Q1 G8 Summative Test 1 Forces and Law of Motion
Q1 G8 Summative Test 1 Forces and Law of Motion
Q1 G8 Summative Test 1 Forces and Law of Motion
SCIENCE 8
Quarter 1
Summative Test I
Directions: Choose the letter of the correct answer. Write your answer on the spaces before each
number.
_____3. When you move a chair across the floor, what force must your push be stronger than?
A. friction
B. magnetic
C. normal
D. tension
E.
_____4. A 500 N lady sits on the floor. How much force the floor exerts on her?
A. 1000 N
B. 250 N
C. 500 N
D. 500 Kg
_____6. A leaf falls from a tree. What force(s) are acting on it?
A. Air resistance only
B. Gravitational force only
C. Applied force and air resistance
D. Air resistance and gravitational forces
_____7. The Earth has a bigger mass than the Moon. If you were able to travel to the Moon, what
happens to your weight?
A. increases
B. decreases
C. stays the same
D. varies with day and night
_____9. What type of forces holds between two celestial bodies like the Sun and Earth?
A. Applied
B. Gravitational
C. Magnetic
D. Tension
_____10. 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
_____11. 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
_____14. Which of these vehicles moving at the same velocity is difficult to stop?
A. a bus C. a train
B. a car D. a truck
_____15. All of the following apply the third law of motion EXCEPT ____________.
A. kicking a ball C. throwing a stone
B. rowing a banca D. taking out ketchup from a bottle
_____16. Which Newton's law explains when a man is pushed forward in the car as it stops?
A. 1st law
B. 2nd law
C. 3rd law
D. 2nd and 3rd laws
_____17. A boy jumps out of the boat into a dock. As the boy
moves forward to the dock, the boat moves backward.
Which statement describes this situation?
_____18. 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
_____20. 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 Universal Gravitation
_____21. A stone hits the ground before a flat sheet of paper because ___________.
A. it is less massive
B. it is more massive
C. the acceleration of gravity is greater on the stone
D. there is more air resistance against the flat paper
_____24. According to the second law of motion, the net force is the product of mass and
acceleration.
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.
_____25. 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 Universal Gravitation
26. What net force is required to accelerate a car at a rate of 2 m/s2 if the car has
a mass of 3,000 kg?
27. What is the mass of a truck if it produces a force of 16,000 kg.m/s2 while
accelerating at a rate of 5 m/s2 ?