Department of Education
Region VI – Western Visayas
Schools Division of Capiz
PONTEVEDRA NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
Pontevedra, Capiz
SUMMATIVE TEST IN SCIENCE 7
NAME: _________________________________ GR.& SEC._________ SCORE:________ Parent’s Signature_______________
Directions: Read the sentences below and identify what they refer to from the given choices. Write the letter of your answer
on the blank provided before the number.
______1. What do you call the change in position of the object in a particular time interval?
A. motion B. transfer C. describing motion D. moving object
______2. When can you say that an object is moving?
A. When the object is in place. C. When the object creates a distance.
B. When the object is stationary. D. When the object stays in place for 1 hr.
______3.Which statement is true about distance?
A. Distance is the longest path travelled by the object.
B. Distance is the shortest path.
C. Distance is the point of destination.
D. Distance is the starting point of motion.
______4. When distance and displacement be equal?
A. in curve lines B. in straight line C. in zigzag line D. in any directions
______5. What will happen to the displacement if the object returns to its original position?
A. become doubled B. become one-half C. become zero D. it decreases
_____6. Displacement can be equal to distance when ________.
A. object is in a circular motion.
B. path traveled is a straight line.
C. ball is rolling on an inclined plane.
D. car is traveling on the road upward.
_____7. What do you call a graph that is plotted in terms of the distance traveled by the object and the time it took to cover
that distance?
A. Speed-time graph C. Distance-time graph
B. Position-time graph D. Displacement-time graph
_____8. Which is TRUE about displacement?
A. How fast an object is moving
B. Change in position in a given time
C. Length of the entire path that an object traveled
D. Shortest distance between the object’s two positions
_____9. What does a horizontal line in the distance-time graph indicate?
A. No movement
B. Constant speed
C. Object is accelerating
D. Object is decelerating
_____10. Which of the following illustrates acceleration?
A. Constant velocity
B. Changing direction
C. The direction does not change
D. The speed and direction remain the same
_____11. The following are correctly matched, EXCEPT
A. Speed: Scalar C. Distance: Scalar
B. Velocity: Vector D. Displacement: Scalar
_____12. What does a line on a graph that is curving upwards mean in a distance-time graph?
A. The object is not moving.
B. The object has a constant speed.
C. The speed of the object is increasing.
D. The speed of the object is decreasing.
_____13. Which of the following correctly describes a wave?
A. It can set an object into motion
B. It moves through materials only.
C. It transmits weaker force
D. It is static
_____14. The following are electromagnetic waves, EXCEPT
A. Infrared C. Sound
B. Gamma rays D. X-rays
_____15. What type of wave needs a medium to propagate?
A. Electromagnetic waves C. Microwaves
B. Mechanical waves D. Ultraviolet
_____16. Which type of wave is characterized by the parallel motion of the particles in the wave to the wave propagation?
A. Electromagnetic C. Mechanical
B. Longitudinal D. Transverse
_____17. What refers to the number of waves that pass through a given point at a particular time?
A. Amplitude C. Period
B. Frequency D. Wavelength
_____18. The following are examples of mechanical waves, EXCEPT
A. Longitudinal C. Sound
B. Surface D. X-ray
_____19. What do we call the vibration that propagates as an acoustic wave through a transmission medium such as gas,
liquid or solid?
A. Song C. Wave
B. Sound D. Zone
_____20. Sound plays a vital role in our daily lives. Communication is one among of its uses. Can we also use sound in
emergency response?
A. No, because sound is used only for communication.
B. No, because it leads others in a panic if a loud sound will be produced.
C. Yes, because a loud sound can drive away a strong typhoon or flood.
D. Yes, because a loud sound can be the fastest way to inform the community that a disaster might come.
_____21. Which of the following gives the correct order of speed of sound from slowest to fastest in the given material?
A. air, steel, water C. water, air, steel
B. steel, water, air D. air, water, steel
_____22. Which of the following is NOT capable of transporting sound?
A. Air C. Water
B. Ice D. Vacuum
_____23. Which of the following describes sound waves?
A. Oceanic wave C. Transverse wave
B. Standing wave D. Longitudinal wave
_____24. Which of the following terms best describes an object that emit energy in the form of light?
A. Fluorescence C. Luminous
B. Incandescence D. Phosphorescence
_____25. A device used to separate the white light into its constituent colors
A. Glass B. prism C. light detector D. none of the above
______26. Which of the following colors of light are arranged in increasing frequency?
A. Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet.
B. Violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red
C. Red, orange, green, blue, violet, indigo.
D. Violet, blue, green, yellow, red, orange.
_____27. White light goes through a red filter, what color do we observe?
A. cyan C. red
B. green D. yellow
_____28. Based on the illustration, what does the arrow section of the wave show?
A. Amplitude C. Trough
B. Crest D. Wavelength
_____29. Choose which of the following orders of the Electromagnetic waves show the increasing order of frequency and
wavelength respectively?
I. Gamma, X-ray, Ultraviolet, Visible light, Infrared, Microwave, Radio
II. Visible light, Microwave, Infrared, Ultraviolet, X-ray, Gamma, Radio
III. Microwave, Radio, Visible light, Infrared, Ultraviolet, X-ray, Gamma
IV. Radio, Microwave, Infrared, Visible light, Ultraviolet, X-ray, Gamma
A. I and II only C. I and IV only
B. I and III only D. III and IV only
_____30. Inside an air-conditioned room, metallic objects generally feel cooler to touch than wooden objects. Why is this
so?
A. Heat tends to flow from metal to wood
B. Metal conducts heat better than wood
C. Wood contains more heat than a metal of the same mass
D. The human body resembles wood more closely than it resembles metal.
_____31.You’re holding hands with your best friend. Your friend’s hands are really warm and yours are really cold. After a
few minutes, this has changed. How do you explain what happened?
A. The energy from your friend’s hand is transferred to your hand through conduction.
B. The energy from your hand is transferred to your friends’ hand through convection.
C. The energy from your friend’s hand is transferred to your hand through convection.
D. The energy from your hand is transferred to your friends’ hand through conduction.
_____32. It is boring sitting in the house on your day off, so you go to the pool to meet with your friends. You jump in the
water but it was too cold and you don’t want to look like weak, so you try to get used to it. Your lips are turning blue
and your skin now feels cold. Should you get out of the pool and warm yourself?
A. No, because you friends will tease you.
B. Yes, because it will make body look good.
C. No, because it is not good to back out after deciding to spend time with your friends.
D. Yes, because staying in the water for too long might affect to numbness and swelling of the skin.
_____33. Which of the following object is an example of an insulator?
A. Aluminum C. Gold
B. Copper D. Plastic
_____34 .You wake up on a Saturday morning and are glad since you don’t have to go to school. You sit outside in the sun
because you don’t really feel like doing anything at all. The heat from the sun is starting to make you sweat. Is the
heat transfer caused by radiation?
A. Yes, because radiation is a transfer of heat by means of rays.
B. Yes, because radiation is a transfer of heat by direct contact.
C. No, because radiation is the transfer of heat by direct contact.
D. No, because radiation is the transfer of heat through fluid and gases.
_____35. Two charged bodies are brought near each other and are observed to attract each other. What can you infer
about their charge?
A. Both positive C. Neutral charges
B. Both negative D. Negative and positive
_____36. Pith balls are little Styrofoam balls coated in conductive paint. An uncharged pith ball is suspended by a nylon
fiber. What will happen to a pith ball when a negatively charged rubber rod is brought near it without touching?
A. Becomes attracted C. Is repelled by the rod
B. Becomes polarized D. Becomes charged by induction
_____37. What do you call the process of charging a conductor by bringing it near another charged object?
A. Conduction C. Neutralization
B. Induction D. Polarization
_____38. Neutral objects become charged when electrons are transferred from a charged object through ____________.
A. charging by friction C. charging by induction
B. transforming charges D. charging by conduction
_____39. Which of the following best characterizes electrical insulators?
A. Their electric charges move freely.
B. Charges on the surface don’t move.
C. Insulators are good heat conductors.
D. Insulators have high tensile strength.
_____40. What method of charging an object allows electrons to flow by direct contact from one object to another?
A. Conduction C. Induction
B. Friction D. Polarization
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Prepared by:
EDWIN G. DUMOPOY
MERCY D. DILLA
SELMA D. BAGASO
Science Teachers
Checked & Verified by:
ALLAN A. ALOVERA, PhD
Science Coordinator
