Physics Model Test

Time: 1 hour

Marks: 55

1. Jupiter is the largest planet in the Solar System.

a Explain what keeps Jupiter in orbit around the Sun.
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b State why there is no air resistance acting on Jupiter as it moves around the Sun.
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2. The equation for working out the weight of an object on earth id

Weight in N= mass in kg × 10N/kg, Calculate the weight of each object 3
a) A car mass is 750kg
b) A person 57kg
c) A mango 0.2kg

3. Object on the planet Mars have less weight than on earth. The strength of Gravity
on Earth is given the value 10. What is strength of Gravity on Mars…tik the correct
one. 3

a)Exact 10 less than 10 greater than 10 not possible to predict

b)Explain how the mass of an object on Mars would compare with the mass of the
same object on earth
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Section B (MCQ) d) Thermal energy

1. Name the type of energy transfer in 8. How do we measure energy in units?

the picture? a) Kilogram
a) Electrical to sound energy b) Meter
b) Electrical to light energy c) Newton
c) Sound to light energy d) Joule
d) Sound to thermal energy
9. While watching television which type of
2. Which two energies are transferred when energy is getting transformed into sound
a bulb is turn on? and light
a) Heat and light energy?
b) Heat and sound a) Thermal energy
c) Light and sound b) Gravitational potential energy
d) None of these c) Kinetic energy
d) Electrical energy
4. Which of the following about energy is
true? 10. Chemical energy stored in a battery is
a) Energy can be stored getting transformed into which type of
b) Energy can be transferred energy?
c) Energy can change its form a) Electrical energy
d) All of these b) Kinetic energy
c) Light energy
5. Select the statement that’s not true. d) Potential energy
a) Energy can be stored and transferred
b) Electrical energy cannot be transformed 11. Kusum is an athletic runner. Name the
into thermal energy type of energy Kusum has when she is
c) Energy can neither be created nor be running.
destroyedd) An apple hanging from a tree a) Potential energy
has potential energy which gets converted b) Kinetic energy
to kinetic energy c) Stored energy
while the apple is falling down. d) Chemical energy

6. A battery can be used in an electrical
device such as a torch. Which two types of
energy are
transferred from the bulb when the torch is
switch on?
a) Light and elastic energy
b) Light and potential energy
c) Light and chemical energy
d) Light and thermal energy
7. What form of energy is stored in diesel?
a) Potential energy
b) Kinetic energy
c) Chemical energy
12. Tidal bulges are caused and effected by
the------
a) Centrifugal forceb) Gravitational pull of
the moon
c) Gravitational pull of the sun and the
moon
d) All the above
13. Tides are actually rise and fall of water
level.
a) The statement is true
b) The statement is false
c) The statement is true under certain
condition
d) The statement is false under certain
condition the sun?
a) Earth
14. During the neap tide, high tides are b) Sun
lower and low tides are higher. The c) Star
statement is true d) Moon
a) The statement is false
b) The statement is true under certain 21. Which of these forces acts on the earth
condition as it obits the sun?
c) The statement is false under certain a) Gravity only
condition b) Air resistance only
d) The statement is false under certain c) Gravity and air resistance
condition d) Gravity, air resistance and friction

15. The rhythmic rise and fall of ocean 22. Which objects has the strongest gravity
water twice in a day is called---. in the solar system?
a) Ocean current a) Earth
b) Wave b) Moon
c) Tide c) Sun
d) Strom d) Pluto

16. What is the difference between high tide 23. Which of these caused the force of
and low tide called? gravity for tides on earth?
a) Spring tide a) The sun only
b) Tidal range b) The moon only
c) Neap tide c) None of them
d) Low tide d) Tidal range

17. Which exerts more tidal force? 24. What is the name given to the pull of
a) Sun gravity that causes tide?
b) Moon a) Tidal force
c) Ocean current b) Tidal range
d) Other planets c) High tide
d) Low tide
18. An object causes a strong force of
gravity. What must the object have? 25. Which one of the following energy can
a) Large size be dissipated?
b) Large mass a) Thermal energy
c) Small size b) Chemical energy
d) Small mass c) Stored energy
d) Potential energy?
19. Which of these is the name given to a
cloud of dust and gas in space? 26. Which of these terms describes energy
a) Planet that is dissipated?
b) Star a) Energy that spread out and become less
c) Nebulad) Moon useful
b) Energy that becomes more useful
20. Which object orbits only the earth not c) Energy that can be used later
d) Energy that is not useful but can be store
27.The newton(N) is a unit of ------
a) Length
b) Mass
c) Weight
d) Volume

28. When the strength of gravity decreased?

a) With increased distance
b) With time
c) With volume of the matter
d) With colour of the matter

29. A large rock rested on the ground. The

weight of the rock is 5000 N. What will be
the size of the
contact force from the ground?
a) 8000 N
b) 5000 N
c) 3000 N
d) 1000 N

30. The strength of gravity is 10 N/ kg.

Calculate the weight of an adult who has a
mass of 50 kg.
a) 200 N
b) 400 N
c) 500 N
d) 300 N
Ans: ( c)