GRADE 7 SCIENCE QUIZ BOWL

EASY
1. How should non-decaying waste be disposed?
A. by composting C. by recycling
B. reusing D. both b and c
2. It allows you to bend your knees.
A. muscles C. femur
B. joints D. tendons
3. What do you call the longest bone in the human body?
A. pelvis C. cranium
B. femur D. ribs
4. Which is the command center of the body?
A. blood C. brain
B. heart D. stomach
5. Which group of animals are found on water habitat?
A. tadpole, grasshopper, eagle B. horse, goat, monkey
C. dolphin, carabao, eagle D. fish, squid, crab

AVERAGE
1. What feature is shown by all insects?
A. External Skeleton B. Two pairs of legs
C. Jumping legs D. stinging mechanism
2. Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars are the planets that are nearer to the sun. What are these planets
called?
A. outer planets B. inner planets
C. water planets D. gaseous planets
3. A boy was shown the bones of an animal’s head. He concluded that it was an animal that eats grass.
How did he know this?
A. The animal had a big mouth. B. The animal had a small mouth.
C. The teeth he saw were flat. D. The teeth he saw were pointed.
4. The uterus is just a size of a fist. How can it accommodate a full-term baby which weighs more than
three kilos?
A. The uterus is elastic. B. The uterus is rounded.
C. The uterus is rigid. D. The uterus is elongated.
5. Fossil fuels were formed from the ________________.
A. volcanoes C. the remains of living things
B. gases in the atmosphere D. water trapped inside the rocks

DIFFICULT
1. A girl wants to test the presence of starch in a leaf. Which of the following will she use?
A. Benedicts solution C. Iodine solution
B. Merthiolate solution D. sugar solution
2. The fertilized egg is called a zygote. What happen to the zygote after fertilization?
A.Ovulate C.Reproduce
B.Cell divide D.Become fetus
3. Why are green plants important to animals?
A. Green plants consume food and give off oxygen.
B. Green plants consume food and give off carbon dioxide.
C. Green plants produce food and give off oxygen.
D. Green plants produce food and give off carbon dioxide.
2. Choose the correct order of food moving through the digestive system.
A. mouth, stomach, esophagus, small intestine, large intestine
B. mouth, small intestine, large intestine, esophagus, stomach
C. mouth, esophagus, stomach, large intestine, small intestine
D. mouth, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine
4. After taking a bath, you feel cold on coming out of the bathroom. Why does this happen?
A. The surrounding air takes up heat from the towel and the skin.
B. Water vapor in the air condenses on the body and cools.
C. Water on the skin evaporates and cools off the skin.
 D. Water on the skin evaporates then condenses to cool off the skin.
5. A beaker was filled with water up to 40 mL mark. A small stone was slowly lowered into the beaker and it
was observed that the level rose to 45 ml. What does the change in the level of the water represents?
A. Volume of water C. Volume of stone
B. Weight of the stone D. Weight of stone

CLINCHER
1. Some plants grow better if bone meal (ground-up bones) is spread around their roots. What does bone
meal supply to the plants that makes them grow better?
A. energy C. vitamins
B. minerals D. water
2. What is predicted as a result of global warming?
A. Rising sea and ocean levels. C. Larger volcanic eruption.
B. More severe earthquakes. D. Thinning of the ozone layer.
3. Sensory messages are taken to the brain by ____________.
A. arteries and veins C. nerve and hormones
B. arteries and hormones D. muscles and veins
4. Alexander Fleming noticed that bacteria growing on a plate of agar did not grow next to a mold that was
growing on the same plate. This statement is best described as _________.
A. an observation C. a generalization
B. a hypothesis D. a conclusion

5. On a warm sunny day, you will feel cooler wearing light colored clothes because they_________.
A. Are not as heavy as dark clothes. C. prevents sweating.
B. reflect more radiation. D. let more air in.

6. A wolf place his scent on trees. Wolves most likely doing this in order to ________.
A. attract prey
B. attract female wolves.
C. mark their territory against other wolves.
D. mark the location of their shelter and food.
7. Which BEST describes the movement of the plates that make up Earth’s surface over millions of years?
A. They have never moved.
B. They have been continually moving.
C. They stayed the same millions of years but are now moving.
D. They moved for millions of years but have now stopped.
8. What body structure protects the lungs from outside harm?
A. Rib Cage C. Skin
B. Skull D. hair
9. The female reproductive system produces and stores the egg cells or ova. Which of the
following is a female reproductive organ has a function mentioned above?
A. Ovary C. Egg cell
B. Testes D. Sperm
10. What layer of the earth is inferred to be liquid in form?
A. Crust C. Outer core
B. Mantle D. Inner core