SCIENCE 8

FIRST QUARTER EXAMINATION

Name: ______________________ Grade & Section: _____________ Date: __________ Score: ____

I. FORCE A. Multiple Choice. Read the following questions carefully and encircle the letter of
the correct answer.
1. What do you call the push and pull applied on an object?
a. motion b. distance c. displacement d. force
2. It is the vector sum of all individual forces acting on a body.
a. balanced force b.net force c. motion d. unbalanced force
3. It refers to the size or strength of the force.
a. net force b. magnitude c. speed d. motion
4. When forces applied on an object are equal in magnitude, applied in opposite directions, and are
lying in the same line of action, what type of force is present?
a. balanced force b. unbalanced force c. net force d. kinetic force
5. If the sum of the forces equate to zero, they are considered _____________.
a. balanced b. unbalanced c. imbalanced d. equal
6. _______ is the unit used to measure force.
a. Joules b. Newton c. meter/second d. kilogram

B. Match Column A with Column B. Write the letter of your answer on the space provided below.
Column A Column B
7. It is the force with which the earth, moon, or other massively large object a. Air resistance
attracts another object towards itself. _______ force
8. It is applied to an object by a person or another object. ______ b. Friction force

9. It is the force exerted by a compressed or stretched spring upon any object that c. Normal force
is attached to it. _________
10. It is force is the force that is transmitted through a string, rope, cable, or wire d. Applied force
when it is pulled tight by forces acting from opposite ends. ________
11. It is a special type of frictional force that acts upon objects as they travel e. Tension force
through the air. _________
12. It is the support force exerted upon an object that is in contact with another f. Gravity force
stable object. _________
13. It is the force exerted by a surface as an object moves across it or makes an g. Spring force
effort to move across it. ________

C. Distinguish which pictures below show examples of contact and non-contact forces. On the space
provided, write CONTACT if the picture shows an example of contact force and NON –
CONTACT if it shows an example of non-contact force.
14. _________________ 15. _________________ 16. _________________ 17. __________________
 The man pulls a rock. A magnet attracts iron The earth attracts a
A man pushing a
II. THREE LAWS OF filings.
MOTION box. nearby satellite.

A. Multiple Choice. Read the following questions carefully. Encircle the letter of the correct
answer.
18. Who was the physicist who authored the Three Laws of Motion?
a. Aristotle b. Galileo c. Isaac Newton d. Archimedes
19. It is the tendency of the object to stay at rest, if it is stationary, or to keep moving once it is in motion.
a. inertia b. power c. work d. potential energy
20. “A body will remain at rest or move at constant speed/velocity unless acted upon by an external net or
unbalanced force”.
a. Law of Acceleration c. Law of Interaction
b. Law of Inertia d. Law of Conservation of Energy
21. “The acceleration of an object is directly proportional to the magnitude of the net force acting on it and
is inversely proportional to its mass”.
a. Law of Acceleration c. Law of Interaction
b. Law of Inertia d. Law of Conservation of Energy
22. The third law of motion which is also known as _______ states that “For every action, there is an equal
and opposite reaction.”
a. Law of Acceleration c. Law of Interaction
b. Law of Inertia d. Law of Conservation of Energy
23. Isaac Newton’s First law of Motion is also known as the ___________________________.
a. Law of Acceleration c. Law of Interaction
b. Law of Inertia d. Law of Conservation of Energy
24. Isaac Newton’s Second law of Motion is also known as the ___________________________.
a. Law of Acceleration c. Law of Interaction
b. Law of Inertia d. Law of Conservation of Energy
25. Isaac Newton’s Third law of Motion is also known as the ___________________________.
a. Law of Acceleration c. Law of Interaction
b. Law of Inertia d. Law of Conservation of Energy

III. WORK, POWER, AND ENERGY

A. Matching Type. Match Column A with Column B. Write the letter of your answer on the
blanks.

Column A Column B

26. It is the unit measurement of work. ______ a. Watt

27. The unit, joule (J) was named after this English b. James Watt
physicist. ______
28. It is the unit measurement of power. ______ c. Newton
29. ______ = force x distance ______ d. Joule
Work e. James Prescott Joule
30. Power= ______
?
31. The unit, watts (W) was named after this Scottish f. Power
inventor. ______
32. It is the rate of doing work. ______ g. Work
33. It is the capacity or ability to do work. ______ h. Time
34. It is the unit measurement of force. ______ i. Energy

B. Tell whether the situations shown below represent examples of work. Write WORK DONE if
there is work done on the situation and NO WORK DONE if otherwise.
35. A boy pushing a wall. _________________
36. A waiter carrying a tray. _______________
37. A man pushing a cart. _________________
38. A girl jumping continuously on the same spot. __________________
39. Holding a chair and walking around the classroom. __________________
40. You lift your school bag upward by 1 meter. ______________

IV. PROBLEM SOLVING. Solve the problems about work and power using the formulas:
Work
Work = F x d Power=
Time

41. A book weighs 17 N is on the floor. If the book is lifted from the floor to the top shelf which is 2
meters from the floor, how much work is done on the book?

Given:

Find:

Formula:

Solution:

42. If a runner exerts 350 J of work in 25 seconds, how much power did he use?

Given:

Find:

Formula:

Solution:

Prepared by:

SARAH JANE A. CASIPONG

Subject Teacher