SECOND PERIODICAL TEST IN ENGLISH 7

NAME: ____________________________ GR.& SEC._________  SCORE:________ 

Directions: Read the sentences below and identify what they refer to from the given choices below each.
Write the letter of your answer directly in the blank.

_____1. Which refers to the length of the entire path traveled by an object. 
                A. Displacement                              C. Motion
                B. Distance                                       D. Time 
_____2. Which refers to the shortest distance between to object’s two positions? 
                A. Displacement                               C. Motion
                B. Distance                                       D. Time 
_____3. The change in position over an interval of time is called ______________. 
                A. Displacement                               C. Motion 
                B. Distance                                       D. Time 
_____4. The distance traveled by an object, how fast the object is traveling, and the direction in which the
object travels, are measured with respect to _____. 
                A. Motion                                         C. Displacement 
                B. Distance                                       D. Reference Point 
_____5. If an object is in motion, it changes position relative to its _____. 
                A. Time                                             C. Speed
                B. Angle                                            D. Reference Point 
_____6. Displacement can be equal to distance when ________. 
                A. object is in a circular motion. 
                B. path traveled is a straight line. 
                C. ball is rolling on an inclined plane. 
                D. car is traveling on the road upward. 
_____7. Which of the following describes the distance covered by an object? 
                A. 5 s                B. 8 m                C. 10 m/s                D. 12 m, North 
_____8. Which of the following shows the displacement traveled by an object? 
                A. 9 s                B. 18 km                C. 27 km/h D               . 36 km, South 
_____9. All of the following are the materials used in measuring the distance covered by an object
EXCEPT _____. 
                A. Ruler                                           C. Meter stick
                B. Timer                                           D. Measuring tape 
_____10. Ethan claims that the house where he lives is actually constantly moving. Which of the
following points of reference do you think will best support his claim? 
                A. Earth                                            C. House
                B. Floor                                            D. Sun 
_____11. What does the vertical axis represent on a position-time graph? 
                A. Speed of the object 
                B. Position of the object C. Velocity of the object D. Total time traveled by the object 
_____12. What do you call a graph that is plotted in terms of the distance traveled by the object and the
time it took to cover that distance? 
                A. Speed-time graph 
                B. Position-time graph C. Distance-time graph D. Displacement-time graph 
_____13. Which is TRUE about displacement? 
                A. How fast an object is moving 
                B. Change in position in a given time 
                C. Length of the entire path that an object traveled 
                D. Shortest distance between the object’s two positions 

_____14. What does a horizontal line in the distance-time graph indicate? 

                A. No movement                         
                B. Constant speed  
                C. Object is accelerating
                D. Object is decelerating 

_____15. When looking at a displacement-time graph, what variable should be plotted on the y-axis and
x-axis? 
                A. Y-axis: Time; X-axis: Distance 
                B. X-axis: Time; Y-axis: Distance 
                C. X-axis: Time; Y-axis: Displacement 
                D. Y-axis: Time; X-axis: Displacement 
_____16. Which of the following illustrates acceleration? 
                A. Constant velocity 
                B. Changing direction 
                C. The direction does not change 
                D. The speed and direction remain the same 
_____17. The following are correctly matched, EXCEPT 
                A. Speed: Scalar 
                B. Velocity: Vector C. Distance: Scalar D. Displacement: Scalar 
_____18. What does a line on a graph that is curving upwards mean in a distance-time

graph? 
                A. The object is not moving.                               
                B. The object has a constant speed. 
                C. The speed of the object is increasing. 
                D. The speed of the object is decreasing. 

