SUMMATIVE TEST IN SCIENCE 6

NAME:___________________________________
SCORE:______________
I.

II.

Choose the letter of the correct answer.

1. Why does the heart have to pump blood?
a. to provide the necessary force for the blood to move from the lower to the upper
part of the body
b. to collect all the waste materials from the body cells
c. to exchange the necessary nutrients
d. both a and b
2. Which part of the circulatory system carries the nutrients and removes from the body
cells?
a. arteries
b. blood
c. capillaries
d. heart
3. Which of the following is the function of the circulatory system?
a. to distribute body cells
b. to protect the body from heart and foreign bodies
c. to distribute oxygen and nutrients to body cells and collect their wastes
d. to repair body cells
4. How will you describe the heart?
a. It is an inflexible organ
c. It works like a pump
b. It is a hollow muscular organ
d. Both b and c
5. What will happen if the heart is made of bony tissues?
a. It will easily break
c. It will not be able to squeeze blood
b. It will pump more blood
d. It will not move
6. Why is the heart important to the body?
a. It checks the flow of blood
c. It makes the blood move throughout the body
b. It stops the flow of blood d. It occupies the chest cavity
7. Why is the blood important to our body?
a. It gives color to our skin
c. It carrries away carbon dioxide and other wastes
from the body
b. It carries oxygen and nutrients to different cells of the body d. both b and c
8. Why are platelets important to the body?
a. They carry oxygen to all parts of the body
c. They make the blood clot
stop
b. They give the blood its color red
d. They surround the germs and
weaken them
9. Why do you Not lose so much blood when you get cut?
a. Blood flows through them
b. Blood vessels carry blood away and back to the heart
c. They allow blood and other substances that go with blood to flow through them
d. Blood contains substances needed to clot the blood
10.Why are veins important in blood circulation?
a. They carry blood with oxygen away from the heart
b. They carry blood with carbon dioxide towards the heart
c. They make the blood clot
d. They make the blood redder
Matching Type: Match the words in column A with those in column B. write the letter of
the correct answer:
COLUMN A
_____11. Anemia

COLUMN B
a. inflammation of the heart characterized by high
fever that weakens the muscles valve s of the heart
_____12. Leukemia
b. irregular heartbeat
_____13. Hypertension
c. cancer of the blood
_____14. Palpitation
d. an iron deficiency disease
______15. Rheumatic Fever
e. blood pressure suddenly shoots up
F. arteries thickens due to deposit of fat and
cholesterol
III. Fill-in the blanks. Write the correct being describe in each sentence.
16. ______________________________ is known as soldiers of the body because they fight
harmful microorganisms that enter our body.
17. The blood is also known as the __________________________.
18. The heart keeps the blood moving in the body. It acts as a
_____________________________.

19. The solid parts of the blood are red blood cells, white blood cells and
the___________________________.
20. _________________________________is the liquid part of the blood.
21._________________________are the passageways of the blood throughout the body.
The blood is the red blood fluid which is composed of
22.____________________23.____________________
24. __________________________ carries blood away from the heart.
25. __________________________ allows the essential exchange of wastes, gases and
nutrients from the veins

SUMMATIVE TEST IN SCIENCE 6

Name:___________________________________________________
Score:_______________
I.

Date:______________

Write the letter of the correct answer.

1. Why Plants called producers? They__________
a. Consume food
c. make their own food
b. Provide food for other organisms d. all of the above
2. Why animals called consumers? They___________
a. Do not eat plants
c. produce their own food
b. Depend on other plants
d. depend on plants for protection
3. Which of the following can cause dead plants and animals to decay and turn
into useful substances?
a. Mosses
c. producers
b. Consumers
d. decomposers
4. Which of these materials is not needed during photosynthesis?
a. Carbon dioxide
c. water
b. sunlight
d. oxygen
5. The transfer of food energy from producers to a series of consumer is called
a. Food web
c. food chain
b. Food cycle
d. all of the above
6. Plants gives off_____which animals and human beings breathe in order to live.
a. Carbon dioxide
c. oxygen
b. Carbon monoxide
d. hydrogen
7.
a.
b.
a.
b.

What activity can disturb the carbon dioxide oxygen cycle in an aquarium?
Placing enough amount of water
Putting too many fishes with small amount of plants
Placing equal amount of plants and fishes
Placing the aquarium in a place where there is enough sunlight.

8.
a.
b.
c.
d.

Which is the correct sequence of organisms in a food chain?

Ricegrain
chick
hawk
decomposers
Chick
hawk
ricegrains decomposers
Hawk
ricegrains decomposers
chicks
Ricegrains
decomposers
chick
hawk

9.
a.
b.
c.
d.

