Republic of the Philippines
Department of Education
Region III-Central Luzon
Division of Aurora
SCIENCE GRADE 8
FIRST QUARTER EXAMINATION
Directions: Select the best answer and write the
letter only on your answer sheet.
KNOWLEDGE
1. A book rests on the table. Which statement
explains this situation?
A. No force acts on the book.
B. Friction prevents the book from moving.
C. The weight of the book is balanced by the
push of the table on the book.
D. The force exerted by the table on the book
is greater than the force that is exerted by
the book on the table.
2. In which situation is work being done?
A. a boy pushing a cart along the street.
B. a man lifting a can from the floor
C. a rotten fruit falling from a tree
D. all of the options.
3. Which statement show/s the relationship of
energy and work?
A. Work is a way of transferring energy.
B. Energy of an object enables it to do work.
C. Work and energy are both expressed in
joules.
D. All of the options.
4. An archery player is aiming his target and is
about to release his bow and arrow. What
form of energy is present in the bow?
A. Gravitational potential energy.
C. Potential and kinetic energy
B. Elastic potential energy.
D. Potential to kinetic energy
5. Which of the following statements about heat
and temperature is correct?
A. When heat is added to or removed from a
material, its temperature changes.
B. Two materials may have the same
temperature, but their amount of heat differs.
C. Heat is the measure of the total KE of all
particles in an object while temperature is a
measure of the average KE of all particles
in an object.
D. All the statements above are correct.
6. Which can transfer more heat, a 200 mL
boiled water or a 200 mL tap water?
A. The 200 mL boiled water can transfer more
heat because it has higher temperature.
B. The 200 mL tap water can transfer more heat
because it has lower temperature.
C. The amount of heat that they can transfer is
impossible to compare because of only one
variable.
D. They can both transfer the same amount of
heat because of the kinetic energy of their
molecules.
7. Which of the following statements is true
about the heat capacity of substances?
A. Materials with low specific heat capacities
are easy to heat up and cool down.
B. Materials with high specific heat capacities
are easy to heat up and cool down.
C. Materials with low specific heat capacities
are slow to heat up and easy to cool down.
D. Materials with low specific heat capacities
are easy to heat up and slow to cool down.
8. A flow of charge in a conductor in a given
time is _____________.
A. current C. resistance
B. voltage D. circuit
9. Which pair of quantity-unit is NOT
matched?
A. Current-ampere
B. Resistance-ohm
C. voltage-volt
D. current-ohm
10. Which of the following statements is true
about series connection?
A. The current through each resistor is the
 same.
B. The voltage across each resistor is the same. A. polarization C. scattering
C. The sum of the current in the circuit is equal B. dispersion D. diffraction
to the total current in the circuit.
D. The rate at which current flows in the 18. What is the speed of sound in air of
resistor is dependent on the resistance. temperature 25 degree Celsius.
A. 346m/s C. 389m/s
11. When one of the light bulbs that are B. 364 m/s D.345 m/s
connected in series becomes busted, what
happens to the other light bulbs? 19. Sound and light waves both __________.
A. have similar wavelength
A. The other light bulbs will continue to glow. B. obey the laws of reflection
B. The other light bulbs will not light up. C. travel as longitudinal wave
C. The other light bulbs will light up brighter. D. travel through vacuum
D. The other light bulbs will dim.
20. What wave property can best explain the
12. Which best describe the waves that travel apparent bending of a pencil when it is
along a string and those in air? dipped into a glass of water?

A. All are longitudinal waves. A. reflection C. diffraction

B. All are transverse waves.
C. Waves that travel along a sting are
longitudinal while those in air are
transverse.
D. Waves that travel along a string are
transverse while those in the air
longitudinal.
13. Sound waves have compressions and
rarefactions. The distance from one
compression to the next is the_____.
A. frequency C. speed
B. wavelength D. period
14. The speed of sound in air _______.
A. is zero.
B. Decreases with temperature
C. increases with temperature
D. is unaffected by a change in temperature
15. Which of the following characteristic does
NOT affect the speed of sound?
A. elastic property
B. pressure
C. phase
D. density
16. The method of detecting the presence,
position and direction of motion of distant
objects by reflecting a beam of sound waves
is known as _________.
A. RADAR C. SONAR
B. MIR D. CRO
17. When light passes through the droplets of
water in the clouds which act as prism, the
component colors of light is separated; and
a rainbow is formed. This property is called
_______.
B. refraction D. interference
PROCESS
21. A card and a coin are set on top of a glass.
If the card is quickly pulled, the coin will
drop into the glass. Which of the Newton's
laws of motion explain this?
A. Law of Inertia
B. Law of Acceleration
C. Law of Action- reaction
D. all of the choices
22. If a marble is placed at the center of a small
cart; then you give the cart a sudden but
gentle push forward. The marble will roll to
the part of the cart near you or towards you.
Which of the Laws of motion explain this?
A. Law of Inertia
B. Law of Acceleration
C. Law of Action- reaction
D. all of the choices
23. A 1000 kg car has a velocity of 17m/s.
What is the car's kinetic energy?
A. 144 500 J C. 17 000 J
B. 8 500 J D. 1 017 Nm
24. A 1 kg book is lifted 0.5 m from the table,
but the table top is 1.0 m above the floor,
what would be the potential energy of the
book if the reference level were the floor?
A. 4.9 joules C. 9.8 joules
B. 19.6 joules D. 14.7 joules
25. If you lift a book that weighs 5 N from the
floor and placed it on a shelf that is 1.5
 meters high, how much work was done on
the ball?
32.The SI unit of voltage.
A. 7 joules
B. 7.5 J A.Coulomb
C. 75 J B..Watt
D. no work was done on the ball
C..Volt
32. .When sound travels through the air, the air
particles _________.
26. A man pushed a box weighing 400N over a
distance of 3 meters. What was the power
A. vibrate along the direction of wave
output of the man if he did the job in 1
propagation
second?
B. vibrate but not in any fixed direction
A. 50 W C. 150 W C. vibrate perpendicular to the direction of
B. 50 hp D. 1200 W wave propagation
D. do not vibrate
27. A car moves at the
same speed in the same 33. All are characteristics of sound except_____
direction as shown. A.Frequency
Which statement is true B.Amplitude
about the force/s on the C.Wavelenght
car? D.Energy

