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Goodluck! 1 / 50 Category: BECE BASIC SCIENCE PAST QUESTION The soil type mostly rich in nutrient is __________ loamy clay gravel sandy 2 / 50 Category: BECE BASIC SCIENCE PAST QUESTION Inadequate energy generation and supply affects quality of life in the following way EXCEPT ____________ unemployment starvation poverty technological advancement 3 / 50 Category: BECE BASIC SCIENCE PAST QUESTION These are field forces EXCEPT __________ force gravitational frictional electric magnetic 4 / 50 Category: BECE BASIC SCIENCE PAST QUESTION The slender structure, that carry blood to the heart is referred to as the ___________ plasma vessel tube cell 5 / 50 Category: BECE BASIC SCIENCE PAST QUESTION These activities are responsible for our disappearing forest EXCEPT ___________ construction of building use of firewood for cooking cutting of timber for wood cultivation of crops 6 / 50 Category: BECE BASIC SCIENCE PAST QUESTION Drugs can be obtained from the following Except food material roots and shrubs plant barks medicinal leaves 7 / 50 Category: BECE BASIC SCIENCE PAST QUESTION Movement of food from the gullet down to the stomach is through __________ movement chuming swallowing breaking peristalsis 8 / 50 Category: BECE BASIC SCIENCE PAST QUESTION The parts of the body that are responsible for movement are _______, _______ and joint cartilage, muscle skeleton, cartilage bone, cartilage bone, muscle 9 / 50 Category: BECE BASIC SCIENCE PAST QUESTION The most reactive non-metal is ____________ bromine chlorin fluorine iodine 10 / 50 Category: BECE BASIC SCIENCE PAST QUESTION Conditions necessary for germination are the following EXCEPT __________ wind air warmth water 11 / 50 Category: BECE BASIC SCIENCE PAST QUESTION One major difference between plant and animals is ___________ excretion movement respiration reproduction 12 / 50 Category: BECE BASIC SCIENCE PAST QUESTION The pigment which gives plants the green colour is chloroform chloroplast chlorophyll chloroplast 13 / 50 Category: BECE BASIC SCIENCE PAST QUESTION The body hormones which contribute to body growth are ____________ and _________ acdrenaline, oestrogen pituitary, thyroxin parathyroid, testosterone insulin, progesterone 14 / 50 Category: BECE BASIC SCIENCE PAST QUESTION One of the reasons why human beings are special animals is their ability to __________ communicate walk eat sleep 15 / 50 Category: BECE BASIC SCIENCE PAST QUESTION HIV/AIDS can be transmitted through ________ sharing bed insect bite unsafe sex hand shake 16 / 50 Category: BECE BASIC SCIENCE PAST QUESTION Ozone is a type of oxygen with __________ atoms of oxygen 2 4 6 3 17 / 50 Category: BECE BASIC SCIENCE PAST QUESTION The theory that states that particles are always in motion is ________ Dalton newton kinetic joule 18 / 50 Category: BECE BASIC SCIENCE PAST QUESTION The temperature of the sun’s radiation is ____________ 6000 degrees 60 degrees 600 degrees 60,000 degrees 19 / 50 Category: BECE BASIC SCIENCE PAST QUESTION The bone-like structures found in the middle ear are called ___________ pinna earbone ossicles blades 20 / 50 Category: BECE BASIC SCIENCE PAST QUESTION Electronic configuration is best described as _________ arrangement of electrons in an atoms attraction of electrons in an atom electrons of the outer most orbit protons in the nucleus of atom 21 / 50 Category: BECE BASIC SCIENCE PAST QUESTION The atmospheric condition of a place studies over a short period is called the _________ weather topography climate environment 22 / 50 Category: BECE BASIC SCIENCE PAST QUESTION Children under five (5) years are immunized against these disease EXCEPT __________ kwashiorkor tuberculosis measles diphtheria 23 / 50 Category: BECE BASIC SCIENCE PAST QUESTION The female part of a flower is made up of ___________ anther, stigma, ovary anther, filament, ovary stigma, style, anther stigma, style, overy 24 / 50 Category: BECE BASIC SCIENCE PAST QUESTION The nutrient gotten from protein food after digestion is glucose acid citric acid fatty acid 25 / 50 Category: BECE BASIC SCIENCE PAST QUESTION The quantity of water in a body is termed ___________ force pressure mass weight 26 / 50 Category: BECE BASIC SCIENCE PAST QUESTION Whale is a/an ______________ reptile amphibian mammal primate 27 / 50 Category: CHRISTIAN RELIGIOUS STUDIES PAST QUESTION Lack of vitamin B