General Science

• A living organism thrives best in its habitat.
• Sound will travel fastest in solid.
• Conduction is to solids, as radiation is to Gas.
• Conduction, convention, radiation are ways of transferring or transforming energy through the use of heat.
• The abbreviations sin, tan, sec for sine, tangent and secant are to ____.

  Albert Gerard
• The least harmful energy to the atmosphere because it does not emit pollution.

  Nuclear Energy
• An illegal act of pounding the corals.

  Muro-Ami Fishing
• The major concern about global warming arises from increased concentrations of ____.

  Greenhouse Gases
• The laws of heredity were the results of the study of ____.

  Gregor Johann Mendel
• An orchid attached to a coconut tree is example of ____.

  Commensalism
• The best reliable source of scientific knowledge is ____.

  Empirical Study
• The tallest mountain in the Philippines.

  Mt. Apo
• The tallest mountain in the Philippines.

  Mt. Apo
• Who discovered the radioactivity?


  Marie Curie
• Who discovered the Penicillin/Antibiotic/Penicillium Notatum?


  Alexander Fleming
• After an earthquake of 7.8 magnitude in 1990, the ____ erupted.

  Mt. Pinatubo
• The following are energy and food decomposers EXCEPT:

  • Earthworm
  • Fungi
  • Termite
  • Plant

  Plant
• Medicine is benefited by scientific development of ___.

  control of diseases
• Why are dams thicker at their bottoms than at their tops?

  Water pressure is higher at the bottom
• Energy transferred illustrated by connecting a powerbank to an active cellphone is ____.

  Chemical Energy
• Sahara is to dessert biome as the Arctic is to the ____ biome.

  Tundra
• Symbiotic relationship between orchid on the trunk of a tree; bird with mest on tree's branches, clownfish and sea anemone refers to relationship which is _____.

  Commensalism
• All of the following contribute to environmental conservation EXCEPT:

  • carburetor exhaust
  • energy conservation
  • waste segregation
  • reforestation

  carburetor exhaust
• 2 waste products of the citric acid cycle.

  water and carbon dioxide
• Zebra, horse, and donkey have similae characteristics because they belong to the same ____.

  Genus
• Which sector of the economy consumes the most energy?

  Residential
• Salinity, temperature, waves currents that affects the Ocean Ecosystem are described as ____.

  Abiotic
• Regulating hunting is ensuring the preservation of endangered ____.


  animals
• Conserved wetlands and forests, invisible chemical cycles that redistribute water, oxygen, and carbon through the world's living and non-living systems are the basic characteristics of an ecosystem that is ____.

  suitainable
• The highest category in the classification of plants and animals is ____.

  Domain
• The lowest category in the classification of plants and animals is ___.

  Species
• What will happen to a cell in hypertonic solution?


  The plant will shrink.
• What will happen to a cell in isotonic solution?


  The plant cell remains the same.
• Which of ths following organism feeds on necrotic and decaying matter?

  • vulture
  • algae
  • parakeet
  • yeast


  Yeast (a characteristic of fungi)
• Who is known as the Father of Modern Taxonomy and is responsible for coining Homo sapiens in humans?


  Karl Linnaeus
• The hierarchy of biology taxonomy has how many levels?

  8
• Kingdom Plantae includes:

  • prokaryotes
  • fungi
  • magnolidae
  • protozoa

  Magnolidae
• Organisms that decompose substances into products that can be useful are called ___.

  Saprophytes
• Which of the following is a heterotroph?

  • Algae
  • Grasshopper
  • Fern
  • Moss

  Grasshopper
• What organism would most likely be in an arctic environment?

  Walrus