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WorksheetsNGSS Semester 1 Review
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 20mins
This pie chart best fits which listed situation?
An object is falling and is very close to the ground
An object is being thrown upward and is close to its highest point
A toy car is slowly rolling across a level floor
A ball is being launched upward by a slingshot
Which form of energy does the little boy use in order to get the pogo stick working?
Kinetic
Potential
Chemical
Deformation
Sound is a...
Longitudinal wave that needs a medium
Longitudinal wave that can travel in a vacuum
Transverse wave that can travel through a vacuum
Transverse wave that needs a medium
The speed of a water wave is 24 m/s. Its frequency is 8 Hz. What is the wavelength?
3 m
0.333 m
192 m
3 Hz
A swing makes twelve full back-and-forth motions in 20 seconds. What is the time period for the swing?
1.67 s
0.6 s
0.4 s
240 s
The pitch of a flute is lower than the pitch of a violin. This means...
The violin has a lower amplitude than the flute.
The flute has a greater amplitude than the violin.
The flute has a lower frequency than the violin.
The flute plays a greater frequency than the violin.
A car's stereo is louder than another car's horn. This means...
The stereo has a lower amplitude than the other car’s horn.
The other car’s horn has a lower amplitude than the stereo.
The stereo has a greater pitch than the other car’s horn.
The other car’s horn has a lower pitch than the stereo.
A 2 cm tall crest meets a 13 cm deep trough in the same medium. What will be the resulting amplitude when they meet?
15 cm deep
6.5 cm tall
11 cm deep
11 cm tall
A tuba (220 Hz), a drum (450 Hz), and a trombone (180 Hz) play the given notes in the same room. Which travels fastest?
The trombone’s low note
The tuba’s medium note
The drum’s high note
They all travel at the same speed
The speed of a wave depends only on the...
Frequency
Wavelength
Medium it’s traveling through
Time period
Which of the following is an example of wave diffraction?
A wave passing around the edge of a barrier
A wave changing speeds as it changes mediums
A wave bouncing off a boundary
A wave meeting another wave and becoming smaller
What is the frequency of a sound wave traveling in room temperature air if its wavelength is 0.33 m?
1000 Hz
109 Hz
9.9·107 Hz
9.1·108 mHz
You are standing 400 m from a wall. You clap and hear the echo 2.34 seconds later. What's the speed of sound?
342 m/s
936 m/s
85.47 m/s
1872 m/s
What is it called when an object that's emitting sound travels faster than the speed of sound?
Sonic boom
Mach velocity limit
Resonance chambering
Amplitude induction
Which of the listed types of light has the greatest frequency?
Infrared
Ultraviolet
Microwaves
Visible
Which of these types of light has the longest wavelength?
Radio waves
Ultraviolet
Gamma rays
Visible
Which color of visible light has the greatest energy?
Red
Violet
Orange
Green
Which of the following is a typical use for radio waves?
The Chandra X-ray observatory’s images of the universe
Sending signals between cell phone towers
Creating vitamin D in the body
Transmission signals from wi-if routers to computers
The distance from one bright band in the picture to the next is 0.3 m. This is...
One wavelength
One rarefaction
One Hertz
One crest length
What do the brighter regions in the picture of a sound wave represent?
Compressions
Rarefactions
Crests
Troughs
If the frequency of a light wave doubles, its wavelength will...
Also double
Be cut in half
Stay the same
Increase four times
When light goes from one medium into another and changes speed and path, this is called...
Interference
Refraction
Diffraction
Cohesion
Which of the following can be done by waves AND particles?
Reflection
Interference
Photoelectric effect
Polarization
A jet is moving at about 900 m/s. The jet is traveling at about...
Mach 0.333
Mach 1
Mach 3
Mach 9
Light behaves most like...
A wave
A particle
Both a wave and a particle
Neither a wave nor a particle
Which of the following experiments showed that light has a particle-like nature?
Photoelectric effect
Interference
Polarization
Diffraction
In which medium does the light travel more slowly?
Medium 1
Medium 2
The speeds will be the same
You cannot tell from the picture
Throw a flashlight toward your friend. Your friend wouldn't easily notice, but the light becomes...
Redshifted since it’s moving toward your friend
Blueshifted since it’s moving toward your friend
Temporarily faster than the speed
What do we call a device that changes kinetic energy into electrical energy?
Generator
Compass
Electromagnet
Motor
Magnetic field lines...
Always go from south magnetic poles to north magnetic poles
Always show the direction an electron would travel
Always go from north magnetic poles to south magnetic poles
Always show the direction of electron current in a magnet
The red part of a compass will always...
point toward the south geographic pole of the Earth
be called a south magnetic pole
point toward a south magnetic pole
point toward a north magnetic pole
The main job of a battery in a circuit is to...
provide all of the electrons
supply energy to move electrons
provide heat to make electrons move
provide the resistance the circuit needs to function
A solenoid is a coil of wire. If you wanted current to flow in the solenoid, you could...
rub the solenoid with rabbit fur
shine ultraviolet light toward the center of the solenoid
move a magnet in and out of the solenoid
beam an ultrasonic laser at the solenoid
Which of the following IS NOT a method of charging?
Friction
Contact
Induction
Grounding
If you electrically ground something, you allow...
Electrons to flow freely into or out of the object
All of its electrons to move into you
The object to take all of your electrons
The object to become neutral When it’s near a charged object
A positively charged object repels a second object. The second object must be...
Neutral only
Positively charged only
Negatively charged only
Positively charged or neutral
Put your hand into a box of packing styrofoam peanuts and some may stick to your hand and arm. They became charged by...
Contact
Friction
Induction
Polarization
Bring a negatively charged rod close to an electroscope and the metal leaves spread apart. This is because electrons...
Move into both leaves and the like charges repel
Move to the top, leaving both leaves positive so they spread apart
Move into only one leaf, making both leaves oppositely charged
Jump into the negative rod making the electroscope neutral
Looking at these electric field lines, you can tell...
That all three charges are negative
That all three charges are positive
That the lower center charge is the only negative charge
That the lower center charge is the only positive charge
The electric field between two charged plates is 4500 N/C. A 0.05 C charge will feel how much force between the plates?
90,000 N
0.0000111 N
11.25 N
225 N
