Multiple Choice Exam

Grade 8 Sciences

Directions: Choose and encircle the best answer from the given choices.

1. The object’s motion, despite its direction, is called_____________

a. Speed b. Force c. Control group d. Velocity

2. It is known as the tendency of an object to resist change in its motion. What is it?
a. Mass b. Inertia c. Force d. Motion

3. These are forces that are equal in magnitude and opposite in direction. What is it
called?
a. balanced forces b. net forces c. friction forces d. magnitude

4. In which of the following cases is no work done?

a. A guy lifts a ball.
b. A guy holds a ball overhead.
c. A guy drops a ball and the ball falls to the ground.
d. A guy slowly lowers a ball.

5. Which of the following sentences uses work in the scientific sense?

a. Jona uses a bus to go to school.
b. Deli did not work for her proposal for 6 hours.
c. Dither found out that holding a big flag is heavy.
d. An engine does work on a car when the car is moving.

6. If you exert a force yet it did not make an object move, what does it mean?
a. No work is done b. work is done c. working d. none of these

7. What is the energy of a moving object called?

a. Potential Energy b. Kinetic Energy c. Thermal Energy d. None of these

8. Stored energy is _____________.

a. Potential Energy b. Kinetic Energy c. Thermal Energy d. None of these

9. When a sling shot is pulled back all the way it has what type of energy?
a. Gravitation potential energy c. Kinetic energy
b. Chemical energy d. Elastic potential energy

10. What is potential energy?

a. Energy an object has due to its position
b. Dependent upon position, shape, size, mass, condition, etc
c. Energy stored in an object
d. Energy of a moving object
11. A disturbance that transmits energy through a medium is a(n) .
a. electromagnetic wave
b. mechanical wave
c. force
d. electricity

12. Large objects vibrate slowly and produce what kind of note?
a. Low pitched
b. High pitches
c. Loud
d. Quiet

13. Mechanical waves in which the particles of the medium move perpendicular to the
direction the wave travels are called ___________ waves.
a. longitudinal
b. seismic
c. surface
d. transverse

14. Sound travels at different speeds through different materials. Through which of the
following materials would sound travel most slowly?
a. water
b. air at 5°C
c. aluminum
d. air at 25°C

15. The speed of sound mostly depends on ____________________.

a. the loudness of the sound.
b. the pitch of the sound.
c. the source of the sound.
d. the properties of the medium it travels through.

16. Why did Chuck Yeager’s team choose a high altitude to break the sound barrier?
a. The temperature is lower, so the speed of sound is higher.
b. The temperature is lower, so the speed of sound is lower.
c. The temperature is higher, so the speed of sound is higher.
d. The temperature is higher, so the speed of sound is lower.

17. The speed of sound in the air is most affected by __________________

a. amplitude
b. frequency
c. wavelength
d. temperature

18. Which of the following colors has the shortest wavelength?

 a. Orange
b. Yellow
c. Green
d. Red

19. For visible light, which property of visible electromagnetic waves changes with color?
a. Wavelength
b. Frequency
c. Amplitude
d. Two of these

20. The light from an incandescent bulb is composed of

a. Only red, green, and blue light.
b. Only red, yellow, and turquoise.
c. Only red and blue.
d. All colors are visible.

21. The frequency of red light is ______ that of a green light.

a. greater than
b. less than
c. the same as
d. greater than, the same as, or less than, depending on a source of light

22. Which of the following is the fastest process of heat transfer?

a. conduction
b. convection
c. radiation
d. insolation

23. The factors directly proportional to the amount of heat conducted through a metal rod
are -
a. Time of flow of Heat
b. Area of cross section
c. Temperature gradient
d. All the above

24. 1 gm of ice at 0° C is mixed with 1 gm of steam at 100° C. After thermal equilibrium, the
temperature of the mixture is
a. 0° C
b. 50° C
c. 80° C
d. 100° C

25. What would be the thermal resistance of an ideal conductor?

a. Zero
b. One
c. Infinity
d. Ten

26. Why does the bottom of a lake not freeze in severe winter even when the surface is all
frozen?
a. The water has large specific heat
b. The conductivity of ice is low
 c. The water has large latent heat of fusion
d. The temperature of the earth at the bottom of the lake is high.

27. Thermometer A and B have ice points marked at 15° and 25° and steam points at 75°
and 125° respectively. When thermometer A measures the temperature of a bath as 60°
the reading of B for the same bath is
a. 60°
b. 75°
c. 90°
d. 100°

28. What measures electric current?

a. Voltmeter b. Thermometer c. Ammeter d. Rainmeter

29. What measures the voltage in Electricity?

a. Voltmeter b. Thermometer c. Ammeter d. Rainmeter

30. With increasing loads, this type of connection decreases. What type of connection is
this?
a. Parallel Connection b. Series Connection c. Circuit Connection d. None of
these