DIAGNOSTIC TESTSCIENCE 5

Directions: Read each question carefully and 6. Which of the following explains why a
choose the letter of the best answer. In your burning candle gradually stops burning
answer sheet, blacken the letter that when placed inside a closed jar?
corresponds your answer.
A. formation of smoke
B. formation of moisture
C. absence of oxygen gas
1. Why are frying pans made of metals best
D. presence of oxygen gas
to use in cooking?
7. Under what condition will a margarine
Frying pans made of metals can _______.
melt?
A. cook anytime
A margarine will melt when _______.
B. absorb heat faster
B. stick to the materials
A. cooled
C. be brought anywhere
B. eaten
C. heated
2. Chemical fertilizers can increase the
D. sliced
farmer’s harvest. What is their harmful
effect when overused?
8. Which of the following examples shows
the effect of heat on the material?
A. Add nutrients to the soil
B. Give abundant harvest
A. drying of clothes
C. Make the soil acidic
B. freezing of water
D. Destroy the plants
C. tearing of paper
3. Chlorine, muriatic acid and bleach are D. rusting of iron
stain removers. When do these materials
become harmful?
9. What will you do with the empty plastic
A. Leaving these materials anywhere at bottles and tin cans?
home
B. Keeping these materials in the proper I. Make plastic pots or pen holders
place II. Bury on the ground
C. Storing these materials in the cabinet III. Throw them away
D. Using these materials with care IV. Sell them

4. Computers are used in research, games, A. I & II

and encoding. Which of the following B. III & IV
factors causes health problems because C. I & IV
of too much exposure to these gadgets? D. II & III

A. chemical composition 10. Old newspapers and candy wrappers can

B. radiation emission be made into ___________.
C. energy utilization
D. sound pollution A. bags and cushions
B. table napkins and bags
5. When iron is exposed to air, it becomes C. cushions and table cloths
________. D. table cloths and table napkins

A. rusty C. melted
B. shiny D. fr

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11. Instead of throwing away used water in

washing clothes, Anna used it to clean the (Refer to the illustration of menstrual cycle
muddy pathway. What type of waste below to answer item numbers 16 to 18.)
management is described in this
situation?
16. In what
A. Reuse C. Reduce phase of the
B. Recycle D. Remake menstrual
cycle does
12. Which of the following activities shows uterine
recycling? lining begin
to break
A. composting organic materials from down and
plants bleeding
B. segregating biodegradable and results?
non-biodegradable wastes
C. throwing solid and liquid waste A. Luteal Phase
materials into landfills and rivers B. Follicular Phase
D. collecting solid and liquid wastes C. Ovulation Phase
which can be sold in the junkshops D. Menstrual Phase

13. The important function of the vas 17. Which of the following events describes
deferens in the male reproductive system the follicular phase of the menstrual
is to ___________. cycle?

A. transport mature sperm from the A. Release of blood, mucus and tissue
epididymis to the urethra from the uterus
B. produce sperms and male sex B. Release of hormone which stimulates
hormone testosterone the ovary to release egg cells
C. help nourish the sperms C. Release of mature egg cell from the
D. store mature sperms ovary
D. Release of estrogen and progesterone
14. Which part of the female reproductive hormones
system produces the female sex
hormones, estrogen and progesterone? 18. What happens during the menstrual
cycle?
A. Cervix C. uterus
B. Ovary D. fallopian tube I. Monthly changes in the
woman’s body in preparation
15. Which of the following functions takes for a possible pregnancy
place in the fallopian tube of the female II. Production of hormones
reproductive system? III. Fertilization of egg cell

A. Release of egg cell A. I

B. Hormone production B. II
C. Implantation of embryo C. I and II
D. Fertilization of the egg cell D. II and III

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19. Where does internal fertilization take 24. The following are pairs of living things
place? that interact in estuaries, EXCEPT _____.

A. in the water A. shrimps and corals

B. on the ground B. crabs and mangroves
C. inside the female’s body C. mangroves and shellfish
D. outside the female’s body D. starfishes and salty water

20. Which group of animals exhibits internal 25. Why do intertidal zones need to be
fertilization as a mode of reproduction? protected and conserved?

A. cat, cow, dog I. They provide home to especially

B. chicken, fish, frog adapted marine plants and animals.
C. duck, crocodile, snail II. They serve as source of food to
D. frog, butterfly, mosquito people and many other animals.
III. They prevent erosion caused by
21. Which of the following describes the storms.
function of the filaments in flowering
plants? A. I and II
B. II and III
A. holds the anther in a position tall C. I and III
enough to release the pollen D. I, II, and III
B. connects the stigma to the ovary
C. collects pollen grains 26. What is the speed of a car that travels a
D. traps pollen grains distance of 116 miles in 2 hours?

