Department of Education

Region VII, Central Visayas

Division of Talisay City

TABUNOC NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

Tabunok, Talisay City Cebu

1st PERIODICAL TEST IN SCIENCE 8

S.Y.2022-2023
NAME: ________________________ Grade & Section: ________________ Score: _________

Instructions: Read and analyze each question carefully. Choose the best answer from the
choices provided. Encircle the letter of your answer.
1. Who is the proponent of the first law of motion?
A. Galileo Galilei C. Plato
B. Isaac Newton D. Rene Descartes
2. Which of the following factors affect potential energy?
I. Mass II. Speed III. Height IV. Acceleration
A. I and III C. III and IV
B. I and II D. II and III
3. Which has the least energy among the colors of a rainbow?
A. Violet C. Green
B. Orange D. Red
4. What 'flows' in a wire?
A. Neutrons C. Electrons
B. Atoms D. Protons
5. What is the property of an object to resist any change in its state of motion?
A. Acceleration C. Inertia
B. Resistance D. Gravity
6. Which position of the ball along the hill has the greatest potential energy?

A. A & B C. C & D
B. B only D. A only
7. Which of the following arrangements of visible light colors shows decreasing wavelength?
A. red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet
B. violet, blue, green, orange, red, indigo, yellow
C. red, yellow, green, orange, violet, blue, indigo
D. violet, indigo, blue, green, orange, yellow, red
8. Voltage is measured in ___.
A. Amps C. ohms
B. Coulombs D. volts
9. How is the first law of motion stated?
A. An object is directly proportional to the magnitude of the net force acting on it and is
inversely proportional to its mass
B. An object at rest will stay at rest or an object in motion will stay in motion and travel in
straight line, if no external net force acts on it.
C. The overall force on an object when all the individual forces acting on the object are
added together.
D. The equal forces acting on an object in opposite direction.
10. Which of the following situations shows the greatest kinetic energy?
A. A person running down a hill. C. A leaf falling down a hill.
B. A ball rolling down a hill D. A truck driving down a hill.
11. Ada sent an arrow beam of white light through a prism. As a result, she observed the light
dispersing into ___.
A. three colors C. four colors
B. seven colors D. five colors
12. Current is measured in ___.
A. Amps C. coulombs
B. Volts D. ohms
13. What do you call the push and pull of an object?
A. Force C. velocity
B. Motion D. gravity
14. When a stone 6 meters high falls toward the ground, what happens to its potential energy? \
A. Increases C. Stays the same
B. Decreases D. Nothing
15. Which of the following colors has the highest energy?
A. Red C. violet
B. Yellow D. orange
16. If voltage increases, current will...
A. stay the same C. decrease
B. increase D. increase and decrease
17. The more ________ an object is, the more inertia it has and the more ________ it is to
move, slow down, speed up or change its direction.
A. weightless and difficult C. massive and easy
B. weightless and easy D. massive and difficult
18. What quantity will increase if you increase the speed of the object?
A. Gravitational potential energy C. Elastic potential energy
B. Nuclear energy D. Kinetic energy
19. What term refers to a form of energy that produces a feeling of hotness?
A. Temperature C. work
B. Heat D. energy
20. What do you call a path along which electricity can flow?
A. light bulb C. circuit
B. insulator D. switch
21. Which of the following is NOT an example of the Law of Inertia?
A. Tug of War C. Ball at rest
B. Man pushing the car D. pile of books on top of the table
22. Which is true regarding an object that is moving faster?
A. It has more potential energy C. It has more kinetic energy
B. Its potential energy increases quadratically D. Its kinetic energy remains the same
23. When you increase the temperature, what happens to kinetic energy of the particles?
A. Double C. remained the same
B. Decrease D. increase
24. What happen to current if voltage increases?
A. Decrease C. increase
B. stay the same D. increase then decrease
25. Why is the use of seat belt important in relation to the law of inertia? The following are the
importance on the use of seatbelt EXCEPT:
A. Prevents the passenger from flying when accidents happen.
B. Holds the passenger in tight to avoid unnecessary movements.
C. Helps the driver be on the right position and posture when driving.
D. Can sometimes not be worn to avoid hassle in driving.
26. Which is the best example that something has kinetic energy?
A. A car parked on a steep hill C. A picture hanging on the wall
B. A tennis ball rolling across the court D. A piece of coal before it's burned
27. What happens when you decrease temperature, what happens to heat?
A. remained the same C. double
B. increase D. decrease
28. What would happen if the switch was opened?
A. The light bulbs would still work because there is a complete path.
B. The light bulbs would not work because the path was broken.
C. The battery would lose energy.
D. The wires would be cooled from air.
29. When can you say that you are accelerating?
A. Change in motion within a short time. C. Change in force within a short time.
B. Change in speed within a short time. D. Change in direction within a short time.
30. Which of the following has the least gravitational potential energy? A

