Given the QUESTION, identify the ANSWER

1. How many planets are there in our solar system? 7. What is the name given to molten rocks erupted by a
•8 volcano?
•9 • Firestone
• 10 • Crater
• 12 • Lava
Answer: 8 • Geyser
The nine planets in our solar system can be divided into Answer: Lava
two groups. Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars form the Volcanic activity is caused by disturbances in the Earth's
dense rocky inner planets. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune crust. This can force eruptions to release lava (molten
form the gaseous or icy outer planets. rocks) from deep within the Earth to the surface.

2. What is the total number of bones in the human body? 8. Which planet is known as the Red Planet?
• 32 • Earth
• 196 • Mercury
• 206 • Jupiter
• 512 • Mars
Answer: 206 Answer: Mars
The human skeleton consists of 206 bones (babies have The red color of the planet Mars is caused by iron oxide.
over 300). Bones manufacture red blood cells and store
calcium. 9. The three methods of science are observation,
experimentation and _______.
3. The Earth is surrounded by an insulating blanket of gases • inference
which protects it from the light and heat of the Sun. This • deduction
insulating layer is called the • measurement
• Atmosphere • hypothesis
• Lithosphere Answer: measurement
• Hydrosphere
• Biosphere 10. Where is the Sea of Tranquility?
Answer: Atmosphere • Near the Bermuda Triangle
The atmosphere protects the Earth's surface from the Sun's • In the Pacific Ocean
harmful ultraviolet rays. It also regulates the temperature. • In the Atlantic Ocean
• On the Moon
4. Which gas evolves when charcoal is burnt? Answer: On the Moon
• Carbon Dioxide
11. Which of the following is necessary for burning
• Nitrogen
(combustion)?
• Ozone
• Oxygen
• Oxygen
• Nitrogen
Answer: Carbon Dioxide
• Carbon
5. Who wrote the book "The Origin of Species"? • Petrol
• Stephen Hawking
Answer: Oxygen
• Charles Darwin
• Sir Alexander Fleming
12. Which gas in the atmosphere protects us from harmful
• Louis Pasteur
ultraviolet radiations?
Answer: Charles Darwin
• Oxygen
Another famous book by Charles Darwin is "Descent of
• Nitrogen
Man".
• Carbon Dioxide
• Ozone
6. Which of the following has an organic origin?
Answer: Ozone
• Nylon
• Coal
13. The animal kingdom is formally classified into major
• Sand
groups known as
• Bakelite
• Phyla
Answer: Coal
• Sub Phyla
• Orders
• Families
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Answer: Phyla • Hydrochloric Acid
• Aqua Regia
14. Enzymes and anti-bodies are mainly made of Answer: Water
• Vitamins
• Carbohydrates 21. Who discovered the circulation of blood?
• Proteins • William Harvey
• Fats • Hargobind Khorana
Answer: Proteins • Louis Pasteur
• Edward Jenner
15. The atom is made of Answer: William Harvey
• Positrons, Neutrons and Electrons William Harvey (Britain) discovered the circulation of blood
• Protons and Quarks in 1628.
• Neutrinos, Gamma Rays and Positrons
• Protons, Neutrons and Electrons 22. A communicable disease can be passed on from one
Answer: Protons, Neutrons and Electrons person to another.
The nucleus of the atom is made up of protons (positively • True
charged particles) and neutrons (neutral particles). The • False
electrons (negatively charged particles) spin in orbits Answer: True
around the nucleus.
23. The three states of matter are solid, liquid and gas.
16. Which rare element would you associate with Marie • True
and Pierre Curie? • False
• Platinum Answer: True
• Gold
• Radium 24. The science that deals with the study of sound is known
• Uranium as acoustics.
Answer: Radium • True
• False
17. Who discovered Penicillin? Answer: True
• Sir Alexander Fleming Sound is created by the vibration of objects. The vibrations
• Louis Pasteur cause the air to be compressed into sound waves. The
• Watson and Crick loudness of sound is measured in decibels (db).
• Robert Koch
Answer: Sir Alexander Fleming 25. The tail of a comet always points towards the Sun.
Sir Alexander Fleming (Britain) discovered Penicillin in • True
1928. • False
Answer: False
18. Who invented the miner's safety-lamp?
• Thomas Alva Edison GENERAL PHYSICS
• Sir Humphrey Davy 1. How much heat is required to raise the temperature of
• Alexander Graham Bell 1g of water by 1 oC.
• Sir Frank Whittle • 1 Joule
Answer: Sir Humphrey Davy • 100 Calories
• 1 Calorie
19. The Sun is a • 100 Joules
• Huge Planet Answer: 1 Calorie
• Satellite
• Comet 2. What is the speed of sound in air in meters per
• Star second (at a pressure of one atmosphere and
Answer: Star temperature of 25oC)?
The Sun is our closest star and is a spinning ball of gases. • 110
The nuclear reactions taking place in its core create heat • 230
and light. • 330
• 490
20. What is known as the universal solvent? Answer: 330
• Water
• Sulphuric Acid 3. The SI unit of electric current is
2
• Ampere Answer: Kinetic Energy
• Farad
• Ohm 11. Conductors have a _______ resistance.
• Mho • High
Answer: Ampere • Intermediate
• Low
• Unknown
4. What type of lens is a magnifying glass? Answer: Low
• Convex
• Concave 12. A freely suspended magnet always aligns itself
• Plano-Concave along the
• Plane Glass • East West Axis
Answer: Convex • West South Axis
• North South Axis
5. The wire of an electric bulb is known as the • East South Axis
• Heating Element Answer: North South Axis
• Filament
• Luminous Wire 13. By which of the following methods does heat
• Radiator transfer not take place?
Answer: Filament • Conduction
• Convection
6. What is the name of the point where light rays from • Refraction
infinity coverge after passing through a lens? • Radiation
• Parabola Answer: Refraction
• Center
• Focus 14. Bending of light rays when they enter a different
• Infinity medium is known as
Answer: Focus • Reflection
• Convection
7. The presence of charge on a substance can be • Radiation
confirmed by a • Refraction
• Electrodes Answer: Refraction
• Ammeter
• Thermometer 15. What is the name given to the band of seven colors
• Gold Leaf Electroscope formed by splitting of light by a prism?
Answer: Gold Leaf Electroscope • Spectrum
• Color Band
8. Which of the following is not a good heat insulator? • Color Arc
• Wood • Prism Band
• Wool Answer: Spectrum
• Iron
• Feathers 16. Light travels in a
Answer: Iron • Circular Path
• Parabolic Path
9. Which of the following is attracted by a magnet? • Straight Line
• Glass • Hyperbolic Path
• Leather Answer: Straight Line
• Iron
• Sodium 17. What does this statement define
Answer: Iron The rate of change of position in a fixed direction.
• Velocity
10. When a spring is released, its potential energy is • Speed
converted to • Acceleration
• Magnetic Energy • Momentum
• Kinetic Energy Answer: Velocity
• Electrical Energy
• Light Energy 18. Metals expand on heating and contract on cooling.
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 • True • Bunyan
• False Answer: Cinchona
Answer: True

