Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Region XII
DIVISION OF SOUTH COTABATO
NEW LAMBUNAO INTEGRATED SCHOOL

SCIENCE GRADE 9 FOURTH QUARTER EXAMINATION

Name___________________________ Grade& Section: ______________ Score: _________

Direction: Multiple Choice: Choose and write the letter of the best answer on a sheet of paper.

1. Which of the following is a scalar quantity?

a. weight b. velocity c. acceleration d. mass
2. When an object is moving with constant acceleration, the motion is known as ________.
a. motion c. uniform motion
b. constant motion d. uniformly accelerated motion
3. A car from rest accelerates uniformly over a period of 3.20 seconds and travels a distance of
12 meters. What is the acceleration of the car?
a. 2. 4 m/s2 b. 7.50 m/s2 c. 8.32 m/s2 d. 61.44 m/s2
4. What is the initial velocity of a ball thrown upward?
a. 9.8 m/s b. 0 m/s c. 10 m/s d. -9.8 m/s
5. A stone is dropped from a cliff. What is its constant acceleration?
a. 9.8 m/s b. 0 m/s c. 10 m/s d. -9.8 m/s
6. A ball is dropped from a building and hits the ground after 2.5 seconds. What is the final
velocity of the ball just before it hits the ground?
a. 3.9 m/s b. 9.8 /s c. 24.5 m/s d. 61.3 m/s
7. What path is followed by a soccer ball which is kicked from a height of 1 meter?
a. Circular b. linear c. hyperbolic d. parabolic
8. What happens to the horizontal velocity of a projectile as it goes up?
a. It becomes zero. c. It decreases.
b. It remains the same. d. It increases.
9. Which statement is NOT TRUE to all projectiles?
a. Projectiles always maintain a constant horizontal velocity.
b. Projectiles always experience a constant acceleration along the axis
c. The horizontal and vertical motions are completely dependent of each other.
d. The horizontal and vertical motions are completely independent of each other.

For numbers 10 and 11 refer to the situation below.

A ball is thrown horizontally from a table with velocity of 1.50 m/s. the ball falls 0.70 meter
away from the table’s edge.

