Gen Ed Reviewer: General Science

1. To lessen vehicular air pollution, the government should?

a. ask pedestrians to use bicycles.

b. utilize rail transits like MRT and LRT

c. impose stiffer penalties on decade old vehicles

d. ban smoke - belchers on the roads

Ans: d

2. Developing mines require getting a DENR clearance. Which of the ff. clearances are required?

a. air pollution clearance

b. waste disposal clearance

c. environmental clearance

d. LGU clearance

Ans: c

3. The latest discovery in biological science as applied to animal industry, is most widely used in?

a. tissue transplant

b. cloning of animals

c. artificial breeding

d. reproduction

Ans: c

4. Agricultural centers have found lately varieties of coconut propagation. Through what means where the coconut varieties get discovered and distributed?

a. tissue culture laboratories

b. scholarships

c. seed selection

d. putting up plant nurseries

Ans: d

5. Food preparation  are handled well to avoid spoilage caused by ___________ in the preparation and processing of the food products.

a. miscalculation

b. bad weather

c. unsanitary conditions

d. mislabeling

Ans: c

6. The DOH warns the public about preservatives being used in vegetables. What advice could you give with regards ensuring safe vegetables?

a. freeze the vegetables

b. wash the vegetables well with clean water

c. soak them with detergents

d. consume them immediately

Ans: b

7. School feeding and milk rationing programs to school children are being implemented by the government . The project is designed to?

a. have pogi points

b. Special program of DepEd & DOH

c. provide food suplements

d. stop malnutrition among schoolchildren

Ans: d

8. Food, plants and other animals wastes should be segregated in waste disposal because?

a. these are biodegradable

b. these are non - biodegradable

c. these are disease - carrier

d. they are unsanitary

ans: a

9. People on the earth experience day and night regularly every 24hrs. Why is this so?

a. because the earth rotates on its own axis

b. because the earth revolves on its own axis

c. because the earth  tilts on its own axis

d. because the earth revolves around the sun

Ans: a

10. Acid rain cause fish kills, destroy buildings, dissolve river nutrients, etc. Which of the ff. causes acid rain?

a. forest fires

b. burning of fossil fuels

c. use of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)

d. vehicles emission

Ans: b

11. Is the relationship between an organism and a host where neither is benefited nor harmed.

a. commensalism

b. competitive

c. parasitic

d. mutualistic

Ans: a

12. Living and feeding on leaves by the caterpillar is an example of  _______________ relationship.

a. competitive

b. mutualistic

c. parasitic

d. predatory

Ans: c

13. Which of the following is not used in the manufacture of food by green plants?

a. carbon dioxide

b. sun

c. water and soil nutrients

d. oxygen

Ans: d

14. Josef weigh 65 kilos on the ground. How much is the force of gravity on him?

a. 65 kilos

b. 130 kilos

c. 32.75 kilos

d. none

Ans: a

15. During respiration, green plants take in?

a. water

b. carbon dioxide

c. oxygen

d. carbon dioxide and water

Ans: c

16. A root may perform all the following functions except?

a. photosynthesis

b. anchorage

c. food storage

d. water absorption

Ans: a

17. Ang kutsilyo ni Mang Atong ay kinalawang pagkataposng ilang buwan. Ano ang sanhi nito?

a. ang hydrogen ay humalo sa iron

b. ang oxygen ay humalo sa iron

c. may mikrobyo ang kutsilyo

d. kutsilyo ay yari sa metal

Ans: b

18. Alin sa mga sumusunod ang nagpapakita ng kemikal na pagbabago?

a. pagsunog ng papel

b. pag - ulan

c. pagkatunaw ng yelo

d. pag - ebaporeyt ng tubig

Ans: a

19. Ito ay pagtaas ng likido sa maliit na tubo.

a. akselerasyon

b. absorpsyon

c. adsorpsyon

d. capillarity

Ans: d

20.Ito ay ang paulit ulit na pagbabago sa pagtaas at pagbaba ng tubig sa mga baybayin.

a. wave

b. wave velocity

c. high tide

d. tides

Ans: d

21. What would be the best way to prevent soil erosion in a hill?

a. building terraces

b. cultivation

c. reforestation

d. irrigation

Ans: a

22. The application of specific concepts and principles.

a. biology

b. ecology

c. technology

d. science

Ans: c

23. What is the coolness after experiencing perspiration?

a. air entered the skin pores

b. evaporation of perspiration

c. absorption of perspiration

d. condensation of perspiration

Ans: d

24. A weather disturbance having a 50km/ hour center winds is called?

a. hurricane

b. tropical depression

c. storm

d. typhoon

Ans: b

25. Environmental pollution is classified as violence that is now termed as?

a. ecological

b. structural

c. technological

d. scientific

Ans: a

26. There are some insects or animal that can walk on water surface. This is made possible by?

a. surface capillarity

b. surface adhesion

c. surface tension

d. dense water surface

Ans: c

27. Is a group of interacting plants, animals and humans in a particular area.

a. ecological community

b. environment

c. living orgranisms

d. food chain

Ans: a

28. Excessive presence of CO2 in the air trapping heat the earth's surface causing a rise in temperature in the environment.

a. El Nino

b. "Greenhouse Effect"

c. Pollution

d. La Nina

Ans: b

29. The earth 's shield against the sun sun's harmful radiation.

a. atmosphere

b. air

c. ozone layer

d. clouds

Ans: c

30. The use of products with _____________ is discourage because they contribute to the depletion of _________.

a. CFC's - solar radiation

b. gas - ozone

c. ozone - air

d. CFC's - ozone layer 

Ans: d