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1. How will you describe the relationship between an orchids living in atree?
Answer: The orchids and the tree benefits from the tree without harming the tree
2. How do animals adapt to its environment for protection?
Answer: Through camouflage or mimicry
3. How many days for a monarch butterfly until it has eaten 30 milkweed leaves if it has an egg for a period of 3-6 days?
Answer: 10
4. Plants with waxy leaves help to protect themselves from _______________ as a result of too much exposure to the
sunlight.
Answer: dehydration
5. How do kidneys remove urea from the blood?
Answer: Through tiny filtering units called nephrons
6. One example of commensalism is when the plants like fern is attached on a branch of a tree. Why is the interaction
called commensalism?
Answer: A fern benefits from the realtionship while a branch of a tree is neither harmed nor benefitted
7. Kidney stones also known as _________________ is composed of calcium and waste products containing nitrogen.
Answer: Renal Calculi
8. ________________ is a hollow muscular organ loacated between the lungs and it is protected by rib cage.
Answer: Heart
9. _________________ is a biological process by which an animal physically develops after birth or hatching. It is part of
the life cycle of the most insects.
Answer: Metamorphosis.
10. _________________ is an ailment characterized by the blood’s inability to produce enough hemoglobin, the oxygen-
carrying pigment of the RBC.
Answer: Anemia
11. An ________________ is the structure or behavior that helps an organism survive in its environment.
Answer: Adaptation
12. Kidneys are one of the vital organs of our body. How can you describe the kidneys?
Answer: The kidneys are bean-shaped paired organs which are about 2-3 inches long and they remove urea
from the blood through tiny filtering units called nephrons
13. _____________ protects the major organs of the body.
Answer: Bones
14. Larvae shed their exoskeleton a few times before they pupate. These stages of growth in larvae are also
called___________. Answer: Instars
15. ______________ is a condition of an inflamed intestine most frequently occuring in the ileum of the small intestine.
Answer: Crohns Disease
16. _____________ is the presence of blood in the urine by infection.
Answer: Hematuria
17. ______________ is one thing that can seriously interfere with the proper functioning of our body.
Answer: Pollution
18. There are six elements that keep the ecosystem going. These are the sun, producers, abiotic substances, primary
consumers, secondary consumers and _______________
Answer: Decomposers
19. Undigested food particles like seeds, tough fruit pulp, and not properly chewed meat are passed on to the _______
to be eliminated from the body during defecation.
Answer: Large Intestine
20. ______________ is to force air out of your stomach through your mouth.
Answer: Burp
21. ___________ is also known as cryptic coloration, a defense or tactic that organisms use to disguise their appearance,
usually to blend in with their surroundings. Organisms use this to mask their location, identfy, and movement. This
allows prey to avoid predators, and for predators to sneak up on prey.
Answer: Camouflage
22. What safety precaution do you need to observe in decaying waste materials?
Answer: Use gloves or adequate equipment in handling materials to prevent puncture by sharp objects.
23. Sam heated a chocolate bar to make a chocolate syrup. Which of the following describes what changes happens in
the property of the chocolate bar when it is heated?
Answer: The chocolate bar changed its size and shape
24. Lino tests the amount of water on plant growth. He filled the ten pots with equal amount of soil. He placed 3 radish
seeds in each pot that they would receive the same amount of sunlight and exposed to the same temperature. He has
given each of the pots different amounts of water. Which is the independent variable?
Answer: amount of water poured in each pot
25. Which gives shape and forms our body and protect delicate organs?
Answer: Muscles
26. What do you call the spongy material inside the stem of a monocot plant which contains tiny bundles of tubes which
carry water and minerals from the roots to the leaves?
Answer: Pith
27. What do you call the little rounded bodies found inside the flower’s ovary?
Answer: Ovules
28. There are interactions where both species benefit from the relationship and there are also interactions where one
species benefit but the other is neither affected nor harmed. What do you call this kind of interaction where one
organism can benefit from a relationship and the other is not harmed?
Answer: Mutualism
29. The outer part of a bone which is hard is made up of calcium. Aside from calcium which gives the bones its hardness
and strength?
