BAUA NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

Baua, Gonzaga, Cagayan

4th QUARTER EXAMINATIONS

GRADE 8 SCIENCE
SET A
Name: __________________________ Date: _________

Instructions/Directions: Write the LETTER correct answer on the space

provided before the number.

_____1. When a body falls freely under gravity, then the work done by the
gravity is _____
A. Positive B. Negative C. Zero D. Infinity
_____2. A person is holding a bucket by applying a force of 10N. He moves a
horizontal distance of 5m and then climbs up a vertical distance of 10m. Find
the total work done by him.
A. 50J B. 150J C. 100J D. 200J
_____3. A bullet fired from a gun can pierce a target due to its ______
A. Mechanical energy C. Heat energy
B. Kinetic energy D. Acceleration
______4. When a body slides against a rough horizontal surface, the work done
by friction is ____
A. Positive B. Zero C. Negative D. Constant
_____5. How much does the gravitational potential energy of a 1.2 kg textbook
increase if you lift it upward 32 cm?
A. 35J B. 38J C. 40J D. 45J
_____6. How much work is done by you when you lift a 9.0 kg object 0.50
meters off of the ground?
A. 44J B. 48J C. 50J D. 53J
_____7. An upward force is applied to lift a 20kg bag to a height of 5m. The bag
is lifted at a constant speed. What is the work done on the bag?
A. 1000J B. 150J C. 1500J D. 140J
_____8. Raul is pushing a broken down car across the flat expanse of the
Mojave to his shop. If his shop is three kilometers away and he pushes with a
Herculean force of one thousand newtons in the direction of his shop, how
much work will be done on the car?
A. 5000J B. 6000J C. 3000J D. 4500J
_____9. When a person combs her hair, static electricity is sometimes generated
by what process?
A. Friction between the hair and comb transfer electrons
B. Induction between the comb and hair
C. Deduction between the comb and hair
D. Contact between the comb and hair results in a charge
_____10. Electric current originates from which part of an atom?
A. nucleus C. positively charged atom
B. entire atom acting as a unit D. negatively charged atom
_____11. Which of the following is true of electrical forces?
A. Like charges attract, unlike charges repel.
B. Electrical forces are produced by electrical charges
C. Positive and negative charges can combine to produce a third
type
D. Electrical forces and weaker then gravitational forces
_____12. When two positively charged materials will placed close together then:
A. It will repel each other C. It will attract each other
B. Become negative D. Become positive
_____13. Seismic waves are waves of energy that:
A. plastically distort the material that they pass through,
B. permanently distort the material that they pass through,
C. break the material that they pass through
D. elastically distort the material that they pass through
_____14. Great earthquakes, on average, occur _______
A. 30,000annually C. 300 times annually
B. 500 times annually D. once every 5 to 10 years
_____15. When do most of the largest earthquakes on earth occur?
A. Where two plates pull apart
B. In the center of tectonic plates
C. where one plate sinks below or slides past another
D. In the focus
_____16. In San Francisco, continuous cables are used in new concrete
construction. What is the main purpose of these cables?
A. to prevent the buildings from shaking during an earthquake
B. to anchor a building into the rock below
C. to bring the building back to its original position after an
earthquake
D. to keep concrete walls from cracking during an earthquake
_____17. How many on average hurricanes/Typhoons/Tropical Cyclones come
a year?
A. 60 B. 75 C. 96 D. 85
_____18. What is the wind speed of a hurricane/typhoon/tropical cyclone to be
classified as catagory 5 saffir simpson scale?
A. 150mph or higher C. 153mph or higher
B. 160mph or higher D. 157mph or high
_____19. What are the three parts of a comet?
A. The head, body and tail
B. The nucleus, coma, and tail
C. The nucleus, protons and electrons
D. The head, protons and neutrons
_____20. What two regions do comets come from?
A. Asteroid belt and Kuiper belt C. Nebula and Supernebula
B. Oort Cloud and Asteroid belt D. Oort Cloud and Kuiper belt
_____21. How does a comet orbit the Sun?
A. Elliptical orbits far from the Sun
B. Elliptical orbits close to the Sun
C. Circular orbits far from the Sun
D. Circular orbits close to the Sun
_____22. What is the nucleus of a comet composed of?
A. Ice and gas C. Ice and rock
B. Gas and rock D. Rock only
_____23. If the molecules in a substance are arranged in a tight, patterned kind
of way, the matter must be in the state?
A. Liquid B. Gas C. Solid D. Plasma
_____24. Which of the following might have quite a bit of gas in it?
A. Your hand B. Your lungs C. Your bones D. Your eye
_____25. The atoms in a diamond are arranged in a tight network (they are held
together on lots of sides). This makes them a very hard _____
A. Form of the element carbon and a solid
