Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Region I
SCHOOLS DIVISION OFFICE I PANGASINAN
SIOASIO INTEGRATED SCHOOL

DIAGNOSTIC TEST IN SCIENCE 8

School Year: 2024 - 2025
Name:_______________________________________________ Score:___________
Section:_____________________________________________ Date: ___________
Directions: Read and analyze each item carefully. Write your answer on the space provided before the number.

_____1. What is the total force felt by an object?

a. Balanced b. Net c. Strong d. Sum
_____2. What is the first law of motion?
a. Law of Acceleration b. Law of Action- Reaction
c. Law of Inertia d. Law of Interaction
_____3. What is equal to the gravitational force that the body experiences?
a. Acceleration b. Gravity c. Mass d. Weight
_____4. What is directly proportional to the net force?
a. Acceleration b. Force c. Mass d. Velocity
_____5. What is the two equal forces that act on an object in opposite directions?
a. Balanced forces b. Friction forces c. Normal forces d. Unbalanced forces
_____6. A force of 1.6N acts on a body producing an acceleration of 56m/s². what is
the mass of the body?
a. 0.0286kg b. 0.582kg c. 15.68kg d. 89.6kg
_____7. If mass is express in kilograms and acceleration in meter per second squared. What is the unit of
force?
a. 1kg x m/s² b. m x m/s² c. m/s d. m/s²
_____8. If you exert a net force of 8 N on a 2- kg object, what will its acceleration be?
a. 2 m/s² b. 4 m/s² c. 16 m/s² d. 10 m/s²
_____9. An ice skater at rest pushes against a sled at rest, causing both the skater and sled to move away
from each other with different accelerations. Which of the following best described the Newton’s law of
motion?
a. Newton’s first law of motion for objects at rest b. Newton’s first law of motion for objects in motion
c. Newton’s second law of motion d. Newton’s third law of motion
_____10.How does Newton’s third law explain how a rocket takes off?
a. The rocket’s acceleration is positive, while the gases acceleration is negative but the direction is
the same
b. The rocket’s acceleration is negative, while the gases acceleration is positive but the direction is
opposite
c. The rocket is at rest until ignition
d. The hot gases move in one direction, while the rocket moves in the opposite direction but with
equal force.
_____11. A person in car slides to the right when going through a very sharp left turn on the high way. What
Newton’s law of motion does it project?
a. Law of Acceleration b. Law of Action- Reaction
c. Law of Inertia d. Law of Interception
_____12.Which of the following is an example of exerting force?
a. A carpenter hammering a nail b. A child running through a field
c. A train speeding down a track d. An airplane soaring through the sky
_____13.A pair of balanced forces acts on an object, what is the result of the net force?
a. Equal in size to one of the forces b. Equal to zero
c. Greater in size than both forces combined d. Greater in size than one of the forces
_____14. A heavy man and a light man parachute together from high flying plane. Who will attain first the
zero acceleration?
a. Heavy man
b. Light man
 c. Both the parachute and light man attain zero acceleration at the same time
d. Both the light man and heavy man attain zero acceleration at the same time
_____15.If an 800-N man hangs motionless from 4 vertical strands of the rope. What will be the tension in
each strand of rope?
a. 0N b. 50N c. 100N d. 200N
_____16.A 100N sack of potatoes falls from an airplane. As the velocity of fall increases, the air resistance
acting on the falling sack also increases. When air resistance equal 100N, what is the acceleration of the
sack?
a. 0 b. 4.9 m/s² c. 9.8 m/s² d. 100 m/s²
_____17. If a body is moving at constant velocity along the straight line. What does it have?
a. A constant net force acting upon it b. Constant non- zero acceleration
c. Constant speed d. Constant motion
_____18. Why do falling objects pull toward Earth?
a. Because of air resistance b. Because of acceleration
c. Because of free fall d. Because of gravity
_____19. Which of the following is one way to increase acceleration?
a. Decreasing force b. Decreasing mass
c. Increasing both force and mass proportionally d. Increasing mass
_____20.The driver of a car suddenly sees a broad wall in front of him. What he should do?
a. Brake sharply b. Jump out of the car c. Keep going d. Turn sharply
_____21.What energy does a moving object have?
a. Heat Energy b. Kinetic Energy c. Potential Energy d. Thermal Energy
_____22.What is the method of transferring energy from one object to another?
a. Acceleration b. Force c. Power d. Work
