THIRD UNIT TEST

SCIENCE 7
SY 2019-2020
Name: ____________________________ Grade & Section: ______________

Direction: Direction: Multiple Choice. Select the best answer and write the letter before each number.
______1. Which of the following best explains why the end of a spoon sticking out of a cup of hot water also
gets hot like the end in the hot water?
A. The hot water causes a physical change in the spoon handle.
B. The heat from the hot water is conducted to the spoon handle.
C. The hot water heats the air surrounding the upper part of the spoon.
D. The hot water causes a chemical reaction to take place in the spoon.
______2. Which of the following is not a characteristic of a musical sound?
A. Loudness B. Pitch C. Quality D. Wavelength
______3. Sound needs medium to propagate, which of the following medium sound wave cannot travel
through?
A. Gas B. Liquid C. Solid D. Vacuum/Space
______4. How does sound is being produced?
A. Circulation B. Friction C. Refraction D. Vibration
______5. In concert halls, soft materials and carpets are used to __________.
A. Absorb sound B. Reflect sound C. Retract sound D. Refract sound
______6. What is the average speed of an MRT train if it takes 45 minutes to travel 30 km from North Edsa to
Pasay Taft Station?
A. 0.67 km/min B. 5 km/min C. 75 km/min D. 1350 km/min
______7. If a rolling ball covers 4 meter in 8 seconds, what is its average speed in m/s?
A. 0.5 m/s B. 1 m/s C. 2 m/s D. 4 m/s
______8. Which of the following describes the usual way by which a material can gain a positive charge?
A. By losing protons B. By gaining protons
C. By losing electrons D. By gaining electrons
_____ 9. What is really meant when we say appliance "uses up" electricity?
A. The current disappears.
B. The main power supply voltage is lowered.
C. Electrons are taken out of the circuit and put somewhere else.
D. The potential energy of electrons is changed into another form.
______10. When is an object in motion?
A. only if the object is rolling B. if the object has forces acting on it.
C. when the point of reference remains the same D. when its distance from another object is changing
______11. What happens when a wave travels through a medium?
A. Energy disappeared B. Energy is transferred is a constant speed
C. Energy is transferred in a periodic manner D. Particles are transferred from one place to another
______12. Which of the following quantities is transferred during wave propagation?
A. Energy B. Mass C. Matter D. Speed
______13. Which of the statements indicates velocity?
A. Joey runs as fast as 20 m/s B. Chris exerts force of 5 kg m/s
C. Angela changes motion at 2 m/s. D. Lina moves at 4 m/s to the East.
______14. The motion of a toy car is measured by a ticker tape timer as shown in the diagram below. Which of
the following statements best describe its motion?

