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GRADING PERIOD
SCIENCE and HEALTH
GRADE III

I. Select the best answer.
Competency: Describe the effect on the domestic animals if they are not provided with food, shelter
with ventilation, water
Skill: Inferring
Level of Difficulty: Average
1. Mang Jose has pet named Baltig. One day, Mang Jose went to his farm for a couple of days and
forgot to feed his dog with food and water. What do you think happened to Baltig?
a. Get angry with Mang Jose.
b. Baltig died.
c. Baltig was happy because Mang Jose is gone.
Competency: Demonstrate care and concern for animals
Skill: Thinking
Level of Difficulty: Average
2. John has a pet dog he keeps it clean by taking a bath everyday. Before the dog takes a bath John
put a mouthguard to it. What is the reason why John put a mouthguard to his pet dog?
a. To avoid biting
b. John is protecting himself from being bitten by the dog.
c. John's pet dog has bad breath.
Competency: Identifying the parts of different kind of plants and their functions.
Skill: Identifying
Level of Difficulty:Level
3. Which part of the plant makes food?
a. Roots
b. Leaves
c. Stem
d. Flower
Competency: Classifying plants according to shape of leaves.
Skill: Comparing
Level of Difficulty: Average
4. Look at the picture of corn leaves and sugarcane leaves. Which of the following statements
describes them correctly?
a. They have long stems
b. They have tiny flowers
c. They bear edible fruits
d. Their leaves are of the same size.
Corn leaves sugarcane leaves

Competency: Classifying plants according to number of seeds.
Skill: classifying
Level of Difficulty:average

5. Study the classification given below.






FRUITS


Mango Guava
Avocado Papaya
Rambutan Santol

The fruits are grouped according to their__________________?
a. Number of seeds
b. Size
c. Color
d. Skin texture
Competency: Giving examples of plants used for food, building materials, medicine fuel and decorative
purposes.
Skill: Identifying
Level of Difficulty: Average
6. Which plant can be used for many purposes?
a. Coconut
b. Mango
c. Rice
d. Camote
Competency: Classifying plants according to use.
Skill: Comparing/observing
Level of Difficulty: average
7. Study the Table.






What group does pineapple, abaca and cotton that are good sources of fiber belong?
a. Group A
b. Group B
c. Group AB
d. Group BA

Competency: Demonstrate ways of caring and conserving plants
Skill:Observing
Level of Difficulty: Average
8. Study the picture.




A B C


A B
Herbal/medicine Industrial/decorative
Ampalya Coconut
Bayabas Narra
Lagundi Bamboo
Which does NOT show proper caring and conserving plants?
a. The boy is watering the plants
b. The girl is putting plant outside the house
c. The girl is picking the plants
d. All pictures show caring and conserving the plants.



Competency: Observe some characteristics of solids
Skill: Observing
Level of Difficulty: Difficult
9. Study the illustration. What characteristic of solid shown in the illustration?
a. Hardness
b. Malleability
c. Brittleness
d. Roughness

Competency: Observe some characteristics of liquid
Skill: Observing
Level of Difficulty: Difficult
10. Maria stored water in the containers as shown in the picture. What characteristic of liquid is
demonstrated in the illustration?
a. Water has no definite shape.
b. Water has shape.
c. Water can be compressed
d. All of the above


Competency: Observe some characteristics of gases
Skill: Observing
Level of Difficulty: Average
11. Study the illustration.



A B C
Which of the pictures shows a characteristic of gas?

Competency: Observe some characteristics of gases.
Skill: Predicting
Level of Difficulty: Difficult






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b.
c.
d
Competency: estimate the weight of solids by balancing with the hands, and using an improvised
balance and non balance weights
Skill: Predicting
Level of Difficulty: difficult

13.
Spring wire Spring wire

A B


Which picture suggests that the ball is heavy?
a. A
b. B
c. Both A and B
d. None of the above



Competency: Measure the weight of solids using weighing scales in the marketplace and health clniccs.
Skill: Observing
Level of Difficulty: average
14. Aling Nena went to the market to buy some bananas for her
daughter Nene. What is the weight of bananas that she bought?
a. 5 kg
b. 3 kg
c. 2 kg
d. 1 kg






Competency: estimate space occupied by liquid using a spoon, cup and bottle.
Skill: Observing
Level of Difficulty: average

15. Which of these graduated cylinders contains 16 ml of water?







A B C D

Competency:
Skill: Inferring
Level of Difficulty: difficult
16. A student uses a pail to catch rainwater for
watering plants. Which of these would be BEST to
use for measuring the amount of rainwater in
the pail?










