Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Caraga Region
SCHOOLS DIVISION OF SURIGAO DEL SUR
GASIT NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

SECOND SUMMATIVE TEST IN SCIENCE 8

First Quarter

NAME: ______________________________ c. equal.

Multiple Choice. Choose the letter of the best b. greater.
answer. Write the chosen letter before the number. d. not related.
1. Energy due to position is 8. An object lifted to a height of 5 meters
called__________________. gained 1000 J of potential energy.
a. mechanical energy Then, it is allowed to freely fall. What is its
c. kinetic energy kinetic energy when it hits the 12
b. potential energy ground?
d. heat energy a. zero J
2. What is the unit of energy? c. 5000 J
a. kilogram b. 1000 J
c. joules d. 50000 J
b. meter per second 9. A 1-kg ball rolling with a speed of 2 m/s has
d. Newton a kinetic energy equal to
3. The formula which is equal to mv2 is used a. 1 J
for calculating the__________. c. 4 J
a. mechanical energy b. 2 J
c. kinetic energy d. 8 J
b. potential energy 10. If air resistance is zero, the kinetic energy
d. heat energy of a falling object at the lowest
4. A ball with mass of 2 kg is dropped from a position is ________ its potential energy at the
height of 60 m. What is the highest position.
potential energy of the ball? Assume that the a. less than
reference position is the c. greater than
ground. b. equal to
a. 1 176 J d. not related to
c. 11.76 J 11. Describe the energy changes that take
d. 1.176 J place when the bike is moving
d. 117.6 J down the hill.
5. Describe the energy changes that take place a. Potential to Kinetic
when the ball is thrown c. Both a and b
upward. b. Kinetic to Potential
a. Potential to Kinetic d. Cannot be determined
c. Both a and b 12. What happens to energy when it is
b. Kinetic to Potential transferred from one body to another?
d. Cannot be determined a. Energy is gained.
Refer to this situation in answering c. It loses energy.
questions 6-8. b. Energy is destroyed.
An object falls freely from a certain height. d. Both a and c
6. Which of the following happens to the 13. Which of the following describes potential
object? It energy?
a. loses PE and gains KE. a. A running dog
c. loses both PE and KE. c. A rolling ball
b. gain PE and loses KE. b. A sleeping baby
d. gains both PE and KE. d. A falling water
7. The PE of the object at the highest point 14. Which of the following describes kinetic
compared to its KE at the lowest energy?
point is a. Holding a bat
a. lesser. c. Sitting on a hill
 Republic of the Philippines
Department of Education
Caraga Region
SCHOOLS DIVISION OF SURIGAO DEL SUR
GASIT NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

SECOND SUMMATIVE TEST IN SCIENCE 8

First Quarter

b. A sleeping cat c. refraction

d. A falling water b. reflection
15. A truck is travelling with a velocity of 60 d. echo
m/s and has a mass of 1500 kg. What is 22.Sound travels FASTEST through which of
the kinetic energy of the truck? these materials?
a. 27 000 J a. Air
c. 2 700 000 J c. empty space
b. 270 000 J b. Metal
d. 27 000 000 J d. water
16. Sound waves are ___________ in nature. 23.Why doesn’t sound travel in a vacuum?
a. Transverse a. because the temperature of a vacuum is
b. neither transverse nor longitudinal very low.
c. Partly longitudinal and partly transverse b. sound cannot travel in empty thing like
d. Longitudinal vacuum.
17. Sounds do not travel through _________? c. there are no atoms to vibrate to carry the
a. Vacuum sound waves. It needs a
c. liquid medium to travel through.
b. Solid d. there are so many atoms in which vibration
d. gases can’t pass through.
18. Sound is caused by…? 24. If a sound becomes louder, which wave
a. Molecules characteristic is likely increasing?
c. people a. wavelength
b. Vibrations c. amplitude
d. space b. speed
19. What happens to the speed of sound when d. frequency
the temperature changes 25. Why is it a safe prediction that you will
to high temperature? have a significantly greater loss of
a. Decrease hearing in your later years than your
c. either decrease or increase grandparents experienced?
b. increase a. because MP3 players were not available
d. both b & c12 before.
20.Does sound travel faster or slower as b. no EENT physician before.
temperature increases? c. because of Hi-technology which affects our
a. The sound travels faster as temperature physical aspect.
decreases. d. with headphones and louder personal MP3
b. The sound travels faster as temperature players our ears are
increases. generally more stressed that they used to be
c. The sound travels neither faster nor slower
as temperature
increases.
d. The sound travels either slower or faster as
temperature
decreases.
21.Which of the following would describes the
bending of sound wave
and can change speed of sound when it
encounters a medium of
different densities?
a. Reverberation