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Pre-test in Science 8

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I. Multiple choice. Encircle the letter of your answer

1. How much force is required to maintain an object at a constant speed in free space?
a. zero c. the weight of the object
b. the mass of the object d. the force required to stop it

2. An apple weight 1 N. When held at rest above your head, what is the net force on the apple?
a. 0 N c. 1 N
b. 0.1 N d. 9.8 N

3. Which of the following is a contact force?

a. touching a rock
b. rock falls when thrown
c. magnet attracting paper clip
d. tissue being attracted to plastic sheet

4. Which has more mass, a kilogram of feathers or a kilogram of iron?

a. the iron
b. the feathers
c. neither, they both have the same mass
d. none of the above

5. Which combination is equivalent to a Newton of force?

a. kg ∙ m/s 2 c. kg ∙ m 2 /s 2
b. kg ∙ m/s d. kg ∙ m 2 /s

6. Which statement expresses the law of acceleration?

a. The force on an object is equal to its acceleration divided by its mass.
b. The force on an object is equal to the product of its mass and its acceleration.
c. The mass of an object is equal to the product of the force on it and its acceleration.
d. The acceleration of an object is equal to the product of the force on it and its mass.

7. Which quantity is related to the potential energy of an object?

a. density c. speed
b. location d. temperature

8. When two lamps are connected in parallel, what happens to the total resistance of the circuit?
a. decrease c. remain the same
b. increase d. none of these

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9. Suppose a cart is being moved by a force. If a load is dumped into the cart so that the cart’s mass
doubles, what happens to the cart’s acceleration?
a. doubles c. quadruples
b. halves d. remain the same

10. When two lamps are connected in series to a battery, what happens o the electrical resistance of
the circuit?
a. decrease c. remain the same
b. increase d. none of these

11. Which color carries the most energy?

a. blue c. red
b. green d. yellow

12. Which among the color lights is the most refracted?

a. blue c. red
b. green d. violet

13. How many joules of energy are needed to raise the temperature of 1 gram of
water by 1 Co?
a. 4.180 c. 4.188
b. 4.186 d. 4.199

14. In a normal fault, what do you call the part that lies below the other part?
a. anticline c. hanging wall
b. footwall d. reverse fault

15. How do rock particles move during the passage of a P-wave through the rock?
a. in rolling a circular motion
b. back and forth parallel to the direction of the wave travel
c. back and forth perpendicular to the direction of wave travel
d. none of these, the particles do not move

16. Which of the following information cannot be provided by a seismograph?

a. the depth of the earthquake
b. the location of the earthquake
c. the magnitude of the earthquake
d. the number of fatalities in the earthquake

17. Seismic waves pass through the interior of the earth and spread out from the focus in all
directions. What type of seismic waves are these?
a. body waves c. refracted waves
b. reflected waves d. surface waves

18. If a P-waves were to go through a solid medium and then through a liquid medium, what would
Happen to its velocity?
a. decrease c. increase
b. decrease to zero d. stay the same
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19. Which of the following is a characteristic of a tsunami?
a. Very low amplitude in the open ocean
b. Very long wavelength in the open ocean
c. Very fast-moving waves in the open ocean
d. All of the above

20. Which layer of the earth marks a change of 100% solid to 100% liquid?
a. Crust and mantle
b. Mantle and outer core
c. Outer core and inner core
d. Lithosphere and asthenosphere

21. It is describe that the outer core of the Earth is liquid. Which is the strongest evidence for this?
a. P-waves are transmitted through the outer core.
b. S-waves speed up as they move through the outer core.
c. P-waves disappear as they move to the outer core.
d. S-waves disappear as they move through the outer core.

22. What causes the stress in Earth’s crust?

a. earthquake hazard c. tsunami
b. seismic game d. tectonic plate movement

23. What is the difference among typhoon, hurricane and cyclone?

a. Typhoons are strong storm, cyclones are worse, and hurricanes are the strongest of all.
b. Hurricanes spin clockwise, cyclone spin counterclockwise, and typhoons are actually tidal
waves.
c. Typhoons are found near the equator, hurricanes are in the mid-latitude, and cyclones in the
arctic and antarctic.
d. The storms are the same but these names are used to in the Western Pacific, North
America, and near the Indian Ocean, respectively.

