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WorksheetsCowan Physical Science Semester Review UST
Total questions: 201
Worksheet time: 6hrs 31mins
Which one of Newton's laws is shown
3rd law
2nd law
1st law
What does this picture represent
Force,magnetism,acceleration
Force, money, Apples
Force, Mass, Acceleration
Funny, monkeys, Arrive
Which one of Newton's laws are displayed
2nd law
1st law
3rd law
Which of Newton's laws is shown
1st law
3rd law
2nd law
This is Newton's 3rd law
True
False
This is Newton's 2nd law
True
False
An object in motion will stay in motion and an object at rest will stay at rest unless acted upon by an outside force. Which law does this describe
2nd law
1st law
3rd law
If there is a big mass, it would need a stronger force to accelerate it. Which law does this describe?
3rd law
1st law
2nd law
What force slows objects down and keeps them from moving?
Acceleration
Gravity
Friction
Net Force
When there is a change in motion?
When forces are balanced
When the forces are unbalanced
Whe forces are equal
Never
What is the unit for FORCE?
N (Newtons)
lbs (pounds)
g (grams)
m/s (meters per second)
What minimal force must be exerted by a mother to lift her 5kg baby?
0 N
5 N
49 N
10 N
In the district finals, Vanessa kicks the 0.600 kg soccer ball with a force of 80 N. How much does she accelerate the ball?
122 m/s/s
50 m/s/s
133 m/s/s
48 m/s/s
A 68 kg runner exerts a force of 59 N. What is the acceleration of the runner?
9.8 m/s/s
5 m/s/s
1.968 m/s/s
0.868 m/s/s
A crate is dragged across an ice covered lake. The box accelerates at 0.08 m/s/s and s pulled by a 47 N force. What is the mass of the crate?
587.5 kg
642.8 kg
58.75 kg
98.81 kg
3 women push a stalled car. Each woman pushes with a force of 425 N. What is the mass of the car if it accelerates at 0.85 m/s/s?
2500 kg
1500 kg
900 kg
425 kg
A tennis ball with a mass of 0.1 kg is accelerated at a rate of 164 m/s when hit by a professional tennis player. What force does the racket exert on the ball?
15.3 N
16.4 N
25 N
13.3 N
Mr. Candler jumps off a table on to the floor. When he hits the floor, he decelerates at -45 m/s/s and his weight is 1100 N, What TOTAL force does the floor exert on Mr. Candler's legs.
-49500 N
49500 N
6151 N
5161 N
When 2 teams are in a tug of war game, and neither team is winning, what is the net force?
100 N
0 N
50 N
2 N
Billy runs 400 meters to Andy's house, turns around, and runs 400 meters back home. What is Billy's distance?
0 meters
400 meters
800 meters
1600 meters
Billy runs 400 meters to Andy's house, turns around, and runs 400 meters back home. What is Billy's displacement?
0 meters
400 meters
800 meters
1600 meters
Jerry walked from home to school, then from the school to the park. What is his total displacement?
2 km
5 km
8 km
10 km
Jerry walked from home to school, then from the school to the park. What is his total distance?
2 km
5 km
8 km
10 km
The change in an objects position from the final position to initial position.
displacement
distance
motion
reference point
Two people walk across a parking lot. Their paths are shown in the image. Who traveled with a larger displacement?
Person A
Person B
They both had the same displacement.
Which of the following is correct?
Initial Position = -2 m
Final Position = 0 m
Distance = 14 m
Displacement = 2 m
Initial Position = 0 m
Final Position = -2 m
Distance = 14 m
Displacement = -2 m
Initial Position = -2 m
Final Position = 0 m
Distance = -2 m
Displacement = -2 m
Initial Position = -2 m
Final Position = 0 m
Distance = 14 m
Displacement = 14 m
None are correct.
Which of the following is correct?
Initial Position = -5 m
Final Position = -5 m
Distance = 22 m
Displacement = 0 m
Initial Position = -5 m
Final Position = -5 m
Distance = 0 m
Displacement = 22 m
Initial Position = -5 m
Final Position = 6 m
Distance = 22 m
Displacement = 0 m
Initial Position = -5 m
Final Position = 6 m
Distance = 0 m
Displacement = 22 m
David walks 3 km north, and then turns east and walks 4 km. What is the displacement?
1 km
3 km
4 km
5 km
What distance did the creature travel?
23 m
9 m
-9 m
-23 m
____________- A quantity that has only a magnitude (number or value)
Scalar
Vector
____________- A quantity that has both a magnitude and a direction
Scalar
Vector
Scalar =
A quantity that has only a magnitude (number or value)
A quantity that has both a magnitude and a direction.
Vector =
A quantity that has only a magnitude (number or value)
A quantity that has both a magnitude and a direction.
