SCIENCE 10

Second Quarter Examination

PRE-TEST

NAME: _________________________ GRADE /SECTION:___________________ SCORE:__________

Directions:
Choose the letter of the best answer and write it on the space provided before the number.

_____ 1.
All of the waves in the electromagnetic spectrum differ in frequency and wavelength.
wawavewavelengthwavelength.
Which EM wave has the longest wavelength?
a. Radiowaves c. infrared waves
b. Ultraviolet rays d. gamma rays

_____ 2. Which describes how wavelength related to frequency?

a. The longer the wavelength the higher the frequency
b. The lower the frequency the shorter the wavelength
c. The higher the frequency the shorter the wavelength
d. The wavelength changes at constant frequency.

_____ 3. How do you compare the relative wavelengths (λ) of microwave, infrared and ultraviolet ray?
a. Microwave has shorter λ than infrared but longer than ultraviolet
b. Microwave has longer λ than infrared but shorter than ultraviolet ray
c. Microwave has shorter λ than both infrared and ultraviolet ray
d. Microwave has longer λ than both infrared and ultraviolet ray

_____ 4. What is the orientation of the components of electromagnetic waves?

a. Electric and magnetic fields are parallel to each other
b. Electric and magnetic fields are perpendicular to each other
c. Electric and magnetic fields are both parallel to the direction of propagation
d. Electric and magnetic fields are parallel but perpendicular to the direction of propagation.

_____ 5.
Your mother have fun in listening music through the radio. Every morning she never
missed tuning into the Radio One station in which Mayora Inday Palaypay broadcasts a
radio frequency of 97.1 MHz (Mega Hertz).

What is the wavelength of this radio wave?

a. 3.1 m c. 3.1 x 10-2 m
b. 3.1 x 102 m d. 32.4 x 10 -2 m

_____ 6. Which set of electromagnetic waves is arranged according to increasing wavelength?

a. Radio waves, microwaves, infrared, ultraviolet
b. Infrared, ultraviolet rays, X-rays, Gamma rays
c. Ultraviolet rays, visible light, infrared, microwaves
d. Infrared, visible light, ultraviolet rays, radio waves

_____ 7. Which is NOT true about electromagnetic waves?

a. EM waves travel at the speed of light
b. It is a disturbance in a field that transfers energy
c. Most EM waves are invisible but are detectable
d. It consists of electric and magnetic waves that are parallel to each other

_____ 8. What can be inferred about EM wave’s wavelengths, frequencies and energies?
a. Wavelength is inversely proportional to frequency and energy
b. Wavelength and frequency are inversely proportional to energy
c. Wavelength is directly proportional to frequency and energy
d. Wavelength and frequency are directly proportional to energy

_____ 9. Which equation shows how wavelength and frequency related?

a. λ = v f b. f = v / λ c. λ = f / v d. f = v λ

_____ 10. In Zamboanga Sibugay Provincial Hospital, the medical doctors will never used
unsterilized medical equipment in treating patients.

What type of electromagnetic wave is used in sterilizing medical equipment?

a. Infrared ray b. Gamma ray c. ultraviolet ray d. microwave
_____ 11. Which of the given examples of practical applications of the different regions of EM waves uses infrared?
a. Disinfecting drinking water c. Autofocus camera
b. Satellite communication d. Detecting fake banknotes

_____ 12. Which type of EM waves is NOT used in communication?

a. Radio waves b. Microwaves c. visible light rays d. Ultraviolet rays

_____ 13. Which of the given examples of practical applications of the different regions of EM waves in the
box does NOT belong to the group?

d.

a. b. c. d.

_____ 14. Which explains correctly the effect of EM radiation on living things and the environment?
a. All types of EM radiation are harmful for it affects the living cells of organism.
b. All types of EM radiation have no harmful effects to human but have only benefits.
c. All types of EM radiation can cause the cell to multiply and make the organism to grow faster.
d. both b and c

_____ 15. Which type of EM waves releases the most harmful radiation? Why?
a. Gamma ray because it has the shortest wavelength
b. Radio wave because it has the longest wavelength
c. Gamma ray because it has the most energy
d. Radio wave because it has the least frequency

_____ 16. Which material reflects light regularly?

a. Newspaper b. TV screen c. chalkboard d. carpet

_____ 17. Three years ago, your classmate went to Diplahan NHS to join the Division Science camp.
On her way to Diplahan, she noticed the image formed in the side mirror of the car that
she was riding looked smaller but wider field of view.

What type of mirror is used as the side mirror of that car?

a. Concave mirror c. plane mirror
b. convex mirror d. spherical mirror

_____ 18. You wish to burn a piece of paper by focusing sunlight using mirror.

What type of mirror would be used?

a. Plane mirror c. convex mirror
b. concave mirror d. spherical mirror

_____ 19. What is the position of a real image that can be projected on a screen?

a. upright c. inverted
b. magnified d. diminished

_____ 20. A girl is wearing a ribbon on the right side of her head and faces the mirror.

Where is the ribbon in her image found?

a. At the left side c. at the right side
b. at the back d. at the center

_____ 21. A light ray strikes the mirror surface and makes an angle of incidence equal to 50 0.

What is the angle of reflection?

 a. 400 b. 450 c. 500 d. 600

_____ 22. What type of mirror can produce an image of the same size as the object but real and
inverted?
a. Plane mirror c. convex mirror
b. concave mirror d. spherical mirror

_____ 23. How would you describe the image formed by a concave lens?
a. Diminished, upright and virtual c. Diminished, upright and real
b. Magnified, upright and real d. Magnified, inverted and real

_____ 24. What type of mirror do dentists usually use to see clearly the image of our tooth and why?
a. Plane mirror because it forms images of equal size as the object.
b. Convex mirror because it gives a wider field of view
c. Convex mirror because it forms an upright images
d. Concave mirror because it magnifies images

_____ 25. Your younger sister happened to see her image in the spoon as inverted. As she moved
the spoon closer to her face, her image disappeared and finally becomes upright and
magnified.

