Department of Education

Region III
Division of City of San Fernando (P)
TELABASTAGAN INTEGRATED SCHOOL
San Fernando North District
First Quarterly Examination in Science 8

Name: ___________________________ Date: _______________

Grade & Sec: _________________ Score: ______/50
Instruction: Read and analyze the following statements/questions. Write the letter of the best/
correct answer beside each number.
____1. How can you tell if an object is in motion?
A. It will be able to see the forces C. It will remain in the same position.
B. Its position will change in relation to other objects. D. The object will look different.
____2. In the simplest sense, it is the push or pulls that result to changes.
A. Force B. Gravity C. Speed D. Velocity
____3. In a tug of war, when one team is pulling with a force of 100 N and the other 80 N, what is the
net force?
A. 20 N B.80 N C.100 N D. 180 N 
____4. Newton’s first Law of Motion states that if there is no net force acting on an object it
will_______________.
A. move with constant velocity C. remain at rest
B. have no acceleration D. All of them
____5. A space shuttle started launching into space. It used a lot of force to fly up toward space.
In which direction was the opposite force going?
A. Down B. Left C. Right D. Up
____6. If the forces acting on an object are unbalanced, what happens?
A. The object accelerates. C. The object moves in constant motion.

B. The object remains at rest. D. The object will not move.

____7. Marco and Janice are playing tug of war. Marco is pulling at a force of 10 Newtons South.
Janice is pulling with a force of 12 Newtons North. Predict the outcome of this tug of war
battle.
A. 2 Newtons of force, North, Janice is winning.
B. 2 Newtons of force, South, Marco is winning.
C. 22 Newtons of force, North, Janice is winning.
D. 22 Newtons of force, South, Marco is winning.
____8.When a ball hits the ground it bounces. This an example of____________.
A. Gravitational Law C. Newton's First Law
B. Newton’s Second Law D. Newton's Third Law
____9. Two boys wearing in-line skates are standing on a smooth surface with the palms of their
hands touching and their arms bent, as shown above. If Boy X pushes by straightening his
arms out while Boy Y holds his arms in the original position, what is the motion of the two
boys?
A. Boy X does not move and Boy Y moves backward.
B. Boy Y does not move and Boy X moves backward.
C. Boy X and Boy Y both move backward. The motion depends on how hard Boy X pushes.
D. Boy X and Boy Y both move backward. The motion depends on how hard Boy Y pushes.
____10. Newton is a unit of measure for _____________.
A. Distance B. Force C. Mass D. Weight
____11. Forces that are equal in size and opposite in direction are known as ____________.
A. Balanced force C. Frictional force
B. Net forces D. Unbalanced forces
____12. A locomotive engine of unknown mass pulls a series of railroad cars of varying mass: the
first car has mass m, the second car has mass 2m, and the last car has mass 3m. The cars
are connected by links A, B, and C. Which link experiences the greatest force as the train
accelerates to the right?
A. A
B. B
C. Which link depends on the mass of the engine.
 D. A, B, and C all experience the same force.