Answer: Phosphorus
30. Why do seaweeds not considered as aquatic plants?
Answer: Because seaweeds are not vascular plants but multicellular marine algae, and therefore not typically
included in the category of aquatic plants
31. What happens to sugar when mixed with iodized salt?
Answer: White sugar cannot be distinguished with the iodized salt when mixed
32. Why do large boats or ship float in water?
Answer: because the upward push of the water is greater than their weights
33. Why does stomach rumbles when you’re hungry?
Answer: Because it contains less liquid but much gas
34. Why do the stomata of aquatic plants open most of the time?
Answer: Water is abundant and therefore there is no need for it to be retained in the plant
35. Why is a snake covered with dry scale?
Answer: It allows fast evaporation
36. How are butterflies and birds beneficial to us?
Answer: they help pollinate flowers, spread seeds in their flight and make the environment beautiful.
37. How do activities in the large intestine maintain homeostasis?
Answer: it returned large amount of water to the body
38. Barnacles cling to the body of a whale. This attachment helps the barnacle to move with the whale to get its food.
How would you describe the relationship?
Answer: One organism benefits while the other is not benefited or harmed.
39. How does the heart and lungs work together?
Answer: support each other to allow distribution of nutrients and oxygen.
40. Which ailment is caused by a complication of a throat infection?
Answer: Rheumatic Fever.
41. Why do some materials absorb water?
Answer: Because some materials have tiny holes that let the water in.
42. Why is pineapple considered as multiple fruit?
Answer: because the fruits develop from single ovaries of each flower in a cluster.
43. How will you describe the type of interaction between aphids and a rose plant?
Answer: Aphids benefit from the interaction while the rose plant is badly affected.
44. Why can you turn your head without turning your body?
Answer: A pivot joint connects the skull to the neck.
45. Why does the word “cardiac” refers to the heart?
Answer: Because the heart’s contractions cannot be controlled by our will.
Because the heart continues to pump blood even when we are sleeping.
46. Waste materials are utilized into factory returnable, fertilizer, feeds, fermentable, fuel, fine crafts and filling
materials. What kind of disposing material technique is this?
Answer: Total Recycling Scheme
47. Why does your heart beat rate rise so quickly during exercise?
Answer: Your heart beat rate speeds up to pump extra food and oxygen to the different parts of the body.
48. How many stages of the development are present in an incomplete metamorphosis?
Answer: Three.
49. It is a change in a plant or animal that makes it better able to live in a particular place or situation.
Answer: Adaptation
50. It is an inflammation of white fibrous tissue such as tendons, ligaments, joint capsules and fibrous networks
underlying the skin.
Answer: Fibrositis
51. It is an injury to a ligament caused by excessive stretching.
Answer: Sprain
52. It protects the major organs of the body.
Answer: Rib Cage
53. A non-toxic viceroy butterfly has developed colors and wing patterns that are very similar to a toxic monarch
butterfly, which the birds won’t take a chance to taste it. What kind if adaptation is done by the viceroy butterfly?
Answer: Mimicry
54. It is the presence of blood in the urine caused by infection.
Answer: Hematuria
55. How does the cerebellum function?
Answer: It coordinates muscles and bones so the body can move about and perform muscular functions.
56. What is the most useful joint in the human body where it places your thumb opposite of the other fingers and where
the base of the thumb is connected to the hand?
Answer: Saddle Joint
57. The ureters are tubes that carry urine from the kidneys to the urinary bladder. The ends of the ureters are sealed at
the point of entry to the bladder by the ___________.
Answer: Ureterovesical Valves
58. These are decaying materials compressed under water and thick layers of soil over millions of years.
Answer: Fossil
59. Which of the following describes what happens to the white sugar when mixed with iodized salt?
Answer: White sugar cannot be distinguished with the iodized salt when mixed.
60. A bone condition that make a person’s bone very weak and causing deformation.
Answer: Rickets
61. It is capable of being slowly destroyed and broken down into very small parts by natural processes.
Answer: Biodegradable
62. Which of the following statements is not true about the importance of interaction in the ecosystem?
Answer: Because of interaction, it allows the living organisms to protect each other and this can be shown by
parasitism.
63. There are living things that feed on dead bodies of plants and animals. In doing so, they return the substances back
to the environment. They are called
Answer: Detritivores
64. How do some animals like snakes protect themselves from enemies?
Answer: They secrete chemicals.
65. How animals protect themselves against their enemies through protective coloration?
Answer: Through camouflage
66. If plants are placed in a dark room for a long time, they cannot stay alive. Why?
Answer: because they cannot make their own food without the help of sunlight.
67. Some ants live in acacia leaves. How do these living things relate with one another?
Answer: The ants benefit from the nectar of the acacia flowers. The ants in return protect the tree by
attacking animals that attempt to eat the acacia leaves.