A. The car was accelerating at first before slowing down and stopping eventually.
B. The toy car was first travelling at a constant speed. It then sped up and then slowed down before coming to a
stop eventually
C. The toy car was first travelling at a constant speed. It then accelerated and travelled at a higher constant
speed before stopping eventually.
D. The toy car was first travelling at a constant speed. It then accelerated and travelled at a higher constant
speed before decelerating and coming to a stop eventually.
______15. Which of the following is a longitudinal wave?
A. microwave
B. sound wave in air
C. wave travelling in a string
D. wave produced from the up and down movement of a slinky
______16. Which of the following is the correct in describing the relationship between speed (s), distance(d)
and time(t)?
A. S=d / t B.S=d + t C. S=d x t D. S=d – t
______17. What do you call the instrument in the dashboard of a vehicle that indicates its instantaneous speed?
A. Clutch pedal B. Odometer C. pressure gauge D. speedometer
______18. Which of the following statements best differentiates mechanical from electromagnetic wave?
A. Mechanical wave transfers energy in a vacuum while electromagnetic waves through heat.
B. Mechanical wave travels with medium while electromagnetic wave travels without medium
C. Mechanical wave transfers energy with medium while electromagnetic waves through electricity
D. Mechanical wave transfers energy in a vacuum while electromagnetic wave requires a medium to transfer
energy.
_______19. Which of the following is a physical quantity that has a magnitude but no direction?
A. Frame of reference B. Resultant C. Scalar D. Vector
_______20. Joel walks east from his house for 4km, then turns and walks North for 3km. What distance has he
travelled in total?
A. 5km B. 7km C. 4km East D. 5km Northeast
______ 21. A pulse sent down a long string eventually dies away and disappears. What happens to its energy?
A. The pulse does not carry energy. B. The energy disappears with the wave.
C. The energy remains along the length of the string. D. The energy transferred from the wave to the
environment.
______22. If the frequency of the wave is lowered, what happens to the speed of the sound?
A. Speeds up B. Slows down
C. Does not change D. Speed up then slows down
______23. Astronauts use radio waves to communicate, this is because _____.
A. Sound travels at high speed vacuum/space B. Sound wave does not travel in vacuum/space
C. Sound energy turns into light in vacuum/space D. Sound energy in the vacuum may burst the
eardrums
______24. Which color of the visible light spectrum has the lowest frequency?
A. blue B.green C. red D. violet
______25. Choose which statement about the movement of an object with zero acceleration is true?
A . The object must be at rest B. The object may be stopping.
C. The object may be speeding up. D. The object must be slowing down
______26. Waves that transfer energy from place to place in a vacuum is called _______.
A. electromagnetic waves B. longitudinal waves
C. mechanical waves D. transverse waves
______27. In a transverse wave, the individual particles of the medium_____.
A. move in circles B. move in ellipses
C. move parallel to the direction of travel D. move perpendicular to the direction of travel
______28. The higher the frequency of a wave,___________.
A. the lower its speed B. the longer its period
C. the greater its amplitude D. the shorter its wavelength
______29. When light passes through a prism, the visible band of colors produced is called ____.
A. prism B. invisible spectrum C. visible spectrum D. wavelength
______30. Objects that do not give off their own light are ____.
A. lightness B. luminescent C. luminous D. non-luminous
______31. Which of the following statement is not true about light?
A. Light travels in straight lines B. Light has dual characteristics
C. Light is made up of streams of particles D. Light always exists as two waves and as two
particles
______32. Which statement explains why a pencil looks broken when placed in a cup of water?
A. Light is refracted as it moves from air to water B. Light is reflected as it moves from air to water
C. Light is absorbed as it moves from air to water D. Light is destroyed as it moves from air to water
______33. Which best describes the transfer of heat due to the movement of gases or liquids?
A. Conduction B. convection C. evaporation D. Radiation
______34 Which material would be the best choice for a cooking tool to be used when grilling food over a fire?
A. metal B. paper C. plastic D. wood
______35. What type of wave is sound wave?
A. Longitudinal B. Surface C. Tidal D. Transverse
______36. Which of the following will remain unchanged when a sound wave travels in air or in water?
A. Amplitude B. Frequency C. Speed D. Wavelength
______37. Which situation is a good example of the transfer of energy through radiation?
A. A fan cools the CPU in a computer.
B. Warm air that is less dense rises to the ceiling of a room.
C. A snake’s body temperature increases when the snake lies in the sun.
D. Energy passes from one person’s hand to another when they shake hands.
______38. What is the charge of an electron?
A. Negative B. Neutral C. positive D. It depends on the type of atom
______39. What are the seven colors associates with visible light?
A. red, orange, yellow, green , blue, purple pink B. red, orange, yellow, green , blue, white, black
C. red, orange, yellow, green , blue, indigo, violet D. red, orange, yellow, green ,light blue, dark blue,
violet
______40. What phenomenon is being formed when light does not travel through an object?
A. Ray diagram B. Shadow C. Sun beam D. Spectrum
______41. The wave particle duality of light means that in the experiment,____.
A. light will act like both wave and particle B. light will act like either wave or a particle
C. light will not act like either a wave or a particle D. light will always exists as two waves or as two
particles
______42. What will happen when two like charges are brought together?
A. They will repel each other. B. They will attract each other.
C. They will neutralize each other. D. They will have no effect on each other.
______43. If you comb your hair and the comb becomes positively charged, what will happen to your hair?
A. It will remain uncharged. B. It will be repelled by the comb.
C. It will become positively charged. D. It will become negatively charged.
______44. What kind of material that allows heat to move through easily?
A. Conductor B. friction C. insulator D. Radiator
______45. Being warmed by fire is an example of which type of heat transfer?
A. conduction B. convection C. friction D. Radiation
______46. In which set-up(s) will the bulb light up?

A. A only B. B only C. C only D. A, B and C

For items 47-50 , consider the figure below, choose your answer from the WORD BOX

WORD BOX

Amplitude Crest
Trough Wavelength

______47. Point d - ____________________