animalia?

a. They have chloroplasts that allows them to make their own food
b. They are motile organisms which means they can move from place to place
c. They are unicellular organisms
d. They are multicellular organisms

____35. Human beings rely on other organisms for food. Which of the following statements can be said about
humans?
a. Humans are autotrophs c. Humans are aerobic
b. Humans are Heterotrophs d. Humans are anaerobic

____36. Birds cannot survive without breathing in fresh air. Which of the following statements can be said
about birds?
a. Birds are autotrophs c. Birds are aerobic
b. Birds are heterotrophs d. Birds ae anaerobic

____37. What mode of reproduction requires two parents of different sexes to produce a new being?
a. Asexual Reproduction c. Budding
b. Sexual Reproduction d. Fragmentation

____38. What type of asexual reproduction where the new individual comes from the unfertilized eggs of the
mother?
a. Budding b. Fragmentation c. Parthenogenesis d. Spores

____39. Which of the following forms of reproduction does not belong to the group?
a. Budding b. Fragmentation c. Allogamy d. Vegetative Reproduction

____40. What happens during fertilization?

a. 2 eggs from the female parent and 1 sperm from the male parent unite together to form a zygote
b. 2 sperms from the male parent and 1 egg from the female parent unite together to form a zygote
c. 1 sperm from the male parent and 1 egg from the female parent unite together to form a zygote
d. 1 sperm from the male parent and 1 sperm from another male parent unite to form a zygote

____41. What do you call the specialized cells of the animals that reproduce sexually?
a. Sperm cell b. egg cell c. gametes d. tissue

____42. Hermaphrodites are organisms which can produce both the male and the female gametes at the same
time. What do you call the type of reproduction of the Hermaphrodites?
a. Allogamy b. Autogamy c. Internal Fertilization d. External Fertilization
____43. How important is reproduction of organisms?
a. It is the way for organisms to get their own food to survive
b. It is the way for organisms to provide food for each other to survive
c. It is the way for organisms to continue their kind, so they will not get extinct
d. It is the way for organisms to decrease the number of populations in the planet
____44. Which of the statements below is FALSE about the difference between Sexual and Asexual
Reproduction?
a. Sexual reproduction produces genetically different individuals while asexual reproduction produces
genetically identical individuals
b. Sexual reproduction requires 2 parents of the same gender while asexual reproduction requires
only 1 parent of either gender.
c. Sexual reproduction is slower in process compared to asexual reproduction which is faster
d. Sexual reproduction produces variation while asexual reproduction does not

____45. Which type of reproduction does not produce individuals that are genetically identical to their parent?
a. Budding b. Parthenogenesis c. Spore formation d. External Fertilization

____46. What is defined as a system of complex interaction between different populations and their nonliving
environment?
a. Food chain b. Food web c. Ecosystem d. community

____47. What do you call the component of the ecosystem that refers to the nonliving things in the
environment?
a. Biotic Components b. Biosphere c. Abiotic components d. none of the above

____48. Why is it important for living things and nonliving things to interact with each other?
a. Because living things need the nonliving environment to survive
b. Because living things together with the nonliving things can reproduce together
c. Because living things together with the nonliving environment can make the planet become a
paradise
d. None of the above

____49. What do you call the biotic components that produce food for themselves as well as food for other
organisms?
a. Primary Consumer b. Secondary consumer c. Decomposers d. Producers

____50. What do you call the process by which plants convert the energy from the sun into a chemical energy
in the form of glucose?
a. Phagocytosis b. Cytokinesis c. Photosynthesis d. Analysis

____51. Which of the following statements is TRUE about the function of decomposers in the ecosystem?
a. They produce food for themselves and for the other organisms
b. They consume plants and animals in order to survive
c. They primarily eat the dead bodies of other organisms
d. They break down what is left by the scavengers of the remains and return the nutrients to the soil

____52. What relationship exists between two organisms when they both benefit from each other?
a. Commensalism b. Competition c. Mutualism d. Parasitism

____53. What relationship exists between two organisms when one is benefits from the other and the other is
harmed?
a. Commensalism b. Competition c. Mutualism d. Parasitism

____54. What relationship exists when several organisms rely on a limited environmental resource?
a. Commensalism b. Competition c. Mutualism d. Parasitism

____55. What percentage of the energy in one trophic level will be obtained by the next trophic level in a food
chain?
a. 5% b. 10% c. 50% d. 100%

____56. Which of the following consumers will get the least amount of energy in a food chain?
a. Primary Consumer c. Tertiary Consumer
b. Secondary Consumer d. Final Consumer

____57. In the ecosystem, what is considered the ultimate source of energy?

a. Animals b. Decomposers c. Producers d. Sun

____58. How does energy in the ecosystem transfer from one organism to another organism?
a. When an organism eats another organism c. When an organism lives with another organism
b. When an organism breeds another organism d. When an organism plays with another organism

For items 59-60.

____59. Which is the secondary consumer?
a. Frog b. Grass c. Grasshopper d. Hawk

____60. Which is the final consumer?

a. Frog b. Grass c. Hawk d. Snake

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Prepared by: Mr. Vince Jayson V. Yabo, LPT

Science VII Teacher