10. How high is the table?

a. 1.80 m b. 1.08 m c. 1.10 m d. 1.85 m
11. What is the ball’s velocity just before it hits the floor?
a. 23.5 m/s b. -23.5 m/s c. -4.85 m/s d. 4.85 m/s
12. The impulse experienced by a car is equal to the change in its _______________.
a. Velocity b. kinetic energy c. momentum d. potential energy
13. If the speed of a moving object doubles, then what else doubles?
a. Acceleration b. momentum c. kinetic energy d. mass
14. Which has more momentum, a truck moving at 30 km/h or a motorcycle moving at 30 km/h?
a. Truck b. motorcycle c. both d. cannot be determined
15. How long would it take for a net upward force of 125N to increase the speed of a 65 kg
object from 75 m/s to 80 m/s?
a. 0.56 s b. 0.72 s c. 2.6 s d. 80.6 s
16. When the momentum in a system is gained or lost, therefore it is
a. conserved. b. wasted. c. increased d. decreased
17. What does Newton’s Third Law of Motion states?
a. What goes up must go down.
b. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
c. An object in motion will remain in motion and an object at rest will remain at rest unless
acted upon by an outside force.
d. Force is equal to the mass times the acceleration.
18. A roller coaster climbs up a hill at 4 m/s and then zips down the hill at 30 m/s. The
momentum of the roller coaster
a. is greater going up the hill.
b. is greater coming down the hill.
c. remains the same throughout the ride.
d. is zero during the ride.
19. A swimmer with a mass of 75 kg dives off a boat with a mass of 500 kg. if the swimmers
speed is 4 m/s immediately after leaving the boat, what is the speed of the boat?
a. 0.2 m/s b. 0.5 m/s c. 0.6 m/s d. 4.0 m/s
20. A moving freight car runs into an identical car at rest on the track. If the two freight cars join
together, their velocity will be
a. zero.
b. half as much as the freight car before the collision.
c. the same as the freight car before the collision.
d. twice as much as the freight car before the collision.
21. What is this kind of momentum in which the total kinetic energy of the system does not
change and colliding objects bounce off after collision?
a. Elastic collision c. Regular collision
b. Irregular collision d. Inelastic collision
22. What is this kind of momentum in which the total kinetic energy of the system does changes
and colliding objects stick together after collision?
a. Elastic collision c. Regular collision
b. Irregular collision d. Inelastic collision
23. If a body have mass of 20 kg and it’s moving along x-axis with speed of 10 m/s, and another
body have 50 kg mass at rest along the same direction. After collision, what is the velocity of
the first body?
a. -5 m/s b. -10m/s c. 4 m/s d. 7 m/s
24. A 10 kg body moving with 33 m/s and another body is moving with 55 m/s with mass of 2 kg,
both bodies collide with one another as completely inelastic collision. What is the final
velocity after the collision?
a. 3.3 m/s b. 12.2 m/s c. 27.5 m/s d. 99.8 m/s
25. An object that has kinetic energy must be. . .
a. lifted above earth’s surface b. in motion c. at rest d. none of the above
26. Which of the following is the best example of increasing an object’s potential energy?
a. Rolling a bowling ball c. Turning on a light bulb
b. Stretching a rubber band d. Dropping a pencil
27. Potential and kinetic energy are most related to:
a. Thermal energy c. Mechanical energy
b. Light energy d. Electrical energy
28. Hydroelectric energy converts gravitational potential energy of water into
a. power. c. chemical energy.
b. kinetic energy. d. mechanical energy
29. Thermal energy is…
a. Kinetic. c. both kinetic and potential.
b. Potential. d. neither kinetic nor potential.
30. As height increase, so does…
a. Thermal energy. c. Kinetic energy.
b. Mechanical energy. d. Potential energy.
31. When a turbine rotates to produce electricity, what energy transformation takes place?
a. Thermal to mechanical c. Chemical to electrical
b. Electrical to electromagnetic d. Mechanical to electrical
32. I stretch a rubber band and fling it at across the room. When does the rubber band have
energy?
a. Only when it’s flying across the room.
b. Only when it was stretched tight.
c. Both when it’s stretched tight and when it’s flying across the room.
d. None of the above.
33. A 0.5 kg ball is dropped from a third storey window that is 10 m above the sidewalk. What is
the speed of the ball just before it strikes the sidewalk?
a. 5 m/s b. 10 m/s c. 14 m/s d. 200 m/s
34. What is the equation that shows the conservation of mechanical energy?
a. KE before + PE before = KE after + PE after
b. E = KE + PE
c. KE before + PE after = KE before + PE after
d. Eo = mc2
35. A 5 kg object is dropped from a height of 15 m. What will be the approximate velocity of the
object when it is 10 m above the ground?
a. 0 m/s b. 10 m/s c. 20 m/s d. 50 m/s
36. A ball falls a height, h, from a tower. Which of the following statements is true?
a. The potential energy of the ball is conserved as it falls.
b. The kinetic energy of the ball is conserved as it falls.
c. The difference between the potential energy and the kinetic energy is constant
as the ball falls.
d. The sum of the kinetic and potential energies of the ball is constant.
37. Describe your energy at the top of a roller coaster hill, just before you start moving into the
big drop. You currently perfectly still.
a. Because you aren’t moving, you have no energy.
b. You have potential energy.
c. You have kinetic energy.
d. You have both kinetic energy and potential energy.
38. A pendulum that consist of a 2 kg mass swings to a maximum vertical displacement of 17
cm above its real position. At its lowest point, the kinetic energy of the mass is equal to…
a. 0.33 J b. 3.33 J c. 33.3 J d. 333 J
39. In class this week, you played with a generator (this was the gun-looking object with the
crank on one end). Why were you able to light up the light bulb when you turned the crank?
a. The magnet inside made the energy and passed it to the light bulb.
b. The energy you used to turn the crank was converted into electricity.
c. By turning the crank, you turned on the battery inside the generator.
d. None of the above.
40. The internal energy of a system is initially 37J. The system does 36 J of work. What is the
system’s internal energy when a total of 48 J of energy is added to the system by heat?
a. 38 J b. 39J c. 49 J d. 50J
 41. Dominique stretched a rubber band six times. After that, he observed that the rubber band
felt warm. Did the rubber band gain heat?
a. No, it is not evident.
b. No, temperature is not related to gain or loss of heat
c. Yes, the rubber band felt warm means it loss heat.
d. Yes, the rubber band felt warm means it gained heat.
42. A certain system absorbs 450.0 J of energy and it does 400.0 J of work. How much is the
change in the internal energy of the system?
a. 30 J b. 40J c. 50J d. 60 J
43. A 160 J of energy is added to a system that does 70J of external work. By how much
thermal energy is raised?
a. 70 J b. 80J c. 90 J d. 100J
44. What is the function of heat engine?
a. It converts chemical energy to mechanical energy
b. It converts thermal energy to mechanical energy
c. It converts mechanical energy to chemical energy
d. It converts thermal energy into mechanical energy.
45. What is the correct sequence of the refrigeration cycle?
i. Compression ii. Condensation iii. Expansion iv. Evaporation
a. i,ii,iii,iv b. ii,iii,iv,I c. iii,iv,I,ii d. iv.iii,ii,i
46. Why is heat engine NOT 100% efficient?
a. Because all mixture of gases is converted into work.
b. Because engine needs to be cooled down.
c. It converts mechanical energy to chemical energy.
d. It converts thermal energy into chemical energy.
47. Given the following mechanism, What is the correct sequence of four cycle-stroke of
gasoline engine?
i.Intake ii. Power iii. Exhaust d. Compression
a. i,ii,iii,iv b. i,iv,ii,iii c. ii,iii,iv,i d. i,iii,iv,ii
48. A cylindrical container with a cross- sectional area of 0.020 m 2 and movable piston contains
a certain amount of gas. If the gas exerts a constant pressure of 2.5 x 10 5 Pa causing the
piston to move 0.050m, How much work was done by expanding gas?
a. 2.5x102 J b. 2.5x103 J c. 2.5x104 J d. 2.5x105 J
49. A hot gas is injected into an engine at 30 0C and exhausts at 700C. What is the highest
efficiency possible of this engine?
a. 30.10% b. 40.10% c. 50.10% d. 60.10%
50. How does water from the deep well move upward?
a. It occurs naturally.
b. It uses water heat pump
c. It is a spontaneous process
d. It flows from higher temperature to cooler temperature

