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WorksheetsSpring semester exam
Total questions: 45
Worksheet time: 1hrs 13mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What type of energy is in this picture?
a)
Kinetic
b)
Potential
c)
Electromagnetic
2.
When plants convert the sun's energy into food, which type of energy does the sun energy become?
a)
kinetic
b)
chemical
c)
thermal
3.
What kind of energy is represented in this picture?
a)
Thermal
b)
Potential
c)
Nuclear
d)
Mechanical
4.
What kind of energy does this device use?
a)
Chemical
b)
Electrical
c)
Thermal
d)
Chemical
5.
At which point is potential energy greatest?
a)
W
b)
X
c)
Y
d)
Z
6.
What is a non renewable resource?
a)
water
b)
wind
c)
coal
d)
biomass
7.
What is the best pro about renewable resources?
a)
The are inexpensive
b)
They are always available
c)
They are expensive
d)
They create pollution
8.
Walking on the warm sand sand with your bare feet.
a)
conduction
b)
convection
c)
radiation
9.
Blow drying your wet hair.
a)
conduction
b)
convection
c)
radiation
10.
Warm air rises and the cool air sinks.
a)
conduction
b)
convection
c)
radiation
11.
What kind of heat transfer happens when the sun is heating your body?
a)
Conduction
b)
Radiation
c)
Convection
d)
Density
12.
What is made up of nickel and iron in the Earth?
a)
core
b)
crust
c)
mantle
d)
atmosphere
13.
When lava cools what does it form?
a)
igneous rock
b)
fossils
c)
sedimentary rock
d)
metamorphic rock
14.
How are sedimentary rocks formed?
a)
cooling
b)
erosion
c)
heat and pressure
d)
compacting and cementing
15.
What kind of plate boundary is shown here?
a)
divergent
b)
convergent
c)
transform
d)
subducting
16.
What geologic feature/event you be most likely to find at a transform boundary?
a)
Earthquakes
b)
Volcanoes
c)
Mountains
d)
Rift Valleys
17.
What geologic feature/event would you most likely to find at a divergent boundary between two pieces of oceanic crust?
a)
Rift Valley
b)
Mid-Ocean Ridge
c)
Island Arc
d)
Flat land
18.
What geologic feature/event would you most likely to find at a convergent boundary between two pieces of continental crust?
a)
Volcano
b)
Mountain
c)
Rift
d)
Island Arc
19.
What is a PUSH or PULL of an object?
a)
Motion
b)
Force
c)
Friction
d)
Gravity
20.
If these boys are pulling with the same amount of force. What will happen?
a)
The boy in blue will win.
b)
They will not move at all.
c)
The boy in red will win.
d)
Both will fall down.
21.
What is the net force on the block? (click on the words to view the picture)
a)
5 Newtons up
b)
5 Newtons down
c)
15 Newtons up
d)
15 Newtons down
22.
What does this graph represent?
a)
Constant speed
b)
Acceleration
c)
Not moving
23.
What measurements are needed to calculate the speed of an object?
a)
grams and force
b)
force and acceleration
c)
mass, time. and force
d)
time and distance
24.
Which object had the greatest average speed?
a)
A
b)
B
c)
C
d)
D
25.
What force does the A arrow represent?
a)
Drag force
b)
Friction
c)
Gravity
d)
No force is shown.
26.
Molly is watching a wind-up toy walking across a table. She observes that the toy covers 1 cm every second for 10 seconds. Which graph do you think most closely represents the toy's journey across the table?
a)
A
b)
B
c)
C
d)
D
27.
A runner races in the 100 meter dash. It takes her 10 seconds to finish. What is her average speed?
a)
10 m/s
b)
1000 m/s
c)
100 seconds
d)
10 seconds
28.
What is the speed of a car that travels 400 m in 20 minutes?
a)
20 miles/hr
b)
20 m/min
c)
800 m/min
d)
200 miles/hr
29.
Which of the following energy transformations occur when a lamp that is plugged into a wall socket is functioning correctly?
a)
Chemical to light
b)
Electrical to chemical
c)
Electrical to light
d)
Chemical to electrical
30.
What energy transformations take place when a battery-operated radio is in use?
a)
Electrical to chemical to light
b)
Sound to chemical to mechanical
c)
Chemical to electrical to sound
d)
Light to electrical to thermal
31.
How light reflects off of a mineral is called the mineral's
a)
luster
b)
streak
c)
cleavage
d)
fracture
32.
What does the Mohs Scale measure?
a)
Streak
b)
Luster
c)
Hardness
d)
Cleavage
33.
Using this scale, which mineral can scratch fluorite?
a)
Talc
b)
Gypsum
c)
Apatite
d)
Calcite
34.
The spinning of the Earth on its axis that causes night and day.
a)
Rotate
b)
Revolve
35.
Who was the first astronaut to step foot on the moon?
a)
Guion Bluford
b)
John Glenn
c)
Neil Armstrong
d)
Buzz Aldrin
36.
Joint project between the USA and Russia to build a long term crewed space craft.
a)
Project Mercury
b)
Gravity
Galilean Moons
Galilean Moons
c)
Project Apollo
Gravity
Gravity
d)
The International Space Station
37.
Small pieces of rock that travels through space
a)
Meteor
b)
Meteorite
c)
Meteoroid
d)
Gravity
38.
The path that a body travels through space
a)
Planet
b)
Orbit
c)
Gravity
d)
Project Mercury
39.
A student wants to test the effects of type of exercise on heart rate. What is the responding variable?
a)
heart rate
b)
type of exercise
c)
amount of exercise
d)
time of day exercise occurs
40.
The last step in the Scientific Method is the
a)
Research
b)
Conclusion
c)
Purpose
d)
Hypothesis
41.
Mrs. J. sets up an experiment to see how the mass of a ball affects the distance it rolls off a ramp. Identify the responding variable.
a)
height of the ramp
b)
distance traveled by the ball
c)
mass of the ball
d)
weight of the ball
42.
What is the net force?
a)
40 N left
b)
0 N Balalnced
c)
400 N right
d)
40 N right
43.
A car goes on a journey.
What does the graph show between 10 and 20 minutes?
What does the graph show between 10 and 20 minutes?
a)
car is stopped
b)
car is accelerating
c)
car is at constant speed
d)
car is decelerating
44.
The process where one type of rock can change into another type of rock is known as ____
a)
The rock cycle
b)
Sedimentation
c)
Igneous
d)
Composition
45.
What Layer is 3?
a)
Crust
b)
Mantle
c)
Outer Core
d)
Inner Core
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