General Science - UPCAT

• These are living things that use sunlight, chlorophyll, water and carbon dioxide to produce food.

  Autotrophs
• It is describe as the lifeline of the body. IT is the body’s “pickup” and delivery system.”

  Circulatory System
• It carries the oxygen-rich blood to the head, arms, chest and down to the waist and the legs.

  Arteries
• They are the transmitters of message from the different parts of the body to the brain and vice versa.

  Neurons or Nerve Cells
• Which part of the brain controls the following activities: breathing, blood pressure, heart rate, alertness?

  Brainstem
• Refers to a sequence of organism in a community that constitutes a feeding chain.

  Food Chain
• Is a group of interacting plants, animals and human in a particular area.

  Ecological Community
• Excessive presence of carbon dioxide in the air, trapping heat near the earth’s surface causing a rise in temperature in the environment.

  Greenhouse Effect
• The Earth’s shield against sun’s harmful radiation.

  Ozone Layer
• The use of product containing Chlorofluorocarbon is discouraged because they contribute to the depletion of ozone layer.
• What causes high and low tides?

  Moon’s gravitational pull
• How is coral a tool formed?

  Corals growing around a volcanic island
• Movement o sand and shingles along the coast

  Long Shore Drift
• When the cold front is pushing warm air up of the ground, what is being formed?

  Occlusion
• A distorted image resulting from the bending o sun’s light rays by changes in air temperature

  Eat Haze
• What sort of rock formation do the world’s greatest mountain ranges consist of?

  Fold Eruptions
• What is the fore that wears down mountains?

  Erosion
• How are volcanic island formed?

  Collision of two oceanic plates
• When the Theory of plate Tectonics was generally accepted?

  1950s
• The weathering away of rocks by water, wind and ice.

  Erosion
• How do hormones work?

  By controlling cell chemistry
• Name the male and female sex hormones

  Testosterone and Estrogen
• The unit of measurement of energy in a given an mount of food

  Calorie
• Nitrogen compounds known as the building blocks of proteins

  Amino Acids
• The growth of roots towards water is an example of?

  Hydrotropism
• DNA means?


  Deoxyribonucleic acid
• What are the three products of oxygen when it has been burned?

  Energy, water and carbon dioxide
• In flowering plants, fertilization happens in the?

  Ovules
• The development of egg without fertilization

  Parthenogenesis
• What is a source of energy needed for photosynthesis?

  Light
• Chemistry is primarily concerned with the composition and changes of?

  Matter
• A hypothesis not yet subjected to experimental test is a?

  Scientific Theory
• What unit of measurement is equivalent to cubic centimeter?

  Milliliter (ml)
• Which of the following is NOT a compound? a.acetic acid c. magnesium

  b. alcohol d. Zinc Oxide

  C. Magnesium
• The easier the atom to receive electrons is measured by its?

  Valence electrons
• A molecule is said to be polar or dipole if?

  It possesses polar bonds
• Boiling and melting point tend to increase with molecular weight . Is this true or false?


  True
• Molecular weight does not influence boiling and melting point of a substance. Is this true or false?

  False
• A mole is the amount of substance or a mass of a substance that contains?

  6.022 × 10^23 particles, otherwise known as Avogadros Number.
• It is the measure of the amount of matter in an object

  Mass