19. A bicycle dynamo generates Direct Current.

7. How is the age of a tree determined?
• True
• False • By measuring its height
• By counting the annual rings in a cut trunk
Answer: True
• By measuring its girth
• By counting the number of its branches
20. The high pitched cries of a bat are above human
hearing. Answer: By counting the annual rings in a cut trunk
• True
• False 8. Farmers can keep their soil fertile by
• Repeatedly growing the same crop
Answer: True
• Irrigation
GENERAL BIOLOGY • Regular Tilling
• Crop Rotation
1. How many teeth does an average human adult have? Answer: Crop Rotation
• 32
• 31 9. What is quinine used for?
• 33 • Curing Aids
• 36 • Curing Typhoid
Answer: 32 • Curing Malaria
• Removing pimples
2. What is the pulse rate of an average healthy human Answer: Curing Malaria
being?
• 72 beats per minute
10. Which of the following are known as "pisces"?
• 16 beats per minute • Fish
• 65 beats per minute • Reptiles
• 100 beats per minute • Birds
Answer: 72 beats per minute • Mammals
Answer: Fish
3. Which of the following are known as "aves"?
• Birds 11. What forms after the flowers have pollinated?
• Reptiles • Leaves
• Mammals • Fruits
• Fish • Thorns
Answer: Birds • New Branches
Answer: Fruits

4. What is the name given to the green pigment in plants? 12. Fish breathe through
• Chlorophyll • Fins
• Stomata • Lungs
• Tendrils • Skin
• Starch • Gills
Answer: Chlorophyll Answer: Gills

5. Which of the following animals is not extinct? 13. What is the everyday name for the plants that are
• Brontosorus called Gramineae?
• Dodo • Nuts
• Cheetah • Pulses
• Mammoth • Grasses
Answer: Cheetah • Legumes
Answer: Grasses
6. Quinine is obtained from the bark of which tree?
• Redwood 14. Bile is secreted by the
• Cinchona • Stomach
• Eucalyptus
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• Gall Bladder • Presence of Ions
• Liver • Acidity
• Lungs • Purity of the sample
Answer: Liver Answer: Acidity

