THINKING ALGEBRAE TUTORIAL CENTER donor, resulting in rejection of the donated

blood.
SCIENCE REVIEW – PHILSCI
C. Both A and B are true.
Name:__________________ Date:__________ D. None of the above statements are true.

School:_________________ Score:_________ 7. Excluding the sun, what is the brightest star

Directions: Encircle the letter of the best answer. in the sky?
Erasures are not allowed. A. Sirius B. Venus
C. Betelgeuse D. The Big Dipper

8. What process can be used on a liquid to

1. Which of the following are organic
separate its components without losing
compounds?
either component in the process?
A. NaCl
A. Distillation B. Evaporation
B. C6H12O6
C. Sieving D. Paper Chromatography
C. H2SO4
D. H2O
9. Flooding frequently happens in the
Philippines. It may occur due to an
2. Which of the following are true during a lunar
accumulation of rainwater on saturated
eclipse?
ground. This can threaten several lives,
A. The sun is between the earth and the
moon properties and even livestock. If there is a
B. the earth is between the sun and the moon flood, what characteristics of soil would
C. the sun is between the earth and the moon make the situation of flooding worse within
D. none of the above the affected area?
A. high porosity and high permeability
3. Prior to 1977 rings were only known to exist B. high porosity and low permeability
around Saturn. Since then, at least one ring C. low porosity and high permeability
has been found around which other planet D. low porosity and low permeability
or planets?
A. Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune 10. Which among the following is correctly
B. Uranus and Neptune paired?
C. Uranus A. cheddar cheese : heterogeneous
D. Mercury and Neptune B. liquid soap : homogeneous
C. sugar : element
4. Which of the following is necessary for D. orange juice : compound
burning (combustion)?
A. Nitrogen 11. Rock and dust samples brought back from
B. Oxygen the Moon by the Apollo missions in the
C. Carbon 1980s were more similar to Earth’s mantle
D. Petrol than to meteorites that struck the Earth.
Which of the following statements is true
5. Who discovered the circulation of the about Earth’s tock and moon’s rock?
blood? A. Rocks on Earth are much younger than
A. William Harvey those on the moon.
B. Edward Jenner B. Rocks on Earth are much older than
C. Louis Pasteur those on the moon.
D. Robert Koch C. Rocks on Earth are about the same age
as rocks on the moon.
6. How come a person with type B blood D. Moon rocks do not have age.
cannot donate to a person with type A
blood? 12. Mechanical and chemical weathering result
A. The recipient has antibodies against B in disintegration and decomposition of
blood, which has B antigens, resulting in parent material so that it is more nearly in
clotting up the donated blood. equilibrium with new physical and chemical
B. The recipient has B surface antigens conditions. Mechanical weathering
that can be recognized by antibodies of the involves forces that break rocks into
smaller pieces without changing their 18. Water is a good solvent because ______.
chemical composition. Which mechanical A. Water is a good solvent because it is a
weathering process involved in the origin of negatively charged ion.
exfoliation domes? B. Water is such a good solvent because it
A. pressure release repels most molecules.
B. expansion and contraction C. Water is such a good solvent because it
C. heating and cooling is such a small molecule
D. oxidation and reduction D. Water is a good solvent due to its
polarity and small molecular size
13. What measurement is used to quantify the
destruction caused by an earthquake? 19. A solution that cannot hold any more solute
A. the Richter scale at room temperature would be ______.
B. the modified Mercalli scale A. a dilute solution
C. the moment magnitude scale B. a concentrated solution
D. the moment destruction scale C. a saturated solution
D. a supersaturated solution
14. The main reason why one can possibly
walk barefoot on a red hot wooden coals 20. Ethanol dissolved in water would be an
without burning the feet is example of ______.
A. the low thermal conductivity of coal. A. a solution between two miscible liquids
B. the high temperature of coal. B. a solution between a solid and liquid
C. the low temperature of coal. C. a suspension between two liquids
D. the stepping techniques. D. ethanol and water do not form a solution