B. Form of the element oxygen and a liquid
C. Form of the element graphite and a solid
D. Form of the element lead and a liquid
_____26. If you cool a liquid down, you take energy away from it, the molecules
or atoms will get closer together and not move much anymore. This is called __
A. Melting and now the substance is a liquid
B. Freezing and the substance is a solid
C. Condensing and the substance is a liquid
D. Evaporating and the substance is a gas
_____27. Interaction connects atoms, forms compound ____
A. Electron B. Proton C. Neutron D. Plasma
_____28. How can you describe electrons?
A. Orbit the nucleus and negatively charged
B. Are positively charged and make up the nucleus
C. Take up most of the mass in the atom
D. Are the same as the atomic number
_____29. The atomic number _____
A. Tells what can and what cannot move in an atom
B. Orbits the center proton
C. States how many spoolas are in the nucleus
D. Is the same as the amount of nucleus
_____30. If the atomic number is 9, what is the number of protons?
A. 8 B. 9 C. 1 D. 12
_____31. How many periods are in the periodic table?
A. 18 B. 25 C. 7 D. 40
_____32. Which group contains the Noble gases?
A. 15 B. 16 C. 17 D. 18
_____33. Which element has an atomic number of 79?
A. Gold B. Bromine C. Europium D. Lead
_____34. Which of the following lists contain the elements that are most like
Flourine?
A. Boron, Carbon, Nitrogen
B. Lithium, Beryllium, Boron
C. Chlorine, Bromine, Iodine
D. Helium, Neon, Argon
_____35. The place where digested molecules of food, water and minerals are
absorbed.
A. Mouth C. Large intestine
B. Small intestine D. Anus
_____36.What part of the digestive system that removes solid wastes such as
feces from the body?
A. Anus C. Large intestine
B. Small intestine D. Pancreas
_____37. What do you call the long tube that carries food from the mouth to the
stomach?
A. Mouth B. Esophagus C. Gall bladder D. Anus
_____38. This organ stores swallowed food and liquid, mixes up digestive juices
with the food and liquid and sends it to the small intestine.
A. Small intestine C. Large intestine
B. Stomach D. Mouth
_____39. The central alignment of chromosomes by the spindle microtubules
occurs in which of the following stages of mitosis?
A. Anaphase B. Prophase C. Metaphase D. Telophase
_____40. Which of the following processes starts the stages of mitosis?
A. DNA replication
B. Development of spindle fiber
C. Dissolving the nuclear membrane
D. Condensation of chromatin fiber
_____41. Attachment of the spindle fibers to the centromeres of duplicated
chromosomes occurs in which stage of mitosis?
A. Anaphase B. Prophase C. Telophase D. Metaphase
_____42. The development of the nuclear envelope occurs in which of the
following stages of mitosis?
A. Anaphase B. Telophase C. Prophase D. Metaphase
_____43. Which branch of biodiversity provides 60% of all the world’s medicine?
A. Plant B. Animals C. Bacteria D. Trees
_____44. Which of the following is the cause of extinction of living organisms?
A. Pollution C. Farts
B. Loss of habitat D. They are dying of old age
_____45. Choose the phrase that correctly finishes this statement “A species is
…..”
A. A specific part of the abiotic environment
B. A way of describing all the living parts of an ecosystem
C. A group of organisms that can successfully mate with each
other and reproduce
D. Part of the natural decomposing materials in soil
_____46. Ecology is the study of the _____
A. Abiotic parts of the environment, such as climate, air, and soil
B. Biotic parts of the environment, such as animal and plants
C. Interactions between animals
D. Interactions between organisms as well as the interactions
between organisms and their environment
_____47. What is an ecosystem?
A. All the interacting organisms that live in an environment and
the abiotic parts of the environment that affect the organisms
B. A person who observes and studies the interactions between the
biotic and abiotic parts of the environment
C. The relationship among the biotic parts of the environment
D. The relationship between all the biotic elements of a pond
_____48. An organisms that creates its own food is called _____
A. Producer B. Consumer C. Predator D. Decomposer
_____49. A food web is more realistic than a food chain for showing the feeding
relationships in ecosystems because ____
A. It compares the number of consumers to the number of
microorganisms in an ecosystem
B. Food chains use only a small sampling of organisms
C. A food web explains why there are more producers that
consumers
D. Producers are usually eaten by many different consumers and
most consumers are eaten by more than one predator
_____50. A species of plant or animals that is facing imminent extinction is said
to be _______
A. extinct B. endangered C. threatened D. extirpated

Prepared by: Checked by: Approved by:

JOYCE S. BABULA EMERLITA F. RAMOS REYNALDO P. USIGAN

Teacher III Master Teacher I Secondary School Principal I
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