What does a food web show? It shows

A series of food links
The role of the consumers
A series of eating activities
An interlink among food chain

10. What is the role of producers in a food chain?

a. They make their own food.
b. They feed primary consumers.

c. They replace nutrients in the soil.

d. They provide oxygen in the air.
11. Photosynthesis is performed by
a. Herbivores
b. producers
decomposers

c. primary consumers

12. The role of profession of an organisms in an ecosystem is its

a. Habitat
b. consumption
c. ecological niche
production

13.
a.
b.
c.
d.

What happens in a food chain

Energy is lost to the air
Energy is transferred from producer to consumer
Energy is transferred from consumer to producer
Energy is increased from consumer to another consumer

14.
a.
b.
c.
d.

Why are decomposers important?

They break down complex wastes into simple materials.
They provide carbon dioxide and oxygen to the soil
They deplete the soil of nitrogen and other minerals.
They make the soil dry.

15. What is transferred in a food wed?

a. Parasites b. predators
c. energy
II.

d.

d.

d. water

Fill in the blanks. Choose your answer from the list below.
16. Plants are called_______________________because they manufacture their own
food.

17. ___________________shows the path way of food from producers to a series of

consumers.
18. When several food chains are interwoven and taking place in aparticular
community,
____________________results.
19. The chemical energy of food taken from the plants is transformed in the bodies
of ___________________.
20. The ________________________is the main source of energy for all living things.

SUMMATIVE TEST IN SCIENCE 6

Name:___________________________________________________
Score:______________

Date:______________

I. Choose the letter of the correct answer.

1.
a.
b.
2.
a.
b.
3.
a.
b.
4.
a.
b.
5.
a.
b.
6.
a.
b.
7.

What kind of energy does lightning possess?

Mechanical energy
c. chemical energy
Electrical energy
d. radiant energy
Which of the following does a burning candle possess?
Radiant energy
c. electrical energy
Mechanical energy
d. nuclear energy
What kind of energy is used to disinfect our beddings?
Radiant energy
c. electrical energy
Nuclear energy
d. mechanical energy
What form of energy does food provide the human body?
Mechanical energy
c. chemical energy
Nuclear energy
d. electrical energy
What form of energy is produce when the strings of a guitar are plucked?
Mechanical energy
c. electrical energy
Radiant energy
d. sound energy
What form of energy does a running motor produce?
Chemical energy
c. electrical energy
Mechanical energy
d. Nuclear energy
How is chemical energy stored in food used by the human body? It is
used____________
a. For growth
c. for fattening
b. For growth and development
d. for increasing body weight only
8. Which device uses chemical energy on portable radios to produce sound?
a. Dry cell
c. flashlight
b. Generator
d. motor
9. Which material needs to absorb a lot of heat in order to burn?
a. Paper
c. coconut tree
b. Alcohol
d. acetone
10.
Why can a human body perform various activities?
a. Because of energy it gets from food
b. Because of its fixed parts
c. Because of oxygen in the bloodstream
d. Because of the water it contains
11.
Which part or factory DOES NOT generate electricity?
a. Hydroelectric plant
c. geothermal plant
b. Nuclear power plant
d. green plant
12.
Which of the following generates electricity?
a. Television
b. generator
c. refrigerator
d. washing
machine
13.
What is the chief source of radiant energy?
a. Moon
b. sun
c. asteroid
d. comet
14.
When is radiant energy harmful?
a. It is used to disinfect beddings
c. it is used to dry clothes
b. it is used to diagnose diseases
d. it causes sunburn
15.
How is nuclear energy produced?
a. Through the splitting apart of nucleus
c. through a bombardment of atoms
b. Through the combination of a heavier atom with a lighter atom d. both a and b

16.
a.
b.
17.
a.
b.
18.
a.
b.
c.
d.
19.
a.
b.
c.
d.
20.
a.

What is one way by which physicians determine a healthy pair of lungs?

By using x-ray
c. by using a camera
By using a microscope
d. by using a video machine
Which of the following does not use nuclear energy?
Generation of electricity
powering spacecraft
Power and submarine
d. plowing rice field
Why does the splitting of atoms generate electricity?
Because it releases some peculiar characteristics
Because it has tremendous amount of energy
Because it can produce sound
Because it can produce light
How radiant energy is used in medicine?
Radiant energy is used to dry clothes
Radiant energy is used to preserve foods
Radiant energy is used to destroy abnormal cells in the body
Radiant energy is used to disinfect beddings
What kind of energy is used to bake cake?
Light
b. sound
c. heat
d. mechanical