22. Which of the following describes the Where: S (speed); d (distance); t (time)
function of the stigma?

A. traps pollen grains

B. collects the pollen grains
A. 58 miles per hour
C. connects the stigma to the ovary
B. 68 miles per hour
D. holds the antler in apposition tall
C. 78 miles per hour
enough to release the pollen
D. 88 miles per hour
23. Which of the following statements best
27. A car runs for 3 hours to cover a 300 km
describes asexual reproduction in plants?
distance. What is its speed?
A. New plants are grown from seeds.
B. New plants are produced from stems, A. 90 kilometers per hour
roots, or buds. B. 100 kilometers per hour
C. Male and female gametes combine to C. 110 kilometers per hour
form a zygote. D. 120 kilometers per hour
D. Pollens from the anther transfer to
the stigma of a flower.

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28. Why is copper a good conductor of

electricity? 33. The bulb in a circuit lights up when the
circuit is ____________.
Copper is __________.
A. broken
A. cotton
B. closed
B. metal
C. plastic C. open
D. rubber D. taken

(Refer to the illustration below to answer

29. Which of these materials is a good
item numbers 34 to 35.)
conductor of heat?

A. glass
B. plastic
C. rubber
D. wood

30. Which object absorbs most light and

heat?

A. black shirt
B. pink shirt
C. white shirt 34. The circuit has __________ bulbs.
D. yellow shirt
A. 1
31. What happens to light that falls on a clear B. 2
glass? C. 3
D. 4
A. absorbed
B. blocked 35. When fewer bulbs are used in a circuit,
C. transmitted the brightness of each bulb
D. wasted ____________.
(Refer to the illustration of a circuit below to
answer item number 32.) A. appears
B. disappears
C. increases
D. decreases

32. What needs to be done to the circuit so

that the bulb will light up?

A. Add another bulb.

B. Add another wire.
C. Turn on the switch.
D. Turn off the switch.

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39. Which of the following activities causes

(Refer to the illustration below to answer
the breaking down of rocks?
item numbers 36 and 37.)
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36. Which of the following factors is needed A. I and II

to make an electromagnet? B. II and III
C. I and III
I. Iron core (nail) D. I, II and III
II. Wire (copper)
III. Electricity source (battery) 40. How do animals become factors that
cause weathering of rocks?
A. I only
B. II and III A. Animals step on rocks.
C. I and III B. Some animals eat rocks.
D. I, II and III C. Earthworms live on cracks of rocks.
D. Animal’s claws, hooves and horns
37. What is produced when electricity flows break down rocks.
in a conductor?
41. Which of the following is TRUE about the
A. coil effects of soil erosion on landforms?
B. magnetism
C. nail A. During erosion, sand dunes are not
D. wire affected.
B. Heavy landslide leads to the
38. Which of the following processes formation of a mountain.
describes weathering? C. Soil erosion does not change the
shape and size of any landform.
A. formation of water vapor D. The steepness of a mountain slope is
B. changing of gas into liquid changed.
C. deposition of solids from a solution
D. breaking down of rocks into smaller 42. How does soil erosion affect the condition
pieces until it becomes soil of soil?

A. Soil erosion lowers the fertility of soil.

B. Removal of topsoil adds fertility to the
soil.
C. The soil becomes more suitable for
growing plants.
D. Humus increases due to continuous
soil erosion.

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48. What should you do during typhoons?

43. Which of the following is MOST affected
with soil erosion? A. Stay at home and be updated about
the typhoon.
A. animals C. humans B. Seek shelter in a basement or low
B. bacteria D. plants ground.
C. Seek high ground due to flooding.
44. When an area is continuously eroded, it D. Play outside for it is raining.
cannot support plant growth. Why is this
so?
(Refer to the illustration below to answer
item number 49.)
A. New set of nutrients are provided in
the area.
B. The eroded soil is replaced by better
quality of soil.
C. Plants cannot adopt to the rich quality
of the eroded soil.
D. The topsoil, which contains much
humus, is washed away.

45. What weather disturbance will occur

when there is continuous rising of warm
air and sinking of cold air, creating
49. Why does the moon seem to change its
stronger winds and formation of clouds?
shape?

A. storm C. typhoon
A. It follows the Sun.
B. tornado D. thunderstorm
B. Its surface experiences seasons.
C. It breaks some of its parts when it
46. It is a weather phenomenon which is
reflects light from the Sun.
accompanied by heavy rainfall, with a
D. Its lighted part is seen from the Earth
wind speed that reaches 118 to 220 kph.
as it moves.
What is this weather disturbance?
50. Which constellation has a shape of a
A. storm C. typhoon
mythical hunter?
B. tornado D. thunderstorm
A. Cassiopeia
47. Weather disturbances such as storms,
B. Orion
cyclones and typhoons cause _____.
C. Pegasus
D. Ursa Major
I. Food shortages
II. Death of many living things
III. Flood that destroys farm products **** End of Science ****

A. I only C. III only

B. II only D. I, II, and III

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