1.Thermal energy is the ______ of the particles in a material.

a. Potential energy
b. Total energy
c. Temperature
d. Average kinetic energy
2. Refrigerators use the process of ____ to remove heat from the interiors.
a. Combustion
b. Compression
c. Sublimation
d. Evaporation
3. The moving particles in an object have _____ energy.
a. Decreasing
b. Increasing
c. Kinetics
d. potential
4. If the particles in an object begin to move more quickly, their average kinetic energy ___ and
the object’s temperature ______.
a. Decrease, rises
b. Increase, falls
c. Increases, rises
d. Decrease, falls
5. The opposite of evaporation is ______
a. Condensation
b. Convection
c. Radiation
d. Conduction
6. _________ is the thermal energy that flows from a material with higher temperature.
a. Kinetic energy
b. Work
c. Heat
d. potential energy
7. According to Charles’s Law, at constant pressure, if the temperature of a gas _____, the
volume_____.
a. Increases, increases
b. Decreases, decreases
c. Increases, decreases
d. Decreases, increases
8. What cause a balloon to remain inflated?
a. The temperature of the air inside the balloon gradually decrease.
b. Air particles collide with the walls of the balloon.
c. The walls of the balloon gradually compress the gas inside.
d. Air particles continue to enter through the balloon walls.
9. Which of the following best describes particles in a solid?
a. A molecule slide past each other: sample takes shapes of container
b. No attractive forces between particles
c. Fills whatever container it is in
d. Particles tightly packed together.
10. The supporting force exerted by a fluid on s object immersed in it is called ________
a. Lift
b. Density
c. Buoyant force
d. Viscosity
11. According to the kinetic theory, all matter is composed of _____
a. solid material
b. Waves
c. Plasma
d. Particles
12. According to Pascal, pressure applied to fluid ______
a. Increase as it moves through the fluid
b. Fluctuates as it is transmitted throughout the fluid
c. Is transmitted unchanged throughout the fluid
d. Decrease as it moves through the fluid
13. According to Boyle’s law, at a constant temperature, if the volume of a container of gas is
________, then pressure of the gas will _______.
a. Increases, increases
b. Decreases, decreases
c. Increases, decreases
d. Decreases, increases
14. When the temperature of a substance is lowered, its particles __________.
a. Vibrate more slowly
b. Escape the attractive forces of the other particles
c. Stop vibrating completely
d. Vibrate more quickly
15. ________ is the ability of a fluid to exert an upward force on a object immersed in it.
A. Viscosity
B. Thermal expansion
C. Buoyancy
D. Evaporation
16. When an object’s distance from another object is changing.
a. It is motion
b. It has high velocity
c. It is speeding
d. It is acceleration
17. Speed equals distance divide by
a. Time
b. Size
c. Velocity
d. Motion
18. When you know both speed and direction of an object’s motion, you know the
a. Average speed of the object
b. Acceleration of the object
c. Distance the object has traveled
d. Velocity of the object
19. The rate at which velocity changes is called
a. Instantaneous speed
b. Acceleration
c. Direction
d. Motion
20. Which of these is an example of deceleration?
a. A bird taking off for flight
b. A roller coaster moving down a steep hill
c. A car approaching a red light
d. An airplane following a straight
21. To determine the acceleration rate of an object, you must calculate the change in speed
during each unit of
a. Velocity
b. Motion
c. Time
d. Deceleration
22. Average speed is
a. Equivalent to velocity
b. The rate which an object is moving at a given instant
c. The rate at which a slope change
d. The total distance traveled divided by the total time
23. A place or object for comparison to determine if something is in motion is called
a. A position
b. A constant
c. A preference point
d. Velocity
24. On a graph showing distance versus time, a horizontal lie represents an object that is
a. Moving at a constant speed
b. Increasing its speed
c. Decreasing its speed
d. Not moving at all
25. Changing direction is an example of kind of
a. Acceleration
b. Speed
c. Velocity
d. Constant rate
26. A bicyclist travels 30 kilometers in two hours, her average speeds
a. 30km/h
b. 15 km/h
c. 60 km/h
d. 2 km/h
27. In an acceleration graph showing speed versus time, a straight line shows the acceleration is
a. Decreasing
b. Increasing
c. Changing
d. Constant
28. A transverse wave composed of an oscillating electric field and a magnetic field that oscillates
perpendicular to the electric field is called.
a. Radio wave
b. Electric wave
c. Magnetic wave
d. Electromagnetic wave.
