2019 Group Activity For Grade 8 2ND
2019 Group Activity For Grade 8 2ND
2019 Group Activity For Grade 8 2ND
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Multiple Choice: Read each statement carefully and 2. The greater the mass of an object,
write only the letter of the correct answer. A. the easier the object starts moving.
B. the more space it takes up.
A. C. the greater its inertia.
1. A book is at rest on top of a table. Which of the D. the more balanced it is.
following is correct?
A. There is no force acting on the book. 3. The tendency of an object to resist any change in its
B. The book has no inertia. motion is known as
C. There is no force acting on the table. A. balance. B. force
D. The book is in equilibrium. C. inertia. D. mass.
2. Which of the following situations involves friction? 4. Mass of the object is quantitative measure of its inertia
A. A bicycle rolling down a hill stated law is newton's
B. A baseball player sliding into 2nd base A. first law B. second law
C. A diver falling through the air to a pool C. third law D. fourth law
D. All of the above experience some friction.
5. Which of these best describes the concept of inertia?
3. What is gravity? A. A force that attracts objects with mass
A. Newton’s first law B. The tendency of an object to float in water
B. The force that objects exert on each other C. A force created when surfaces are in contact
because of their masses D. The tendency of an object to resist a
C The downward pull on the Earth change in motion
D. The friction that an object has put on it
A. 280 kg B. 2800kg
C. 70,000kg D. 7000kg
a. Draw arrows showing the individual forces of the 2. Which is the correct unit of acceleration?
tugboats in #1. A. m/s B. m/s2 C. kg.m/s D. kg.m/N
b. Are the forces balanced or unbalanced?
______________ 3. Suppose that a sled is accelerating at a rate of
c. In what direction will the barge move? 2m/s2 . If the net force is tripled and the mass is halved,
________________ what then is the new acceleration of the sled?
A. decrease by half B. doubled
C. C. tripled D. quadrupled
1. According to Newton's First Law of Motion,
A. an object in motion eventually comes to a stop. 4. Suppose a ball of mass 0.60 kg is hit with a force of
B. an object at rest eventually begins to move. 12 N. Its acceleration will be:
C. an object at rest always remains at rest. A. 20 m/s2 B. 40 m/s2 C. 10 m/s2 D. 20 m/s
D. an object at rest remains at rest unless acted upon
5. If the ball in question no. 4 is increased by 24 N, what D. Hard to determine where the object goes.
is the increased in acceleration?
A. 20 m/s2 B. 30 m/s2 5. When a car turns around a curve and its speed
C. 4 0 m/s2 D. 50 m/s2 doubled, what happens to the force between the road
F. and its wheels?
1. As a 500 N lady sits on the floor, the floor exerts a A. It doubles B. It increases four times
force on her equal to______________. C. It is reduced to one-half D. It is reduced to one-fourth
A. 1000 N B. 500 N H.
C. 250 N D. 50 N 1. How much work is required to lift a 2 kg mass to a
height of 10 meters?
2. According to Newton's Third Law of Motion, when a A. 5 J B. 20 J C. !00 J D. 200 J
hammer strikes and exerts a force on a nail, the nail
A. creates a balanced force. 2. A garden tractor drags a plow with the force of 500 N
B. disappears into the wood. in a distance of 10 meters in 20 seconds. How much
C. moves at a constant speed. work is done?
D. exerts and equal and opposite force back on the A. 0.25 J B. 1000 J C. 2599 J D. 5000J
hammer.
3. One joule is equivalent to:
3. Pick the best example of Newton's Third Law in A. 1 N.m3 B. 1 kg.m3
action. C.1 watt2 .N D. 1 kg.m2 /s2
A. A rocket taking off from earth which pushes gases in
one direction and the rocket in the other. 4.How much work is done when a force of 12-N moves an
B. A rocket sitting on the ground preparing for take-off object a distance of 5-m?
but it needs an outside force to overcome its inertia of a A. 60N B. 2.4 N C. 600 N D. 6000N
non-moving object.
C. A rocket that is accelerating through space and 5. Students A and B run up the same flight of stairs.
exerts a great amount of force because its mass and
acceleration is so large. Both students run up the stairs at constant
D. Both b and c.
velocities.
4. When a teacher stands at the front of the class, the Student A takes twice as long as student B to
force of gravity pulls her toward the ground. The ground climb the stairs.
pushes back with an equal and opposite force. This is an Student A weighs twice as much as student B
example of which of Newton's Laws of Motion?
