Science Quiz Bee

2015
Rufino S. Almaden
Quiz Master

EASY ROUND

1. Refraction is the bending of light. Like for

example, a fish might nearer to the surface
than it really is. Why is this so?
a. This phenomenon is not true.
b. Because light travels at a different speed on
water.
c. Because light bounces off the ocean floor.
d. Because the fish moves too fast.

2. What harmful gas is being released

when engines burn fossil fuels?
a.Nitrogen
b.Carbon Monoxide
c.Sulfur
d.Oxygen

3. During ancient times, people believed

that the solar system is ______.
a.Geocentric
b.Epicenter
c.Heliocentric
d.Flat

4. Photosynthesis is the process by which plants manufacture their own food.

At what form do the products of photosynthesis stored?

a.Bulbs
b.Fruits
c.Root crops
d.Starch

5. The size of a planets orbit

determines the number of _____ in a
planets ______.
a.Years : Century
b.Months: Year
c.Days: Year
d.Hours: Day

6. A chemical bond is an attractive force that

holds atoms together. What type of chemical
bond which refers to the electrovalent or
electrostatic attraction between positive and
negative ions?
a.Crystal Lattice
b.Covalent Bond
c.Ionic Bond
d.Polar Covalent Bond

7. What represents the ratio of the solute

per kg mass of the solvent?

a.Molarity
b.Mole fraction
c.Nomality
d.Molality

8. The following are hormonal effects on the

human body except for ______.

a.Hunger
b.Blinking
c.Mood swings
d.Arousal

9. When Ronaldo looked at himself in the mirror, he

look taller then he expected. Why is this so?

a.The mirror was concave.

b.The mirror was taller.
c.The mirror has nothing to do with it.
d.The mirror was convex.

10. The movement of a body launched in space without its motive power, and travels
freely under the action of gravity and air resistance alone is called ________.

a.Uniform circular motion

b.Projectile motion.
c.Rectilinear motion
d.Horizontal motion

AVERAGE ROUND

1. What is the difference between

the sound and the speed of light?
a.Light is 17 860 mph faster than sound.
b.Light is 740 mph faster than sound.
c.Sound is 740 mph faster than light.
d.Sound is equal the speed of light.

2. What is it man fells weightless in the moon?

a.Because mans mass decreases when on the moon.

b.Because mans volume decreases while on the moon.
c.Because there is no air on the moon.
d.Because the moons gravitational pull is lesser than
the earths.

3. Rusting is an example of what

type of reaction?

a.Osmosis
b.Agitation
c.Oxidation-reduction
d.Electrolysis

4. When an electron of an atom moves

to a higher energy level what happens?

a.Energy is maintained.
b.Energy is released.
c.Energy is absorbed.
d.The atom becomes a new element.

5. What is example of catabolism?

a.Reproduction
b.Digestion
c.Fertilization
d.Chromatilization

6. Which plate boundary is formed

between the Philippine Plate and the
Eurasian Plate?

a.Convergent
b.Divergent
c.Reverse fault
d.Transform fault

7. What electromagnetic wave is

sometimes called heat rays?
a.Gamma rays
b.Infrared
c.Radio waves
d.Visible light

8. Which of the following is not a

nucleotide that encodes genetic
patterns?
a.Adenine
b.Thymine
c.Cytosine
d.Chromatin

9. Which of the following causes a

decreasing wildlife population in most of
the places in our country?
a.
Loss of limiting factor
b.
Loss of natural disturbances
c.
Loss of habitat
d.
Loss of carrying capacity

10. What is most likely to happen when an

aerosol can is heated?

a.The can will stay the same.

b.The can will be deformed.
c.The can will eventually explode.
d.The can will tarnish.

DIFFICULT ROUND

1. A balloon with a volume of 200mL at 30C

is submerged in hot water to obtain a
temperature of 50C. Find out what will
happen to the volume of the balloon ,
provided the pressure remains the same.
a.The volume of the balloon will become higher than
200mL.
b.The volume of the balloon will become lower than
200mL
c.The volume of the balloon will stay the same
d.There is no enough data

2. What organelle is the number 7 based on the

diagram below?
a. Vacuoles

b. Mitochondria
c. Centrioles
d. Lysosomes

3. A ball, originally at point X, rolls down the hills

shown in the diagram. At which point does the ball
have its maximum kinetic energy?

A
B

4. As indicated by the hands of the clock without

numbers, the real time is 9:30. what is the time
indicated in its image if the clock is placed in front
of a plane mirror

a.2: 30
b.3:30
c.9:30
d.10:30

5. Who was the scientist hypothesized that the

Earth was once made up of a single large landmass
called Pangaea?

6. In the color spectrum, what color that bends

most? __________

7. Who was the physicist who did this experiment

set-up about electromagnetic induction?

8. A length of a copper wire AB rest across a pair of

parallel copper wire that are connected to a
battery through a switch as in Fig.19.39. The
arrangement is placed between the poles of a
magnet, and a switch is closed. Does the wire
move to the left or the right, or rise upward, or
press downward?

9. Balance the chemical equation, make sure to

apply the principle of the Law of Conservation of
Mass?

Zn + HCl

ZnCl2+ H2

10. The magnetic field shown below by a bar

magnet is produced by _________________.

CLINCHER ROUND

1. Which of the following metals

attracted to a permanent magnet?
a.Lead
b.Copper
c. Nickel
d.Aluminum

would

be

2. What is the volume of an object when after

dropping, 17.8mL water in a graduated cylinder
rises to 23.6 mL?

3. Who was the physicist used the iron coil that

yield him to discovered electromagnetic induction?

3. Yes/No. Can we control gravity?