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Division of Laoag City

District I
CAVIT-ARANIW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Laoag City

FIRST PERIODICAL TEST

SCIENCE & HEALTH IV
Direction: Choose the best answer for ach question below. Shade the circle that corresponds to
the letter of your chosen answer.
1.

Why are bones important to the body?

A. They make you taller.
C. They give shape, form and support to the
body

B. They make the body beautiful.

D. They make the muscle strong.

2.

Which of the following is not a function of the skeletal system?

A. Enables the body to move
C. Supports the body
C. Protects delicate organs of the body
D. Transports food to the different parts of the body

3.

What kind of joint connects the shoulder bone to the upper bone?
A. ball and socket joint
B. pivot joint
C. hinge joint
D. gliding joint

4.

What helps bones move smoothly?

A. synovial fluid
B. ligaments

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C. joints

D. cartilage

What do you call the bone that protects the brain?

A. ribs
B. hipbone
C. skull

D. backbone

Which bones helps support the upper part of the body?

A. leg bones
B. foot bones
C. arm bones

D. hipbones

What do you call the muscles that are attached to the bones?
A. skeletal muscles
B. muscular muscles
C. voluntary muscles

D. cardiac muscles

8.

Which systems coordinate with each other to enable the body to move?
A. digestive and respiratory systems
B. skeletal and muscular systems
C. respiratory and circulatory systems
D. circulatory and muscular systems

9.

Which of the following activities show coordinated functions of muscles and bones?
A. climbing, sitting, biking
B. eating, sleeping, drinking
C. writing, playing, working
D. climbing, sleeping, working

10.

During the game, your arm was pulled by your playmate. Then you felt pain. Which of the
following could have happened? A muscle _________________________________.
A. lost its strength
B. was torn from the bone
C. contracted strongly
D. was over stretched

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B.
C.
D.
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Your friend sprained an ankle while running. What will you do?
Put an ice bag on the sprained part to lessen the pain.
Help your friend walk home.
Sit down and laugh with your friend.
Rub the sprained part to keep it warm.

Which of the following shows you have the right attitude towards a handicapped boy in your
class?
A. You do his assignment.
B. Avoid sitting behind him.

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C. Remind of being handicapped.
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D. Show willingness to play with him.

Why is digestion of food in the body important?

A. The body cells will be able to absorb the nutrients easily.
B. The digested food will become source of solar energy.
C. The stomach will take a rest.
D. The digested food will go to the large intestines.
Why is there a need to wash our hands especially before eating? To protect the
_______________.
A. skeletal system
B. digestive system
C. muscular system
D. reproductive system

15.

Which statement is true about insects? All insects ________________________.

A. develop from eggs.
B. undergo complete metamorphosis
C. have skeleton
D. are destructive

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All of the following lay eggs except one. Which one?

A. duck
B. lizard
C. tiger

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From where do animals develop?

A. inside the females body
C. inside the males body

D. bird

B. outside the females body

D. outside the males body

How does fertilization in dogs, cats, and carabao happen? Fertilization happens
________________.
A. inside the females body
B. outside the females body
C. inside the males body
D. outside the males body
Which shows the life cycle of a butterfly?
A. eggs caterpillar pupa adult
C. eggs larva pupa adult

B. eggs pupa larva adult

D. eggs adult larva pupa

Which shows the life cycle of a frog?

A. tadpole eggs young frog adult frog
C. eggs young frog adult frog

B. eggs tadpole young frog adult frog

D. adult frog young frog eggs

21.

Which of the following animals give off waste products , which helps fertilized the egg?
A. spiders
B. bees
C. silkworm
D. earthworm

22.

Why are bees and butterflies useful?

A. They are work animals
C. They help in pollination

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B. They are used as food

D. They help the beautify house

Which of the following animals transfer diseases to your food?

A. flies
B. spider
C. mosquitoes

D. butterflies

24.

Why it is not good to have cockroaches in your home? It can _____________________.

A. cause dysentery
B. cause malaria
C. leave bad odor that cause diseases
D. cause dengue

25.

How do flies carry diseases to you?

A. They bite and suck our food.
B. They step on our food and leave the germs in our food.
C. They fly inside the house.
D. They lay eggs in the garden.

26.

It is a kind of disease transmitted by dogs, what it is?

A. cholera
B. dengue
C. H-fever

D. rabies

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Which of the following practices is good?

A. Holding a cat in its tail
C. Removing wrigglers from the flower vase

B. Teaching the dogs some tricks

D. Catching tadpoles in the pond

Your carabao has been working the whole day, what will you do?
A. Give rest to your animal.
B. Bring the animal to the slaughterhouse.
C. Whip your animal.
D. Use your animal for gambling.

MATCHING TYPE
Direction: Match Column A to Column B. Shade the letter of your choice.

A
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The process of changing food into substances for the

use of the body cells.

B
A. Esophagus
B. Stomach

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The part of the system which receives the food we eat.

C. Digestion

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A long tube which serves as passage of food from the

mouth to the stomach.
A pear-shaped organ that takes hold of the food we eat
for several hours.

D. Mouth
E. Large intestines

SEQUENCING EVENTS
The following are the stages in the digestion of food in the body. Arrange them in their proper
order. Label them from A to D. Shade the letter of your answer.
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____________ The food then goes to the small intestines for final digestion.

34.

____________ The mouth starts digestion.

35.

____________ The food enters the stomach.

36.

____________ When the food is swallowed, it moves along the esophagus through the
peristalsis movement.

MODIFIED TRUE OR FALSE.

Shade A if the statement is true and shade B if the statement is false.
37.

Wash cooked food thoroughly before slicing or eating.

38.

Drink 8 to 10 glasses of water everyday.

39.

Eat the right amount of food irregularly.

40.

Be sure that the food we eat and the utensils you use are dirty.

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