Name: 14. Why can metals be hammered without breaking?

Grade & Section: a. They are ductile c. They are malleable

b. They are not brittle d. Their particles are strong
SCIENCE 9 INDIVIDUAL QUIZ 15. Sugarcane juice is used in making table sugar which is
1. A substance that cannot be broken down into a simpler form by extracted from the stem of the plant. Trace the path of sugar
ordinary chemical means is called a(n) . molecules found in the stem from where they are produced.
a. Element c. mixture a. Root----- stem c. flowers ----- leaf ----- stem
b. Compound d. isotope b. Leaf ----- stem d. roots ----- leaf ------ stem
2. A compass bearing of 165 degrees describe a 16. Plants make food by absorbing water and carbon dioxide. Which
a. North-westerly direction of the following substances is the origin of oxygen released as
b. South-easterly direction gas by green plants during photosynthesis?
c. South-westerly direction a. Water c. carbon dioxide
d. North-easterly direction b. Sugar d. ribulose-1, 5-biphosphate
3. The smallest unit of an element that has all the basic properties 17. What kind of bond will result when two identical non-metallic
of the element is called a(n) atoms combine?
a. Electron c. nucleus a. Ionic bond c. polar covalent bond
b. Atom d. isotope b. Metallic bond d. nonpolar covalent bond
4. Plants create their own food by absorbing and processing 18. Which of the following shows that an atom is stable?
sunlight. The ability to produce your own food source is a a. Having 2 valence electron
metabolic process known as what? b. Having 4 valence electrons
a. Heterotrophy c. homotrophy c. Having 6 valence electrons
b. Autotrophy d. ditrophy d. Having 8 valence electrons
5. Sea breezes occur during the and the produce 19. Oxygen is essential in cellular respiration. What is the role of
winds moving . oxygen in the electron transport chain?
a. Night/out over the water a. It provides a high energy proton
b. Night/ in over the land b. It releases an electron
c. Day/out over the water c. It serves as the final acceptor
d. Day/in over the land d. It forms water
6. Which of the following is an element? 20. Which of the following units is used in expressing the amount of
a. Ruby c. sapphire substance in terms of the number of particles?
b. Topaz d. diamond a. Liter c. mole
7. A group of cells that work together to perform a function is called b. Gram d. Celsius
a what? 21. The light-dependent reaction of photosynthesis must come first
a. Cell system c. tissue before the light-independent reaction because its products are
b. Organ system d. organism important to the fixation of carbon dioxide. Which of the
8. A vector A is added to a vector B. under what conditions does following is/are the products of the light-dependent reaction?
the resultant vector A + B have greatest magnitude? a. ADP only c. ATP only
a. When A and B are parallel and in the same direction b. NADPH only d. NADPH and ATP
b. When A and B are parallel and in the opposite direction 22. All organisms get energy from the food to perform different life
c. When A and B are perpendicular processes. This is done in the cells by breaking sugar molecules
d. The magnitude of A=B does not depend on the directions into chemical energy. Which of the following cell organelles is
of A and B associated with the production of chemical energy?
9. Two carts have the same masses m and 2m. they move on an a. Chloroplasts c. endoplasmic reticulum
airtrack (ignore friction). You push each cart with the same force b. Mitochondrion d. nucleus
for the same length of time. Compared to the momentum of the 23. Which of the following materials are cycled out by the
heavy cart (mass 2m) the momentum of the light cart (mass m) chloroplast and mitochondrion?
is a. Carbon dioxide, water, oxygen, and ATP
a. Four times c. equal to b. Carbon dioxide, water, sugar, and oxygen
b. Twice d. one half c. Sugar, water, oxygen and ATP
10. Red blood corpuscles are formed in the d. Sugar, water, sunlight, and oxygen
a. Liver c. kidneys 24. When cells break down food into chemical energy it undergoes
b. Bone marrow d. heart three major process, glycolysis, Krebs Cycle and electron
11. Oxygen and carbon dioxide are gases that cycle out in the transports. Which of these processes provides the most number
ecosystem. Which of the following gases is important to of ATP molecules?
photosynthesis? a. Glycolysis
a. Ozone gas c. oxygen b. Krebs cycle
b. Water vapor d. carbon dioxide c. Electron transport chain
12. Plants are considered as food makers. In which of the following d. no idea
cell organelles does photosynthesis occur? 25. Oxygen is essential in cellular respiration. What is the role of
a. Ribosome c. chloroplast oxygen in the electron transport chain?
b. Chlorophyll d. mitochondrion a. It provides a high energy proton.
13. Which of the following substances when dissolve in water will b. It releases an electron
conduct electricity/ c. It serves as the final acceptor.
a. Glucose c. gasoline d. It forms water
b. Oil d. monosodium glutamate