FIRST QUARTER EXAMINATION

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY GRADE 8

NAME: _______________________ DATE:____________

SECTION:____________________ SCORE:__________

MULTIPLE CHOICE: Choose the letter of the correct answer; write the letter of your answers in the space
provided before each number.

_____1.What do you call the overall forces acting on an object?

a.Net force b.Balanced Forces c.Unbalanced Forces d.Combined Forces

____ 2.The equation below shows that two unequal amount forces are acting on an object in opposite
direction.
10U + (-5U) =
What is the net force applied to the object?
a.20U b.15U c.10U d.5U

_____3.What do you call the force exerted by a table on the book on top of it?
a.Friction b.Tension Force c.Gravitational force d.Normal Force
_____4.What are the two forces acting on a pen tied with a string and hanged on a ceiling?
a.Gravitational force and Tension force b.Gravitational force and friction
c.Friction and tension force d.Gravitational force only
_____5.Which Newton’s Law of Motion demonstrate that “when body is at rest or in motion, will
continue to be at rest or in motion, unless when acted upon by an external net or unbalanced
force?
a.Law of Acceleration b.Law of Inertia c.Law of Interaction d.Garavitational Law
_____6.Work is done when there is force applied , there is motion and the direction of motion
is_____
a.parallel to the direction of force applied.
b. opposite to the direction of force applied.
c. perpendicular to the direction of force applied.
d.either parallel or perpendicular to the direction of force applied.

_____7.Which of the following is also known as “energy in motion”?

a.PotentialEnergy b. Mechanical Energy c.Stored Energy d.Kinetic Energy
_____8.Which is also known as energy due to the position of an object?
a.Potential Energy b. Thermal Energy c.Mechanical Energy d.Gravitational Energy
_____9.Which state of matter does sound travel the fastest?
a.Solid b. Liquid c.Gas d.all of these
_____10.Considering the temperature of a medium, where does sound travel the fastest?
a.Cold Solid b.Hot Liquid c.Hot Gas d.Hot Solid
_____11.What will happen to the speed of sound as the temperature of the medium from which it
travels increases?
a.The speed of sound decreases. b.The speed of sound increases.
c.The speed of sound remains the same. d.The speed of sound is not affected by temperature.
_____12.Which of the following statement is INCORRECT?
a.The speed of sound is affected by temperature of the medium it travels.
b.In general sound travels fastest in solids and slowest in gas.
c.Elastic property of materials affects the speed of sound.
d.The speed of sound is the same in all types of solids.
_____13.How many colors are visible when white light is allowed to pass through a prism?
a.Four b. Seven c. Eight d.Ten
_____14.Which color of the rainbow is least bent?
a.Red b.Orange c. Yellow d. Green
_____15.Which of the following is the transfer of energy between objects or places because of
difference in temperature?
a.Thermal Energy b.Heat c.Heat Energy d.Heat Transfer
_____16.Which of the following describes the hotness or coldness of an object?
a.Heat b. Temperature c.Thermal Energy d. Heat Flow
_____17.Which of the following refers to the measure of electrical charges passing through a cross
sectionof a conductor at a given time ?
a.Circuit b.Electrical Current c.Electrical Charges d.Electricity
_____ 18.
Alfred and Liza pushed a book on a table in opposite direction at the same time. They found
out that the book did not move.

What can you infer about the amount of forces exerted by Alfred and Liza when they pushed the
book?
a.It cannot be determined who between the two used greater force when they pushed the book.
b.The amount of force used by Alfred was greater than that the amount of force used by Liza.
c.The amount of force used by Alfred was lesser than the amount of force used by Liza.
d.Alfred and Liza used equal amount of forces when they pushed the book.

_____19.Which of the following statement is TRUE when an object moves through

Uniform circular motion?
a.The object moves at changing speed.
b.The object does not accelerate since velocity is constant.
c.The object moves at constant speed and constant velocity, hence there is no acceleration at
all.
d.The object moves at constant speed, but its velocity is changing due to the change of the
direction of its motion.
_____20.How does a whirling object accelerate?
a.It accelerates by constantly changing the speed of its motion.
b.It accelerates by constantly changing the direction its motion.
c.It accelerates by constantly changing both the speed and direction of its motion.
d.It accelerates by changing its speed while the direction of its motion remains the same.

_____21.
You were playing with your friends, you used a ball and a plastic bottle as the materials of your
game. The mechanics of your game was to roll a ball to hit and to displace the bottle which
was 10 meters away from your position. Every time the bottle was displaced the player who
rolled the ball earned a point. The highest pointer was declared the winner.

