Science Olympiad Division C Invitational Tournament

Saturday, October 21, 2017

Team: A B C

Participants: _______________________________________________

Instructions:
1. Do not open the exam booklet until you are told to do so.
2. Use only a #2 pencil.
3. Unauthorized aids of any kind are not permitted.
4. Cellular devices must be turned off and put away before the exam begins. You will be able to retrieve your device after you
submit the exam.
5. Extra paper is stapled to the back of this exam booklet.
6. This is a 40-question exam. You will be allotted 50 minutes to complete both the exam and the laser shoot portion. Please
pace yourself accordingly.
7. Figures are not necessarily drawn to scale.
8. There is no penalty for questions left unanswered or for questions answered incorrectly.
9. Each team may bring one three-ring binder of any size containing information in any form and from any source attached
using the available rings; which may be removed during the event.
10. You may use any measuring tools, premade templates, writing utensils and two calculators of any type dedicated to
computation for use during any part of the competition.

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Number Correct: _________ Incorrect: _________ Unanswered: _________

_________ Group to Turn in This Exam Rank: _________

a. 10cm
b. 9cm
c. 19cm
d. 25cm

2) Which part of the eye changes the curvature of the lens to maintain focus on objects?
a. Ciliary body
b. Iris
c. Retina
d. Aqueous humor
3) Approximately how many cone cells are in a typical human eye?
a. Aqueous humour
b. Vitreous humour
c. Lens
d. Sclera
4) Which liquid helps maintain the shape of the cornea and lens?
a. Aqueous humour
b. Vitreous humour
c. Lens
d. Sclera
5) Why do we see the sky as blue?
a. Light with lower frequencies are more likely to be scattered, so blue light is scattered more easily.
b. Light with higher frequencies are less likely to be scattered, so blue is scattered more easily.
c. While violet light is more easily scattered by particles in the atmosphere, the human eye is more
sensitive to the frequency of blue light, so the sky looks blue to us.
d. None of the above.
6) What are two important characteristics of light that comes out of a polarizer?
a. The direction of the wave’s polarization is the same as the transmission axis of the polarizer, and
the wave’s intensity is reduced because the polarizer absorbs some of the energy.
b. The direction of the wave’s polarization is not the same as the transmission axis of the polarizer,
and the wave’s intensity is reduced because the polarizer absorbs some of the energy.
c. The direction of the wave’s polarization is the same as the transmission axis of the polarizer, and
the wave’s intensity is not reduced because the polarizer does not absorb any energy.
d. The direction of the wave’s polarization is not the same as the transmission axis of the polarizer,
and the wave’s intensity is not reduced because the polarizer does not absorb any energy.
7) Two thin magnifying glasses each have the same focal length of 20 cm. What is the effective focal length of
the combined lenses when they are touching each other?
a. 5 cm
b. 10 cm
c. 20 cm
d. 10 m
8) An incandescent light bulb is shown through a glass prism. The certain wavelength of the light is then
directed into a glass cuvette containing an unknown concentration of protein. Commonly, this process is
called spectroscopy and is used to determine the concentrations of DNA, RNA, and proteins in solutions.
The indices of reflection of air, glass, and the solution are 1, 1.5, and 1.3, respectively. The red light,
selected for by the prism, is shown through air onto the glass cuvette at an angle of 30° to the normal. At
what angle to normal does the light have when it is in the glass?
a. 19.5°
b. 30°
c. 45°
d. 22°
9) You measure the absorbance of a series of known concentrations of proteins, and create a standard curve,
and then you use the standard curve to calculate the concentration of your protein using its absorbance. If
the solution has a higher protein concentration than expected, how would the angle of refraction change as
light travels from the glass into the solution?
a. It would be smaller
b. It would be larger or smaller, depending on the color of the light
c. It would remain the same
d. It would be larger
10) Remember that the term for when light hits another medium at a higher angle than the critical angle it is
called total internal reflection. .At what angle would the light passing through the glass cuvette need to hit
the solution inside the cuvette for no light to enter the solution?
a. 55°
b. 90°
c. 60°
d. 30°
e. 45°
11) Sound waves (including ultrasound) have a speed of wave propagation 346m/s in air and 1497m/s in water.
Also, note that sin(13.364°) = 346/1497 .
A narrow ultrasound beam striking the flat water surface of your swimming pool
a. will have an angle of refraction smaller than the angle of incidence if the beam is
incident from above the water surface;
b. will have an angle of refraction greater than the angle of incidence if the beam is
incident from below the water surface;
c. cannot undergo total internal reflection if incident from above the water surface,
regardless of the angle of incidence;
d. will undergo total internal reflection if incident from above the water surface with
an angle of incidence of 30°
e. will undergo total internal reflection if incident from below the water surface with
an angle of incidence of 30°
12) If a virtual object (d < 0) is positioned at an absolute distance |d| less than the
absolute focal length |f| from a divergent lens (f < 0), then the image is
a. virtual, erect and enlarged in height relative to the object
b. real, inverted and reduced in height relative to the object
c. real, inverted and enlarged in height relative to the object
d. real, erect and enlarged in height relative to the object
13) If a real object is placed in front of a convex mirror (f < 0), then the image is
a. virtual, erect and enlarged in height relative to the object
b. real, erect and reduced in height relative to the object
c. real, inverted and enlarged in height relative to the object
d. virtual, erect and reduced in height relative to the object
14) A light ray is incident on one of the mirrors at an angle of α = 20°. The angle φ between
the incident and outgoing rays is 94.4°. What is θ?
 a. 34.4°
b. 44.4°
c. 47.2°
d. 54.4°
e. 67.2°
15) An ant placed 5.00cm to the left of a lens produces an image 33.0cm
to the left of the lens. What is the focal length of the lens?
a. −4.57cm
b. -5.89m
c. −3.56cm
d. +5.89cm
e. Cannot be determined from information given.
16) An object 1.4 cm high is placed 9.0 cm from a convex mirror. Given that the
radius of curvature of the mirror is 12.0 cm, determine the characteristics of the image
(whether it is real or virtual, upright or inverted) and find:
a. the size of the image ____________
b. its distance from the mirror ____________
c. state its characteristics ____________
17) The focal length of a concave mirror is 5.0 cm. If an object 1.2 cm high stands
7.5 cm from the mirror determine the size and position of the mirror and state its
characteristics.
a. the size of the image____________
b. its distance from the mirror____________
c. state its characteristics____________
18) A convex mirror of focal length 3.0 cm is used to view an object placed 12 cm in
front of it. Where will the image be formed?____________
19) Two converging lenses, with the focal length f1 = 10 cm and f2 = 15 cm are placed 40 cm apart, as shown
on the figure. An object is placed 60 cm in front of the first lens as show in second figure. Find the position
of the final image formed by the combination of the two lenses?____________