15. Which of the following carries malaria?

• Mosquitoes 3. Fill in the missing word
• Cockroaches Acid + _______ = Salt + Water
• Bats • Base
• Earthworms • Metal
Answer: Mosquitoes • Non Metal
• Oxygen
16. Which of the following helps keep body cool? Answer: Base
• Perspiration
• Respiration
• Mastication 4. Acids change a litmus paper from
• Urination • Red to Blue
Answer: Perspiration • Blue to Red
• Green to White
17. The response of plants to light is known as • Red to Purple
• Hydrotropism Answer: Blue to Red
• Chemotropism
• Thigmotropism 5. Fizziness in Coco-Cola/Pepsi is caused by
• Phototropism • Helium
Answer: Phototropism • Hydrogen
• Nitrogen
18. Which of the following is a parasite? • Carbon Dioxide
• Zebra Answer: Carbon Dioxide
• Ringworm
• Pigs 6. A substance which speeds up a chemical reaction
• Wolves without itself getting affected is known as a
Answer: Ringworm • Catalyst
• Counter Ion
19. Which food stuff turns blue-black when brought in • Nucleus
contact with iodine? • Cation
• Proteins Answer: Catalyst
• Vitamins
• Unsaturated Fatty Acids 7. Which of the following gases is green in color?
• Starch • Chlorine
Answer: Starch • Krypton
• Neon
20. The feathers of birds are good insulators. • Hydrogen
• True Answer: Chlorine
• False
Answer: True 8. Heat is liberated in
• Endothermic Reactions
CHEMISTRY • Substitution Reactions
1. Lemon juice is • Exothermic Reactions
• Basic • All chemical reactions
• Neutral Answer: Exothermic Reactions
• Metallic
• Acidic 9. The lead of a pencil mainly contains
Answer: Acidic • Lead
• Carbon Black
2. A pH of below 7 indicates • Plastics
• Alkalinity • Graphite

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Answer: Graphite • A Real Solution
• A Dispersed Solution
10. What gas is evolved when dilute sulphuric acid is added Answer: A Saturated Solution
to Zinc?
• Sulphur Dioxide 18. Which of the following is not an allotrope of carbon
• Argon • Silk
• Hydrogen • Charcoal
• Hydrogen Peroxide • Diamond
Answer: Hydrogen • Graphite
Answer: Silk
11. A substance that absorbs moisture is known as
• Hydrophilic 19. Solubility of a substance in a solvent usually increases
• Hydrophobic with an increase in temperature.
• Amorphous • False
• Hygroscopic • True
Answer: Hygroscopic Answer: True

12. Which of the following is not an acid? 20. Catalysts often speed up certain chemical reactions.
• NaOH • True
• HCl • False
• H2SO4 Answer: True
• HNO3
Answer: NaOH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

1. A substance that cannot be broken down into a simpler

13. What is the combination of any substance with oxygen form by ordinary chemical means is called a(n)
known as? ________________.
• Oxidation
• Reduction A. Element
• Combustion B. Compound
• Hydrogenation C. Mixture
Answer: Oxidation D. Isotope
A. Element
14. Which of the following is not a physical change? 2. A compass bearing of 165 degrees describes a
• Decantation _______________.
• Oxidation
• Distillation A. North-westerly direction
• Precipitation B. South-easterly direction
Answer: Oxidation C. South-westerly direction
D. North-easterly direction
15. The two allotropes of phosphorus are B. South-easterly direction
• Red Phosphorus, Yellow Phosphorus 3. The smallest unit of an element that has all the basic
• Rhombic Phosphorus, Monoclinic Phosphorus properties of the element is called a(n)
• Alpha Phosphorus, Beta Phosphorus ________________.
• Crystalline Phosphorus, Amorphous Phosphorus
Answer: Red Phosphorus, Yellow Phosphorus A. Electron
B. Atom
16. Which of the following is a chemical change? C. Nucleus
• Boiling of water D. Isotope
• Freezing of water B. Atom
• Rusting of iron 4. Plants create their own food by absorbing and
• Dissolving of salt in water processing sunlight. The ability to produce your own
Answer: Rusting of iron food source is a metabolic process known as what?