5 meters (Scalar or Vector?)
Scalar
Vector
30 meters/ second East (Scalar or Vector?)
Scalar
Vector
20 degrees Celsius (Scalar or Vector?)
Scalar
Vector
4000 calories (Scalar or Vector?)
Scalar
Vector
-10 centimeters (Scalar or Vector?)
Scalar
Vector
60 miles north (Scalar or Vector?)
Scalar
Vector
What is the speed of a car travelling 50m in 4s?
200 m/s
12.5 m/s
12.5 m
200m
How far does a lorry move if it is travelling at 12m/s for 180s?
2160 m
0.06 m
15 m
21.6 m
How long does it take a car to travel 40m at 12m/s?
4.8 s
480 s
3.33 s
33.3 s
Mrs. Bearden drives 50 miles. What does Mrs. Bearden need to figure out her speed?
The type of car she drives
Her heart rate as she drives
The time she has driven
The direction she was going
Speed is distance / time. Use the speed equation to solve the following problem... Janet walks 250 meters in 30 minutes. What is her speed in meters per minute?
8.3 meters/ minute
250 meters/ minute
30 meters/ minute
10.2 meters/ minute
Bill drove 54 miles in 45 minutes. How fast was he traveling in miles/ minute?
1.2 miles/ minute
55 miles per hour
1.2 mph
44 miles/ second
velocity equals displacement/ time. What is the velocity of a person who took the curviest roads possible to travel all the way west to Los Angeles (2000 miles) and it took them 72 hours to get there?
(velocity= displacement/ time)
27.8 miles/ hour
55 miles/ hour
144000 miles/ hour
.036 miles/ hour
Which of these is considered a measurement of speed?
55 miles per hour west
55 miles per hour
which of these would be considered a measurement of velocity?
100 miles/ hour
100 miles/ hour south
Are distance and displacement the same thing?
yes they mean the same thing
No distance is the measurement of how far something has traveled and displacement is the measure of how far it ended up from the beginning point
After watching all the slides in this lesson: what is the velocity of a car travelling from Hagerstown to Washington DC (528 miles) if it takes 8.5 hours to get there?
62.1 miles per hour
62.1 miles per hour east
(No Charge)
(No Charge)
Subatomic particles with a negative charge
Electrons
Neutrons
Protons
Quarks
Isotopes of an element have a different number of...
Protons
Neutrons
Electrons
Mass
What charge does an atom have when it GAINS electrons?
Positive
Negative
Neutral
What does it change in an ion?
The number of electrons
The number of protons
The number of neutrons
What does it change in an ion?
The number of electrons
The number of protons
The number of neutrons
Which of the following is/are conclusions based on Rutherford’s gold foil experiment?
Atom is mostly empty space
The nucleus is positively charged
The atom has a small dense nucleus
All answers are correct
Calculation used to find the number of neutrons in an atom
Mass Number - Atomic Number
Atomic Number - Atomic Mass
Atomic Mass - Electrons
none of these
Proposed that electrons move around the nucleus in specific layers, or shells.
Bohr
Rutherford
Chadwick
Thomson
Who discovered electrons?
Rutherford
Bohr
J.J. Thompson
Democritus
Within Dalton's Atomic Theory, he had proposed...
Atoms were the smallest particles that existed and could be divisible
Atoms were the smallest particles that existed and were round
Atoms were the smallest particles that existed and could not be divisible
Which experiment was performed by J. J. Thomson in 1897?
What was the expected result in Rutherford's experiment when alpha particles bombarded a thin layer of Au atoms?
alpha particles would be stopped by the Au atoms
alpha particles would go straight through the Au foil
alpha particles would explode when contacting the Au foil
alpha particles would be heavily deflected by the Au atoms
When particles were deflected in the gold foil experiment, what was the interpretation?
atoms exist
Au is magic
atoms have dense cores
atoms are indivisible
How many neutrons are in an atom of carbon-14?
6
8
10
14
How many protons does this isotope of titanium have?
22
26
48
70
How many electrons are in an atom that has an atomic number of 34, an atomic mass of 74 and a charge of -2?
2
34
36
40
Write the hyphen notation for the isotope that has 39 protons and 50 neutrons.
