SUMMATIVE TEST IN SCIENCE 8

Written Work No. 1 Quarter 1

Name: ___________________________________ Grade and Section: _______________ Score: _________

Read each item carefully and choose the letter of the correct answer. Write your answers on the space provided.
I.
_____ 1. Which is NOT a unit of force?
A. Dyne B. Joules C. Newton D. Pound
_____ 2. What refers to how large or strong is the force?
A. magnitude B. line of action C. velocity of the object D. direction of the force
_____ 3. What force is always directed opposite to the motion of an object?
A. Friction B. Gravitational C. Magnetic D. Tension
_____ 4. What force pulls an object back to the Earth?
A. Applied B. Gravitational C. Magnetic D. Tension
_____ 5. Which surface would be easiest for a bicycle to move?
A. Sand B. Grass C. Muddy road D. Concrete road
_____ 6. What type of forces holds between two celestial bodies like the Sun and Earth?
A. Applied B. Gravitational C. Magnetic D. Tension
_____ 7. What force acts perpendicular to the surface of the object in contact with?
A. Applied B. Gravitational C. Normal D. Tension
_____ 8. Two people pull on a rope in a tug-of-war. Each pull with a 300 N force. What is the net force?
A. 0 N B. 300 N C. 600 N D. 900 N
_____ 9. Planet Jupiter has a bigger mass than the Earth. If you were able to travel to planet Jupiter, what happens
to your weight?
A. increases B. decreases C. stays the same D. varies with day and night
10. What is the net force in the figure below?
A. 25 N, to the left B. 25 N, to the right C. 195 N, to the left D. 195 N, to the right

II.
_____ 1. What is the definition of weight?
A. the size of an object C. the amount of matter in an object
B. the time it takes to get on a ride D. the magnitude of the force of gravity on an object
_____ 2. Which law states that forces act with equal magnitude and in opposite direction?
A. Law of Inertia B. Law of Interaction C. Law of Acceleration D. Law of Gravitational Force
_____ 3. For every _________ there is an equal and opposite ___________.
A. action, action B. reaction, action C. action, reaction D. reaction, reaction
_____ 4. What Newton’s law of motion requires the use of seat belt in cars?
A. Law of Inertia B. Law of Interaction C. Law of Acceleration D. Law of Gravitational Force
_____ 5. A guava with a mass of 0.200 kg has a weight of ___________.
A. 0.200 N B. 1.96 N C 4.50 N D. 10.0 N
_____ 6. A stone hits the ground before a flat sheet of paper because ___________.
A. it is less massive C. the acceleration of gravity is greater on the stone
B. it is more massive D. there is more air resistance against the flat paper
_____ 7. If the mass of an object is 45 kg on Earth, what is its mass on the moon?
A. 45 N B. 45 kg C. 441 N D. 441 kg
_____ 8. Which of the following phenomena applies the first law of motion?
A. A leaf sways back and forth falling from a tree.
B. When a ball falls on the floor, the ball bounces back up.
C. When pushed with the same force, a car accelerates slower than a grocery cart.
D. When a cardboard with coin on top is suddenly pulled, the coin falls into the glass.
_____ 9. According to the second law of motion, the net force is the product of mass and acceleration. 10. Which of
the following has the greatest acceleration?
A. A 5.000 kg stone pulled with a 10 N net force.
B. A 0.5000 kg toy car is pulled with a 9 N net force.
C. A 7.000 kg metal ball is pushed by a 17 N net force.
D. A 500.0 kg truck accelerated by 1000 N net force from its engine.
_____ 10. In a grocery store, you can easily push a cart with 5 kg sack of rice than a cart with a 10 kg sack of rice to
the counter. Which of these explains the situation?
A. Law of Inertia B. Law of Interaction C. Law of Acceleration D. Law of Gravitational Force
III.
_____ 1. The following situations demonstrate potential energy EXCEPT:
A. a bullet fired from a gun C. a car parked at the top of a hill
B. a child at the top of a slide D. river water at the top of a waterfall
_____ 2. The potential energy is the energy an object has due to its __________.
A. mass B. motion C. position D. weight
_____ 3. The following conditions exhibits kinetic energy EXCEPT:
A. water inside a glass C. running athlete on the field
B. rolling stone from the hill D. dancing kids in the living room of the house
_____ 4. Which of the following quantities, when doubled, has the greatest effect on the amount of kinetic energy?
A. mass B. size C. speed D. weight
_____ 5. If a green ball is higher from the ground than a yellow ball and both have the same mass, which ball has
more potential energy?
A. green ball B. yellow ball C. both has the same PE D. both has the same KE
_____ 6. Which of the following factors does not affect the amount of potential energy of an object?
A. gravity B. height C. mass D. speed
_____ 7. Which happens to kinetic energy if mass is doubled?
A. doubled B. the same C. tripled D. quadrupled
_____ 8. Potential energy is the energy of an object based on its ___________.
A. height and mass B. mass and speed C. speed and height D. weight and speed
_____ 9. Where does a car on a hill have the greatest potential energy?
A. top of the hill C. halfway down the hill
B. bottom of the hill D. it has the same potential energy at all points
_____ 10. Kinetic energy is the energy an object possessed due to its ___________.
A. mass B. motion C. position D. weight

IV.
_____ 1. Which of the following factors does the speed of sound depend?
A. density B. elasticity C. temperature D. all of the above
_____ 2. An echo occurs when a sound wave is __________.
A. absorbed B. reflected C. refracted D. transmitted
_____ 3. What happens to the speed of sound as the temperature increases?
A. constant B. decreases C. increases D. cannot be determined
_____ 4. Which phenomenon explains why sound is heard at longer distances at night than in day?
A. echolocation B. reflection C. refraction D. reverberation
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_____ 5. How fast does sound travel if the air temperature is 20 C?
A. 334 m/s B. 340 m/s C. 343 m/s D. 345 m/s
_____ 6. Which of the following is true about the effect of air temperature on the speed of sound?
A. The lower the temperature the faster the speed.
B. The higher the temperature the faster the speed.
C. The higher the temperature the slower the speed.
D. The temperature does not affect the speed of sound.
_____ 7. What is the relationship of temperature to the speed of sound?
A. equal B. no relationship C. directly proportional D. inversely proportional
_____ 8. Sound travels faster through warm materials than cold materials because __________.
A. warm particles move slowly C. warm particles are moving quickly
B. gas particles are packed tightly D. sound does not travel faster through a warm substance
_____ 9. Ships use echolocation to measure the __________.
A. size of fish B. area of ocean C. depth of water D. density of water
_____ 10. When the direction of a wave changes as it passes from one medium to another, it is called ___________.
A. density B. echo C. reflection D. refraction