LONG TEST IN

ENHANCED SCIENCE GRADE 8 (CHEMISTRY)

Name:___________________________________Year&Sec:________________Date:____________Score:_________
MULTIPLE CHOICES. Read and analyze each question carefully and write the letter of the correct answer on the space
provided before each number.
_____1. Which of the following statements do NOT identify a matter?
A. Anything that is composed of tiny particles such as atom, molecules, or ions.
B. Anything that can occupy space and has mass
C. Anything that can occur as a form of light, sound, or heat.
D. Anything that can change phase as solid, liquid, or gas.
_____2. Which is TRUE about liquids?
A. The particles are closely packed together and vibrate in fixed positions.
B. They have definite shape but no definite volume
C. They have definite volume but no definite shape.
D. The particles can freely move because of wide spaces between them.
_____3. Which among the pairs is correctly matched according to their properties?
A. Gases : No definite shape and volume C. Solids : No definite shape and volume
B. Liquids : No definite shape and volume D. Liquids : Definite shape and volume
_____4. When you heat a sample of a solid, the sample gets a little bigger because:
A. heat helps the particles grow. C. heating helps the particles slide past each other.
B. heating the sample makes it lighter. D. the particles move faster and get a little farther apart.
_____5. What are the two classifications of matter?
A. Elements and Compounds C. Metals and Non-metals
B. Homogeneous and Heterogeneous D. Pure Substances and Mixtures
_____6. Why is table salt (NaCl) cannot be found in the Periodic Table of Elements?
A. Because NaCl is a mixture C. Because NaCl is not a pure substance
B. Because NaCl is a compound D. Because NaCl is an element
_____7. Which statement identifies why oxygen is classified as a pure substance and air is classified as a mixture?
A. Oxygen is more reactive than air.
B. Oxygen has a higher density than air.
C. Oxygen goes under a phase change, whereas air is always a gas.
D. Oxygen contains only one substance, but air contains several substances
_____8. Elements are classified into:
A. Homogeneous and heterogeneous C. Metals and Non-metals
B. Pure substances and mixtures D. Pure substance and Compounds
_____9. Which of the following is an element?
A. Carbon dioxide B. Water C. Air D. Hydrogen gas
_____10. How many elements being represented in a compound Na2CO3?
A. 2 B. 3 C. 4 D. 5
_____11. Which element symbol follows the rule in writing element symbols?
A. Ag B. FE C. hg D. mG
_____12. The Periodic Table of elements consist of:
A. Natural elements only C. All stable elements
B. Artificial elements only D. Natural and artificial elements
_____13. Which of the following is a product of chemical change?
A. Cutting of planks of woods into smaller pieces
B. Formation of Carbon dioxide from the reaction of baking soda and vinegar
C. Change of wall color due to repainting
D. Turning of warm water to cold water
_____14. Which is evidence of physical change?
A. Apples turning brown after being chopped C. Light is produced when two chemicals are combined
B. Turning trees into wooden tables D. Having unpleasant smell in spoiled food
_____15. Which of the following phase changes does NOT involve SOLIDS?
A. Deposition B. Sublimation C. Evaporation D. Melting
_____16. You breathed into a glass surface and noticed that the glass suddenly blurs from the warmth of your breath. This
is an evidence of what phase change?
A. Condensation B. Evaporation C. Sublimation D. Freezing
_____17. Your mother placed some pieces of moth balls (naphthalene) in your closet to repel cockroaches from squeezing
in the folds of your clothes. After a week, you noticed that the moth balls decreased in size. What possibly
happened?
A. The cockroaches are slowly eating the mothballs.
B. The mothballs are melting slowly.
C. The mothballs were sublimating.
D. The clothes are scratching the mothballs making them decrease in size.
_____18. Tearing a piece of paper or a breaking glass is example of physical change. Which of the following is TRUE
about physical change?
A. There is no change in the property of the substance.
B. It is a change in the physical property of the substance.
C. It is a change in the chemical property of the substance.
D. It is a change in the property of the substance physically and chemically
_____19. What happens to the heat during the processes of melting, evaporation, and sublimation in phase change?
A. The heat is released. C. The heat is absorbed.
B. The heat stayed. D. The heat is removed.
_____20. When water is heated, it turns into water vapor, and goes up to the atmosphere to cool down. Which evidence
shows that condensation occurred?
A. Water turns to steam C. Water turns to ice
B. Cloud formation D. Ice melting
_____21. When the surface of bodies of water like oceans and lakes are heated by the sun, what process of water cycle
happens?
A. Transpiration B. Condensation C. Evaporation D. Precipitation
_____22. Which statement describes chemical change in substance?
A. Chemical change is change in the physical property of the substance.
B. Chemical change is change in the chemical composition of the substance.
C. Chemical change is change that maintain the chemical composition of the substance.
D. Chemical change is change that does not change the chemical composition of the substance.
_____23. Painting of roofs and steel bars protect them from what type of chemical change?
A. Bubbling B. Tarnishing C. Foaming D. Rusting
_____24. Which of the following is TRUE about physical change?
A. There is a formation of new substance.
B. There is a change in the composition of the matter.
C. It is a change in the physical property of the substance.
D. It is a change in the chemical property of the substance.
_____25. What is the model developed after J.J. Thompson discovered electrons, a particle smaller than an atom? It
shows
electrons floating freely in a positive region.
A. Nuclear model C. Plum Pudding model
B. Atomism model D. Quantum Mechanical model
_____26. Which of the following illustrations of atomic model shows the idea of Niels Bohr about atoms?

