Knowledge. Multiple Choice. Write only the letter of your answer. Understanding. Multiple Choice.

1. It is the highest point of a wave 1. In what state of matter does sound travel fastest?
a. trough b. crest c. amplitude d. period a. air b. gas c. liquid d. solid
2. The time it takes to produce one wavelength, or for one 2. Light exhibits the characteristics and properties of a wave. It is
wavelength to pass by a fixed point in space is__ classified as an electromagnetic wave located between the
a. trough b. crest c. compression d. period spectra of ____________
3. Which of the following colors of light has the shortest wavelength? a. gamma & microwave c. gamma & X-ray
a. blue b. red c. violet d. green b. infrared & ultraviolet d. radio & infrared
4. It is commonly known as a reflected sound 3. Which of the following describes how sound travels?
a. echo b. wave c. vibration d. frequency a. light travels faster than light
5. In what medium does sound travel fast? b. sound travels intermittently
a. solid b. liquid c. gas d. neither a or b c. sound travels slower than light
6. Which of the following colors of light has highest frequency? d. sound travels with the same speed as light
a. green b. orange c. yellow d. violet 4. The speed of sound is dependent on these factors or properties of
7. It refers to the multiple reflections or echoes in a certain place. the medium ________
a. echo b. reverberation c. reflection d. refraction a. density, elasticity and temperature
8. The highness or lowness of sound is ______ b. frequency and wavelength
a. loudness b. pitch c. speed d. frequency c. elasticity, temperature and sound speed
9. It is the sluggishness of the atoms of the medium to maintain the d. reflection, refraction and dispersion
absorbed energy before reemitting. 5. Which of the following statements is NOT true about the
a. density b. physical density c. optical density dispersion of sunlight by a prism?
d. all of these a. The color most bent is red.
10. The bending of light as it travels from one medium to another of b. White light consists of waves of varying length.
different optical densities is____ c. Different wavelengths travel with different speed.
a. dispersion b. reflection c.refraction d. both a&b d. Different wavelengths correspond to different colors.
11. Which color of lights has the lowest energy? 6. Stick partly submerged obliquely in water appears to be bent at a
a. violet b. orange c. green d. red point where it enters the water surface. Which one of the
12. It is the number of waves that pass a particular point for every one following gives explanation for this observation.
second. a. Dispersion of light on entering water.
a. wavelength b. speed c. intensity d. frequency b. Light does not travel in straight line in water.
13. It is a triangular block that can be used to separate white light into a c. Diffraction of light by the surface of the water.
spectrum of different colors. d. Refraction of light due to differences in speed of light in air.
a. prism b. electromagnrtic spectrum 7. After the rainstorm, a rainbow may appear in the sky. Which
c.visible spectrum d. none of these statement explains this observation?
14. Any form of disturbance that propagates is ______ a. Raindrops act as prisms separating sunlight into colors.
a. waves b. sound c. amplitude d. heat b. The white clouds are actually prisms composed of different
15. What form of energy is produced by the movement of electrons? colors.
a. chemical b. mechanical c. current d. electricity c. The colors of the rainbow come from raindrops in the
16. It is the measure of the average kinetic energy of molecules or atmosphere.
particles of an object. d. When the sunlight is reflected by the ground towards the
a. heat b. temperature c. energy d. work clouds, it separates into a rainbow.
17. The support force exerted upon an object which is in contrast with 8. For item 8, refer to statements 1 & 2 below. Which of the
another stable object is ______ following is correct?
a. tension force b. normal force 1. Longitudinal and transverse waves can be refracted.
c. applied force d. frictional force 2. Longitudinal and transverse waves can travel through a
18. What is the measurement of inertia? vacuum.
a. weight b. mass c. acceleration d. force a. only statement 1 is true c. both are true
19. It is the tendency of matter to change in volume in response to a b. only statement 2 is true d. both are false
change in temperature, through heat transfer is ______ 9. What is the movement of the individual particles in a transverse
a. thermal expansion b. heat capacity wave?
c. thermal energy d. latent heat a. move in circles
20. Work done is equal to the product of force and _____ b. move parallel to the direction of travel
a. distance b. velocity c. acceleration d. speed c. move in ellipses
d. move perpendicular to the direction of travel
Process. Modified True or False. Write T if the statement is true if it is 10. With the concept of dispersion, colors of light are hierarchically
false, write the correct answer. arranged as
a. ROYGBV b. ROYBGV c. VGBYOR d. VGBOYR
1. Sound is a type of energy made by vibrations. 11. In series connection, the two bulbs that are connected and
2. Optical density is the mass per unit volume of medium. plugged to the outlet have the same
3. Dispersion is a special kind of refraction which provides colors of a. current c. voltage
light. b. voltage and current d. resistance
4. Blue light has longer wavelength than yellow light. 12. Expansion of solid indicates that
5. Wavelengths and frequencies of colors of light vary. a. the number of particles in it increase
6. Dispersion of light is observed when white light passes through a b. the space between its particles increases
prism. c. the average velocity of particles increases
7. Echo sounding is another application of sound refraction. d. there is an increase in the average kinetic energy of its
8. Sound waves travel slower in solids than in liquids. particles
9. In transverse wave, the movement of particles is parallel to the 13. The law of acceleration quantifies the relationship among
direction of the wave travel. a. force, mass, velocity c. mass & force
10. As the frequency of light increases, energy decreases. b. force, mass, acceleration d. acceleration, time, force
11. Liquid medium is a better transmitter of sound than gas. 14. Which of the following describes power?
12. Sound can travel faster in mediums with higher elastic property. a. the rate at which energy is expanded
13. Refraction is a region in longitudinal wave where the particles are b. work per unit time
closest together. c. the rate at which work is done
14. The hotter the object the faster the sound travel. d. all of the above
15. Light travel at a speed of 3X10 8 m/s in a vacuum but decreases 15. What happens when the exposed parts of the electrical wires
when it travels in a dense medium. touch one another producing large current in the shortened
16. Sound travels slower than light. circuit?
17. Kinetic energy increases to four times its original value if velocity a. Long circuit b. series circuit
is doubled. b. Short circuit d. overloading
18. Expansion of a solid indicates that the space between particles
decreases.
19. Longitudinal and transverse waves can be refracted.
20. In a series connection, the more the dry cells used the lesser the
current produced.