MSU SASE MOCK

EXAM SCIENCE

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1. Mt. Mayon which is built from alternate layers of lava
and ash with many craters on its slope is what kind of
volcano

Answer: D. Composite

Mt. Mayon or Mayon Volcano is an active

stratovolcano in the province of Albay in Bicol Region.

Stratovolcano - is also known as composite volcano

- is a conical volcano built up by many
layers (strata) of hardened lava, tephra,
pumice and ash.

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2. What is not true about moon and tides?

Answer: A. when the moon is close to the Earth, the

lesser the effect of gravity.

 The gravitational pull of the Moon and Sun

makes the water in the oceans bulge, causing
a continuous change between high and low
tide

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3. Venus is sometimes referred to as Earth’s twin.
Why?

Answer: D. they have similar mass and size.

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4. Which star is the hottest star?

Answer: B. Blue

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5. The ecliptic is

Answer: A. the Sun’s annual path around the

celestial sphere.

Ecliptic is the mean plane in the sky that the

Sun follows over the course of a year.

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6. What is the volume of an object when after
dropping, 17.8 ml water in graduated cylinder
rises to 23.6 ml?

Answer: A. 5.8 ml

23.6ml – 17.8 ml= 5.8ml

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7. According to the second law of thermodynamics, energy
tends to become more and more unavailable for conversion
from:

Answer: B. Thermal to mechanical energy

Second Law of Thermodynamics

states that isolated system gravitate towards
thermodynamic equilibrium, also known as a state of maximum
entropy or disorder.
states that heat energy will flow from an area of low
temperature to an area of high temperature.

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8. What force is needed to make a 2 kg rock accelerate at
0.5 m/s2?

Answer: A. 1N

Newton’s Second law of Motion

F=ma ; m is mass a is acceleration
F= (2kg)(0.5m/s2)
F= 1 N

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9. For work to be done, what are the factors
that must be present?

Answer: C. force and distance

Work= Force x distance

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10. What is the centripetal force acting on a 100 kg car
negotiating a circular curve of radius 60 meters at a speed of
30m/s?

Answer: B. 1.5 kN

Fc = mac
Fc is the centripetal force
ac is the centripetal acceleration
ac = v2
r ;Fc = m v2
r

Fc = (100 kg) (30 m/s)2

(60 m)
= 100 kg (15m/s2 )
= 1,500 N or 1.5 kN
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11. “For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.”
if a baseball player hits a ball with a bat– and the “action” is
said to be the impact of the bat against the ball—what is its
“opposite reaction”?

Answer: B. the force of the ball against the bat.

Newton’s third Law of Motion

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 12. A thermodynamic quantity that expresses
the degree of disorder in a system is

Answer: d. entropy

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13. A Newton is equal to

Answer: kilogram- meter per second squared

(kg m/s’2)

14. An electroscope charged without

contacting a charged body is charged by?

Answer: A. Induction

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15. After a projectile is fired horizontally
near the earth’s surface, the horizontal
component of its velocity, neglecting any
air resistance

Answer: C. Remain constant

Only the vertical component changes

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16. When a cell is placed in a hypotonic
solution

Answer: C. Water enters the cell towards the

area of high solute concentration.

Hypotonic solution refers to a solution that

has less solute and more water than another
solution.

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17. Which of the following best describes vestigial
structures?

Answer: C. vestigial structures are similar

structurally and functionally comparable structures in
other organism.

18. Homologous characters

Answer: C. Shows underlying structural similarity

even when their superficial structure is different

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19. During which stage of cell division when the mitotic
apparatus disappears, the chromosomes become attenuated,
the centrioles duplicate and split, the nuclear membrane
becomes reconstituted and the nucleolus reappears?

Answer: D. telophase

20. What process moves gases between the lungs and the
blood?

Answer: A. Diffusion

Diffusion – is the spontaneous movement of gases, without

the use of any energy or effort by the body, between the gas
in the alveoli and the blood in the capillaries in the lungs.

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21. Photosynthesis is the process by which plants
manufacture their own food. At what form do the
products of photosynthesis stored?

Answer: B. Starch

In photosynthesis, plants use light energy to produce

glucose from CO2 . The glucose is used to make
cellulose fibers, the structural component of the plant
or is stored in the form of starch granules in
amyloplasts.

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22. ferns, gymnosperms and flowering plants are
vascular plants because_____

Answer: E. they have a water and nutrient

transport

Xylem transports water

Phloem transports food or sugar from
photosynthesis

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23. A gas measures 450 ml at a temperature of 300 C, what will be its volume at
500 C?
Charles’s Law (a.k.a. Law of Volume)
 describes how gases tend to expand when heated.
VT
V1 = V2
T1 T2

Given:
V1 = 450 mL
T1 = 300 C
T2 = 500 C
V2 = ?
V2 = V1 T2
T1
= (450 mL)(500 C)
300 C
= 750 mL

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24. What generalization could be accurately said about
hibernation and estivation?

Answer: C. both are responses to extreme temperature

Hibernation- is winter sleep passes the winter period in

dominant condition
Estivation – summer sleep; sleep during the hot hours
of daytime.

25. Which of the following statements is/are true about

rate of chemical reaction?

Answer: E. all statements

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26. Balance the following chemical equation:

C6H14O4 + O2  CO2 + H2O

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27. Atoms of the same elements having the same atomic
number can have different mass number due to
differences in their neutrons. Theses atoms are:

Answer: D. isotopes

28. Which would most likely increase the solubility of a

solid in water?

Answer: D. increase the temperature

Solubility of many substances increases with the
increasing temperature.

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29. A chemical bond is an attractive force that
holds atoms together, what type of chemical bond
which refers to the electrocovalent or electrostatic
attraction between positive and negative ions?

Answer: A. Ionic bond

30. A nonpolar bond will form between two ____

atoms of ____electronegativity.

Answer: E. identical, equal

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