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5. To form a supersaturated solution requires Mass before the Mass after the
Substance
______. reaction (g) reaction (g)
W 6.0 0.0
A. reducing the amount of solute
Z 3.0 0.0
B. reducing the amount of solute
WZ 0.0 9.0
C. reducing the amount of solute
D. none of the above
11. How much of substance W will react with 9.0
6. Which one of the following is an example of g. of substance Z?
a physical change?
A. 9.0 g
A. iron rusting B. 12.0 g
B. a steak cooking C. 15.0 g
C. sugar dissolving in water D. 18.0 g
D. a candle burning
12. The amount of substance WZ that will be In 150 cm3 water, how much of the
produced from 12.0g of substance Z substance will dissolve at 75˚ C?
assuming that substance W is in excess is
A. 18 g
A. 22.5 g B. 20 g
B. 27.0 g C. 36 g
C. 31.5 g D. 40 g
D. 36.0 g
Questions 17 and 18 refer to the diagram that
13. Which conditions will increase the rate of follows.
chemical reaction? + -
A. decreased temperature and decreased + -
concentration of reactants
B. decreased temperature and increased
concentration of reactants Cl- Cl-
C. increased temperature and decreased Na
concentration of reactants?
++
Na
Na
D. increased temperature and increased ++
++
increased. These increases inflated and lifted 21. Unless an object at rest is acted upon by a
the balloon. force, it stays at rest due to its ______.
19. If the volume of a gas at a certain pressure is 22. Maron rode on his bike from 9:00 am to
halved, ______. 10:30 am. If he drove at an average speed
of 15kph, what was the total distance he
A. its temperature is halved covered?
B. its temperature is doubled
C. its temperature remains constant A. 17.5 km
D. its temperature increases according to a B. 22.5 km
geometric progression C. 27.5 km
D. 32.5 km
20. Which of the following graphs shows the
temperature-volume relationship for a gas? 23. A woman exerts a constant horizontal force
(T = temperature and V = volume) on a large box. As a result, the box moves
across a horizontal floor at a constant
T
A. velocity. The constant force by the woman
______.
D. reduce the distance that the spring is 29. Two students are posed to dive off equal
initially stretched height diving towers to a swimming pool
below. Student B is twice as massive as
For questions 26-27, choose your answers to student A. Which of the following is true?
the next three questions from the velocity-
time graphs below. A. Student B will reach the water sooner
than student A.
A. V B. Both students have the same
gravitational potential energy.
C. Both students will have the same kinetic
energy just before hitting the water.
D. Student B did twice as much work
climbing the tower
T
30. Which of the following cases is/are NOT a
uniformly accelerated motion?
B. V (1) A feather falls from a certain height
inside a vacuum tube.
(2) A ball rolls along a frictionless plane at
uniform speed.
(3) A coin falls from a certain height in air
but air resistance is negligible.
T
V A. (1) only
C. B. (2) only
C. (1) and (2) only
D. (2) and (3) only
D. V
A
B water
water water
C
28. The acceleration in a body is due to 32. Cube c sinks because ______.
33. In the figure that follows, what is the 38. Someone is wearing perfume on their wrist.
direction of the force exerted by the Why can people near them smell it?
ladder?
A. the particles of perfume spread from an
area of higher concentration, their wrist,
to areas of lower concentration, the air
wall
ladder B. people can smell the concentrated
perfume on the wrist, but it doesn't travel
through the air
C. some of the perfume leaves the wrist,
floor mixing with air particles
A. downward and toward the wall D. both A and B
B. downward and away from the wall E. both A and C
C. upward and toward the wall
D. upward and away from the wall 39. Your flashlight has three identical 1.5 volt
batteries in it, arranged in a chain to give a
34. A 200 N box is pushed up an incline that is total of 4.5 volts. Current passes first through
5.00 m long and rises 1.00 m. If the incline is battery (a), then through battery (b), then
frictionless, then the work done by the through battery (c), on its way to the bulb.
pushing force is ______. When you operate the flashlight, the
batteries provide power to the current and
A. 336 J they gradually use up their chemical
B. 305 J potential energy. Which battery will run out
C. 275 J of chemical potential energy first?
D. 200 J
A. All three will run out at the same time.
35. A 2000 kg car accelerates from rest to a B. Battery (a) will run out first.
velocity of 20 m/s in 10 seconds. The power C. Battery (b) will run out first.
of the engine during this acceleration is D. Battery (c) will run out first.
______.
40. The figure shows a
A. 200 kW radiation heater. What
B. 20,000 kW heat transfer processes
C. 4000 W are involved at positions
D. 40 kW E and F?
36. A gem or mineral that is red absorbs ______. A. E is radiation and F is conduction.
B. E is conduction and F is convection.
A. red light C. E is convection and F is conduction.
B. mostly red light D. E is radiation and F is convection.
C. most wavelength of the visible spectrum
except red 41. An astronaut picks up a stone on the moon
D. more of the visible spectrum than a gem and finds its mass to be 2 kg. If the mass of
or mineral that is violet the earth is 6 times more than the mass of
the moon, what will the mass and the
37. When viewed straight down (90° to the weight of the stone be on the earth?
surface), an incident light ray moving from
the water to air is refracted ______. A. 2kg 12N
B. 2kg 20N
A. away from the normal C. 12kg 120N
B. toward the normal D. 20kg 200N
10
Number of OFW's (x1000) 0
Year Hongkong Kuwait Italy USA
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22
1995 116 20 19 39 Minutes
1996 120 33 22 50 54. The freezing point of this substance is ______.