____13. Which of the following energy forms is associated with an object due to its position?
A. Kinetic energy C. Potential energy
B. Positional energy D. Total energy
____14. If the mass in a horizontal mass-spring system was doubled, the elastic potential energy in
the system would change by a factor of ____________.
A. 0 (no change). B. ½ C. 2 D. 4
____15. Potential energy s the energy an object has due to its ________.
A.Mass B.Motion C.Postion D.Weight
_____16. Gravitational potential energy is the potential energy of an object based on its __________.
A. Height and acceleration C. Mass and speed
B. Height and mass D. Weight and velocity
_____17. What is the gravitational potential energy of a 3 kg ball that is 1 meter above the floor?
A. 3 J C.19.6 J
B. 9.8 J D.29.4 J
_____18. Where does a car on a hill have the most potential energy?
A. Bottom of the hill C. Top of the hill
B. Halfway of the hill D. It has the same potential energy at all points.
_____19. If a 2 kg rock has 196 J of gravitational potential energy, how high is it?
A. 1 meter C. 5 meters
B. 2 meters D.10 meters
_____20. What is the standard unit of measurement for potential energy?
A. Ampere C. Newton
B. Joule D. Volt
_____21. When sound travels through air, the air particles _____________.
A. do not vibrate
B. vibrate but not in any fixed direction
C. vibrate along the direction of wave propagation
D. vibrate perpendicular to the direction of wave propagation
_____22. The amplitude of a wave is the____________.
A. distance the wave moves in one second.
B. distance equal to one wave length.
C. distance the wave moves in one time period of the wave.
D. maximum distance moved by the medium particles on either side of the mean position.
____23. It is an example of mechanical wave.
A. Infrared radiation C. Light wave
B. Radio wave D. Sound wave
____24. Where can sound travel the fastest?
A. Solid B. Liquid C. Gas D. Plasma
____25. If a boy is running away toward a source of sound frequency f, will the boy hear a sound of
frequency higher, lower or equal than f?
A. Equal B. Higher C. Lower D. None of these
____26. An object is hot enough to emit a dull red glow. When this object is heated even more, it will
emit____________.
A. shorter-wavelength, higher-frequency radiation.
B. longer-wavelength, lower-frequency radiation.
C. the same wavelengths as before, but with more energy.
D. more of the same wavelengths with more energy.
____27. Rainbows are form when Sunlight strikes through_____________
A. fog B. millions of rain droplets C. clouds D. mist
____28. Light with the lowest frequency (longest wavelength) detected by your eyes is perceived as
____________.
A.Blue B. Green C. Orange D. Red
____29. According to the relationship between frequency and energy of light (E = hf), which color of
light has more energy?
A. Blue B.Green C.Orange D.Red
____30. Why is a red baseball cap red?
A. Red is absorbed by the baseball cap.
B. Red, orange, and yellow are reflected by the cap.
C. Red, orange, and yellow are absorbed by the cap.
D. All the colors of the spectrum are absorbed, except for red.
____31. Metals are good conductors of heat because their atoms _______________.
A. collide frequently C. contain free electrons
B. are relatively far apart D. have high density
____32. Heat is closely related with____________.
A. energy C. temperature
B. liquids D. entropy
____33. Mercury, petrol, water are liquids at room temperature. The particles in liquid
are____________.
A. closed together C. moving around each other
B. arranged in random way D. not compressible
____34. Steel, plastic and wood are solids at room temperature. Ice is solid water. The particles in a
solid are________________.
A. closed together C. moving around each other
B. arranged in a regular way D. not compressible
____35. The form of energy that produces a feeling of hotness is called as ___________.
A. Energy C. work
B. Heat D. None of the above
____36. The temperature at which liquid changes into vapor is called__________.
A. Boiling point C. Melting point
B. Expansion point D. None of the above
____37. The free electrons of a metal _____________.
A. are free to escape through the surface C. are free to fall into the nuclei
B. are free to move anywhere in the metal. D. do not collide with each other
____38. In a wire, which charges are commonly flow?
A. Electron B. Neutron C. Proton D. Zeutron
____39. The unit of current is _____________.
A. Ampere B. Coulomb C. Volt D. Watt
____40. When there is an electric current passing through a wire, the particles moving are
___________.
A. Atoms B. Electrons C. Ions D. Protons
____41. The work done in moving a unit positive charge across two points in an electric circuit is a
measure of ___________.
A. Current B. Power C. Resistance D. Voltage
____42. A circuit that has only one electric flow is _________circuit.
A. Battery B. Parallel C. Paper D. Series
____43. Why does running too many appliances on one circuit cause a fuse to blow or a circuit
breaker to shut off?
A. As more resistors are added in parallel, the total resistance decreases, which causes an
increase in the total amount of voltage.
B. As more resistors are added in parallel, the total resistance decreases, which causes an
increase in the total amount of current.
C. The current drops to almost zero.
D. The voltage becomes too much for the circuit to handle.
____44. Which statement describes current in a parallel circuit?
A. It splits up through each component.
B. It splits across the branches
C. It stays the same throughout
D. all of them
____45. An ideal regulated power supply is one which has voltage regulation of___________.
A. 0% B. 1% C.5% D.10%
____46. The standard unit of resistivity/resistance is ____________.
A. ohm B. ohm/m C.ohm-m D. none of them
_____47. In an unregulated power supply, if load current increases, the output
voltage____________.
A. Decreases B. Increases C. Remains the same D. None of them
_____48. In an unregulated power supply, if input a.c. voltage increases, the output
voltage_______________.
A. Decreases B. Increases C. Remains the same D. None of them
_____49. If electrical wires and appliances are overheated due to high electric current, they can
cause_______________.
A. burns B. fires C. freezing D. both a and b
_____50. Do not use appliances if they are______________.
A. Damaged B. Exposed wires C. Both a and b D. Working properly

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