68. How are frogs, snakes, and grasshoppers protected from their prey?
Answer: They blend color with their environment
69. How do you describe solids mixed with other solids?
Answer: They keep their own characteristics
70. How will you describe Poliomyelitis?
Answer: It is an inflammation causing destruction of nerve cells that affects the muscle movement.
71. The main function of the heart is to pump blood to the lungs and to body cells. How does deoxygenated blood
receives oxygen from the lungs?
Answer: Deoxygenated blood from the body enters the right atrium, flows from the right ventricle and goes to
the lungs.
72. How does the linings of the small intestine work?
Answer: It functions as filter, it absorbs water and nutrients.
73. It is a part of the seed that provides young plant or seed the food it needs for growth.
Answer: Cotyledon
74. Aquatic plants are plants that have adapted to living within aquatic environments. They are also referred to as
Answer: Hydrophytes
75. How does an octopus escape its predators?
Answer: It uses its ink spray cloud to distracted predators while he escapes.
76. Sam heated a chocolate bar to make a chocolate syrup. Which of the following describes what changes happened in
the property of the chocolate bar when it is heated?
Answer: The chocolate bar changed its taste and odor
77. Small fishes live among the tentacles of the sea anemone gaining protection and eating scraps for their food. What
type relationship do they have?
Answer: Commensalism
78. In the germination process, what activates the enzymes or chemicals that supplies energy for the growing embryo?
Answer: water
79. There are different people who work with plants. What do you call those who have knowledge of the varieties of
plants used in ornamental gardening and landscaping?
Answer: Horticulturists
80. It is characterized by an inflammation of some parts of the kidneys, reducing its ability to filter blood.
Answer: Nephritis
81. One example of commensalism is when the plant like fern is attached on a branch of a tree. Why is the interaction
called commensalism
Answer: a fern benefits from the relationship while a branch of a tree is neither harmed nor benefitted.
BEC CURRICULUM
TERMS
1. Tourniquet- a tight twisted cloth wrapped around a limb to control bleeding
2. Diathermy- a method of treating sick muscles by creating heat energy in tissues beneath the skin.
3. Pinocytosis- process in which large peptide fragments are ingested by the absorbing cell of the gut in the small
intestine
4. Celiac Disease or Sprue- a disease by the undigested gluten and can also cause severe allergy of the small intestine.
5. Amoebic dysentery- is also called Entamoeba Histolytica
6. Typhoid Fever- is caused by a microorganism called Salmonella Typhi
7. Endoscopy- a technology that entails close investigation of the esophagus stomach and duodenum.
8. The involuntary twitching movement made by a muscle that is usually under voluntary control such as in the face and
eyelid is called TIC.
9. Dialysis- a process of absorption that takes place in the small intestine
10. Talin- the sweetest substance found on every seeds of katemfe discovered in West Africa which is 6, 150 times as
sweet as one percent sucrose solution
11. Dichloro-Diphenyl-Trichloro-Ethane- pesticide that kills mosquitoes, however it builds up in the bodies of birds, fish
and other wildlife and kill them
12. When iron and oxygen are combined, they form a chemical compound called IRON OXIDE.
13. Skeleton- the framework that holds the body together. It is made up of 206 bones.
14. A baby has 300 bones, but 94 bones joined together in early childhood.
15. Endoskeleton- internal skeleton system of vertebrates
16. Axial Skeleton- it is made of the bones of the skull, ribs, and the vertebrae
17. Vertebrae- it makes up the backbone and holds the body upright. Protects the spinal cord
18. Appendicular Skeleton- it includes all the bones attached to the axial skeleton such as the bones of the arms and
legs, collarbones, hipbones and shoulder bones.
19. Femur, Fibula, and Tibia- make up the legs
20. Humerus, radius and Ulna- make up the arms
21. Skull- protects the brain
22. Rib Cage- protects the heart and lungs
23. Pelvic Bones- guard the kidneys and other organs of the abdomen
24. Long Bones- are designed for leverage such as the arms and legs. They are strong, light and hollow
25. Short Bones- wrist, finger, ankle, and toe bones
26. Irregular Bones- vertebrae
27. Sesamoid-designed for flexibility such as the knee cap
28. Protein- mineral that gives bones flexibility
29. Calcium and Phosphorus- gives bones its hardness and strength
30. Compact Bone- smooth and dense, it helps bones withstand bumps and bangs
31. Haversian Canals- it runs through the entire length of the bone. They contain nerves and blood vessels.
32. Periosteum- tough white membrane made up of connective tissue and bone-forming cells
33. Spongy Bone- lighter and softer that the compct bone, it has a lot of open and spaces and holes in it
34. Yellow Marrow- where fat is stored
35. Cartilage- a strong flexible tissue that is also a part of the skeletal system and gives shape to some parts of the body
such as the tips of the nose and ears. It covers the ends of some bones in a joint, keeps them from grinding against each
other.