15. Mixtures can be classified as homogenous 21. To form a supersaturated solution requires
or heterogenous and can be separated by ______.
simple means. Solutions and suspensions A. reducing the amount of solute
A. are both compounds. B. reducing the amount of solvent
B. are both examples of a homogenous C. none of the above
mixture.
C. are both examples of a heterogenous 22. Which one of the following is an example of
mixture. a physical change?
D. can be separated into components by A. iron rusting
physical means. B. a steak cooking
C. sugar dissolving in water
16. Flowers are the reproductive organs of D. a candle burning
angiosperms. These organs have various
parts that fall under three groups: (1) male 23. Which one of the following is not a physical
parts, (2) female parts and (3) accessory change?
parts. A. clothes drying in the dryer
B. making a cup of coffee
Depending on the present structures, a C. chopping wood
flower may be categorized as complete, D. boiling an egg
incomplete, perfect or imperfect. Which of
the following lists of parts describes a 24. The chemicals after a chemical change
perfect flower but not a complete flower? ______.
A. have properties identical to the
A. Pistil, stamen and accessory parts chemicals before the change.
B. Pistil and accessory parts only C. B. have properties different to the
Stamen and accessory parts only chemicals before the change.
D. Pistil and stamen only C. both A and B
D. none of the above
17. In a solution the substance that does the
dissolving is called ______. 25. 10. Give the mass number for an atom that
A. soluble B. the solute C. the solvent D. an has 10 protons, 10 electrons, and 11
ion neutrons.
A. 31 B. 20 C. 10 D. 21 B. mostly red light
C. most wavelength of the visible spectrum
For Numbers 26 and 27, refer to the except red
following table: D. more of the visible spectrum than a gem
or mineral that is violet

33. Someone is wearing perfume on their wrist.

Why can people near them smell it?
A. the particles of perfume spread from an
area of higher concentration, their wrist, to
areas of lower concentration, the air
B. people can smell the concentrated
26. How much of substance W will react with
perfume on the wrist, but it doesn't travel
9.0 g. of substance Z?
through the air
A. 9.0 g B. 12.0 g C. 15.0 g D. 18.0 g
C. some of the perfume leaves the wrist,
mixing with air particles
27. The amount of substance WZ that will be
D. both A and B E. both A and C
produced from 12.0g of substance Z
assuming that substance W is in excess is
34. The figure shows a radiation heater. What
A. 22.5 g B. 27.0 g C. 31.5 g D. 36.0 g
heat transfer processes are involved at
positions E and F?
28. Unless an object at rest is acted upon by a
force, it stays at rest due to its ______.
A. matter B. inertia C. friction D. gravity

29. The acceleration in a body is due to

A. balanced force B. unbalanced force
C. mass D. electrostatic force

For questions 30 and 31, refer to the

following diagrams. A. E is radiation and F is conduction.
B. E is conduction and F is convection.
C. E is convection and F is conduction.
D. E is radiation and F is convection.

35. An astronaut picks up a stone on the moon

and finds its mass to be 2 kg. If the mass of
the earth is 6 times more than the mass of
30. From the illustration, one can conclude that the moon, what will the mass and the
______. weight of the stone be on the earth?
A. cube A has the least weight A. 2kg 12N
B. cube C has the highest density B. 2kg 20N
C. cube A has the highest density C. 12kg 120N
D. water has greater buoyant force than D. 20kg 200N
cube A
36. Water is boiled in a flask with a balloon over
31. Cube c sinks because ______. the top. As the water heats, the balloon
expands. What has happened to the weight
A. it weighs much
B. it displaces much water of this flask and balloon in this experiment?
C. its weight is less than the weight of the A. It has increased as the balloon expands.
water it has displaced B. It has decreased as the water boiled
away.
D. its weight is greater than the weight of
the water it has displaced C. It has stayed the same.
32. A gem or mineral that is red absorbs D. It is unpredictable because the balloon
______. is flexible.
A. red light
37. A student wishes to find the density of an
irregular piece of rock. How will she find
volume?
A. length x width x height
B. place it on a triple beam balance
C. put it in a beaker
D. use water displacement

38. A barge filled with scrap iron is in a canal

lock. If the barge were to sink what would
happen to the water level?
A. It would fall.
B. It would remain unchanged.
C. It would rise.
D. It would depend on its mass.

39. A solar or lunar eclipse will occur ______.

A. when the sun is near the line of nodes of
the moon and the moon is new or full
B. any time the moon is new or full
C. when the sun is near the solstice and the
moon is new or full
D. half way through an eclipse year E.
when the sun is near the equinox and the
moon is new or full

40. Which of the following is not considered a

simple machine?
A. wedge
B. pulley
C. lever
D. wheelbarrow