What is the location of the object relative to the spoon when NO image was formed?
a. at the focus c. between the focus and the radius
b. at the radius d. beyond the center of curvature

_____ 26. What type of mirror can produce an image similar to that of convex lens?
a. Convex mirror c. plane mirror
b. Concave mirror d. any spherical mirror

_____ 27. Which is TRUE about virtual image?

a. Virtual image can be projected on a screen c. Virtual image is always upright
b. Virtual image is formed in front of mirrors d. Virtual image is always magnified

_____ 28. What will happen to the parallel light rays after passing through a convex lens?
a. Converge at the real focus c. scattered anywhere
b. Diverge from the real focus d. not be refracted

_____ 29. What kind of mirror is used in automobiles and trucks to give the driver a wider area but
smaller image of traffic behind him?
a. Plane mirror c. convex mirror
b. Concave mirror d. spherical mirror
c.
_____ 30. Where should the object be placed in relation to the convex lens in order to form an enlarged and
inverted image of an object?
a. Beyond the center of curvature (˃2F) c. between the focus and center of lens
b. At the center of curvature (at 2F) d. between F and 2F
_____ 31.
Images formed in a curved mirror can be located and described through ray diagramming.

Which pair of incident ray from the object and its reflected ray from the mirror is correct?

a. c.

b. d.

_____ 32. What optical instrument uses 2 convex lenses of which the objective lens is thicker than the
eyepiece to make a small object larger?
a. Camera b. Telescope c. Microscope d. Oscilloscope
_____ 33. Which optical instrument uses thinner objective lens than the eyepiece to focus image of a
distant object?
a. Camera b. Telescope c. Microscope d. Oscilloscope
_____ 34.
Your Physics teacher allows you to use microscope in studying the images formed by
the lenses. She emphasized that the first image formed in first/objective lens of the
microscope is real, inverted and magnified.
Where should the specimen be placed in relation to the objective lens?

b. at F b. between F and 2F c. at 2F d. beyond 2F

_____ 35.
The first image formed in the objective lens of the microscope is real and inverted,
while the final image formed by the eyepiece lens is virtual and magnified.
What is the behavior of the final image formed in the microscope as you move the specimen upward?
a. The image moves upward c. the image moves downward
b. The image remains steady d. the image moves sideward

_____ 36. You are holding right now a photocopy (image) of test questions reproduced by a
“Xerox” machine which has the same size as the original copy (object).
Where is the object located relative to the lens to produce an image that is of equal size to the
object?
a. at F’ b. at 2F’ c. between F’ and V d. between 2F’ and F’
_____ 37. On the way to Ipil, Zamboanga Sibugay, you meet an Ambulance and you noticed the
word AMBULANCE in front of the car is written this way,

Why is this so?

a. The image formed by the plane mirror is inverted.
b. The image formed by the plane mirror is up-side down.
c. The image formed by the plane mirror is reversed left-to-right.
d. It’s just a matter of Physics art.

_____ 38. What is the principle behind transformer?

a. Electromagnet c. Electromagnetic induction
b. magnetic force d. magnetic field

_____ 39. What do you call the process of generating current in a conductor by a changing magnetic field?
a. Electromagnetic induction c. Electromotive force
b. Electromagnetic force d. Electromagnet
_____ 40. Which device is used to increase or decrease voltage output?
a. Transformer b. generator c. motor d. AVR
_____ 41. Which factor does NOT affect the amount of induced current in a conductor?
a. Strength of the magnet
b. Length or number of turns the coil has
c. Relative velocity between the conductor and the magnet
d. The amount of current present in the conductor
_____ 42. How does the alternating current in the secondary coil of a transformer being induced?
a. changing magnetic field c. varying electric field
b. motion in the primary coil d. the iron core of the transformer
_____ 43. Which energy transformation is taking place in a generator?
a. Electrical energy to mechanical energy c. chemical energy to mechanical energy
b. Mechanical energy to chemical energy d. mechanical energy to electrical energy
_____ 44. Which one describes step-up transformer?
a. It has more turns in the primary coil than in the secondary coil
b. Voltage is decreased in the secondary coil
c. Current is decreased in the secondary coil
d. Current is increased in the secondary coil
_____ 45. What is the essential part of a generator which is NOT found in an electric motor?
a. Armature b. magnet/stator c. commutator d. turbine
_____ 46. Which device can be used to determine the polarity of an unmarked magnet?
a. A charged metal rod at rest
b. A second unmarked magnet
c. An improvised magnetic board
d. A suspended magnetized needle
_____ 47. How does motor and generator related?
a. Motor and generator operate in reverse principle
b. Motor and generator operate in the same principle
c. Motor and generator converts mechanical to electrical energy
d. Motor and generator converts electrical to mechanical energy
_____ 48. What will happen to a current-carrying-coil when it is placed between the poles of a magnet?

a. The coil vibrates c. The coil rotates continuously

b. the coil remains steady d. both a and c
_____ 49. Which set ups model the working principle of a transformer and an electric
generator respectively?

A. B. C. D.
a. A and B b. C and D c. A and C d. B and D

_____ 50. . How does motor and generator related?

a. Motor and generator operate in reverse principle
b. Motor and generator operate in the same principle
c. Motor and generator converts mechanical to electrical energy
d. Motor and generator converts electrical to mechanical energy