29. The angle of reflection equals the angles of incidence. This is called the law of:
a. Inspection
b. Reflection
c. Relativity
d. Transversity
30. Light is made up of individual packets. Each packet is made up two perpendicular transverse
waves: one that consists of an oscillating electrical field, and one that is made up of an oscillating
magnetic field.
a. True
b. False
31. Lights is travelling in the air and suddenly hits a glass window. Does the light speed up, slow
down, or continue traveling at the same speed when it enters the glass?
a. Speeds up
b. Slow down
c. Continues traveling at the same speed
32. Which has a higher frequency: green light or yellow light?
a. Green light
b. Yellow light
33. Which has longer wavelengths: ultraviolet rays or radio waves?
a. Ultraviolet rays
b. Radio waves
34. You are on a diving board looking down into a pool. You see a quarter at the bottom of the
pool, about three feet in front of you. Why is the quarter really not 3 feet in front of you?
a. The quarter is not really 3 feet in front of you because as the light from the quarter leaves the
pool water, it bends. This cause a false image.
b. The quarter is not really 3 feet in front of you because the trajectory of your vision into the
water is skewed from the chlorine added to the pool water. This cause a false image.
c. The quarter is not really 3 feet in front of you because logically you would not jump or dive off
a diving board into only 3 feet of water without breaking your neck.
 35. You want to concentrate light coming from a weak light source by focusing it all on a single
point. Would you use a converging or diverging lens to do this?
a. Converging lens
b. Diverging lens.
36. What does the eye do to change its focus?
a. The eye changes the size of its pupil
b. The eyed change the shape of the cornea
c. The eye changes the shape of the lens
d. The eyes change the size of the iris.
37. Branches of natural science are
a. physics and chemistry. c. medicine and agriculture.
b. biology, zoology, and ecology. d. life, physical, and earth science.
38. What is a scientific law?
a. It is the same as a hypothesis.
b. It is a description of a natural event.
c. It is an explanation of a scientific observation.
d. It is the conclusion of a scientific experiment.
37.
39. Which question cannot be answered by an experiment?
a. Does penicillin kill Salmonella bacteria?
b. Is rabies caused by a virus?
c. Did a comet impact kill the dinosaurs?
d. Can radiation cause cancer?
40. Which gravity pulls on a quantity of matter is referred to as
a. mass. c. volume.
b. length. d. weight.
 41. A Measurement that is accurate is one that
a. is as exact as possible.
b. is close to the true value.
c. contains at least four significant figures.
d. contains five decimal places.
42. It defined as anything that
a. can be seen and touched. c. can be weighed.
b. has mass and takes up space. d. contains kinetic or potential energy.
43. A substance that cannot be broken down into simpler substances is
a. a compound. c. an element.
b. a mixture. d. an atom.
44. The science of what matter is made of and how it changes is called
a. chemistry. c. kinetics.
b. physics. d. engineering.
45. The chemical element that is most abundant in the human body is
a. nitrogen. c. carbon.
b. iron. d. oxygen.
45.The element that is most abundant in Earth is
a. iron. c. silicon.
b. oxygen. d. magnesium.
46. Which state of matter that hold its shape without a container?
a. solid c. gas
b. liquid d. Plasma
47. Evaporation refers to the change of state from a
a. liquid to a gas. c. solid to a liquid.
b. gas to a liquid. d. liquid to a solid.
48. You burn a log of wood, and only a small pile of ashes is left. What has happened?
a. A large amount of mass has been lost.
b. A small amount of mass has been converted into a large amount of heat energy.
c. The total mass of the wood and oxygen is the same as the total mass of the ash and gases.
d. The total amount of energy is less than before.

49.A liquid changes rapidly into a gas at the liquid's