_____23.What is the stored energy of an object?
a. Heat Energy b. Kinetic Energy c. Potential Energy d. Thermal Energy
_____24.Which of the following mass of the bowling ball that rolls at a speed of 5.5 m/s and its kinetic
energy is 93.77 J?
a. 12.4kg b. 18.2kg c. 10.6kg d. 6.2kg
_____25. A 0.40kg bird is flying at a constant speed of 8.0 m/s. What is the birds kinetic energy?
a. 3.2 J b. 4.2 J c. 2.0 J d. 12.8 J
_____26. Two object with different masses are placed on the same shelf. Which object contains more
energy?
a. Both objects have the same amount of energy
b. Neither object has any energy because they are not moving
c. The object with a greater mass has more energy
d. The object with less mass has more energy
_____27.Which is the best example that something has kinetic energy?
a. A car park on a steep hill b. A picture hanging on the wall
c. A piece coal before it’s burned d. A tennis ball rolling across the court
_____28.An arrow is pulled back by a bow. Which type of energy does a bow has?
a. Chemical potential b. Elastic potential
c. Gravitational potential d. Kinetic energy
_____29.Which of the following medium does sound travel fastest?
a. Gas b. Liquid c. Plasma d. Solid
_____30.What is the speed of sound in air temperature of 25°C?
a. 220 m/s b. 226 m/s c. 330 m/s d. 336 m/s
_____31.What refers to multiple reflections or echoes in certain place?
a. Echo b. Reflection c. Refraction d. Reverberation
_____32.Which of the following temperature will sound travel faster?
a. 10°C b. 40°C c. 60°C d. 80°C
_____33.Why does sound will not travel in a vacuum?
a. Because of the high temperature inside
b. Because of the low temperature inside
c. Because of the absence of the particle that will absorb it
d. Because of the absence of the particle that will not transmit it
_____34. What is the bending of light when it travels from one medium to another of different optical
densities?
a. Dispersion b. Reflection c. Refraction d. Reverberation
_____35.What phenomenon in which white light separates into its component colors through prism?
 a. Dispersion b. Reflection c. Refraction d. Reverberation
_____36. Which of the following colors of light is arranged in increasing energy correctly?
a. Red, orange, green, blue b. Blue, red, green, orange
c. Orange, blue green, red d. Green, red, orange blue
_____37. Which is bent most and has least energy in the colors of light?
a. Blue, red b. Violet, red c. Red, blue d. Blue, violet
_____38.How will you describe red in the visible spectrum?
a. Can travel the greatest distance b. Has the shortest wavelength
c. The brightest d. The least visible during heavy rains
_____39. What describes “hotness and coldness” of an object?
a. Heat b. Heat capacity c. Temperature d. Thermal Energy
_____40.What is the quantity of thermal energy needed to raise the temperature of a unit mass of an object
by 1°C?
a. Heat Capacity b. Specific heat c. Temperature d. Thermal Energy
_____41. Which of the following will happen to the temperature of an object when it absorbs heat?
a. Exist b. Extract c. Fall d. Rise
_____42.When does the liquid inside the thermometer contracts?
a. When it is place in hot water b. When it is place under the sun
c. When it is place in cold water d. When it is place away from any objects
_____43.What measures voltage?
a. Volts b. Voltmeter c. Watts d. wattmeter
_____44.Which of the following is poor conductor of electricity?
a. Cloth b. Copper c. Rubber d. Water
_____45.When does an object become negatively charge?
a. Gains electrons b. Gains protons c. Loses electrons d. Loses protons
_____46.If the voltage stays the same and the resistance is increased, what will happen to the current?
a. Increase b. Decrease c. Stay the same d. Insufficient
_____47.In a series circuit, which of the following is the same throughout the circuit?
a. Current b. Power c. Resistance d. Voltage
_____48.How many paths does a series circuit has that an electric current can take?
a. 1 b. 2 c. 3 d. 4
_____49.Which of the following will happen if one of the light bulbs burns out in a parallel circuit?
a. Can still light up b. Stop the flow of electricity
c. The light bulbs burn out also d. Will go out
_____50.Why short circuit do happens?
a. When the circuits offer more resistance to the flow of charges
b. When the circuits extract the resistance to the flow of charges
c. When the circuits offer little or no resistance in the flow of charges
d. When the circuits offer multiple charges

Prepared by:

ALONDRA D. VALERIO
Teacher I

Validated by:

GENARO A. RAMIREZ JR.

Master Teacher I

Approved:

MARINO S. TORENO, EdD

Principal I