A. B. C. D.

______27. In the gold foil experiment, most of the positively charged alpha particles passed through the gold foil, but
some were deflected or bounced back. What did we conclude because of this?
A. Light is a wave, not a particle.
B. Atoms are small indivisible spheres.
C. Atoms have negatively charged particles which orbit the nucleus.
D. Atoms are mostly empty space with a small, dense, positive center.
______28. A cation is:
A. An atom that has gained one or more electrons
B. An atom that has lost one or more electrons
C. The heavier version of atom due to the number of neutrons
D. The heavier version of atom due to the number of protons
_____29. Which of the following determines the atomic number of an element?
A. number of protons C. number of nucleons
 B. number of ions D. number of protons and electrons
_____30. For an atom to be neutral, what has to be TRUE?
A. The atom has more protons than neutrons
B. The atom has more neutrons than protons
C. The atom has the same number of protons and neutrons
D. The atom has the same number of protons and electrons
For items 31-35, refer to the table below:
Atomic Atomic Mass
Element Protons Neutron Electrons
Notation Number Number
79
34 Se -2
Selenium ______ ______ ______ _______ _______

Refer to the options below for items 31-35:

A. 45 B. 34 C. 36 D. 79
-2
______31. What is the atomic number of Se ?
______32. What is the mass number of Se-2?
______33. How many protons are there in Se-2?
______34. How many neutrons are there in Se-2?
______35. How many electrons are there in Se-2?
For items 36-39, refer to the illustration on the right:
______36. What is the atomic number of the given atom?
A. 8 B. 16 C. 24 D. 12
______37. What is the mass number of the given atom?
A. 8 B. 16 C. 24 D. 12
______38. How many valence electrons are there?
A. 8 B. 16 C. 6 D. 2
______39. What is the valence shell?
A. 1 B. 2 C. 3 D. 4
______40. Which of the following describes electronegativity?
A. The ability of atoms to attract electrons toward itself dung a chemical bonding
B. The tendency of atoms to lose energy to accept electrons
C. An energy required to remove electrons
D. Half of the distance between the nuclei of two identical atoms
______41. What happens to the atomic size when you go from top to bottom of the periodic table?
A. The atomic size decreases because the orbitals increase in number
B. The atomic size decreases because the orbitals decrease in number
C. The atomic size increases because the orbitals decrease in number
D. The atomic size increases because the orbitals increase in number
For items 42-50, label the groups and blocks of the periodic table using the illustration below. Select the answers from
the box provided.

42 44

45
43 49
46 48

47

50

Transition Metals Noble gases S block

Halogens D block Alkali Metals

P block Alkaline Earth Metals Inner Transition Metals