_____19. The following units can be used to mathematically express speed, EXCEPT 
                A. m                 B. m/s                 C. km/hr                 D. miles/hr 
_____20. Ethan is playing with his toy car. While watching him, you observed that the toy car is
accelerating. Which of the following graphs shows that the toy car is accelerating? 
_____21. Which of the following correctly describes a wave? 
                A. It can set an object into motion 
                B. It moves through materials only. 
                C. It transmits weaker force 
                D. It is static 
_____22. The following are electromagnetic waves, EXCEPT 
                A. Infrared                                        C. Sound 
                B. Gamma rays                                 D. X-rays 
_____23. Which of the following statements correctly describes a wave? 
                A. I,II,III,IV                                      C. II,III,IV only 
                B. I,II,III only                                    D. I, III, IV only 
_____24.What type of wave needs a medium to propagate? 
                A. Electromagnetic waves                C. Microwaves 
                B. Mechanical waves                        D. Ultraviolet 
_____25. Suppose you observed an anchored boat rise and fall once every 8.0 seconds as waves whose
crests are 25 meters apart pass by it. What is the frequency of the observed waves? 
                A. 0.100 Hz                                     C. 0.125Hz
                B. 0.105Hz                                       D. 1.000 Hz 
_____26. Which type of wave is characterized by the parallel motion of the particles in the wave to the
wave propagation? 
                A. Electromagnetic                          C. Mechanical
                B. Longitudinal                                D. Transverse 
_____27. Earthquake(seismic)waves are felt through the grounds. Are these waves electromagnetic in
nature? 
                A. Yes, because these need a medium in order to propagate. 
                B. No, because these do not need a medium to propagate. 
                C. No, because these are mechanical waves. 
                D. Yes, because this carries energy. 
_____28. Which of the following statements correctly describes a mechanical wave? 
                A. I, II,III, IV                                  C. II,III,IV only
                B. I,II,III only                                  D. I,II, IV only 
_____29. What refers to the number of waves that pass through a given point at a particular
time?                 
                A. Amplitude                                  C. Period 
                B. Frequency                                   D. Wavelength 
_____30. The following are examples of mechanical waves, EXCEPT 
                A. Longitudinal                               C. Sound 
                B. Surface                                        D. X-ray
_____31. What do we call the vibration that propagates as an acoustic wave through a transmission
medium such as gas, liquid or solid? 
                 A. Song                                           C. Wave
                 B. Sound                                          D. Zone 
_____32. Sound plays a vital role in our daily lives. Communication is one among of its uses. Can we
also use sound in emergency response? 
                 A. No, because sound is used only for communication. 
                 B. No, because it leads others in a panic if a loud sound will be produced. 
                 C. Yes, because a loud sound can drive away a strong typhoon or flood. 
                 D. Yes, because a loud sound can be the fastest way to inform the community that a disaster 
                     might come. 
_____33. Which of the following gives the correct order of speed of sound from slowest to fastest in the
given material? 
                 A. air, steel, water                             C. water, air, steel
                 B. steel, water, air                              D. air, water, steel 

_____34. Which of the following is NOT capable of transporting sound? 

                 A. Air                                                 C. Water
                 B. Ice                                                  D. Vacuum 
_____35. Which of the following describes sound waves? 
                 A. Oceanic wave                                C. Transverse wave 
                 B. Standing wave                               D. Longitudinal wave
_____36. Which of the following terms best describes an object that emit energy in the form of
light?                  
                 A. Fluorescence                                 C. Luminous
                 B. Incandescence                               D. Phosphorescence 
_____37. Which of the following objects is non-luminous? 
                 A. sun                                                C. burning wood
                 B. moon                                             D. flashlight switched on 
_____38. Choose which of the following reasons correctly explain why we can able to see objects from
our surroundings.
I. Our eyes give out light to our surroundings 
II. Light refraction which makes the light bends into our eyes 
III. Light from any source can move through space and reach our eyes. 
IV. When light strikes on smooth and plane surfaces it will reflect to form
image
 
                 A. I and II only                                C. III and IV only
                 B. II and III only                              D. I, II, and III only 
_____39. Which of the following describes the nature of light according to Louis de Broglie? 
                 A. wave and point                            C. particle and wave
                 B. wave and energy                          D. particle and energy 
_____40. Which forms of energy enable us to see the beauty of our nature and appreciate the colors of
objects through our eyes? 
                 A. Chemical                                      C. Light
                 B. Heat                                              D. Sound 
_____41. Which of the following colors will result if the primary colors of light will be mixed? 
                 A. black                                             C. white
                 B. pink                                               D. yellow W
_____42. What color of the visible spectrum has the highest energy? 
                 A. orange                                            C. red
                 B. green                                               D. violet 
_____43. White light goes through a red filter, what color do we observe? 
                 A. cyan                                                C. red 
                 B. green                                               D. yellow 
_____44. Based on the illustration, what does the arrow section of the wave

show? 
                 A. Amplitude                                                    
                 B. Crest 
                 C. Trough 
                 D. Wavelength 

_____45. Choose which of the following orders of the Electromagnetic waves show the increasing order
of frequency and wavelength respectively? 
I. Gamma, X-ray, Ultraviolet, Visible light, Infrared, Microwave, Radio 
II. Visible light, Microwave, Infrared, Ultraviolet, X-ray, Gamma, Radio 
III. Microwave, Radio, Visible light, Infrared, Ultraviolet, X-ray,
Gamma 
IV. Radio, Microwave, Infrared, Visible light, Ultraviolet, X-ray, Gamma