17. If no more solute can be dissolved in a solvent at a A. Heterotrophy

given temperature then that solution is called B. Autotrophy
• A Saturated Solution C. Homotrophy
• An Unstable Solution D. Ditrophy
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 B. Autotrophy
5. Sea breezes occur during the ________ and the 1. What is the difference between the prokaryotes and
produce winds moving ________. eukaryotes?
The eukaryotes has a nucleus, and the prokaryotes does
A. Night / out over the water not.
B. Night / in over the land 2. You slam on your brakes in a panic and skid a certain
C. Day / out over the water distance down a straight and level road. If you had been
D. Day / in over the land traveling twice as fast, what distance would the car have
D. Day / in over the land skidded under the same conditions?
6. Which of the following is an element? Four times further
3. Balance the following equations:
A. Ruby NH4NO3 N2 + O2 + H2O
B. Topaz 2NH4NO3 2N2 + O2 + 4H2O
C. Sapphire
D. Diamond 4. Think fast! You've just driven around a curve in a narrow
D. Diamond – made up mainly of carbons street at 60 km/hr when you notice a car identical to yours
7. A group of cells that work together to perform a coming straight toward you at 60 km/hr. You have two
function is called a what? options: hitting the other car head on, or swerving into a
massive concrete wall, also head on. In the split second
A. Cell system before impact you decide to (assume the same amount of
B. Organ system KE is lost by your car in both collisions.)
C. Tissue Hit either one – it makes no difference which
D. Organism
C. Tissue 5. Prolactin is a hormone that activate milk production in
8. A vector A is added to a vector B. Under what mothers. Which gland produces this hormone?
conditions does the resultant vector A + B have Pituitary Gland
greatest magnitude?
6. How many grams of KCl would you need to add to 2 liters
A. When A and B are parallel and in the same direction of water to make a 0.50 M solution?
B. When A and B are parallel and in the opposite SOLUTION:
direction 1. We want to make a .50M solution of KCl.
C. When A and B are perpendicular
D. The magnitude of A + B does not depend on the 2. We need to both start & finish with 2 liters of solution.
directions of A and B
A. When A and B are parallel and in the same 3. If we finish with 2 liters of solution and and we need .
direction 50M solution then our final amount should be 1mole KCl/2
liters of water = .5 M solution

9. Two carts have masses m and 2m. They move on an How do we get .5M?
airtrack (ignore friction). You push each cart with the same We can calculate the atomic mass of KCl: 39.10 g/mole +
force for the same length of time. Compared to the 35.45 g/mole = 74.55 g/mole
momentum of the heavy cart (mass 2m) the momentum of
the light cart (mass m) is ________. We need 1 mole of KCl so (74.55 g/mole)(1 mole) = 74.55
A. Four times grams
B. Twice
C. Equal to 7. ___________ is the most important chemically-active
D. One-half fluid involved in the formation of rocks.
C. Equal to Water

10. Red blood corpuscles are formed in the 8. Winds are classed as agents of erosion rather than of
______________ weathering because ___________.
A. Liver They carry rock particles away
B. Bone marrow
C. Kidneys 1. If the four light bulbs in the circuit shown below are
D. Heart identical, which circuit puts out the most light?
B. Bone marrow Circuit 1

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Based on the Punnett square, which offspring will show
homozygous dominant traits.

Male
Hh
Female H A b
hCd

a will show HH genotype which will show both dominant

traits of the parents. b and c will be heterozygous dominant
and d will be homozygous recessive.
3. 90.0 g of FeCl3 reacts with 52.0 g of H2S. What is the
limiting reactant?
NOTE: The limiting reactant is the reactant that limits the
amount of product that can be formed and is completely
consumed during the reaction. The excess reactant is the
reactant that is left over once the reaction has stopped due
to the limiting reactant.
ATOMIC MASS:
K - 39.0983
Cl - 35.4527
ATOMIC MASS:
Fe - 55.845
Cl -35.4527
H - 1.00749
S - 32.066
4. Name the extremely fine-grained, wind-blown clay
particularly characteristic of the arid and semi-arid south-
western United States, Mexico and South America. This
material was used by the south-western Indians and
Mexicans for constructing huts and buildings from
prehistoric times
Adobe
5. In almost every species of mammals, the female is only
receptive to mating during a certain time of year. This
period is called ___________.
Estrus
THANK YOU
1. You are standing on what continent when you are at a
latitude of 90 degrees south?
Antarctica
2. A satellite in a circular orbit around the Earth has a
period T. A second sate in a circular orbit around the Earth
with two (2) times the orbital radius has period ________.
3. How many liters does 3.8 moles of O2 occupy at STP
(standard temperature and pressure)?
NOTE: At STP, 1 mole of any gas = 22.4L. STP is 273K (0 C)
and 1 atm.
4. Name the clay mineral produced by the alteration of
potash feldspar which is also used in ceramics.
Kaolinite