31. When you have fever, what physical quantity is measured by thermometer?
A. Heat C. work
B. Energy D. temperature
32. What is an electric current?
A. Light Emitting Diode
B. The difference in potential energy.
C. The number of charged particles that pass a point each second
D. The resistance.
33. As the mass of the object increases, with the same amount of force applied, its change in
speed in a short time also increases. Which law does it apply?
A. Law of Inertia C. Law of Force
B. Law of Acceleration D. Law of Motion
34. Marian raised a balikbayan box above the ground. If she lifts the same box twice as high,
which of the following statements is true?
A. The potential energy of the box increases four times.
B. The potential energy of the box is doubled.
C. The potential energy of the box is halved.
D. There is no change in potential energy.
35. Your group is conducting a simple investigation activity and instructed to raise the
temperature of a substance by 1 °C, this is called _________________?
A. Kinetic energy C. work capacity
B. energy capacity D. heat capacity
36. What properties of a bare wire make it suitable for use in the wire loop game?
A. A bare wire is a good insulator of electricity.
B. A bare wire is a good conductor of electricity.
C. A bare wire is a good insulator and at the same time conductor of electricity.
D. A bare wire is cheap.
37. In a restaurant the waiter cleans up the table after a customer is done. He quickly does his
job to serve others. He pull-off the stained tablecloth with the plates and glasses on it,
surprisingly nothing was broken. The situation applies to what law?
A. Law of Motion C. Law of Acceleration
B. Law of Force D. Law of Inertia
38. Zaira and Nicole are both elevated at the same height. Zaira is twice as massive as Nicole.
Which of the following statement correctly describes the two?
A. Nicole and Zaira have the same potential energy.
B. Nicole has greater potential energy than Zaira.
C. Zaira has greater potential energy then Nicole.
D. The given is incomplete to tell.
39. Which of the following materials have high heat capacity?
A. water C. soil
B. air D. all of them
40. What supplies the energy in the picture below?