                 A. I and II only                                               C. I and IV only 

                 B. I and III only                                              D. III and IV only 
_____46. Inside an air-conditioned room, metallic objects generally feel cooler to touch than wooden
objects. Why is this so? 
                 A. Heat tends to flow from metal to wood 
                 B. Metal conducts heat better than wood 
                 C. Wood contains more heat than a metal of the same mass 
                 D. The human body resembles wood more closely than it resembles metal. 
_____47.You’re holding hands with your best friend. Your friend’s hands are really warm and yours are
really cold. After a few minutes, this has changed. How do you explain what happened? 
                 A. The energy from your friend’s hand is transferred to your hand through conduction. 
                 B. The energy from your hand is transferred to your friends’ hand through convection. 
                 C. The energy from your friend’s hand is transferred to your hand through convection. 
                 D. The energy from your hand is transferred to your friends’ hand through conduction. 
_____48.On a summer morning, Johnny walks barefoot across his paved driveway with no problem.
However, later that afternoon he steps barefoot onto the same driveway and must quickly run off because
the bottoms of his feet feel like they are burning. Why is this so? 
                 A. As the temperature increased during the day, the particles in the pavement moved slower 
                      and the thermal energy increased. 
                 B. As the temperature increased during the day, the particles in the pavement moved slower 
                      and the thermal energy decreased. 
                 C. As the temperature increased during the day, the particles in the pavement moved faster 
                       and the thermal energy increased. 
                 D. As the temperature increased during the day, the particles in the pavement moved faster 
                       and the thermal energy decreased.
_____49.It is boring sitting in the house on your day off, so you go to the pool to meet with your friends.
You jump in the water but it was too cold and you don’t want to look like weak, so you try to get used to
it. Your lips are turning blue and your skin now feels cold. Should you get out of the pool and warm
yourself? 
                 A. No, because you friends will tease you. 
                 B. Yes, because it will make body look good. 
                 C. No, because it is not good to back out after deciding to spend time with your friends. 
                 D. Yes, because staying in the water for too long might affect to numbness and swelling of 
                      the skin. 
_____50.You wake up on a Saturday morning and are glad since you don’t have to go to school. You sit
outside in the sun because you don’t really feel like doing anything at all. The heat from the sun is starting
to make you sweat. Is the heat transfer caused by radiation? 
                 A. Yes, because radiation is a transfer of heat by means of rays. 
                 B. Yes, because radiation is a transfer of heat by direct contact. 
                 C. No, because radiation is the transfer of heat by direct contact. 
                 D. No, because radiation is the transfer of heat through fluid and gases. 
_____51. Which of the following object is an example of an insulator? 
                 A. Aluminum                              C. Gold 
                 B. Copper                                    D. Plastic 
_____52. Two charged bodies are brought near each other and are observed to attract each other. What
can you infer about their charge? 
                 A. Both positive                           C. Neutral charges
                 B. Both negative                          D. Negative and positive 
_____53. Pith balls are little Styrofoam balls coated in conductive paint. An uncharged pith ball is
suspended by a nylon fiber. What will happen to a pith ball when a negatively charged rubber rod is
brought near it without touching? 
                 A. Becomes attracted                   C. Is repelled by the rod
                 B. Becomes polarized                  D. Becomes charged by induction 
_____54. What do you call the process of charging a conductor by bringing it near another charged
object? 
                 A. Conduction                             C. Neutralization
                 B. Induction                                 D. Polarization 
_____55. Which of the following best characterizes electrical insulators? 
                 A. Their electric charges move freely. 
                 B. Charges on the surface don’t move. 
                 C. Insulators are good heat conductors. 
                 D. Insulators have high tensile strength.
_____56. What method of charging an object allows electrons to flow by direct contact from one object to
another? 
                 A. Conduction                              C. Induction
                 B. Friction                                    D. Polarization 
_____57. Neutral objects become charged when electrons are transferred from a charged object through
____________. 
                 A. charging by friction                 C. charging by induction
                 B. transforming charges               D. charging by conduction 
_____58. A charge is most easily transferred in _______________. 
                 A. conductors                                C. nonconductors
                 B. insulators                                  D. semiconductors 
_____59. An attracting force occurs between two charged objects when the charges are of
_______.                  
                 A. like signs                                   C. equal magnitude 
                 B. unlike signs                               D. unequal magnitude 
_____60. A negatively charged metal rod is brought in contact with a neutral metal sphere. What happens
during the process? 
                 A. The electrons are transferred from the charged rod to the neutral sphere and the sphere 
                       acquires a negative charge. 
                 B. The electrons are transferred from the charged rod to the neutral sphere and the
sphere               
                       acquires a positive charge. 
                 C. The electrons are transferred from the neutral sphere to the charged rod and the sphere 
                       acquires a negative charge. 
                 D. The electrons are transferred from the neutral sphere to the charged rod and the sphere 
                      acquires a positive charge.