Yttrium-11
Tin-39
Tin-89
Yttrium-89
Which atom contains exactly 7 protons?
sulfur - 32 (S)
phosphorus-32 (P)
oxygen-15 (O)
nitrogen-15 (N)
Which atom contains exactly 15 protons?
sulfur - 32 (S)
phosphorus-32 (P)
oxygen-15 (O)
nitrogen-15 (N)
As an Na atom forms an Na+ ion, the number of protons in its nucleus
Decreases
Remains the Same
Increases
The two atoms will always have the same atomic number if they have the same
Number of neutrons
Number of protons
Number of nucleons
Mass number
An ion with 11 protons, 12 neutrons, and a charge of 1+ has an atomic number of
10
11
12
13
A particle of matter contains 8 protons, 8 neutrons, and 8 electrons. This particle must be a
positively charged oxygen ion
neutral nitrogen atom
positively charged nitrogen ion
neutral oxygen atom
A particle of matter contains 6 protons, 7 neutrons, and 6 electrons. This particle must be a
positively charged carbon ion
neutral nitrogen atom
positively charged nitrogen ion
neutral carbon atom
An atom of helium-4 (He) differs from an atom of lithium-7 (Li), in that an atom of helium-4 has
one more neutron
one more proton
two less neutrons
two less protons
How many neutrons are in the given atom?
92
143
235
327
What is the mass number of bromine?
35
45
80
79.904
How does Carbon-12 and Carbon-14 differ?
# of protons
Mass #
# of neutrons
Mass # and # of neutrons
If aluminum loses 3 electrons, what will the charge be?
+
-
+3
-3
Which of the following is an ion?
O-16
O-18
Carbon-12
O-2
An ion is:
An atom that has gained or lost electrons
An atom that has gained or lost neutrons
An atom that has gained or lost protons
An atom that is neutrally charged
An isotope is:
An atom that has gained or lost electrons
An atom that has gained or lost neutrons
An atom that has gained or lost protons
An atom that is neutrally charged
Write the ion notation for an atom of Chlorine with 12 electrons
Cl5-
Cl5+
Cl7-
Cl8-
How many P, E, and N does an ion of S3+ have?
P=15 E=12 N=16
P=16 E=13 N=16
P=16 E=19 N=32
P=16 E=48 N =16
How many P, E and N does an ion of F4- have?
P=9 E=13 N=9
P=8 E=5 N=10
P=9 E=13 N=10
P=8 E=13 N=11
What is the name of group number 1?
halogens
noble gases
alkali metals
alkaline earth metals
What is the name of group number 2?
transition metals
halogens
metaloids
alkaline earth metals
where are the metaloids found
far left, vertical
stair step/diagonal
far right horizontal
at the bottom
What group number are the halogens found?
18 (8A)
1
2
17 (7A)
A grouping of elements based on similar chemical properties, arranged by columns in the periodic table; also known as a group
family
period
row
isotope
A row on the Periodic Table of Elements
family
period
row
isotope
Which class of elements are malleable, ductile, shiny when clean and polished, good conductors of heat and electricity, and reacts with acids to form hydrogen gas?
metals
nonmetals
metalloids
ions
What is the term of an atom that will lose electron(s) and have a positive change?
cation
anion
electronegativity
ionic radius
What does malleable mean?
able to be hammered or rolled into sheets
will break easily
able to be pulled into a wire
is shiny
Which is a property of metals?
Malleable
Good insulator
Used in food
Brittle
Vanadium (V) is a good conductor, malleable and ductile. What type of element is vanadium?
Metal
Nonmetal
Metalloid
Superconductor
Silicon is a semiconductor and has properties of both metals and nonmetals. What type of element is Silicon?
Metal
Nonmetal
Metalloid
Superconductor
Which elements are to the right of the zig zag?
metals
nonmetals
metalloids
superconductors
Which is an example of a metalloid?
Boron
Aluminum
Chlorine
Sodium
Which elements are found along the zig-zag line?
metals
nonmetals
metalloids
superconductors
True or False?
Most of the elements on the Periodic Table are metals?
true
false
This is the term used for a metal that is able to be hammered out or pressed
Malleable
Ductile
Conductive
Shiny
Heat and electricity flow through me
Malleable
Ductile
Luster
Conductor
Which of the following is a physical characteristic of a nonmetal?
texture
malleable
brittle
semi-conductor
Which category does this belong in?
Metal
Nonmetal
Metalloid
Which category does this belong in?
Metal
Nonmetal
Metalloid
Which elements are colored red?
nonmetals
metals
metalloids
Copper can be pressed and folded to make statues like the statue of liberty, ______.
therefore copper is malleable
therefore copper is ductile
therefore copper is shiny
therefore copper is a conductor
Sulfur, a nonmetal, is considered:
malleable
brittle
ductile
a good conductor
Newton's Law of Inertia (first law) describes the motion of-
Objects that accelerate
Law of Inertia
Law of Acceleration
Law of Action-Reaction
Law of Gravitation
Law of Inertia
Law of Acceleration
Law of Action - Reaction
Law of Gravitation
Law of Inertia
Law of Acceleration
Law of Action - Reaction
Law of Gravitation
Newton's Third Law is also known as the Law of _______
Inertia
Acceleration
Action - Reaction
Gravitation
An object of mass 10 kg is accelerated upward at 2 m/s2. What force is required?
