This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 8 > Science > Reaching The Age Of Adolescence > Class 8 Science Chapter 10 Reaching The Age Of Adolescence – Quiz 5 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 8 Science Chapter 10 Reaching The Age Of Adolescence Quiz 5 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. My cousin is of the age 13years of age, he is known as a A) Mad person. B) Adolescent. C) Child. D) Grown up. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Adolescent. 2. Menstruation in female occurs once in about: A) 10-15 days. B) 30-40 days. C) 50-60 days. D) 28-30 days. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 28-30 days. 3. The release of ovum from the ovary is called A) Puberty. B) Teenage. C) Ovulation. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ovulation. 4. The first menstrual flow is called A) Measurement. B) Menstruation. C) Menarche. D) Menopause. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Menarche. 5. Pimples and acne in adolescents occur due active: A) Sebaceous gland. B) Adrenal gland. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sebaceous gland. 6. The thread like structure in the fertilized egg is: A) Zygote. B) Chromosomes. C) Foetus. D) Embryo. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Chromosomes. 7. The egg is (egg hota hei?) A) Female gamete. B) Female ovary. C) Male gamete. D) Egg gamete. E) Male sex organ. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Female gamete. 8. The reproductive phase of a woman lies between ..... and menopause. A) Menarche. B) Menstrual cycle. C) Ovulation. D) Menstruation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Menarche. 9. What will be the sex of the individual with sex chromosomes as XY? A) Boy. B) Girl. C) Neither boy nor girl. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Boy. 10. What is the name of the male hormone that regulates secondary sexual characteristics? A) Progesterone. B) Estrogen. C) Testosterone. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Testosterone. 11. AIDS is a set of symptoms and illnesses that develops at the final stage of HIV infection if left untreated. Write the ways by which it is transmitted. A) From the infected mother through her milk. B) Through sexual contact with an infected person. C) By sharing the syringes for injecting drugs used by an infected person. D) All the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All the above. 12. Are all proteins enzymes? A) Yes. B) No. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) No. 13. Which hormone is secreted by adrenal glands? A) Adrenalin. B) Testosterone. C) Estrogen. D) Insulin. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Adrenalin. 14. Which of the following combination of chromosomes lead to the birth of a baby girl? A) X. B) Xy. C) Y. D) Xx. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Xx. 15. Adrenal and Pituitary glands are examples of which kind of glands? A) Exocrine gland. B) Endocrine gland. C) Salivary gland. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Endocrine gland. 16. Which of the following determines the sex of the baby? A) Chromosomes. B) Chloroplast. C) Hormones. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chromosomes. 17. Which healthful diet makes you stay at a healthy weight? A) High calories from sweets. B) Fibers from fruits, and vegetables. C) Fats and salt from processed food. D) Caffeine from cola drinks and coffee. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fibers from fruits, and vegetables. 18. Adrenalin hormones is produced by: A) Pituitary gland. B) Thyroid gland. C) Adrenal gland. D) Pancreas. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Adrenal gland. 19. Adolescents should be careful about what they eat, because A) (i) proper diet develops their brains. B) (ii) proper diet is needed for the rapid growth taking place in their body. C) (iii) adolescents feel hungry all the time. D) (iv) taste buds are well developed in teenagers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) (ii) proper diet is needed for the rapid growth taking place in their body. 20. The right meals for adolescents consist of A) Chips, noodles, coke. B) Rice, noodles, and burger. C) Take, Dal, Vegal. D) Vegetable cutlets, chips, and lemon drink. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Take, Dal, Vegal. 21. Pancreas is located A) Below the stomach. B) Near the larynx. C) Above stomach. D) Base of the brain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Below the stomach. 22. What is necessary for formation of thyroxine hormone? A) Iodine. B) Insulin. C) Both. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Iodine. 23. As it is the boy who has both chromosomes X and Y, so he is responsible for the sex of the child born and not his wife. A) True. B) False. C) Partly false. D) Partly True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 24. Period between childhood and adulthoo A) Citizenship. B) Adolescence. C) Peers. D) Hormones. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Adolescence. 25. The faulty functioning of an endocrine gland can make a person very short or very tall. This gland is: A) Thyroxine. B) Testosterone. C) Insulin. D) Adrenaline. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Adrenaline. 26. What is the name of the sex hormone produced by males A) Progesterone. B) Testosterone. C) Sperms. D) Oestrogen. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Testosterone. 27. Puberty in females begins at the age of ..... A) 14 to 16 years. B) 16 to 18 years. C) 18 to 21 years. D) 11 to 13 years. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 11 to 13 years. 28. Metamorphosis in frogs is controlled by ..... produced by ..... A) Thyroxine, thyroid. B) Adrenaline, adrenal gland. C) Insulin, pancreas. D) Thyroid, thyroxine. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Thyroxine, thyroid. 29. Which of the following should an adolescent choose for his/her meal? A) Chips, noodles and aerated beverages. B) Vegetable cutlets, chips and lemonade. C) Rice, noodles and popcorn. D) Chapathi, Dal and Vegetables. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Chapathi, Dal and Vegetables. 