20) A college professor can see objects clearly only if they are between 70
and 500 cm from his eyes. His optometrist prescribes bifocals that enable him to
see distant objects clearly through the top half of the lenses and read students
papers at a distance of 25 cm through the lower half. What are the powers of the
top and bottom lenses.
Top: ____________
Bottom: ____________
21) What is the specific name for the part of the eye that has the most sensory receptors?
a. Optic nerve
b. Fovea centralis
c. Retina
d. Pupil
22) In a prism which of the following phenomenon takes place
a. Total internal reflection
b. Refraction
c. Deviation
d. Dispersion
e. All the above
23) In the spectrum of white light which colour is deviated maximum
a. red
b. yellow
c. violet
d. Blue
24) True or False: Mica minerals used spectroscopic study in the single crystal state.
25) True or False: The vermiculite spectrum is not dominated by Fe(III) in octahedral and tetrahedral substitution
sites.
26) True or False: The DOAS technique cannot be used in both passive and active instrumentation.
27) True or False: A converging lens can create a real image.
28) True or False: A diverging lens can create a real image from a real object.
29) True or False: You can project a real image onto a screen but you cannot do that with a virtual image.
30) True or False: When you capture sunlight in a mirror or lens, you can feel the heat where the sunlight is
reflected or refracted as a real image, but you cannot feel the heat where the sunlight is reflected or
refracted as a virtual image.
31) Which of the following are examples of active light sources?
a. Thermal light sources
b. Lasers
c. Sunlight
d. A and B
32) What is one possible reason for why soil clays seem to scatter light more and have less resolution than
other minerals?
a. It has nonmetal oxide constituents
b. It does not have amorphous metal oxide and hydroxide constituents
c. It has amorphous metal oxide and hydroxide constituents
d. None of the above.
33) How does the percent transmittance of a solution vary with increasing concentration?
a. More light goes through if the solution is dilute
b. Less light goes through if the solution is dilute
c. More light goes through if the solution is not dilute
d. None of the above.
34) What is the relationship between path length and percent transmittance?
a. Logarithmic
b. Exponential
c. Inversely proportional
d. A and C
35) Where is the ocular lense found in a microscope?
a. Eyepiece
b. Nose piece
c. Revolving nose piece
d. Body tube
36) Mitchell really likes looking at himself in the mirror, but his little sister accidentally broke it. Problem is he
needs to find an old mirror because he doesn’t have enough money for a new one. How tall (h) would the
old mirror have to be in order for Mitchell, whose height is H, to be able to see his whole body if the distance
between him and the mirror (d) = ½H?
a. h = H
b. h = 1/2H
c. h = ¼ H
d. h = 1/8 H
37) A new kind of plastic is developed so that when light travels through it, its speed is 2x10 7 m/s. What is the
refractive index (n) of this new plastic?
a. n = 15
b. n = 1.5
c. n = 0.67
d. n = 0.15
38) What would the moon look like to us if it had a smooth, mirror-like surface?
a. The moon would look the same as it does now.
b. The moon would pretty much be invisible to us, with the exception of one small spot.
c. The moon would have tiny dots as reflections of the stars.
d. B and C
39) When a light ray comes into contact with the boundary between two materials, perpendicularly, both the
angle of incidence and the angle of refraction are what degrees?
a. 180°
b. 2°
c. 0°
d. 90°
40) What does a photographer need to do to bring an image forward when he or she refocuses?
a. The photographer needs to move the lens away from the object.
b. The photographer needs to move the lens toward the object