A. Law of Inertia I. Student A develops more power than student B.
B. Law of Acceleration II. Student B does more work than student A.
C. Law of Interaction III. The change in potential energy of student A is twice
D. Law of Universal Gravitation that of student B.
5. For every action there is an equal and opposite A. I only B. III only
reaction. This is a statement of C. I and II only D. I and III only
A. Newton's First Law of Motion. I.
B. Newton's Second Law of Motion.
1. In which situation is there NO work done in the
C. Newton's Third Law of Motion.
D. Newton's Law of Action. system?
G. a. A monkey climbing a tree
1. What made the stone in the previous activity move in b. A person in an ascending elevator
circular path? c. A weight lifter lifting a barbell in the air
A. The central force enables the stone to stay in its d. A stone whirled around the horizontal circle
path.
B. The gravity enables the stone to move in circular 2. Describe the energy changes that take place when
path. the ball is thrown upward.
C. The force of attraction make its stay in place. a. Potential to Kinetic
D. The string made the stone to whirl in circular b. Kinetic to Potential
path. c. Both a and b
d. Cannot be determined
2. This is a force that keeps an object move in circular
path. 3. What happens to energy when it is transferred from
A. frictional force B. centripetal force one body to another?
C. gravitational force D. attractive force a. Energy is gained.
b. Energy is destroyed.
3. All are examples of events/ activities in our daily life c. It loses energy.
which shows or illustrates the need of a central force. d. Both a and c
Which is not included in the group?
A. merry-go-round For numbers 4 and 5, Show complete solutions.
B. banking on curved
C. satellite moon 4. A ball with mass of 2 kg is dropped from a height of 60
D. cyclist on the straight road m. What is the potential energy of the ball? Assume that
the reference position is the ground.
4. In what direction does an object fly if the force giving
its centripetal acceleration suddenly disappear? 5. A book weighs 5.0 newtons when it is raised 1.5
A. The object continuously moves in circular motion, meters. Calculate its increase in potential energy.
B. The object moves in straight line at constant speed.
C. The object changes its velocity in a straight path.
J. L.
1. A roller coaster climbing the first hill is an example of 1. Sound is an example of
A. building kinetic energy. A. a longitudinal wave.
B. building potential energy. B.. a wave that can travel through a vacuum.
C. gravitational forces. C. a transverse wave.
D. nuclear energy. D. a wave that does not transmit energy.
2. When sound travel through air, the air
2. Of the following units, the one that is a unit of particles_______.
potential energy is? A. vibrate along the direction of wave propagation
A. Newton B. Joule B. vibrate but not in any fixed direction
C. Meter D. Liter C. vibrate perpendicular to the direction of wave
propagation
3. A stationary object may have D. do not vibrate
A. potential energy B. velocity 3. Sound is produced due to _____
C. kinetic energy D. acceleration A. Friction B. circulation
C. vibration D. refraction
4 . A 50 kilogram object is located 5 meters above the 4 Sound passes from one place to another in the form of
ground level. Find its potential energy. A. Rays *B. waves C. energy D. light
A. The object's potential energy is 2450 J. 5. Sound waves have
B. The object's potential energy is 24.50 J. A. Amplitude only B. Frequency and wavelength only
C. The object's potential energy is 2.450 J. C. Amplitude, frequency and wavelength
D. The object's potential energy is 245.0 J. D. Amplitude and wavelength only
M.
5. A 12 kg cat who is resting on a tree has a potential 1. Sound waves travel faster in water than in air because
energy of 50 Calculate its position (height) relative to water has a greater ___________.
the ground. A. density. B. elasticity.
A. The cat is located 0.43 m above the ground. C. number of molecules. D. volume.
B. The cat is located 0.43 m above the ground.
C. The cat is located 0.43 m above the ground. 2. When a wave travels through a medium_____.
D. The cat is located 0.43 m above the ground. A. particles are transferred from one place to another
B. energy is transferred in a periodic manner
K. C. energy is transferred at a constant speed
1. Which of the following statements indicates the best D. none of the above statements is applicable
way to increase power?
A. increase the amount of work done in a given 3. When sound travels through air, the air particles
amount of time, or do a given amount of work in less ______.
time A. vibrate along the direction of wave propagation
B. increase the amount of work done in a given B. vibrate perpendicular to the direction of wave
amount of time, or do a given amount of work in more propagation
time. C. vibrate perpendicular to the direction of wave
C. decrease the amount of work done in a given propagation
amount of time, or do a given amount of work in less D. do not vibrate
time . 4. Sound waves do not travel through
D. decrease the amount of work done in a given A. solid B. liquid
amount of time, or do a given amount of work in more C. gases D. vacuum
time. 5. The method of detecting the presence, position and
direction of motion of distant objects by reflecting a
2. What does the power of a machine measures? beam of sound waves is known as _____.
A. the work it does B. its rate of doing work A. RADAR B. SONAR
C. the force it produces D. its strength C. MIR D. CRO
N.