What happened to the rolling ball every time it hitand displaced the can?
a.The rolling ball gainedenergy. b.The rolling ball lost energy.
c.The rolling ball both lost and gained energy. d.The rolling did not stop moving
_____22.What will happen to the speed of sound as the rate of motion of particles of the medium
it travels increases due to the change of its temperature?
a.The speed of sound can either increase or decrease.
b.The speed of sound remains the same.
c.The speed of sound decreases.
d.The speed of sound increases.
______23.Given the following materials in the box below

I. Water II.Metal Pipe

III. Air IV.Wood

Which is the correct sequence in the speed of sound as it travels in these media if arrange in
increasing order?
a.II,IV,I,III b.III,I,IV,II c.IV,III,II,I d.I,II,III,IV

_____24.Which color of light has the shortest wavelength?

a.Red b.Orange c.Violet d.Blue.
_____25.In a rainbow, why is blue light found under colors red, orange, yellow and green?
a.It has greater energy than the colors above it. b.It has lesser energy than the colors above it.
c.It travels slower than the colors above it. d. Its brighter compared to other colors above it.
_____26. Arci was riding a bus with a speed of 80 km/hour as shown in the speedometer. She sat
comfortably next to the driver’s seat and did not mind to wear the seatbelt. Suddenly the bus
stopped.
What do you think happened to Arci’s body in response to the sudden change in the state of
motion of the bus?

a.Arci’s body leaned backward. b.Arci’s body leaned forward.

c.Arci remained in her sitting position d.Arci was thrown upward.
_____27.
Your grade 8 teacher explained to the class how objects move through uniform circular motion.
He brought the class outside the classroom to perform a very simpleactivity. Each group was
given a tennis ball attached to a string. Then, he instructed one member from each group to whirl
the ball over his or her head for one minute. After the allotted time, the teacher instructed the
students who performed the demonstration to release the string. Finally, he told each group to
choose a representative to share his or her observation.

Why did the tennis ball fly offtangentially from its circular path, when your classmate released
the string holding the ball?
a.The force holding it towards the center of its circular part was removed.
b.The force that is pulling it outward of its path was removed.
c.There was zero force acting on the object.
d.The object had zero acceleration
_____28.Which of the following statement is TRUE?
a.When dispersion happens the arrangement of colors of light appears as ROY G BIV.
b.Dispersion is a special kind of refraction which provides us the visible light.
c.All objects can act as a prism and are able to disperse light.
d.Both a and b.

_____29.In the colors of light, violet has the shortest wavelength and the highest energy thus it…
a.travels the fastest and bend the most. b.travels the slowest and bend the most.
c.travels the fastest and bend the least. d.travels the slowest and bend the least.

_____30.What will happen to the kinetic energy of the particles of anobject if the temperature is
increased?
a.K.E. will decrease b.K.E will increase
c.K.E. will not change d.K.E. is zero.
_____31. When you dipped you finger to a cold water, you feel cold why?
a.Heat transferred from your finger to the surroundings.
b.Heat transferred from the cold water to your finger.
c.Heat transferred from your finger to cold water.
d.No heat transfer happened.

_____32.Which of the following CORRECTLY describes hot objects?

a.The particles of hot objects move slow.
b.The particles of any hot objects have high kinetic energy.
c.The temperature reading of hot objects are usually low.
d.The rate of motion of particles in hot objects is just the same with the rate of motion of
particles in cold objects.

_____33.Which of the following statement is TRUE?

a.Electric current is a measure of the number of electrical charges passing through a conductor.
b.Where there is flow of charges in a conductor, also means there is current in the conductor.
c.Charges can readily pass through in all types of materials.
d.a and b only

_____34. Your classroom has 4 bulbs, you noticed that every time a single bulb is busted, all
the other bulbs don’t lightup.

What type of connection was used in installing the wiring loads in your classroom?
a.Parallel Connection b.SeriesConnection
c. Octopus Connection d.Either Parallel or Series

_____35.
Diana Bus Company is owned by Mr Tan –awa. Recently one of the buses of the company
had a minor accident.It happened because the driver quickly applied a break in his desire
to reduce the speed of the bus, as he noticed that there were two cows crossing the
highway. All the passengers were safe but many had acquired minor head injury.

If you were the operator of a bus company, what technology will you consider to ensure the
safety of your passenger from the impact of the first law of motion?
a.The bus driver will use swivel chair.
b.Provide audio-visual equipment for entertainment.
c.Equip the bus with scanning machine for entertainment.
d.Provide the passengers with automatic seatbelt system.
_____36.Why do rainbows appear after a rain?
a. Remaining water droplets in the atmosphere will act as a prism that will disperse the light
from the sun.
b. Rainbows usually form when there are still clouds, because clouds disperse the light.
c.Rainbows forms only in an area darkened with clouds.
d.Rainbows form at lower temperature

In your lesson about heat and temperature, you performed an activity to determine the
temperature of the liquid in two different containers, at the same time study the concept of the
thermal expansion of mercury thermometer. All of you noticed, that once themercury
_____37. thermometer was dipped into the container with hot water the red column elevated, however,
when the thermometer was dipped into the container with cold water, the red column went down.