leads to bleeding ricket beriberi scurvy 28 / 50 Category: BECE BASIC SCIENCE PAST QUESTION Power is equal to __________ force/distance work done/time time/work done distance/time 29 / 50 Category: BECE BASIC SCIENCE PAST QUESTION Coal is a mineral mined in ____________ Enugu Ewekoro Jos Ajaokuta 30 / 50 Category: BECE BASIC SCIENCE PAST QUESTION Which of these statements is NOT an assumption of the kinetic theory? the particles are in constant motion evaporation of liquid occurs at all temperature matter is made up of tiny indivisible particles the particles of matter possess potential energy 31 / 50 Category: BECE BASIC SCIENCE PAST QUESTION The breakdown of food substances to release energy is referred to as _________ excretion respiration nutrition irritability 32 / 50 Category: BECE BASIC SCIENCE PAST QUESTION Activity series of non-metals is from most reactive to moderately reactive least reactive to moderately reactive moderately reactive to passive least reactive to most reactive 33 / 50 Category: BECE BASIC SCIENCE PAST QUESTION Kunle added few drops of iodine solution to a piece of yam, the result was blue black colour which was formed at the surface of the yam. Which food item was being tested? fats and oil glucose protein starch 34 / 50 Category: BECE BASIC SCIENCE PAST QUESTION A food substance which contains sulphur, nitrogen and phosphorus in addition to carbon, hydrogen and oxygen is __________ carbohydrate protein fats mineral 35 / 50 Category: BECE BASIC SCIENCE PAST QUESTION The temperature at which a substance changes from liquid to solid is called _________ point freezing boiling sublimation melting 36 / 50 Category: BECE BASIC SCIENCE PAST QUESTION Climate change may lead to the following EXCEPT oil spilage green house effect global warming flooding 37 / 50 Category: BECE BASIC SCIENCE PAST QUESTION Example of non-metal include these EXCEPT oxygen sodium iodine nitrogen 38 / 50 Category: BECE BASIC SCIENCE PAST QUESTION Ovulation is defined as the release of ___________ blood from the vagina ovum from the ovary urine from the bladder sperm from the tests 39 / 50 Category: BECE BASIC SCIENCE PAST QUESTION The particles in a gaseous substance can move easily because the ______ particles are free to move force between them is weak particles are moving with great speed containing vessel is too big 40 / 50 Category: BECE BASIC SCIENCE PAST QUESTION Nigeria generate a lot of useful products from crude oil EXCEPT _________ bitumen plastic kerosene petrol 41 / 50 Category: BECE BASIC SCIENCE PAST QUESTION The processing by which the constituents coal are separated is ________ distillation destructive thermal fractions lie-big 42 / 50 Category: BECE BASIC SCIENCE PAST QUESTION Oil spillage is NOT caused by _________ leaking of marine vehicle killing of fish with gemmalin 20 oil tank washing dripping of oil vehicles 43 / 50 Category: BECE BASIC SCIENCE PAST QUESTION Work = force X? distance length acceleration power 44 / 50 Category: BECE BASIC SCIENCE PAST QUESTION The outer layer of the human skin is known as __________ dermis epidermis sweat gland sweet pores 45 / 50 Category: BECE BASIC SCIENCE PAST QUESTION All these are microscopic organisms EXCEPT spider bacteria virus fungi 46 / 50 Category: BECE BASIC SCIENCE PAST QUESTION The blood that fight against germs in the body is white blood cell platelets plasma red blood cell 47 / 50 Category: BECE BASIC SCIENCE PAST QUESTION In the female reproductive system the part which houses the unborn baby is the ________ ovary cervix uterus oviduct 48 / 50 Category: BECE BASIC SCIENCE PAST QUESTION Dangers of radioactive ray does not include ____________ death due to over exposure tracer of body defects destruction of body cells and tissues undesirable hereditary effects 49 / 50 Category: BECE BASIC SCIENCE PAST QUESTION The function of lipase is to digest __________ fats starch proteins vitamins 50 / 50 Category: BECE BASIC SCIENCE PAST QUESTION The number of electrons an atom requires to lose to become an ion is termed __________ activity series electronic configuration combining power atomic structure Your score is 0% Restart quiz Practice also: BECE AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE PAST QUESTIONS JS 3 SOCIAL STUDIES PAST QUESTIONS (BECE) JS 3 MATHEMATICS PAST QUESTIONS (BECE) JS 3 ENGLISH LANGUAGE PAST QUESTIONS (BECE) JS 3 PHYSICAL AND HEALTH EDUCATION (BECE)