1997 109 31 25 43
1998 109 30 20 42 A. 0°C
1999 111 31 18 61 B. 10°C
2000 120 25 19 55 C. 20°C
2001 123 32 30 52 D. 30°C
2002 122 39 32 60
55. The boiling point of the substance is ______.
2003 115 24 16 72
2004 102 47 19
12 71 A. 10°C
B. 20°C
52. Which country shows the greatest rate of C. 30°C
increase over the years? D. 40°C
1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004
58. How long did it take for the substance to
completely turn into gas?
A. Hongkong A. 4 min.
B. Kuwait B. 6 min.
C. Italy C. 10 min.
D. USA D. 16 min.
59. The substance is solid at ______. 65. Marinades for meat commonly include
acids such as vinegar or wine, because the
A. 2 min. acids can ______.
B. 5 min.
C. 10 min. A. toughen meat
D. 18 min. B. tenderize meat
C. preserve meat
60. How many calories are needed to D. react with salt
completely change the sample into a
liquid? 66. The basic requirement for the separation of
the components by _______ is that the
A. 4000 composition of the vapor be different from
B. 6000 the composition of the liquid at the boiling
C. 14 000 point of the liquid.
D. 16 000
A. absorption
61. What factor distinguishes a suspension from B. distillation
a colloid? C. extraction
D. crystallization
A. light reflects off the particles of a
suspension 67. Taken by itself, the fact that 8.0 g of oxygen
B. the particles of a suspension will sink out and 1.0 g of hydrogen combine to give 9.0
if left over time to rest of water demonstrates what natural law?
C. suspensions are clear
D. suspensions cannot be filtered A. Multiple Proportions
B. Periodicity
62. Lorna placed 1 kg of sandy soil and 1 kg C. Conservation of Mass
clay soil into Pot A and Pot B respectively. D. The Atomic Theory
She then poured equal volumes of water
into each pot. After a day, it is expected 68. What are the coefficients that will balance
that ______. the formula equation below?
AlCl3 + NaOH Al(OH)3 + NaCl
A. Pot A will weigh more than Pot B
B. Pot B will weigh more than Pot A A. 1, 3, 1, 3
C. Pot A and Pot B will weigh the same B. 3, 1, 3, 1
D. Pot A will be wet and Pot B will be dry C. 1, 1, 1, 3
D. 1, 3, 3, 1
63. Hydrogen and oxygen molecules in a gas
sample have the same temperature. This 69. A hydrocarbon that contains one or more
means the hydrogen molecules, on the double bonds is classified as a(n) ______.
average, have the same ______.
A. alkyne
A. speed, but more kinetic energy. B. alkene
B. kinetic energy, but more speed. C. ketone
C. kinetic energy, but less speed. D. alkane
D. speed and the same kinetic energy.
70. When heat is absorbed by the system from
64. Acids are substances that ______. the surroundings, the process is said to be
______, and the sign of process is ______.
A. form hydronium ions when dissolved in
water A. exothermic, negative
B. turn red litmus paper blue B. endothermic, positive
C. make foods taste bitter C. exothermic, positive
D. react with neutral liquids to form bases D. endothermic, negative
A E
B D
C
A. A
B. B
89. In the diagram, assume that each container 92. Which of the velocity-time graphs in the
contain equal volumes of water. In what figure represents an object falling freely in a
container is the pressure at the bottom vacuum? (v = velocity, t = time)
greatest?
v
A.
A B C t
A. A v
B. B
C. C B.
D. The pressure is the same in each
container t
90. At which point on the door will you apply
the greatest force to close it? v
C.
A B C D t
v
A. A D.
B. B
C. C
t
D. D
91. Graphs of distance (d) or velocity (v) of a 93. In the following illustration, if the pendulum
body against time (t) are shown. Which one was swinging in the direction indicated by
shows that of a body is at rest? the arrow when its string was suddenly cut,
d
in what direction did the pendulum go?
A.
v
B.
t
v
A.
C.
B.
t
v
C.
D.
D.
t
94. In a river, if the water flows in the direction 99. The vertebrate skeleton _______.
indicated by the arrows in the illustration
below, at which point is the flow fastest? A. is a living tissue which grows with the
animal.
B. protects internal organs.
C. serves as a place of attachment for
A muscles.
D. all of the above
D
B
C
100. Protoplasts are cells without _______.
A. A A. a nucleus.
B. B B. a membrane.
C. C C. a wall.
D. D D. cytoplasm.
A. test
B. dihybrid
C. multi trait
D. hybrid
A. Amoeboids
B. Ciliates
C. Zooflagellates
D. Sporozoa
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