ABULUG NATIONAL RURAL AND VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

FIRST QUARTERLY ASSESSMENT

GRADE 9 SCIENCE
I. Multiple Choice: Choose the letter of the BEST answer
1. Which of the following is an empty tube that serves as passageway of air into the
lungs?
a. Trachea b. Bronchi c. Bronchioles d. alveoli
2. It is responsible for distributing materials throughout the body?
a. Circulatory system b. Respiratory system c. A and b d. None of the
above
3. Which of the following is made up of organs in the body that help us to breathe?
a. Circulatory system b. Respiratory system c. A and b d. None of
the above
4. These are the hair like tubes that connect to the alveoli?
a. Trachea b. Bronchi c. Bronchioles d. alveoli
5. These are the air sacs that allow gas exchange in the lungs
a. Trachea b. Bronchi c. Bronchioles d. alveoli
6. These are the two branching tubes that connect the trachea to the lungs?
a. Trachea b. Bronchi c. Bronchioles d. alveoli
7. Which of the following is also known as the windpipe?
a. Trachea b. Bronchi c. Bronchioles d. alveoli
8. Which of the following happens when you inhale?
a. The diaphragm muscle contracts b. The diaphragm moves down.
b. The chest cavity increases in size d. All of the above
9. Which of the following happens when you exhale?
a. The diaphragm muscle relaxes b. The ribs return to its original place
c. The chest cavity returns to its original size d. All of the above
10.Which of them is also known as the bronchial tubes?
A. Trachea b. Bronchi c. Bronchioles d. alveoli
11.Which of the following pumps blood through out the body?
A. Heart B. Blood vessel c. Blood d. Water pump
12.The following are the main functions of the circulatory system aside from?
a. Nourishes the cells with nutrients from the food you eat.
b. It delivers different materials in the body
c. It circulates vital elements such as oxygen and nutrients
d. All of the above
13.Which of the following carries oxygenated blood away from the heart to the cells,
tissues and organs of the body? a. arteries b. Blood vessel c. veins
d. capillaries
14.Movement of the blood from the heart to the lungs and back to the heart?
A. Pulmonary circulation b. Coronary circulation c. Systemic circulation
d. Blood circulation
15.Which of the following is the smallest blood vessel connecting the smallest arteries
to the smallest veins? a. arteries b. Blood vessel c. veins d.
capillaries
16.Which of the following carry deoxygenated blood to the heart?
a. arteries b. Blood vessel c. veins d. capillaries
17.Movement of the blood through the tissues of the heart?
a. Pulmonary circulation b. Coronary circulation c. Systemic circulation d. Blood
circulation
18.Movement of the blood from the heart to the rest of the body excluding the lungs?
a. Pulmonary circulation b. Coronary circulation c. Systemic circulation d. Blood
circulation
19.Which of the following are the pumping chambers of the heart?
a. Right and left atrium c. The bicuspid and the tricuspid valve
b. Right and left ventricle d. The pulmonary and the aortic valve
20.Which of the following are the receiving chambers of the heart?
c. Right and left atrium c. The bicuspid and the tricuspid valve
d. Right and left ventricle d. The pulmonary and the aortic valve
21.Which of the following is a hollow muscular organ about the size of the fist?
a. Brain b. Nasal cavity c. Heart d. lungs
22.How many times does the heart beat in a day?
a. 10, 000 b. 100, 000 c. 1,000,000
23.The following are the considered effects of smoking to the circulatory aside from?
a. Increased heart rate b. Arteriosclerosis c. Vascular disease d.
tuberculosis
24.The following are considered as best ways to prevent diseases of the respiratory
and circulatory systems aside from.
 a. balanced diet b. Regular exercise c. Adequate rest d. Investing to
vices
25.The following are the considered effects of smoking to the respiratory system aside
from?
a. Emphysema b. Chronic bronchitis c. Lung cancer d. RHD
26.Who is the father of heredity?
a. Watson and Crick b. Theodore Boveri c. Gregor Mendel d. Walter
Sutton
27.Which of the following shows a heterozygote that results from two homozygous
phenotypes?
a. Incomplete dominance b. Complete dominance c. codominance d. B and c
28.When a pure red flower is crossed with a pure white flower, the offspring would be
pink, what pattern of inheritance took place?
a. Incomplete dominance b. Complete dominance c. codominance d. B
and c
29.RR is considered as alleles for what type of trait?
a. Red b. White c. Red and white d. Pink
30.The meaning of the alleles RW is pink. What do you call “pink”?
a. Genotypes b. Phenotypes c. Phenotypic ratio d.
Phenotypic percentage
31.It is a pattern of inheritance by which results to one allele that is not dominant over
the other?
a. Incomplete dominance b. Complete dominance c. codominance
d. B and c
32.A Roan (red and white) cow is an example of
a. Incomplete dominance b. Complete dominance c. codominance
d. B and c
33.When there would be more than two alleles available ex. Blood type, what type of
inheritance is taking place?
a. Incomplete dominance b. Complete dominance c. codominance d. Multiple
alleles
34.Given your mother’s blood type and your own blood type, can you determine your
father’s blood type? a. Yes b. No c. Not so sure d. Not possible
35.Your mother’s blood type is AB, Your father is AB, what would be the blood type of
your siblings and you? A. A, AB, B b. A only c. B only d. AB definitely
36.If your mother is blood type O, and your father is also blood type O, what will be
your blood type? a. A b. B c. AB d. O
37.Which pair of alleles is shown by a blood type A?
a. AA b. AO c. OO d. A and B
38.A family is composed of a mother, a father and all female children, whose fault if
there is no male child?
a. mother b. father c. Neither father and mother d. Both father and mother
39.A family has no female child, whose fault will it be?
a. mother b. father c. Neither father and mother d. Both father and mother
40.How many pairs of autosomal or body chromosomes are there in human being?
a. 20 b. 21 c. 22 d. 23
41.Which pair of chromosome is considered as the sex chromosome?
a. 20th pair b. 21st pair c. 22nd pair d. 23rd pair
42.What would be the combination of alleles for a female?
a. YY b. XY c. XX d. XXY
43.What do you call the genes that are located in the sex chromosomes?
a. Sex linked traits c. Sex limited traits
b. Sex influenced traits d. ,b,c
44.Which of the following shows alleles of a hemophilia carrier female?
a. X h X h b. XH XH c. XH X h d. X Y h
45.Which of the following is a y-linked trait?
a. Glucose 6 Phosphate Defficiency (G6PD) c. Color blindness
b. Hemophilia d. Hypertrichosis pinnae auris
46.What do you call the inability to distinguish colors from one another?
a. Glucose 6 Phosphate Deficiency (G6PD) c. Color blindness
b. Hemophilia d. Hypertrichosis pinnae auris
47.Pattern baldness could be observe on both male and female, however it is more
observed in males?, what do you call this trait?
a. Sex linked traits c. Sex limited traits
b. Sex influenced traits d. ,b,c
48.What do you call the process of passing on traits from the parents the off springs?
a. Heredity b. generation c. genes
49.Who is the father of heredity?
 a. Gregor Mendel b. Isaac Newton c. Bill Gates
50.The most effective way of determining the resulting off springs during a cross breed
is?
a. Punnet square b. ratio and proportion c. genotypic ratio
51. It is a group of organisms that have certain characteristics in common and are
able to interbreed.
A. Population b. community c. specie d. life
52.Pattern baldness could be observed in both male of female. However, it is more
frequent in males. Therefore it is a
A. Sex limited trait b. sex influenced trait c. sex linked trait
53.The talent to draw is carried by the Y-chromosome. Therefore it is a
( please refer to the choices of the above item)