24. If the wind speed of a tropical depression reaches 63 km/Hr, then the it is classified as a:
a. tropical cyclone c. tropical storm
b. tropical depression d. tropical trough

25. A typhoon typically begins as a complex of thunderstorms but then evolve through a series of
stages. The first stage after the formation of thunderstorms is the formation of a weak_______?
a. depression c. storm
b. rain d. typhoon

26. When the comet is very far away from the Sun, which part is the only one visible?
a. coma c. ion tail
b. dust tail d. nucleus

27. A meteor shower is produced when __________.

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 a. Earth passes through the orbital path of a comet
b. a large number of sporadic meteors are observe
c. meteors causes condensation in the upper atmosphere that leads to early morning rain
d. massive particles are being carried outward from the sun by the solar wind and enter Earth’s
atmosphere

28. When does a comet have the largest coma and the longest tail?
a. when it is nearest to the sun c. when it is moving very slowly
b. when it is moving very fast d. when it is farthest from the sun
29. Which of these is NOT TRUE about comets?
a. As they heat up gas and dust stream outwards forming tail.
b. They are rocky objects that revolve around the Sun between Mars and Jupiter.
c. They are ice, dust, and small rocky particles that long ellipse shape orbits.
d. They are found between Kuiper belt and Oort cloud which beyond Neptune.
30. What do meteors, comets, and asteroids have in common?
a. They all have atmosphere.
b. They are all round, smooth to the touch, colorful, and very heavy.
c. They are believed to be remnants of the materials that created the Sun and planets.
d. They are all livable places with potential for humans to migrate to when it gets too dirty and
crowded on planet Earth.

31. On which medium will sound be transmitted most efficiently?

a. on dry air at 0˚C
b. on dry air at 20˚C
c. on humid air at 30˚C
d. Sound transmission is independent to temperature of the medium.

32. What is the general term for the phase transformation from gas to solid?
a. condensation c. snowing
b. deposition d. sublimation

33. What is the phase transformation from plasma to gas?

a. condensation c. liquefaction
b. ionization d. recombination

34. Which of the following substances undergo sublimation?

a. naphthalene ball c. orange juice
b. neon light d. water

35. What temperature is considered absolute zero?

a. 0˚C c. 0K
b. 0 ˚F d. 273K

36. Who coined the words atomos?

a. Aristotle c. Socrates
b. Plato d. Democritus

37. Whose discovery led to the discovery of the electron?

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a. Ernest Rutherford c. J.J Thompson
b. John Dalton d. William Thompson

38. Who is credited for creating the plum pudding (raisin bread) model?
a. Ernest Rutherford c. J.J Thompson
b. John Dalton d. William Thompson

39. Which of the following is not a subatomic particle?

a. electron c. nucleus
b. neutron d. proton

40. What is the term for an element with the same number of protons but different number of
neutron?
a. atomic mass c. mass number
b. atomic number d. isotope

41. Which of the following information is not available in the periodic table of elements?
a. atomic mass c. chemical symbol
b. atomic number d. mass number

42. What is the general term for the vertical rows in a periodic table?
a. blocks c. lines
b. family d. series

43. What is the general term for Group 5A elements?

a. alkali earth metals c. chalcogen
b. alkali metal d. pnictogan

44. What is found along the stair-step part of the periodic table of elements?
a. metals c. noble gases
b. metalloids d. nonmetals

45. Which of the following elements will have the biggest atomic radius?
a. B c. N
b. C d. O

46. Who made the first scientific discovery about elements?

a. Ernest Rutherford c. John Dalton
b. Henning Brand d. Lothar Meyer

47. Who is considered the father of the periodic table?

a. Dmitri Mendeleev c. Henry Moseley
b. Glenn Seaborg d. John Newlands

48. Which is alkali metal?

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 a. Ar c. Na
b. He d. Xe
49. What is the atomic number of oxygen -16?
a. 6 c. 10
b. 8 d. 12

50. What is the standard unit of work?

a. J c. N
b. M d. Kg

51. It is the production of two daughter cells with the same number of chromosomes?
a. gap 1 c. mitosis
b. meiosis d. synthesis

52. A parent cell has a chromosomal number of 38.What will be the chromosomal number of its
daughter cell once it undergoes mitosis?
a. 76 c. 38
b. 19 d. 37

53. There are 1540 daughter cells. Before they undergo mitosis, how many parent cell were there?
a. 2 c. 1540
b. 770 d. 3080

54. If there are 426 parent cells in one layer sample tissue, how many daughter cell will be produced
if it undergoes mitosis?
a. 2 c. 426
b. 213 d. 852

55. Which food chain correctly describes the flow of energy in an ecosystem?

a. Grass-->cow-->human
b. Caterpillar-->leaf-->human
c. Cow-->grass-->human
d. Leaf-->bird-->caterpillar

56. It is a secretory organ that secrete hydrolytic or digestive enzyme that chemically breaks down
complex food into simple form.
a. digestive gland b. stomach
b. Liver d. large intestine

57. The first law of thermo dynamics state_________.

a. energy is absorb by the organism
b. energy is consumed by producer
c. energy is neither created nor destroy
d. energy decreased as it is passed on to other organism

58. Which organism can produce their own food?

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a. Consumer c. producer
b. Decomposer d. none of these

59. This law states that all genes for all the traits of an organism are equally divided and distributed
in all resulting gametes after miosis.
a. Law of Segregation c. Law of incomplete Dominance
b. Law of Complete Dominance d. Law of independent Assortment

60. This law states that alleles of different genes are distributed randomly to the gametes and
fertilization occurs at random.
a. Law of Segregation c. Law of incomplete Dominance
b. Law of Complete Dominance d. Law of independent Assortment