Science 7

Directions: Read each item carefully. Write only the letter of the correct answer for each question.

1. Which of the following measures the change in the position of an object?

a. Distance b. Displacement c. Point of Reference d. Speed
2. Which of these quantities defined the rate of distance travelled per unit of time?
a. Acceleration b. Displacement c. Speed d. Velocity
3. Which of these quantities indicate the rate at which the velocity of an object changes?
a. Acceleration b. Displacement c. Speed d. Velocity
4. Which of the following is true regarding a zero velocity?
a. The object is not moving.
b. The object is moving with a positive acceleration.
c. The displacement of the object is constantly changing.
d. The acceleration of the object is negative.
5. What does it mean when an object is decelerating?
a. The acceleration is positive.
b. The object is speeding up.
c. The magnitude of the velocity is decreasing.
d. The acceleration and velocity point in the same direction.
6. Which of the following is a unit for velocity?
a. cm b. kg c. m/s d. m/s2
7. If the average velocity of an object is zero in some time interval, which among the following
statements can be said about the displacement of the object for that interval?
a. The displacement is zero because the object did not move
b. The displacement is zero because the object moved and returned to its starting
point.
c. Nothing can be said about the displacement of the object because of lack of
information.
d. The displacement is zero because either the object did not move at all or the object
moved but returned to its starting point.
8. An object has an average speed of 18 km/hr. What is the speed of the object in m/s?
a. 4 m/s b. 5 m/s c. 6 m/s d. 9 m/s
9. What must be the average velocity for a car to travel 80 kilometers in 5 hours?
a. 12 km/hr b. 14 km/hr c. 16 km/hr d. 18 km/hr
10. It takes you half an hour to drive from your home to the grocery store. If the grocery store is
13 kilometers away from your home, what is your average speed?
a. 15 km/hr b. 25 km/ hr c. 26 km/hr d. 30 km/hr
11. How long must it take for a car to travel a distance of 325 km in order to have an average
speed of 25km/hr?
a. 12 hrs b. 13 hrs c. 14 hrs d. 16 hrs

12. Quezon City is about 12 kilometers away from Makati City. If it takes 2 hours for a bus to
travel from Quezon City to Makati City. What is the average speed of the bus in m/s?
a. 1.25 m/s b. 1.33 m/s c. 1.66 m/s d. 2.50 m/s
13. Which of the following is true about velocity if the acceleration is zero?
a. The velocity is increasing.
b. The velocity is decreasing.
c. The velocity is constant.
d. The velocity must also be zero.
14. An object is travelling with an initial velocity of 20 m/s at an average acceleration of 3m/s2.
What is the velocity of the object after 6 seconds?
a. 34 m/s b. 36 m/s c. 38 m/s d. 40 m/s
 15. A car travelling from an initial velocity of 9.2 m/s has an acceleration of 1.3 m/s2. What s the
car’s velocity after 15 seconds?
a. 26.4 m/s b. 27.6 m/s c. 28.2 m/s d. 28.7 m/s
16. What does the slope of a position–time graph indicate?
a. Acceleration b. Displacement c. Speed d. Velocity
17. Consider the following graph. What is the position of the object at t=6 s?

a. 0 m b. 3 m c. 6 m d. 9 m

18. Consider the graph at item #17. What is the velocity of the object during the time
interval t=3s to t=4s?
a. 0 m b. 3 m c. 6 m d. 9 m
19. The motion of an object is modelled by the following position–time graph. What is the
magnitude of the maximum velocity of the object?

a. 1 m/s b. 4 m/s c. 7 m/s d. 9 m/s

20. Consider the graph at item #19. What is the average velocity of the object during the entire
9 second time interval?
a. -0.67 m/s b. 0.67 m/s c. 0.83 m/s d. 1.33 m/s
21. The following position–time graph describes the motion of a car after 9 hours on the road.
What is the magnitude of the car’s velocity for the first 2 hours?

a. 2 km/hr b. 3 km/hr c. 4 km/hr d. 6 km/hr

22. Consider the graph at item #21. What is the velocity of the car at t1=4hr to t2=6hr?
a. 0 km/hr b. 2 km/hr c. 3 km/hr d. 4 km/hr
23. What does the slope of the velocity–time graph indicate?
a. Acceleration b. Displacement c. Speed d. Velocity

For items 24-27, consider the following graph:

