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THOMAS MONTESSORI DE SAN MARIANO, INC

First Quarter Assessment in Science
Grade 8

Name: ___________________________________ Date:________ Score:________

I. Multiple Choice.
Direction: Read each question carefully and encircle the letter of the best answer.

1. Which of the following describes a force?

A. A pull only B. A push only C. A push or pull or both D. Neither a push nor a pull
2. What is the unit of force in metric system?
A. Calorie B. Joules C. Newton D. Pounds
3. How do forces occur?
A. in pairs B. in triplets C. by themselves D. as single quantity
4. When you move a chair across the floor, what force must your push be stronger than?
A. Friction B. Magnetic C.Normal D. Tension
5. A 500 N lady sits on the floor. How much force the floor exerts on her?
A. 50 N B.250 N C.500 N D. 1000 N
6. Which force always pulls the objects to the ground?
A. Applied B. Friction C. Gravitational D. Tension
7. A leaf falls from a tree. What force(s) are acting on it?
A. Air resistance only C. Gravitational force only
B. Applied force and air resistance D. Air resistance and gravitational forces
8. When a cabinet touches the floor, which type of forces exist?
A. Contact forces C. Balanced forces
B. Non-contact forces D. Unbalanced forces
9. 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 C. decreases
B. stays the same D. varies with day and night
10. What is the net force in the figure below?

A. 1 N, to the left C. 1 N, to the right

B. 11 N, to the left B. 11 N, to the right

11. Who formulated the Three Laws of Motion?

A. Aristotle B. Isaac Newton
B. Thomas Edison D. Alexander Graham Bell
12. Which has more mass, a kilogram of cotton or a kilogram of iron?
A. the iron C. they both have the same mass
B. the cotton D. cannot be determined from the given information

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 13. Which has the greatest inertia?
A. Airplane B. car C. Jeepney D. bike
14. Which of these vehicles moving at the same velocity is difficult to stop?
A. a bus B. a car C. a train D. a truck
15. All of the following apply the third law of motion EXCEPT .
A. kicking a ball B. rowing a banca
B. throwing a stone C. taking out ketchup from a bottle
16. Which of the following statements are true?
I. Action and reaction forces occur in pair.
II. Action and reaction forces act on the same object.
III. Action and reaction forces can occur one at a time.
IV. Action and reaction forces have the same magnitude.
A. I and II B. I and IV C. II and III D. II and IV

17. Which Newton's law explains when a man is pushed forward in the car as it stops?
A. 1st law C. 2nd law C. 3rd law D. 2nd and 3rd laws
18. In Newton’s first law of motion, a moving object that is not acted upon by a net force will

A. Accelerate C. change its velocity

B. eventually come to a stop D. continue moving at constant velocity
19. 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?

A. An object at rest remains at rest.

B. Friction opposes the motion of an object.
C. For every action, there is an equal and
opposite reaction.
D. The net force is directly proportional to mass
and inversely proportional to acceleration.

20. Two balls are simultaneously applied with a force of 20 N. One ball has a mass of 0.3
kg and the other has 0.4 kg. Which ball has greater acceleration?
A. They will both accelerate at the same rate.
B. None of them will accelerate greater than the other.
C. The one with a mass of 0.3 kg has the greater acceleration.
D. The one with a mass of 0.4 kg has the greater acceleration.

21. An object from a certain height falls freely. Which of the following happens to PE and KE
when the object is half on its way down?
A. loses PE and gains KE C. gains PE and loses KE
B. loses both PE and KE D. gains both PE and KE
22. How do you compare the PE of the moving object at the highest point compared to its KE?
A.PE is greater than KE C. PE is equal to KE
B.PE is lesser than KE D. KE is greater than PE
23. Which of the following quantities has the greatest influence on the amount of kinetic
energy of a car while traveling on a highway?
A. Mass B. size C. speed D. weight

24. Which of the following pair of quantities are the factors that affect kinetic energy?
A. force and distance B. mass and height C. mass and speed D. time and height

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For Questions 25-26. Refer to the illustration below.

25. Which point has increasing kinetic energy?

A. Point C B. Point B C. Point A D. Point A & C

26. Which point has the greatest potential energy?

A. Point A B. Point B C. Point C D. Point A & C

27. Which of the following statements is TRUE about potential energy?

A. It is dependent on the speed of an object.
B. It does not depend on the mass of the object.
C. It does not depend on the strength of gravity.
D. It is affected by the mass and location of an object with respect to the ground.

28. Which of the following does not affect the amount of potential energy of an object?
A. Mass B. speed C. height or location D. strength of gravity
29. The following applies the concept of potential energy EXCEPT:
A. water in a dam C. a person playing the guitar
B. a rock sitting at the edge of a cliff D. tree branches high up in a tree
30. What happens to the kinetic energy of an object if its speed is doubled?
A. twice as much B. thrice as much
B. C. increases four time D. decreases four times
31. Which of the following factors does the speed of sound depend?
A. Density B. elasticity C. temperature D. all of the above
32. What happens to the speed of sound as the temperature increases?
A. Cannot be determined B. decreases C. increases D. Constant
33. Which phenomenon explains why sound is heard at longer distances at night than in day?
A. Echolocation B. reflection C. refraction D. reverberation
34. 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.

35. What is the relationship of temperature to the speed of sound?

A. Equal B. no relationship C. directly proportional D.inversely proportional
36. Ships use echolocation to measure the .
A. size of fish B. area of ocean C. depth of water D. density of
water
37. 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

38. When a boy yells his name inside a cave, the sound reflects off the walls of the cave and
travels back to his ears. What do you call the reflected sound?

A. Density B. echo C. echolocation D. refraction

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 39. Concerts usually take place during night time where everyone has a chance to see and to
enjoy the live show. Why does sound contribute to the concert schedule?
A. Sound is more audible at night due to minimal noise.
B. Sound propagates faster in air at night than at day time.
C. Sound is heard well in far areas during nighttime than during daytime.
D. Sound changes and refracts when it encounters a medium of different density.

40. Which is quieter, a room with hanging curtains or one with bare concrete walls? Why?
A. Both rooms have the tendency to be peaceful and to be quiet depending on the location.
B. It is quieter in a room with concrete walls because sound travels faster in medium with the
higher elastic property at the molecular level.
C. It is quieter in a room with curtains because the bare concrete wall brings about multiple
reflections of sound.

D. It is quieter in a room with bare walls because hanging curtains enhance the effect of sound
reverberation.
II. Direction. Identify whether the objects in the given situations possess Potential Energy
or Kinetic Energy. Write your answer on the space provided before each
number.
______1 Book above the table ______6 Ball bouncing on the floor.
______2 Flower base on a desk ______7 Child dancing on the street.
______3 Truck travelling on the highway ______8 Child sleeping on the crib.
______4 Car parked on a parking lot. ______9 Marble rolling down the ramp.
______5 Bunch of stick on a table. ______10 Bird sitting on its nest.

III. Word Problem.

Direction: Solve the following problem and show the complete process of computation to
obtain perfect 5 points for every problem. Do it in an extra sheet of paper.

1. A car is traveling with a velocity of 40 m/s and has a mass of 1120 kg. The car has
___________energy. Calculate it.

2. What is the kinetic energy of a 3-kilogram ball that is rolling at 2 meters per second?
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3. A roller coaster is at the top of a 72 m hill and weighs 966 N. The coaster (at this moment)
has ____________ energy. Calculate it.

Well Done!!!
GOD BLESS!   

Prepared by:

LENA BETH T. YAP

Subject Teacher