A. The net force on the car is zero.

B. A net force in the direction of motion acts
on the car.
B. Friction prevents the car from moving
faster. The diagrams below show the magnitude in
D. There is no friction between the wheels and newtons and the direction of forces acting on a
the surface on which the car moves. model car. The speed of the car is written inside
the box. Use the diagrams to answer items 35 and
28. Which has a higher temperature one cup of 36.
boiling water 0r one tea pot of boiling
water.?

A..One tea pot of boiling water

B. 1 cup of boiling water
C. .Both have the same temperature

29. What happens if a material absorbs heat?

A. the kinetic energy of its molecules increase.

B. the intermolecular spaces widens
C. the intermolecular attraction weakens
D. all of the options

30. Why are roads and bridges built with gaps

“ aspalto”?
34. Which car or cars will continue at the same
A. so that cars will slow down speed?
B. to make them more durable
C. to allow thermal expansion A. car A C. car C
D. all of the options B. cars A and C D. cars B and D

31. The SI unit of electric charge ? 35. Which car or cars will slow down?

A.Coulomb A. car A C. car D

B..Watt B. car C D. cars A, B and D
C..Volt
36. A 1,000 kg and 50 kg rocks were both
dropped from the top of a 20-storey
building at the same time. Disregarding air
resistance, what happens before they hit the
ground? Both rocks will have the same
_____.
A. potential energy
B. kinetic energy
C. velocity
D. mass
B. Keeping the voltage constant, when the
resistance increases, the current increases
also.
C. Keeping the voltage constant, when the
current decreases, the resistance will not be
affected.
D. There is no direct relationship between
current and resistance.
UNDERSTANDING

37. A 100 N ball was hit by a player and has a 40. Why are octopus connections fire hazards?
velocity of 10m/s. When will the kinetic
energy of the ball change? A. current becomes very high.
B. resistance becomes very high.
A. Keeping the mass constant, the KE of the C. voltage becomes very high.
ball increases if its velocity increases. D. all of the options
B. Keeping the velocity constant, the KE of the
ball will increase if its mass will be 41. Sound refraction faster at________?
increased.
C. Increase both its mass and velocity. A. Day Time
D. All of the options. B. Night Time
C. Air in your classroom
37. Two rocks both weigh 50 N. Rock A is D. all of the choices
placed at a rooftop that is 10 meters high
while rock B is placed at the roof top that is 42. Sound is heard better in far areas during
40 meters high. Which of the following nighttime than during daytime; this is due to
statements best describes the potential _____ of sound.
energy of the rocks?
A. reflection C. diffraction
A. Both rocks possess gravitational potential B. refraction D. interference
energy.
B. Both rocks possess the same mass. 43. In theaters, thick drapes and carpets are
C. The potential energy of rock A is greater used for what purpose?
because it is much nearer the earth's surface.
D. The potential energy of rock B is greater A. to absorb sound to reduce the reverberation
because it is at a higher position. time
B. to absorb sound to prevent the wastage of
38. A circuit with 1 dry cell and a bulb was energy.
compared to another circuit with 2 dry cells C. to reflect sound so that there are no "dead
and a bulb. Which of the following can be spots"
the correct inference? D. to reflect sound so that everyone can hear.

A. The bulb in the circuit with 2 dry cells will 44. What wave property can best explain the
glow brighter than the bulb in the circuit apparent bending of a pencil when it is
with 1 dry cell. dipped into a glass of water?
B. The voltage is higher in the circuit with two
dry cells. A. reflection
C. The electric current is higher in the circuit B. refraction
with two dry cells. C. diffraction
D. All the statements above are correct. D. interference

45. Is a reflection of sound________.

39. Which of these statements correctly
illustrate the relationship between electric A. Echoes
current and resistance? B. Reververation
C. refraction
A. Keeping the voltage constant, when the D. transparency
resistance increases, the current decreases.
46. The colors of light are arranged as A. Echoes
"ROYGBIV" according to their frequency B. Reververation
50. Multiple reflection of sound.
A. Blue C. orange
B. Green D. red

47.What colors of light has the lowest

frequency?

A. Blue C. orange
B. green D. red

47. What is the speed of sound at O degrees

celcius.
A. v=331m/s + 0.6 m/s (T)
B. v=332m/s + 0.6 m/s (T)
.
C. v=333m/s + 0.6 m/s (T)

48. Which of the color have the highest wavelength.

A. Red
B. Orange
C. Blue
D. Violet