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Qualifying Test for Grade Five
School Year 2012-2013

Directions: Read each number carefully then write the letter of the correct answer. (Big letters)
____ 1. What is the function of the ovary among female reproductive organ?
A. It protects the unborn fetus B. It produces the egg cells
C. It serves as food of the growing fetus. D. It controls the female hormonal balance.
____ 2. How does oxygen enter our body?
A. through the hole of the ears B. through the pores of the skin
C. through the esophagus D. through the nose
____ 3. We breathe air during inhaling process. Which statement is true during this process?
A. Lungs get smaller. B. Chest region expands
C. Diaphragm moves up. D. It serves as dialysis instrument
____ 4. What is the use of nephrons in the kidney?
A. It removes wastes from the blood. B. It separates blood and water
C. it mixes the waste in the blood. D. It serves as a dialysis treatment.
____ 5. How do birds behave during cold seasons in other regions?
A. They sleep underground for a long time. B. They transfer to other places.
C. They develop lighter body covering. D. They change their protective structures.
____ 6. Which animals catch their preys with their tongue?
A. crocodile, snake, turtle B. spider, newt, frog
C. lizard, frog, chameleon D. alligator, toad, bird
____ 7. What are the female sex hormones?
A. estrogen and progesterone B. follicle and ovule
C. testosterone and sperm D. vulva and anum
____ 8. What is the narrowest part of the fallopian tube?
A. ampulla B. isthmus C. fimbria D. infundivulum
____ 9. An educated guess posed as a tentative explanation is called a:
A. control B. hypothesis C. theory D. variable
____ 10. An example of balanced forces is
A. a person skating back and forth on an ice rink
B. a tire with treads gaining speed on an icy road
C. two soccer players running in opposite directions
D. a book resting on a desk
____ 11. Which is commonly called as powerhouse of the cell?
A. mitochondria B. cytoplasm C. nucleus D. cell wall
____ 12. It is the muscle that controls the process of breathing.
A. diaphragm B. lungs C. trachea D. bronchi

____ 13. Which part of the lungs is tuberculosis bacteria usually located?
A. upper B. middle C. lower D. none
____ 14. What force causes a stone to sink in water?
A. inertia B. weight C. friction D. gravity
____ 15. Sea foods like oysters are rich in uric acid. Eating too much of this could cause ____.
A. arthritis B. cholera C. dengue fever D. diabetes
____ 16. Which of the following diffuses the fastest?
A. 20 ml of water in a graduated cylinder
B. 20 ml of ammonia in a bottle with a leak
C. 20 ml of alcohol in an opened bottle
D. 15 ml of acetone in an opened vial
____ 17. A halo-halo vendor usually puts the ice in a Styrofoam box. This is due to ____.
A. solidifying substance B. absence of air
C. presence of air D. coloring substance
____ 18. Herbivores are animals that eat plants. Which group of animals belongs to herbivores?
A. frog, snake, caterpillar B. cow, carabao, goat
C. chicken, duck, turkey D. catfish, milkfish, tilapia
____ 19. The probable cause of cirrhosis of the liver is:
I. sleeping late at midnight II. eating raw food
III. excessive drinking IV. inhaling air from infected person
A. I,II B. II, III C. I, III D. II, IV
____ 20. The pineapple is a fleshy fruit that is really made up of many fruits joined together. This kind of fruit
is called:
A. dry fruit B. dehiscent fruit C. indehiscent fruit D. nodehiscent
____ 21. Dry fruits split open along definite seams when ripe but others do not split open along definite seams.
This fruit is called:
A. andehiscent B. indehiscent C. undehiscent D. nodehiscent
____ 22. What is the use of cotyledons as part of a seed?
A. to store food B. to protect the seed
C. to hold the leaves D. to cover the seed
____ 23. What are needed by seeds to germinate?
I. Seeds need water to swell. II. Seeds need the right temperature to grow.
III. Seeds need air to grow. IV. Seeds need sunlight when they first begin to grow.
A. I,II, III B. I, III, IV C. II, III, IV D. I, II, III, IV
____ 24. Sterling silver is a combination of silver and copper. Which of the following is also a combination
of two or more metals?
A. aluminum B. lead C. gold D. brass
____ 25. The diagram below shows a mixture, salt water. Which of the following pieces of equipment
should be used to separate this mixture?
A. magnet B. balance C. funnel D. hot plate
____ 26. Which best describes a parallel circuit?
A. Electricity flows along one pathway.
B. The flow of electricity comes from one source.
C. Electricity flows along more than one pathway.
D. The flow of electricity comes from more than one source.
____ 27. When homemade ice cream is made, salt is added to the ice that surrounds the ice cream chamber.
Which property of salt is important when making ice cream?