36. Ossification- process of bone formation
37. Joint- an area where one bone meets another bone.
38. Ligaments- stretch across the joints to help stabilized the joints and withstand stress.
39. Hinge Joint- elbow and knees, moves in only one direction
40. Ball and socket Joint- Shoulders and hips, can turn or rotate slightly one part upon the other. A combination of a
convex end of a long bone and a concave socket
41. Gliding joint- wrist and vertebrae, allows movement in all directions within the limits of the muscles
42. Angular and Pivotal joint- neck, allows some limited bending and twisting in all directions
43. Immovable Joint- flat bones of the skull, does not allow any movement
44. Muscular System- the force behind the sleletal system
45. There are more than 600 skeletal muscles
46. Tendons- tough fibrous bands of tissues attached to the bones
47. Muscle fibers- long thin cells that make up the muscles
48. A muscle can produce motion when it shortens or contracts.
49. Muscles work in pairs
50. Flexor- muscle that bends a joint
51. Extensor- muscle that straightens a joint
52. Voluntary muscle- muscles that you can consciously control, it is a smooth muscle
53. Cardiac Muscle- muscle of the heart
54. Consciously losing and opening of the eye is dictated by the brain
55. The normal and regular blinking of the eye is a form of reflex dictated by the spinal cord.
56. Reflex and Instincts- are our body’s best means of self-protection
57. Neuromuscular Acuity- a condition of the body by which there is a coordination between the bones and muscles and
muscles and nerves
58. Excitability- occurs when a person becomes sensitive and feels excited to certain stimulus
59. Intrepedity- a condition of being unshaken by danger or anxiety
60. First Aid- temporary treatment given in case of accident or sudden illness before the doctor arrives.
61. Fracture- it involves a break in the continuous line of the bone or cartilage
62. Dislocation- occurs when the bones at a joint are pulled out of place
63. Sprain- occurs when the muscles at a joint are stretched too much
64. Cramps- a sudden involuntary contraction of a muscle or a group of muscle
65. Rickets- is caused by lack of Vitamin D deficiency and lack of exposure to sunlight.
66. Arthritis- due to the gradual erosion of the cartilage between bones causing bodily pain and discomfort and usually
common among elderly
67. Scoliosis- an abnormal curvature of the spine
68. Osteoporosis- also called calcium cannibalism because the calcium is used by the body for something else other
than the bones
69. Digestive System- it has the job of breaking down the food into soluble form to be absorbed by the body.
70. Alimentary Canal- a chain of organs through which the food passes
71. Alimentary Canal- a chain of organs through which the food passes
72. Auxiliary Organs- secrete or store the digestive juices which bring about chemical changes in the nutrients
73. Pylorus- a ring of muscle fibers that connects the stomach to the duodenum
74. Duodenum- the first 25 cm of the small intestine
75. Appendix- a small pouch between the small and the large intestine
76. Mechanical Digestion- is the process by the food when it is down to tiny broken down to tiny pieces by the help of
the teeth
77. Chemical Digestion- the process by which food is mixed with the saliva which contains water, mucus, and an enzyme
78. Permanent teeth- 32 pieces, 16 in the lower jaw and 16 in the upper jaw
79. Incisor- shaped like a chisel because it is used for cutting
80. Canine- long and pointed, used for tearing flesh
81. Premolar/Molar- broad and flattened, they are used for grinding
82. Pulp Cavity- the soft area in the center of the tooth containing nerves and blood vessels
83. Dentine- makes up the major portion of the tooth
84. Enamel- the hardest part and it covers the crown
85. Crown- the visible portion of the tooth
86. Cement- covers the root and holds it firmly in the jawbone
87. Ptyalin- also known as amylase, use in the digestion of starch
88. Secretin- a hormone secreted by the linings of the small intestine which enters the bloodstream and stimulates the
liver and pancreas to secrete digestive juices
89. Liver- secretes bile