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FIRST QUARTERLY EXAM IN SCIENCE 7

EXAM QUESTIONAIRE
Teacher: Alyssa Mae F. Dapadap, LPT

I. Direction: Shade the letter that corresponds to the c. If a tennis ball is frozen, it won't bounce
best answer. Use the separate answer sheet to as high as one that is not frozen.
record your answers d. If I heat up a tennis ball it will bounce
high.
1. In a controlled experiment, a scientist is 6. Which one of the following would NOT be
studying how long it takes parachutes of used to boil water:
different sizes to fall to the ground. What is
a. graduated cylinder
the manipulated variable?
b. Erlenmeyer flask
a. the size of the parachute
c. Florence flask
b. the height from which parachute is
d. Beaker
dropped
7. During what part of the laboratory do you
c. the size of the object carried by the
have to wear safety goggles?
parachute
a. Only when I need to go to the stockroom
d. the time it takes for the parachute to
for supplies
drop
b. Only when I am using chemicals or
2. What is the correct order of the steps in the
glassware.
scientific method?
c. When chemicals are being used by
a. Ask questions, make a hypothesis, test
anyone in the lab
the hypothesis, analyze results, draw
d. When chemicals or glassware are being
conclusions, and communicate results.
used by anyone in the lab
b. Make a hypothesis, test the hypothesis,
8. When gathering glassware and equipment
analyze the results, ask a question,
for an experiment, you should ______?
draw conclusions, and communicate
a. read all directions carefully to know what
results.
equipment is necessary.
c. Ask a question, analyze results, make a
b. examine all glassware to check for chips
hypothesis, test the hypothesis, draw
or cracks.
conclusions, and communicate results.
c. clean any glassware that appears dirty.
d. Ask a question, make a hypothesis, test
d. All of the above
hypothesis, draw conclusions, analyze
9. You want to place a piece of glass tubing
results, and communicate results.
into a rubber stopper after the tubing has
3. What skill is a scientist using when she
been fire polished and cooled. This is best
listens to the sounds that whales make?
done by
a. Interpreting data
a. lubricating the tubing with water or
b. Developing hypothesis
glycerin
c. Making observations
b. using a towel or cotton gloves for
d. Drawing conclusions
protection
4. Which question would be the best high level
c. twisting the tubing and stopper carefully
scientific question?
d. all of the above.
a. Who made the first microscope?
10. Sarah wants to heat a chemical at a very
b. How many giraffes live in Africa?
high temperature, what particular apparatus
c. Does the amount of salt in water affect
will she used?
the temperature at which it boils?
a. Crucible
d. How long ago did the dinosaurs live on
b. Beaker
earth?
c. Evaporating dish
5. Which of the following hypotheses is written
d. Reagent bottle
correctly?
11. The proper method of testing the odor of an
a. Frozen tennis balls will not bounce as
unknown chemical is to:
high.
a. inhale the chemical deeply into your
b. If I freeze a tennis ball, then it will not
lungs
bounce as high.
 b. fan the fumes towards your nose
c. sniff the odor through one nostril
d. place your nose directly over the
chemical
12. Conducting a fair test is one of the
most important ingredients of doing good,
scientifically valuable experiments. To
insure that your experiment is a fair test the
following factor must shown;
a. change only one factor at a time while
keeping all other conditions the same.
b. change everything
c. every factor remains constant
d. None of the above.
13. What evidence shows that ice has a
physical change when left out in a room?
a. It reacts with oxygen in the air.
b. It changes to water.
c. It is hard and white.
d. It is cold to the touch.
c. different samples have different
properties
d. can be represented by a chemical
formula
18. Which of this test is reversible?
a. Floated in water
b. Burned when lighted
c. Melted when heated
d. None of the above
19. Bread placed in a toaster turns brown then
black if left too long. What is needed for this
chemical change to take place?
a. Heat energy had to be added.
b. Heat energy had to be taken away.
c. A certain amount of time had to pass
d. The bread had to be taken out of the
wrapper.
Mark made observations as he watched a white
candle burn. Use his data to answer question.

The following data were collected by testing Time Observation

four substances. Each was tested to see if it 0 minute is lit, black smoke rises, flame starts
1 minute glows red and orange
floated in water, burned when lighted with a
2 minute Wax drips down sides
flame, or melt when heated. Use this data to 3 minute Candle is shorter than when it started
answer the next two questions. 4 minute Hot gases are rising
20. Which of Mark’s observations would show
Substance Floated Burned Melted
in water when when that a burning candle is a chemical
lighted heated reaction?
A Yes Yes No a. Back smoke is given off; hot gases are
B No No No rising.
C Yes Yes No b. The wax starts to melt.
D No No Yes c. The candle is white and made of wax
14. Which substance had a physical change? and a wick.
a. A d. Time passes one minute at a time.
b. B 21. A student watches an ice cube melt into a
c. C puddle of water. Has a chemical reaction
d. D taken place?
15. There are three main states of matter: a. Yes, a gas has been given off.
liquid, solid, and gas. All have different b. Yes, the color has changed.
physical properties. Which statement c. No, water does not react chemically.
describes the physical state of a solid but d. No, no new substances have formed.
not of a liquid or a gas? 22. Which one of the following will turn red
a. It has its own shape. litmus blue?
b. It does not have its own shape. a. Vinegar
c. It takes the shape of its container. b. Baking soda
d. It changes shape with temperature. c. Lemon
d. Soft drinks
16. Which of the following is an example of a
23. Which one of the following will turn blue
chemical change?
litmus red?
a. melting butter
a. Vinegar
b. mixing milk and chocolate syrup
b. Lime water
c. breaking a pencil
c. Baking soda
d. burning a marshmallow
d. Washing soda
17. Which of the following is NOT a
24. A crystal of solid NaCl (salt) is placed into
characteristic of a compound?
an aqueous NaCl solution. It is observed
a. has different properties from the elements
that most, but not all, of the crystal
that formed it
dissolves. This means the original solution
b. pure substance made of two or more
was
elements
a. supersaturated.
 b. unsaturated.
c. dilute.
d. None of the above
25. Which of the following descriptions is
correct?
a. a suspension contains particles which
will not settle out if the suspension is left
standing
b. a mixture consists of two or more pure
substances which can only be
separated by chemical methods
c. a solution consists of a solvent
dissolved in a solute
d. a colloid is a 'cloudy' mixture containing
particles which will not easily settle out
when the colloid is left standing
26. Which of the following would not be
described as colloid?
a. Foam
b. Smoke
c. Fog
d. Milk
27. Which of these terms is not used to
describe a solid which remains behind
during a separation process?
a. Filtrate
b. Sediment
c. Residue
d. Gangue
28. To separate a mixture of saltwater, pebbles
and sand the following techniques is a must;
a. Decantation, Filtration, Evaporation
b. Decantation, magnetism, washing
c. Magnetism, filtration, evaporation
d. Evaporation only
29. A medicine label states: “Shake well before
use.” What is the reason for this?
a. because the medicine is a solution.
b. because the medicine is a suspension.
c. because it will taste less bitter after
shaking it.
d. none of the above
30. When most of the spaces between the
solvent molecules are all filled by the solute,
what is formed?
A. suspension C. concentrated solution
B. solution D. diluted solution