TAGUM NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

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FIRST PERIODICAL EXAM

(Science and Technology IV)

Multiple Choice: Write only the letters that correspond to the correct answer on the space provided.
____1. Which of the e following is not true about science?
a. It is a way of thinking.
b. It is a finished enterprise.*
c. It seeks to discover truths about different observable natural phenomena.
d. It is a search for order in many different areas of nature.

____2. Which of the following is not a physical science?

a. chemistry b. astronomy c. zoology* d. meteorology

____3. Which of the following is an attitude of scientists?

a. willing to accept the information they gather even if the results are not the ones prefer.*
b. Always seek to defend what they believe in
c. Never change their minds about a possible solution to a problem
d. Do not show interest in bridging the gap between scientific works and public welfare.

____4. Which of the following is TRUE of measurement of a physical quantity?

a. It is always expressed in derived units. c. It is always exact.
b. It is always expressed in metric units. d. It is a comparison with a standard.*

____5. Which of the following is NOT TRUE of a standard unit?

a. It is constant in value. c. It is easy to preserve and reproduce.
b. It changes as often as needed.* d. It is practical in size.

____6. You are buying cloth for curtain and you only need 2.5 meters. The saleslady gives you 8.2 ft of what
you asked for. Will you accept this?
a. Yes, because it is more than what is supposed to be given to me.
b. Yes, because it is of the same length anyway.
c. No, because it is shorter than what I need.
d. No, because meter unit is always greater than the feet unit.

____7. A scientific law can be expressed as

a. a written concept. b. an equation. c. a graph. d. all of the above.*

____8. The process of comparing a property of an object to a well-defined and agreed-upon reference.
a. generalizing b. measurement* c. graphing d. scientific investigation

____9. An inverse relationship exist between two quantities when

a. an increase in one produces a corresponding increase in the other.
b. a decrease in one produces a corresponding decrease in the other.
c. both a and b.
d. an increase in one produces a corresponding decrease in the other.*

___10. A recording timer makes 60 dots in one second. How short a time can it measure?
a. 1 second b. 60 seconds c. 1/60 second* d. 1/360 second

___11. Which of the following arrows represents a force to the east of north?

a. * b. c. d.
___12. If the scale used in the polygon method of finding the resultant force is 1 cm = 50 N, the length of the
arrow that should be drawn to represent force equal to 300 N must _____.
a. 5 cm b. 6 cm* c. 3 cm d. 10 cm

___13. Which of the following statement does not describe a vector quantity?
a. a ball projected upward c. a 900 kg mass*
b. wind moving at 120 km/h north of west d. a force of 9.8 Newton acts on a body.

___14. When the acceleration becomes negative?

a. when the speed is increasing c. when speed is neither increasing nor decreasing
b. when the speed is decreasing* d. when speed is constant

___15. The rate of motion in a particular direction.

a. displacement b. velocity* c. force d. speed

___16. Which of the following is not true about uniform motion? When the car moves at ____.
a. constant speed c. constant acceleration*
b. no change in direction d. constant velocity

___17. What are the two measurements necessary for calculating average speed?
a. acceleration & time c. distance & time*
b. velocity & time d. velocity & time

___18. What is the acceleration of a car that maintains a constant velocity of 100 km/h for 10 seconds?
a. 0* b. 10 km/h/s c. 10 m/s/s d. 1000 m/s2

___19. What must be the velocity of an object falls freely from a certain height with a constant acceleration?
a. be constant also
b. continually change by the same amount each second*
c. continually change by varying amounts depending on its speed
d. continually decrease

___20. Which of the graph below indicates that the object moves at a constant velocity?

v v v v
a. b. c. * d.
t t t t
___21. Who is known as the Father of Radio and the Father of Television?
a. Lee de Forest * b. Alessandro Volta c. Albert Einstein d. Niels Bohr

___22. The single force applied at a point which produces the same effect two or more forces acting simultaneously
at the same point.
a. component force b. resultant force* c. equilibrant force d. reaction force

___23. What happen to the acceleration of a stone thrown upward?

a. greater than that of a stone thrown downward. c. smaller than that of a stone thrown downward
b. the same as that of a stone thrown downward. d. zero until it reaches the highest point in its motion

___24. On a distance-time graph, a horizontal straight line corresponds to motion at ____.

a. zero speed* b. constant speed c. increasing speed d. decreasing speed

___25. What happen as an object falls freely?

a. velocity increases* b. acceleration increases c. both a & b d. cannot be determine

___26. If an object falls with constant acceleration, what happens to the velocity of the object?
a. constant also c. continually change by varying amounts depending on its speed
b. continually decreases d. continually change by the same amount each second*
___27. A bullet is dropped into a river from a very high bridge. At the same time another bullet is fired from a gun,
straight down towards the water. Neglecting air resistance what happen to the acceleration just before
striking the water?
a. it is greater for the dropped bullet c. it is the same for each bullet*
b. it is greater for the fired bullet d. it depends on how high they started

___28. A sheet of paper can be with drawn from under a container of milk without toppling it if the paper is jerked
quickly. This best demonstrates that
a. the milk carton has no acceleration c. there is an action-reaction pair of forces
b. gravity tends to hold the milk carton securely d. the milk carton has inertia*

___29. A hockey puck is set in motion across a frozen pond. If ice friction, and air resistance are neglected, what
force is required to keep the puck sliding at constant velocity?
a. zero* c. the weight of the puck divided by the mass of the puck
b. equal to the weight of the puck d. the mass of the puck multiplied by 9.8 m/s/s

___30. A truck is moving at constant velocity. Inside the storage compartment, a rock is dropped from the midpoint
of the ceiling and strikes the floor below. At what point that the rock hits the floor?
a. exactly below the midpoint of the ceiling* c. behind the midpoint of the ceiling
b. ahead of the midpoint of the ceiling d. cannot be determine

___31. An apple weighs 1N. When held at rest above your head, what is the net force of the apple?
a. 0N* b. 0.1N c. 1N d. 9.8 N

___32. An object has a constant mass. Which of the following produces a constant net force on the object?
a. velocity b. acceleration* c. both a & b d. none of these

___33. Why a feather and a coin will have equal accelerations when falling?
a. their velocities are the same
b. the force of gravity is the same for each in a vacuum
c. the force of gravity does not act in a vacuum
d.the ratio of each object’s weight to its mass is the same*

PROBLEM SOLVING: Show your complete solutions. Round off your final answer on two digit after the
decimal and minimize erasures.
1. A 10-kg body is initially at rest. It is acted upon by two forces, a force of 40N to the
north and a force of 30N to the east. Find the velocity of the body after 1s.

2. Steve accelerates his jeepney’s speed at 2 m/s/s. What is the change in velocity after
every 5 seconds?

3. An electron moving at a speed of 4 x 106 m/s is shot through a sheet of paper which is
3 x 10-5 m thick. The electron emerges from the sheet with a speed of 2 x 10 6 m/s.
find the (a) acceleration experienced by the electron in passing through the sheet and
(b) time taken by the electron to pass through the sheet assuming that the acceleration
of electron is constant?

PBATINGAL 2001