REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
REGION X
Tangub City National High School
1st Grading Examination
TOTAL
Grade 8 Science SCORE

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Name:________________________ Yr.& Sec: ___________Date:__________ _
Test I. MULTIPLE CHOICE: Choose the letter that corresponds to the correct answer.
Write the answer on the space provided before the number.

_____ 1. A book is at rest on top of a table. Which of the following is correct?

a. There is no force acting on the book.
b. The book has no inertia.
c. There is no force acting on the table.
d. The book is in equilibrium.
_____ 2. Energy from the sun reaches the earth through ___________.
a. ultraviolet waves c. infrared waves
b. mechanical waves d. electromagnetic waves
_____ 3. The material that a wave travels through is called a ____________.
a. Refraction c. Medium
b. Reflection d. Speed
_____ 4. Which of the following situations involves friction?
a. A bicycle rolling down a hill
b. A baseball player sliding into 2nd base
c. A diver falling through the air to a pool
d. All of the above experience some friction.
_____ 5. What causes an ice to melt?
a. the change in weather
b. the presence of hot water
c. the absorption of the heat from its surrounding
d. the release of heat to the cooler surrounding
_____ 6. Which is the best example of gravity?
a. A car hits a tree, and its motion stops
b. A breeze blows, and a sailboat moves
c. A book is pushed, and it moves across the table
d. A person drops a ball, and it falls to the ground
_____ 7. It is a push or pull of an object.
a. Motion c. acceleration
b. Force d. velocity
_____8. What is the unit of work?
a. Newton c. Joules
b. Watts d. m/s
_____ 9. The bouncing back of light
a. Refraction b. reflection c. radiation d. dispersion
_____ 10.When one force in a pair is greater than the other, we call this:
a. balanced force
b. unbalanced force
c. magnitude
d. friction
_____ 11. Marco and Janice are playing tug of war. Marco is pulling at a force of 10 Newton’s south.
Janice is pulling with a force of 12 Newton’s North. Predict the outcome of this tug of war battle.
a. 2 Newton’s of force, North, Janice is winning
b. 2 Newton’s of force, South, Marco is winning
c. 22 Newton’s of force, North, Janice is winning
d. 22 Newton’s of force, South, Marco is winning
_____ 12. Which of these best describes the concept of inertia?
a. A force that attracts objects with mass
b. The tendency of an object to float in water
c. A force created when surfaces are in contact
d. The tendency of an object to resist a change in motion.
______ 13. When you heat a pan with soup, how does heat travel through the pan?
a. by radiation b.by dispersion c. by convection d. by conduction
______ 14. How does heat travel through the soup?
 a. by radiation b.by dispersion c. by convection d. by conduction
______ 15. According to Newton's 2nd Law of Motion, force equals –
a. mass divided by acceleration
b. mass plus acceleration
c. mass subtract acceleration
d. mass times acceleration
______ 16. The bouncing back of light
a. Refraction b. reflection c. radiation d. dispersion
______ 17. What do we called the separation of visible light into different colors?
a. Refraction b. reflection c. radiation d. dispersion
_____ 18. Which direction does heat transfer?
a. From warmer to cooler c. From cooler to warmer
b. From cooler to coolest d. From hot to hottest
_____ 19. How does the acceleration of an object change in relation to its mass? It is _________.
a. directly proportional
b. inversely proportional
c. acceleration doesn’t depend on mass at all
d. neither A or B
_____ 20. Which will accelerate faster?
a. a 1000 tons truck
b. a fully loaded bus
c. an overloaded jeepney
d. a race car
_____ 21. What will happen when two like charges are brought together?
a. They will repel each other.
b. They will attract each other.
c. They will neutralize each other.
d. They will have no effect on each other.
_____ 22. Which of the following is Not a unit for power?
a. Joule – second c. Watts
b. Newton-meter per second d. Ampere
_____ 23. What is the mass of a truck if it produces a force of 14,000N while accelerating at a rate of 5
m/s2 ?
a. 280 kg b. 2800kg
c. 70,000kg d. 7000kg
_____ 24. Which is the correct unit of acceleration?
a. m/s b. m/s2 c. kg.m/s d. kg.m/N
_____ 25. Suppose that a sled is accelerating at a rate of 2m/s2. If the net force is tripled and the mass is
halved, what then is the new acceleration of the sled?
a. decrease by half b. doubled
c. tripled d. quadrupled
_____ 26. Suppose a ball of mass 0.60 kg is hit with a force of 12 N. Its acceleration will be:
a. 20 m/s2 b. 40 m/s2
c. 10 m/s2 d. 20 m/s
_____ 27. What will happen when two like charges are brought together?
a. They will repel each other.
b. They will attract each other.
c. They will neutralize each other.
d. They will have no effect on each other.
____ 28. What do we called the separation of visible light into different colors?
a. Refraction b. reflection c. radiation d. dispersion
____ 29. As a 500 N lady sits on the floor, the floor exerts a force on her equal to______________.
a. 1000 N b. 500 N
c. 250 N d. 50 N
____30. Which of the following is a good conductor of heat?
a. Silver c. Wood
b.Plastic d. Rubber

Test II. Based on the 3rd Law of Motion give the reaction of the following situation below.

1.Action: The earth pulls you.

Reaction: ___________________________________________
2. Action: The tire of the bus pushes on road
Reaction: ___________________________________________
3. Action: rocket pushes on gases.
Reaction:____________________________________________
4.Action: The earth pulls you.
Reaction: ___________________________________________
Test III. Identify situations below if No Work is done or Work is done. Identify the one doing the
work and on which object the work is done.

1. Lifting a box from the floor. _____________________________________________

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2. Pushing against the wall.
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3. Pushing a box along the floor.
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4. Carrying a bag of grocery
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5. Raising a flag during the flag ceremony _____________________________________
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Test IV. Solve the following problem. Show your solution

1. Amy uses 20N of force to push a lawn mower 10 meters. How much work does she do?
2. Frank does 2400J of work in climbing a set of stairs. If he does the work in 6 seconds, what is his
power output?
3. A cart is loaded with a brick and pulled at constant speed along an inclined plane to the height of a
seat-top. If the mass of the loaded cart is 3.0 kg and the height of the seat top is 0.45 meters, then what is
the potential energy of the loaded cart at the height of the seat-top?
4. Determine the kinetic energy of a 1000-kg roller coaster car that is moving with a speed of 20.0 m/s.
5. If the roller coaster car in the above problem were moving with twice the speed, then what would be its
new kinetic energy?

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Test III. Solve the following problem. Show your solution.
Choose the correct answer on the box below.

a. 4 m/s2 b. 5kg c. 10 N d. 20 N d. 8m/s2

1. A force of 20 N acts upon a 5 kg block. Calculate the acceleration of the object.

2. An object of mass 10 kg is accelerated upward at 2 m/s2. What force is required?
3. A toy car accelerates at 2m/s2 with constant force of 10 N. What is the mass of the car?
4. How much force is needed to accelerate a 5 kg mass at a rate of 2m/s?

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