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NAME: _________________________________________ Batch: ____________ Score: ____________ e) When an object does not move, no work is done.
9) Jon Snow (who knows nothing) walks 1.2 km North. Starting from the same point, Sam
Choose the correct answer. leaves and walks 0.8 km South. What would be the distance separating them?
1) A vector is a quantity with both magnitude and direction. Which of the following is not a) 2.0 km d) 1.4 km
a vector? b) 1.0 km e) could not be determined
a) displacement d) force c) 0.4 km
b) acceleration e) speed d) 1.4 km
c) velocity 10) Ohm’s law states that the amount of current passing through a conductor is directly
2) Newton is a derived SI unit of force. It is defined to be: proportional to the voltage across the conductor and inversely proportional to the
a) kg/L d) kgm/s resistance of the conductor. What happens to the resistance when the current is
b) kgm2 e) kg/m/s doubled?
c) kgm/s2 a) It is doubled as well.
3) Which of the following illustrates Newton’s Second Law of Motion? b) It is halved.
a) A car will have a greater acceleration than a truck when the same force c) It is quadrupled.
pushes both car and truck. d) It stays the same.
b) A glass of water lies on top of a flat table. e) It is divided into 4.
c) A car is moving at a steady speed of 50km/h. 11) A car moved 50 km east and 90 km west. What is its displacement?
d) A ball is falling from an airplane. a) 70 km d) 40 km
e) A ball is rolling down a hill. b) 70 km west e) 140 km
c) 40 km, West
4) Which of the following statements about weather is true? 12) Refraction is the bending of a light ray as it passes from one substance to another. For
a) Air moves from an area of low pressure to an area of high pressure. example, an object under a swimming pool might look nearer to the surface than it
b) Warm air rises and cold air sinks. really is. What explains this?
c) If the air temperature is high, air pressure is also high. a) Light bounces off the swimming pool floor.
d) Warm air sinks and cold air rises. b) The wind causes pool currents that affect light perception.
c) The water is clear making object appear closer.
5) Traveling at a speed of 20 m/s, a race car driver has 4 seconds to stop his car. What is d) Light travels at a different speed in water.
his average acceleration? e) This phenomenon is not true.
a) 0.2 m/s2 d) 5.0 m/s
b) 0.2 m/s e) 3.0 m/s 13) Ang pahayag na “Lahat ng berdeng halaman ay mga autotroph,” ay ______________.
c) 5.0 m/s2 a) Laging tama
6) What is the kinetic energy of a 500- kg car moving at an average velocity of 3.0 m/s? b) Laging Mali
a) 2.00 kJ d) 0.75 kJ c) Minsan tama
b) 2.25 kJ e) 1.5 kJ d) Minsan Mali
c) 1.67 kJ
7) According to the law of conservation of momentum, the total momentum of a system is 14) Geologists observed that granite rock formations usually occur near extinct volcanoes.
constant or unchanged. What will happen then when two bodies of equal speeds and It can be inferred that granite is _______________.
masses collide? a) Metamorphic rock c) Igneous rock
a) Could not be determined b) Sedimentary rock d) Made from meteors
b) They will stick together
c) One of the objects will be pushed backwards. 15) Among the co-founders of the cell theory, who proposed that plants are made of cells?
d) They will bounce sideways. a) Rudolf Virchow c) Theodore Schwann
e) They will bounce back with the same speed and distance. b) Robert Hooke d) Matthias Schleiden
8) Which of the following statements about work is false?
a) When the net force is perpendicular to the motion, no work is done. 16) Cardo was chasing a criminal. He was running North, was able to cover a distance of 55
b) When an object’s kinetic energy doesn’t change, no work is done. meters and then catch the criminal in just 6 seconds. What was Cardo’s speed?
c) Without force, you do not have work. a) 9.17 m/s d) 330 m/s, North
d) Without work, you do not have force. b) 9. 17 m/s, North e ) 49 m/s

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c) 330 m/s
17) Which characteristic of a sound wave is measured in decibels? 27) The diploid chromosome number in a certain species of fish is 20. How many
a) frequency d) amplitude chromosomes would normally be found in bone cell of this fish?
b) intensity e) quality a) 10 c) 23
c) pitch b) 20 d) 40
18) A car accelerates uniformly from 16.3 m/s to 36.1 m/s in 2.2 seconds. Determine the
acceleration of the car. 28) Tides that occur at the full and new moon phases are called _________.
a) 19.8 m/s2 d) 9.0 m/s2 a) New tides c) Spring tides
b) 52.4 m/s2 e) 9.0 m/s b) Lunar tides d) Tidal wave
c) 19.8 m/s
19) Ivy walks 1.2 km North. Starting from the same point, Arnaldo leaves and walks 0.8 km 29) Which of the following will cause air pressure to increase?
South. What would be the distance separating them? a) Rising air masses c) Increasing density
a) 2 km d) 0.4 km b) Decreasing density d) Decreasing temperature
b) 1.0 km, North e) 0.4 km, North
c) 2.0 km, North 30) Which statement correctly describes a front?
20) Ano ang bilis ng liwanag? a) They are only able to create thunderstorms
a) 30,000 km/s b) It is the contact zone between to similar air masses
b) 300, 000, 000 m/s c) They occur when air masses move in opposite directions
c) 300,000 m/s2 d) It is the contact zone between two different air masses
d) 30,000 m/s2
e) 30,000 km/hr 31) Which of the following factors is not a direct reason for the change of seasons on Earth?
21) Nababanat na ng 3 cm and isang nakabiting coil spring kapag nagsabit ng isang bagay na a) Earth’s revolution c) Earth’s distance from the sun
may 2 N and bigat. Anong bigat ang kinakailangan upang mabanat ang kawad sa habang b) Earth’s tilted axis d) Earth’s rotation on its axis
7.5 cm?
a) 2.5 N 32) Which of the following explains why a virus cannot be considered a living organism?
b) 5.5 N d) 6.0 N a) It does not evolve.
c) 5.0 N e) 10 N b) It is made up only of proteins and nucleic acid.
c) It uses a limited source of energy to reproduce.
22) Where does light-independent reaction in photosynthesis happen? d) It can reproduce only in the presence of a host cell.
a) Thylakoid c) Mesophyll
b) Stroma d) Chloroplast 33) Which of the following is not an example of commensalism?
a) Barnacles and Whale sharks
23) Which of the following colors of starlight is from the hottest star? b) Polyp and hermit crab
a) Blue-white c) Orange-Red c) Remora shark and Sperm whale
b) Brown d) Yellow d) Lice and human beings

24) The product of the collapse of a massive star with a core three times the mass of our Sun 34) Which of the following statements does not explain the movement of earth’s crust?
is a ____________. a) Many years of stress on the rock may fracture the crust causing one portion to slide
a) Neutron star c) Red giant upward or downward with respect to the other.
b) Pulsar d) Black hole b) The mantle beneath the earth’s crust is made of plastic materials that have
convection currents.
25) In which part of a newborn star does the nuclear fusion take place? c) Earthquakes that originate beneath the sea can produce tsunamis.
a) Convection zone c) Core d) The earth’s crust has cracked into huge plates which move slowly due to convection
b) Radiation zone d) Atmosphere currents in the mantle.

26) An organelle found in animal cells but not in plant cells. 35) As you go higher above a hill, your ______________ increases.
a) Centriole c) Cell membrane a) Mass c) Volume
b) Chloroplast d) Golgi apparatus b) Potential energy d) Weight

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