A B C


Competency: Estimate space occupied by solids.
Skill: Predicting
Level of Difficulty: Difficult

17.

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b.

c.
d.



Competency: Estimate space occupied by liquids using a spoon, cup and bottle.
Skill: Predicting
Level of Difficulty: difficult
18. Francis poured milk from a feeding bottle into a glass. The property of the water that remains
unchanged is________________.
a. size
b. volume
c. shape
d. water level


Competency: Perform an activity to show that gases have weight using an improvised balance.
Skill: Predicting
Level of Difficulty:difficult

19.



The picture above best shows that air has ----
a. Mass
b. Oxygen
c. Moisture
d. Energy

Competency: Observe some characteristics of liquids
Skill: Thinking
Level of Difficulty:average
20. Which of the following is NOT true about a liquid?
a. A liquid has a definite volume.
b. A liquid has no definite shape.
c. A liquid has no definite volume.
d. A liquid can flow.

Competency: Observe some characteristics of gases
Skill: inferring
Level of Difficulty:difficult
21. When Gregory holds a bar of chocolate in his hand for sometime, it starts to melt. There is a
change of state from_______________.
a. solid to gaseous c. liquid to solid
b. solid to liquid d. liquid to gas




Competency: Observe some characteristics of liquids
Skill: Predicting
Level of Difficulty:Difficult
22. Jake filled a bottle to the brim with water. When he inserted a stopper, some water overflowed.
This shows that water____________________.

a. has definite shape
b. can be compressed
c. cannot be compressed
d. has a definite shape and cannot b e compressed


Competency: Observe some characteristics of liquid
Skill: Classifying
Level of Difficulty: average
23. The table below shows the properties of solids, liquids and gases. Which one of them is wrong?




Competency:
Skill: Classifying
Level of Difficulty: difficult
24. Choose the right statement.
1. In solids the molecules are packed the closest together.
2. In gases the molecules are spread out the most.
3. In liquids the molecules are packed closer together.
a. Statement 1 alone is right.
b. Statement 2 and 3 are correct.
c. All the above statements are right.
d. All the above statements are wrong.
II. Write True if the statement is true and False if it false.
Competency: Observe some characteristics of liquid
Skill: Inferring
Level of Difficulty: average
25. Water has a definite volume.___________
Competency: Observe some characteristics of solid
Skill: inferring
Level of Difficulty: difficult
26. A solid takes the shape of its container._______




Properties Solid Liquid Gas
A It has mass
B It occupies space
C It has definite volume
D It has definite shape
Competency: Identify the parts of plants.
Skill: thinking
Level of Difficulty: average
27. All plants bear fruits.____________
Competency: Differentiate between solids, liquid and gases based o observable characteristics.
Skill: thinking
Level of Difficulty: average
28. A liquid is different from a gas because it has a definite volume._______
III. Essay. Write a brief answer to each question.
Competency: Describe the effect on the domestic animals if they are not provided with food, shelter
with ventilation, water.
Skill: Describing
Level of Difficulty: difficult
29-31 Describe in 3 sentences the effect on the domestic animals if they are not provided with
food, shelter, ventilation and water.
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Competency: Identify the parts of different kind of plants and their functions
Skill: Identifying
Level of Difficulty: Difficult
32-34 Identify the parts of a plant and give the function of each part.




Functions of each
plant_________________________________________________________________________________
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Competency: Demonstrate care and concern for animals
Skill: Thinking
Level of Difficulty: Difficult
35-37 Why we take good care of our pet animals?
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Competency: Demonstrate ways of caring and conserving plants.
Skill:Inferring
Level of Difficulty:difficult
38-40 You have a small vegetable garden. What will you do to take care of the plants in your
garden?
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