What correctly explained your observation?

a.When a thermometer was dipped into a hot liquid, particles of mercury inside it shrank thus
the reading decreased.
b.When a thermometer is dipped into a cold liquid, the particles of mercury inside it
expanded thus the reading increased.
c.Whenthe thermometer was dipped into a hot liquid, the particles inside the thermometer
expanded thus the reading increased.
d. The motion of particles of mercury inside a thermometer, was not affected with temperature
of substance where the thermometer was dipped.

_____38.Why does liquid water turn to ice if it is placed inside a refrigerator?

a.When the temperature of liquid water is decreased, particles of liquid water move slow
eventually particles get closer just like that of solid.
b.When the temperature of liquid water is decreased, particles of liquid move fast and
eventually move far apart just like that of gas.
c.When the temperature of liquid is lowered , the kinetic energy of its particles will increase
resulting to their fast motion, which allows them to solidify.
d.When water is subject to a lower temperature it will absorb heat, which makes the particles to
move fast,a condition necessary for the process of freezing.

_____39.What are the basic components of a simple electric circuit?

a.Connecting wires, switch and bulb
b.Battery, connecting wires, and bulb
c.Battery, connecting wires , and switch
d.Battery, bulb, connecting wires, and switch

_____40.What type of wiring connection is best suited in street lights, so that when one bulb is busted,
the other bulbs will not be affected?
a. Series Connection b.Parallel Conection
c. Octopus Connection d.Either Parallel or Series Connections

_____41. Suppose a ball with a mass of 5 kg is hit with a force of 30 N.

What will be the acceleration of the ball?

a.8N b.9N c.6N d.7N

____42.What can you infer regarding the direction offorces acting on an object if these
forces are balanced?
a.Forces are acting in opposite direction.
b.Forces are acting in the same direction.
c.Forces can be acting in the same or opposite direction.
d.The direction of forces is not a factor to determine if the forces acting on an objects are balanced.

Danny pushed a heavy cabinet with a force of 20 Newton to a distance of 2.5 meters.
_____43.

How much work is done by Danny in pushing the cabinet?

a.60 J b.50N c.40 N d.30 N
_____44. Kelly Luke is a grade 8 student at Masayang Masaya National High School. He has to walk
3 kilometers toreach his school. He is reporting to school daily carrying his backpack
containing many books and other school materials.

Is Kelly Luke doing a work in carrying his backpack in reporting to school daily?
a.No, because the direction of the force of his shoulders and the motion of back pack are not
the same.
b.Yes, because his back pack has a mass.
c.Yes, because Jason applied a force.
d.It cannot be determined.

_____45.Why are concerts usually held during night time?

a.The sound travels undisturbed towards the sky during night time.
b. In the evening sound travels horizontally straight so its pleasing to the ears.
c.During night time, sound travels towards the ground where the audience are situated, because
the air directly above the ground is hotter than the air in higher regions.
d.During night time , sound travels towards the ground where the audience are
situated.because the air directly above the ground is usually cold than the air in higher regions.
____46 .What shall be done in order to decrease the total resistance of the flow of charges through
the wires in a parallel circuit?
a. Increase the number of loads b. Decrease the number of loads
c. Apply octopus wiring d. Increase voltage

_____47.If you are a manufacturer of cars for racing purposes, what will you consider in creating a car
best suited in the race tract considering the principles of the Newton’s Second Law of motion,
given the fact that you have a top quality engine?
a.Produce dark colored cars.
b.Produce cars which are fire resistant.
c.Apply the state- of- the art technology that utilized the heaviest material to ensure the
durability of the car.
d.Apply the state- of -the- art technology that utilized the lightest material without sacrificing
the durability of the car.

_____48. One of your performance tasks at the end of the second module in your grade 8 science
class is to illustrate the concept of elastic potential energy using materials readily available at
home.

Which material will you choose to create a product that can best illustrate the concept of elastic
potential energy?
a.wood b.rubber band c.glass d.stone
You learned from your teacher that sound energy reaches our ears because it travels as a
_____49.
wave particularly as mechanical longitudinal wave. You explained it to your younger brother,
how sound energy from vibrating objects travelled.

Which material is best suited if you will illustrate how sound energy from vibrating objects
travels as a wave so that it can reach our ears?
a.rope b.rubber band c. slinky spring d.All of these

_____50. Why does using too many appliances on one circuit cause a fuse to blow or a circuit
breaker to shut off?
a.The current drop to almost zero.
b.The voltage becomes too much for the circuit to handle.
c.As more resistor are added in parallel, the total resistance decreases , which cause an
increase in the total amount of current.
d.As more resistor are added in parallel, the total resistance decreases, which causes an
increase in the total amount of voltage.

GOD BLESS!