GOOD LUCK AND GOD BLESS!!!!

Prepared by: MARIA THERESA M. TULALI

51. What causes thermal pollution?
a. Exhaust of different vehicles
b. Exhaust from different industrial engines
c. Degradation of water
d. All of them.
52. What is the efficiency of a gasoline engine receives 185.75 J of energy from combustion and
loose 115.25 J by heat to exhaust during one cycle?
a. 36 % b. 38% c. 40% d. 42%
 53. Suppose a steam engine receives steam at 700K. the engine uses a part of this thermal
energy for work. It exhausts the rest to a condenses at a temperature of 450 K. What is the
maximum efficiency of this steam engine?
a. 34% b. 35% c. 36 % d. 37%
54. Calaca Thermal Plant in Batangas is one of the power plants found in our country. What is
the source of energy of the said plant?
a. water b. coal c. Earth’s interior d. fossil fuel
55. Various sources of energy are utilized to provide electricity to power our households. What
source of energy is operating in a hydroelectric power plant?
a. Fossil fuel b. coal c. nuclear fuel d. water
56. What is the energy transformation when falling water made to rotate large generators at a
hydroelectric power plant?
a. Potential energy to electric energy c. chemical energy to electric energy
b. Kinetic energy to electric energy d. mechanical energy to electric energy
57. Transmission lines are cables and wires wherein electricity from the power plants pass
through. What agency regulates the putting up of transmission lines?
a. National Power Corporation c. Department of Energy
b. South Cotabato Electric Cooperative d. Office of the President
58. What agency is in charge of electric energy distribution here in the province of South
Cotabato?
a. Department of Energy c. South Cotabato Electric Cooperative
b. Governor’s Office d. National Power Corporation
59. The voltage from the generating station to the transmission substations ranges from 138,000
– 765,000 volts. What is the trend of power distribution from generating station to the
transmission substations?
a. increases b. decreases c. constant d. unequal
60. Construction of transmission lines are regulated to ensure the safe travel of electricity. Why
do transmission lines are constructed overhead on towers?
a. They are operated at low voltages.
b. They send out large amount of electric power.
c. They extend over a small distance.
d. All of the above.

GOOD LUCK AND GOD BLESS!!!!

Prepared by: MARIA THERESA M. TULALI

Parent’s Signature:___________________

Checked by: NINFA A. CARNAJE

JHS Department Head
Prepared by:

FLORENCE C. MIANO MARIA THERESA M. TULALI

Master Teacher I - Emiliano P. Baquial NHS Teacher III - New Lambunao IS

MERALUNA N. TUBO JEANLY S. JALECO

Teacher I - Nicolas Barreras NHS Teacher I - Tboli NHS

Noted:

MARILYN E. EVANGELISTA, Ph.D.

Education Program Supervisor