A. Salt conducts electricity in water.
B. Salt dissolves in water.
C. Salt lowers the freezing point of water.
D. Salt adds flavor to the ice cream mixture.
____ 28. A balloon has a negative charge. A glass rod has a positive charge. What will happen when the glass
rod is brought near the balloon?
A. The balloon will be attracted to the rod.
B. The balloon will be repelled by the rod.
C. The balloon will remain in place.
D. The balloon will spin in circles.
____ 29. Which of the following best explains how stems transport water to other parts of the plant?
A. through a chemical called chlorophyll
B. by using photosynthesis
C. through a system of tubes
D. by converting water to food
____ 30. When did Neil Armstrong, the first man who landed on the moon, die?
A. August 25, 2012 B. July 25, 2012
C. August 30, 2012 D. July 25, 2011
____ 31. While your mother was cooking, she left the ladle on the pan. She then touched the ladle and burned
her index finger. Why did the finger get burned?
A. The metal spoon chemically reacted with the cooks hand.
B. The metal spoon conducted heat to the cooks hand.
C. The metal spoon conducted electricity to the cooks hand.
D. The metal spoon insulated the cooks hand.
____ 32. Which of the following is an alloy?
A. Gold B. Silver C. Bronze D. Aluminum
____ 33. What do the pulmonary veins carry?
A. Oxygenated blood B. Deoxygenated blood
C. Carbonated blood D. None of the above
____ 34. The digestion process begins in which of the following?
A. large intestine B. mouth C. small intestine D. stomach
____ 35. If you want to see the xylem and the problem and the phloem of a plant, what will you use?
A. microscope B. magnifying glass C. telescope D. naked eye
____ 36. How many bones do adult human has?
A. 202 B. 204 C. 206 D. 208
____ 37. Which of the following is not a modified stem?
A. bracts B.thorns C. tendrils D. corms
____ 38. The gradual change in the make-up of a biological community over time is called as:
A. Ecological changes B. Ecological competition
C. Ecological succession D. Ecological disturbance
____ 39. When water evaporates on the leaves of a plant, it is called _______________.
A. Cohesion B. Transpiration C. Respiration D.Evaporation
____ 40. Which part of the cell corresponds to the vesicles that serve to break down cellular debris?
A. Smooth ER B. Centrioles C. Golgi bodies D. Lysosomes
____ 41. When you dipped a red litmus paper in an alkali solution, it will become color ____.
A. red B. blue C. black D. white
____ 42. Which is an immovable joint?
A. knee B. elbow C. ankle D. ribs
____ 43. You had an experiment, you coiled around a conductor in _______ to make an electromagnet.
A. wooden spoon B. nail C. piece of cloth D. All of the above
____ 44. You had a Science experiment in your class; your teacher placed sodium bicarbonate solution in a
bottle and covered with a deflated balloon and completely sealed it. Your teacher shakes the bottle.
What do you think will happen to the balloon?
A. It will break. B. It will inflate.
C. It will float. D. Nothing will happen.
____ 45. When you view an object partially in water, what happened?
A. refraction B. reflection C. deflection D. recreation
____ 46. Some plants have thick and waxy layers on top of their leaves. This reduces water loss from
evaporation. Where would a plant without waxy leaves grow successfully?
A. where it is very cold a night
B. where it is very hot during the day
C. where there is plenty of water available
D. where there is very little water available
____ 47. William used a hammer to pound a nail into a wooden board. When the nail was about halfway
through the board, he stopped and turned the board upside down. The nail stayed in place in the
board. Which of the following acts on the nail to keep it in place in the board?
A. friction B. gravity C. magnetism D. weight
____ 48. Underground river in Palawan has many limestone formations called stalactites. Stalactites are long,
thin structures that hang from the ceilings of some caves. Which of the following most likely
causes stalactites to form?
A. earthquakes B. wind erosion C. water dripping D. animals burrowing
____ 49. Joy and Love added water plants to their goldfish bowl in direct sunlight. A few hours later, they
noticed the underwater plants had tiny air bubbles on the surface of the leaves. What caused the
air bubbles to form on the leaves?
A. the process of evaporation
B. the process of photosynthesis
C. goldfish breathing on the plants
D. an increase in water temperature
____ 50. Elisa collected four rock samples and wrote a description of how each was formed. Which of the
following rocks that she collected is a metamorphic rock?
A. formed from magma that cooled quickly
B. formed from magma that cooled slowly
C. Formed by pressure and heat over time
D. Formed by pieces of rock cemented together