General Knowledge Study Notes

General Knowledge Study Notes

• A paperclip can sit on the surface of the water due to surface tension.
• Fernando Amorsolo is a painter known for depicting rural life and settings.
• Governor-General Narciso Claveria mandated the use of Spanish surnames by Filipinos.
• "Suko" is the root word of "Sinukuan".
• "Talastasan" describes exchanging ideas and opinions through symbols.
• Ethnography involves closely studying a place and its people to research a topic.
• Trapezoid sides are 8 meters each, with bases of 4 meters and 2 meters, and a height of 3 meters.
• The Tidings McDuffie Law set the Philippine Independence date to July 4, 1946, after a 10-year transition.
• Andres Bonifacio chose armed struggle as the path to freedom.
• Stomata are openings found in leaf surfaces.
• "Ours" completes the sentence "My sister and I met an acquaintance of ours on the shopping mall."
• Negritos were the aboriginal settlers of the islands before succeeding migrants.
• In a hypotonic solution, a plant cell will swell.
• The fundamental human right is the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
• A food web demonstrates the feeding connections between all life forms.
• "Nalaglag-nahulog' means "magkahawig".
• Esters are organic compounds used in perfumes and artificial flavors.
• The correct way to say, "If you forgot ____textbook you can use _____ Mark" is "your, mine."
• In a right triangle, the side opposite the right angle is the hypotenuse, and the side opposite is the leg.
• The right to information privacy is invoked in the "writ of habeas data."
• St. Thomas Aquinas' philosophy advocates using reason to understand God's existence.
• "Red letter day" represents an idiom.
• Disturbed ecosystems recover naturally through ecological succession.
• She hurt herself while slicing the onions.
• A silicon atom with a mass number of 28 and an atomic number of 14 has 14 protons.
• Jose Blanco was the Spanish governor-general who established the tobacco monopoly in 1781.
• The "writ of habeas corpus" guarantees the right to demand the presence of the accused.
• "Pamatlig" is the type of pronoun used for teaching items.
• The lungs are the main organ for respiration.
• The sentence "We admire her" is grammatically correct when followed by "us when Cynthia speaks English fluently with."
• Plants convert sunlight into chemical energy through photosynthesis.
• "Latest" completes the sentence "I watched latest news on television."
• Microfilaments are essential thin structures for cytokinesis, amoeboid movement, and cell shape changes.
• "Samakatuwid" is a word used to clarify or add explanation.
• Internet refers to information highways.
• "Me" completes the sentence "I thought the task was heavy for Samantha and me."
• The slope of the line 3x=(y+4)/2 is 6.
• Manuel Roxas was proclaimed the first President of the Third Philippine Republic after Philippine independence on July 4, 1946.
• A sense of common good is important to develop, considering the Filipino mentality of "tayo-tayo".
• Orihinal" Mommy cooked adobo for Kuya Manny" translates literally to "Si Nanay ay naglutong adobo para kay Kuya Manny."
• Frankness means "The President I known for his CANDIDNESS.”
• Bicameralism describes the division of the Legislature into the Senate and the House of Representatives.
• Modernization of the national language began in 1987.
• "Siya" is the subject in the sentence "Sakabilangkahirapan, nagsikap siya na makatapos ng kolehiyo."
• An increase in greenhouse gases is the major concern about global warming.
• Classical is an artistic tradition seeking to revive past glory in various forms.
• Rolando Tinio was the proponent of the experimental theater in the Philippines.
• A microbial culture is a diagnostic test that allows microorganisms to multiply, determining the cause of an infectious disease.
• Hyperbole is the figure of speech in the statement "If you ask for the moon, I'll get it for you."
• Gas is an abundant energy source in the Philippines that is still not fully developed is gas.
• Comma-shaped describes the bacterial etiology of cholera (vibrio cholera).
• A capsid is the protein shell of a virus.
• Coal is not a sustainable energy source.
• A dominant gene prevents expression of another gene in the same locus.
• When helping in the kitchen, be careful not to hurt myself
• In the sentence "Malakas and boses mo", malakas (strong) is a panaguri (predicate).
• Facebook is the social network services available through the computer.
• Avoiding challenging tasks is not a characteristic of people with a strong sense of self-efficacy.
• Linnaeus was responsible for coining the term Homosapiens
• (x+5)(2x-3) is factroized from 2x^2 + 7x - 15
• Milk is colloid
• Mollusks become poisonous due to the red tide phenomenon.
• The laws of heredity came from studies by Mendel.
• Metaphor is is the figure speech used in "The beauty contestants were the center of attention."
• Maslow studied the human side of enterprise.