A. electrical wire C. battery

B. bulb D. loop wand
41. If the force is doubled, what happens to acceleration?
A. Stays the same C. tripled
B. Doubled D. quadrupled
42. What will happen to its kinetic energy if you double the mass of a car that is at rest along
the horizontal plane?
A. It is zero C. It increased four times
B. It is doubled D. It is halved
43. Which factors does not affect the speed of sound?
A. temperature C. distance
B. density D. elasticity
44. Is there a light produced if the loop touches the wire? Why?
A. Yes, because electric current can pass through the wire.
B. No, because electric current cannot pass through the wire.
C. Yes, because an electric wire acts as insulator in the set-up.
D. No, because an electric wire served only as decoration in the set-up.
45. What does the Law of acceleration say?
A. The force of an object is directly proportional to the magnitude of the net force acting on
it and is inversely proportional to its mass.
B. For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
C. A body will remain at rest or move at constant velocity unless acted upon by an external
net or unbalanced force.
D. The acceleration of an object is directly proportional to the magnitude of the net force
acting on it and is inversely proportional to its mass.
46. When two objects with different masses are placed on the same shelf, which has more
potential energy?
A. The object with lesser mass
B. The object with greater mass
C. Both have the same amount of potential energy
D. Neither has potential energy because they are not moving
47. What is the speed of sound in air when the temperature is 31 C?
A. 313 m/s B. 362 m/s
B. 350 m/s D. 332 m/s
48. Can an electric current flow if the wire loop did not touch the wire? Why?
A. Yes because the circuit is complete
B. No because the circuit is incomplete.
C. Yes, because an electric wire acts as insulator in the set-up.
D. No, because an electric wire served only as decoration in the set-up.
49. What do you mean by unbalanced force?
A. The amount of force applied.
B. The amount of force that opposes motion.
C. The unequal amount of force acted to an object.
D. The equal amount of force acted to an object.
50. Supposed you drop a stone on the edge of a cliff. What happens to the kinetic energy of the
stone as it falls?
A. Its kinetic energy increases C. Its kinetic energy remains the same.
B. Its kinetic energy decreases. D. Its kinetic energy becomes zero.
51. When sound wave travels from one place to another, what is transported?
A. Air C. energy
B. Density D. wavelength
52. How does the wire loop and the wire shape together acts as a switch?
A. When the wire loop and the wire maze don’t touch, the switch is open, and when it
touches the switch is closed.
B. When the wire loop and the wire maze don’t touch, the switch is closed, and when it
touches the switch is opened.
C. When the wire loop and the wire maze touched, the circuit is incomplete, and the switch
is close.
D. When the wire loop and the wire maze touched, the circuit is complete, and the switch is
open.
53. Which of the following best explains the picture?
A. The greater the mass of the object, the more force needed to make it accelerate.
B. The greater the mass of the object, the less force needed to make it accelerate.
C. The lesser the mass of the object, the more force is needed to make it accelerate.
D. The greater the acceleration on the object, the less force on the object.
54. Which of the following statements correctly describe the figure, assume that the two objects
have the same mass and elevated at the same height?
A. The two objects have the same potentials energy.
B. The triangle has twice potential energy than the circle.
C. The circle has twice potential energy than the triangle.
D. Cannot be compared since they have different shapes.
55. Which of the following has the most effect on the speed of sound in air?
A. amplitude C. wavelength
B. frequency D. temperature
56. What will happen to the current if voltage increases?
A. Current will increase C. Current will stay the same
B. Current will decrease. D. Current will increase and then decrease.
57. An object with a mass of 6.5 kg accelerates 12.3 m/s2 when an unknown force is applied.
What is the amount of the force?
A. 79.99 N C. 79.97 N
B. 79.95 N D. 79.98 N
58. Consider the motion of the ball in the illustration, the ball has a potential energy of 50 J on
top of the platform then it falls off the top of the platform to the floor. How much potential
energy does a ball have on the floor?
A. 50 Joules C. 5 Joules
B. 25 Joule D. 0 Joule
59. Why sound waves travel faster in higher temperature?
A. Molecules at higher temperatures have more energy, thus they can vibrate faster. Since
the molecules vibrate faster, sound waves can travel more quickly.
B. The energy of particles at higher temperature is low. Thus, sound waves can travel
faster.
C. Particles vibrate slower at higher temperature; thus, sound waves can travel swiftly.
D. There is no difference of the energy of particles. So, sound wave can easily travel.
60. What could be inferred about the relationship of current and voltage?
A. If the voltage increases, current also increases and if the voltage decreases, current also
decreases.
B. If the voltage decreases, current also increases and if the voltage increases, current also
decreases.
C. If the voltage increases, current decreases and if the voltage decreases, current
increases.
D. If the voltage decreases or increases, current will stays the same.

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