24. The motion of an object is modelled by the following velocity–time graph. What is the
average acceleration for the first 2 seconds?
a. 0 m/s2 b. 1 m/s2 c. 2 m/s2 d. 3 m/s2
25. What is the magnitude of the acceleration from t=7s to t=9s?
a. 1 m/s2 b. 2 m/s2 c. 3 m/s2 d. 4 m/s2
26. What is the average acceleration for the entire 9 second time interval?
a. 0.11 m/s2 b. 0.22 m/s2 c. 0.33 m/s2 d. 0.44 m/s2
27. What is the maximum magnitude of acceleration during the entire 9 second time interval?
a. 2 m/s2 b. 3 m/s2 c. 4 m/s2 d. 6 m/s2
28. Which of the following refers to a disturbance or a vibration which transfers energy through
matter or space?
a. Equilibrium position b. medium c. vibration d. wave
29. What do you call the movement of an object or particle back and forth, to and fro, or up and
down?
a. Equilibrium position b. medium c. vibration d. wave
30. Which of the following statements correctly describes a rope stretched horizontally before
moving it up and down?
a. The rope is vibrating.
b. The rope is transferring energy.
c. The rope is creating a disturbance.
d. The rope is at an equilibrium position.
31. Which of the following is not considered as medium for a wave?
a. Air b. Heat c. String d. Water
32. What happens to the particles in a medium once the disturbance has already passed?
a. They continue to move.
b. They are carried by the wave.
c. They change into a different phase.
d. They go back to their original position.
33. Which of the following is not an example of wave?
a. Hand wave b. Light wave c. Sound wave d. Radio wave
34. What happens when a vibration or a disturbance is extended from one place to another?
a. It produces a wave.
b. It travels through a medium.
c. It carries the particles in a medium.
d. It stops the particles from vibrating.

35. Which of the following is not a wave?

a. Ripples are produced when you dip your finger into a puddle of water.
b. A pulse is sent down a stretched rope when one of its ends is twitched.
c. A sound is heard when one whale calls another whale under water.
d. A violinist started to position her left hand at the end of the violin’s neck.
36. Use the figure below to determine the amplitude of the wave.
 a. 2 m b. 4 m c. 8 m d. 12 m

37. What is the speed of the wave below if its frequency is 5 Hz?

a. 2.5 m/s b. 3 m/s c. 5 m/s d. 15 m/s

38. Based on your knowledge about the characteristics of a wave, how are you going to
increase the wavelength of waves in a rope?
a. Increase the length of the rope.
b. Decrease the length of the rope.
c. Shake the rope at a lower frequency.
d. Shake the rope at a higher frequency.
39. Which of the following quantities represent period?
a. 2 Hz b. 3 s c. 5/s d. 6 m/s
40. Which wave characteristic describes how far a point in a wave traveled at a given time?
a. Amplitude b. Frequency c. Wavelength d. Wave Speed
41. What type of wave involves the displacement of particles in a medium perpendicular to the
direction of energy transfer?
a. Transverse wave b. Longitudinal wave
c. Surface wave d. Electromagnetic wave
42. What is the relationship between frequency and wavelength?
a. Inverse b. Direct
c. None d. Indirect
43. Once a tuning fork is struck, what is the region created when particles are spread out in a
large space?
a. compression b. diffraction c. rarefaction d. vibration
44. Which part of the sinusoidal curve represents compression in a sound wave?
a. amplitude b. crest c. trough d. wavelength
45. How will you explain to your classmates the relationship between loudness and intensity?
a. Intensity is the physical characteristic of sound, while loudness is simply the sound
perceived by the human ear.
b. Loudness is a characteristic of sound that can be quantified and measured.
c. Loudness is proportional to the amplitude of pressure variations in a sound wave.
d. Loudness and intensity refer to the same characteristic of sound.
46. In which medium will sound travel the fastest?
a. Air at 0º b. Air at 22º c. Steel at 25º d. Water
at 25º

47. You were tasked to play a simple tune using only water and test tubes in a class activity.
Which of the following can you do to vary the pitch of the sound produced by the test tube?
a. Hit the test tube aggressively.
b. Clean the test tube to remove unnecessary dirt.
c. Change the height of the water in the test tube.
d. Place a tuning fork at the side of the water.
48. How is the pitch of a sound related to its frequency?
 a. They are directly proportional.
b. They are inversely proportional.
c. They are not related.
d. They are related by a complex formula.
49. Which of the following gives the correct order of speed of sound from slowest to
fastest in the given material?
a. air, steel, water b. steel, water, air
c. water, air, steel d. air, water, steel
50. Which of the following describes sound wave?
a. Oceanic wave b. Standing wave
c. Transverse wave d. Longitudinal wave
51. Which of the following media does sound travels the slowest?
a. Aluminum b. Harwood c. Helium d. Seawater
52. Which of the following can affect the intensity of light in a location?
a. color source b. distance from the source
c. phase of material d. type of material
53. Which of the following has a dual nature property?
a. corpuscles b. light c. particle d. wave
54. What do you call light that behaves as a particle?
a. electrons b. lines c. photon d. stream
55. Which of the following does not belong to the group?
a. book b. clear water c. eyeglass d. magnifying
glass
56. Which of the following best explains the disadvantage of using incandescent bulb?
a. It is very dim.
b. It is very cheap.
c. It is not heat efficient.
d. It is not environmentally healthy.
57. Rank the following colors in descending wavelength.
I. Green II. Red III. Violet IV. Yellow

a. I, II, III, IV
b. II, III, I, IV
c. II, IV, I, III
d. III, IV, II, I
58. In the visible light spectrum, what color has the highest frequency?
a. blue b. green c. orange d. violet
59. Why does too much exposure to UV rays is dangerous to humans?
a. They can travel really fast through space or vacuum.
b. They are electromagnetic waves which carry energy.
c. They can cause skin cancer due to high energy photons.
d. They have more energy than X-rays and gamma rays.
60. Who among the scientists below formulated the wave theory of light?
a. Isaac Newton
b. Louis de Broglie
c. Christian Huygens
d. James Clerk Maxwell