54.Which of the following is a sex limited trait?

A. Menstruation b. colorblindness c. hemophilia d. hyperthrichosis
pinnae auris
55.Ir is a group of organisms of the same kind living in the same place place at a
certain area.
a. Specie b. population c. community d. a
and c
Test II: Definition of terms. Choose your answer from the words/word phrases below.
Codominance sex linked trait water pollution
Incomplete dominance sex limited trait air pollution
Complete dominance deforestation biodiversity
Sex influenced trait acid precipitation dynamite fishing
1. It refers to the diversity of life in an ecosystem
2. It is due to mismanagement of garbage near lakes, ponds and rivers
3. It is due to burning of garbage, factories and car burn fuels.

4. It is due to pollutants like sulfur and nitrogen oxides in the rain water.

5. It is a human activity that destroy the breeding grounds of marine fishes.

6. It is a pattern of inheritance where both of the alleles of the trait are fully expressed in the individual.

7. A pattern of inheritance where one allele is dominant over the other.

8. It is a pattern of inheritance where the resulting characteristic is an intermediate between two
expressed traits by the parents.
9. Dalmatian dog, Roan cattle and spotted pig are examples of what pattern of inheritance.
10. Glucose 6 Phosphate deficiency is an example of what type of sex trait.
Test II. Give what is asked for.
1. Make a flow chart of the “Journey of the blood in the heart”. (10 points)
2. Using a punnet square, do the monohybrid cross between a Female carrier of color blindness
and a normal male. Identify the genotypes, phenotypes and the phenotypic ratio.

Prepared by:
JALLY MAE P. TACIPIT
Checked by:

IRENE M. FERNANDEZ ARTHUR M. CARIAGA

Cluster Head School Principal