30. Gland that prepares the body for emergency situations. A) Pierce. B) Adrenal. C) Pituitary. D) Pancrease. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Adrenal. 31. Tubes that transport mature gametes A) Ovary and testes. B) Fallopian tubes and vas deferens. C) Vagina and penis. D) Uterus and prostate. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fallopian tubes and vas deferens. 32. Which of the following can spread AIDS? A) Mosquito bites. B) Hugging an infected person. C) Transfusion of infected blood. D) Eating food with an infected person. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Transfusion of infected blood. 33. Chemical substances which co-ordinate the activities of living organisms and their growth? A) Endocrine glands. B) Chromosomes. C) Nutrition. D) Hormones. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hormones. 34. Tadpole is the developing stage of which of these A) Humans. B) Cats. C) Frogs. D) Dogs. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Frogs. 35. A male has ..... chromosomes. A) One X chromosome and one Y chromosome. B) Two X chromosomes. C) Two Y chromosomes. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) One X chromosome and one Y chromosome. 36. What is needed for proper physical health: A) Balanced diet. B) Personal hygiene. C) Physical exercise. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 37. Which one is another term for teenage is A) Puberty. B) Adolescence. C) Thyroid. D) Maturity. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Adolescence. 38. Disease caused due to lack of thyroxine hormone is A) Cold. B) Diabetes. C) Anaemia. D) Goitre. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Goitre. 39. Balanced diets are meals that include: A) Carbohydrates, fats, chips, burger. B) Vitamins, proteins, fats, Maaza mango juice. C) Ice cream, vitamins, minerals. D) Vitamins, proteins, carbohydrates, fats. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Vitamins, proteins, carbohydrates, fats. 40. Which one of the following female hormone helps in the development of mammary gland? A) Estrogen. B) Insulin. C) Thyroxine. D) Progesterone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Estrogen. 41. Development of mammary gland in female is done by A) Progesterone. B) Estrogen. C) Adrenalin. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Progesterone. 42. Testes secrete ..... A) Estrogen. B) Testosterone. C) Insulin. D) Thyroxine. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Testosterone. 43. In males, the sex chromosome consists A) One X and one Y. B) Both X and X. C) Both Y and Y. D) One M and one X. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) One X and one Y. 44. A female gamete carries ..... chromosome(s). A) One Y. B) One X. C) Two X. D) One X and one Y. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) One X. 45. Adolescence is a period of time where individuals A) Strive for independence. B) Explore personal identity. C) Have change in friendship. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 46. Through which part does the dead ovum and blood come out if the egg is not fertilized by the sperm? A) Penis. B) Vagina. C) None. D) Both. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Vagina. 47. Pancreas secrete ..... A) Thyroxine. B) Insulin. C) Estrogen. D) Adrenalin. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Insulin. 48. Y from a boy and X from girl will give birth to A) Nothing will be born. B) Girl child. C) Anything is possible. D) Boy child. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Boy child. 49. Who is responsible for gender of a baby A) Mother. B) Father. C) None. D) Both. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Father. 50. Which hormone generates 'fight and flight' response? A) Cortisol. B) Adrenaline. C) Estrogen. D) Testosterone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Adrenaline. 51. Adrenaline hormones is produced by: A) Pituitary gland. B) Thyroid gland. C) Adrenal gland. D) Pancreas. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Adrenal gland. 52. There are 23 sex chromosomes present in the nuclei of human being. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 53. Adolescence covers the period of A) Puberty. B) Teens. C) Adulthood. D) Both (a) and (b). Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Teens. 54. Incomplete development of male secondary sexual characteristics is caused due to deficiency in? A) Adrenaline. B) Progesterone. C) Testosterone. D) Estrogen. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Testosterone. 55. Dwarfism or Gigantism is due to less or excess secretion of which hormone? A) Insulin. B) Thyroxine. C) Adrenaline. D) Growth hormone. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Growth hormone. 56. The secretion of which hormone controls our Blood pressure, heartbeat and controls emotions? A) Aldosterone. B) Adrenaline. C) Insulin. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Adrenaline. 57. If the egg is not fertilized by sperm it results in what? A) Pregnancy. B) Abortion. C) Menstruation. D) All. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Menstruation. 58. What marks the onset/beginning of Puberty? A) Growing of beard. B) Growing of breast. C) Both of above. D) Development of sex organs. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Development of sex organs. 59. In women the reproductive age lasts till what age? A) Lifetime. B) 10 to 12. C) 45 to 50. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 45 to 50. 60. The period of life between 11 years & 19 years, when bodily changes occurs is: A) Childhood years. B) Adult. C) Adplescence. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Adplescence. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesScience QuizzesClass 8 QuizzesClass 8 Science Chapter 10 Reaching The Age Of Adolescence Quiz 1Class 8 Science Chapter 10 Reaching The Age Of Adolescence Quiz 2Class 8 Science Chapter 10 Reaching The Age Of Adolescence Quiz 3Class 8 Science Chapter 10 Reaching The Age Of Adolescence Quiz 4Class 8 Science Chapter 10 Reaching The Age Of Adolescence Quiz 6Class 8 Science Chapter 10 Reaching The Age Of Adolescence Quiz 7 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books