3. A girl carries a heavy suitcase quickly up a flight of
1. How would you relate the temperature of the medium with
stairs. A boy of the same weight carries the same
suitcase slowly up the flight of stairs. Which statement is the speed of sound?
true? A. The higher the temperature, the faster the sound travels.
A. The girl did less work and had less power than the B. The higher the temperature, the slower the sounds travel.
boy. C. The lower the temperature, the faster the sound travels.
B. The girl had less power than the boy. D. The lower the temperature, the slower the sound travels.
C. The girl did more work and had more power than the
boy. 2. What is the speed of the sound in air of 250 C temperature?
D. The girl had more power than the boy A. 336m/s B. 325m/s C. 346m/s D. 355m/s
3. Calculate the speed of sound if the temperature of the
4. What is the power develop by a jumbo jet that cruises
vibrating water is 28°C?
at 200 m/s when the thrust of its engine is 100,000 N?
A. 20,000 W B. 200,000W
A. 346m/s B. 347.8m/s C. 350m/s D. 349.1m/s
C. 20,000,000W D. 2000 W 4. In which of the following will the movement of particles be
the fastest?
5. The following the units to express power. Which is not A. 30°C of water B. 50°C of water
included? C. 70°C of water D. 90°C of water
A. N.m/s B. J/s C. watt D. N.m/s2
5. Which of the following quantities tells how hot or cold an 3. A rainbow usually appears in the sky after a rain.
object is with respect to some standard? Which of the following statements best explain this
observation?
A. Density B. Mass
a. Raindrops acts as prism separating sunlight into
C. Pressure D. Temperature colors.
O. b. The white clouds actually prism composed of different
1. An echo occurs when sound colors.
A. is transmitted through a surface. c. The colors of the rainbow comes from the raindrops in
B. is reflected from a distant surface. the atmosphere
C. changes speed when it strikes a distant surface. d. When sunlight is reflected by the ground towards the
D. all of the above clouds, it separate into different colors.
2. The change in direction of a sound wave around 4. Which of the following has the longest wavelength?
corners is called a. red b. violet
A. diffraction B. interference c. orange d. green
C. refraction D, interference
5. The process of separating white light into bands of
3. You can hear noises a long distance away over colors using a prism is known as _________.
water at night because a. refraction b. dispersion
A. of lowered temperature. c. reflection d. diffraction
B. water conducts sound better at night. R.
C. sound is reflected off water more efficiently at 1. Which of the following energies is transferred from one thin to
night. another because of the temperature differences between things?
D. of refraction of sound in air. A. Heat B. temperature
C. Kinetic energy D. internal energy
4. The method of detecting the presence, position and 2. The natural flow of heat is always from ________.
direction of motion of distant objects by reflecting a A. hot to cold C. cold to hot
beam of sound waves is known as _____. B. lower temperature to higher temperature D. both A and
A. RADAR B. SONAR 3. What causes an ice to melt?
C. MIR D. CRO A. the change in weather
B. the presence of hot water
5. The technique used by bats to find their way or to C. the absorption of the heat from its surrounding
locate food is _______. D. the release of heat to the cooler surrounding
A. SONAR B. RADAR 4. Which of the following will likely happen when a hot and a cold are
C. ECHOLOCATION D. FLAPPING put in contact with one another?
P. A. The hot and the cold object will become colder.
Direction: Complete each statement by supplying the B. The hot and the cold object will become hotter.
correct term. You may choose the answer from the box C. The cold object will become colder while the hot object will
below. become hotter.
D. The cold object will become warmer while the hot object
will become colder.
Refraction bends towards the normal 5.How are the amount of heat transferred and the change in
temperature of water related?
Mirage incident ray A. The change in temperature is inversely proportional to the
heat transferred.
bends away from the normal medium B. The amount of heat transferred is proportional to the
change in temperature.
C. The amount of heat transferred is inversely proportional
1. The bending of light when it passes obliquely to the temperature.
from one medium to another is known as ________. D. There is no relation between the heat transferred and the
change in temperature.
2. Refraction is the bending of light from one ________ S.
to another.
1. When the temperature of an object increases, the average
3. When light passes from a less dense to a denser
kinetic energy of the molecules ________.
medium, it _____. A. increases B. decreases
C. remains the same D. becomes colder
4. When a light ray passes from water to air (denser to a
less dense medium), its path __________. 2. In which of the following will the movement of particles be
the fastest?
5. The phenomenon that motorists observe on hot days A.30 0C of water C. 70 0C of water
when the road seems to be covered with water. B.50 C of water
0 D. 90 0C of water
X.
Direction: Write the word SAFE if the statement is true
and DANGER if the statement is wrong.