St.

Paul School
Barotac Nuevo, Iloilo
rd
3 Periodic Exam in Science
(St. Anthony, St. Michael and, St. John)

Name: __________________________________________________________ Score: ________________

Grade & Section: _________________________________________________ Date: _________________

I. MULTIPLE CHOICE: Circle the letter of the right answer in the following questions.
1. When is an object considered to be in motion?
I. When its position changes with respect to a point of reference.
II. When its distance changes with respect to a point of reference.
III. When its direction changes with respect to a point of reference.
a. I and II only c. II and III only
b. I and III only d. I, II, and III
2. A plant needs water, radiant energy, minerals, oxygen, and carbon dioxide to live. This statement shows
that an organism depends on which of the following?
a. Abiotic components b. Biotic components c. Climate d. Minerals
3. Which of the following represents an abiotic component of the environment?
a. Sprouting mongo seeds c. Grass on mountain slopes
b. Dugong nursing its young d. Flowing lava
4. How do you compute for the average speed of each athlete?
a. Multiply 200 meters by the recorded time of travel.
b. Divide 200 meters by the recorded time of travel
c. Divide the recorded time of travel by 200 meters.
d. Divide 200 meters by twice the recorded time of travel.
5. Which of the following is true about an object that travels 5 meters to the left, then 2 meters up, then
another 5 meters to the right?
a. The displacement of the object is equal to 12 meters.
b. The total distance travelled by the object is equal to 12 meters.
c. The displacement of the object is equal to 12 meters down.
d. The total distance travelled by the object is equal to 12 meters down.
6. A sperm cell unites with an egg cell to form a zygote. Which process is taking place?
a. Pollination c. Asexual reproduction
b. Fertilization d. Vegetative propagation
7. In sexual reproduction, what is the source of the genetic material in a zygote?
a. An egg cell only c. A pollen and a sperm cell
b. A sperm cell only d. An egg cell and a sperm cell
8. Setting up an aquarium that represents a mini ecosystem has to have which of the following
requirements?
a. Fish and water only
b. Water, sand, soil, and light only
c. Populations of fish, snails, and plants only
d. Communities of different species of organisms, water, sand, soil, and sunlight
9. What is NOT a characteristic of sexual reproduction?
a. Gametes from two parents unite to form a zygote.
b. Offspring are genetically identical with the parent.
c. Offspring are different from their parents and sibling.
d. Genetic variability of offspring help to ensure survival in changing environmental conditions.
10. Which of the following statements is NOT true about the object moving with constant speed?
a. The object is not accelerating
b. The speed of the object is equal to zero.
c. The distance travelled by the object increases uniformly
d. The speed of the object remains the same all throughout the travel
11. A 12 kg rock falls from rest off a cliff and hits the ground in 1.5 s. Without considering air resistance,
what is the rock's velocity just before it hits the ground?
a. 18 m/s b. 14.7 m/s c. 117.6 m/s d. 8 m/s
12. The strength of the force of gravity depends on?
a. the masses of the objects and their speeds
b. the masses of the objects and the distance between them
c. the weight of the objects and their speeds
d. the masses of the objects and their weights
13. Which term describes something that displays all the characteristics of life?
a. homeostasis b. organism c. stimulus d. unicellular
14. Temperature, sunlight, air, water, soil, and climate are all ____________ parts of the environment.
a. Abiotic b. Living c. Boreal d. Biotic
15. An example of a decomposer would be ______________.
a. Fox b. Human c. Bacteria d. Toad
16. An organism that creates its own food is called ___________ .
a. Consumer b. Producer c. Decomposer d. Herbivore
17. Which pair of characteristics is common to all living things?
a. Having a digestive system and responding to certain environment factors
b. Having a vascular system and producing cells during growth
c. Having lungs to breathe and using wings to move
d. Having one or more cells and having the ability to reproduce
18. Two blocks composed of different material each have a mass 25 g, but each block has a different volume.
If Block A is located on the Moon and Block B is located on Earth, what property do these two blocks
have in common?
a. They have the same mass.
b. They have the same weight.
c. They have the same volume.
d. They have the same surface area.
19. Matter is pulled to the ground by
a. Space b. Gravity c. Air d. Soil
20. The best definition of force is:
a. a push or pull
b. stored energy
c. energy in motion
d. anything that takes up space
21. When an unbalanced force acts on an object, the force
a. Changes the motion of the object.
b. Is cancelled by another force.
c. Does not change the motion of the object.
d. Is equal to the weight of the object.
22. The distance traveled per unit of time
a. Force b. Gravity c. Speed d. Energy
23. These two factors determine the strength of the force of friction:
a. speed and light
b. how fast the objects are going and on what planet
c. how big the objects are and how hard you push them
d. how hard the surfaces push together and the types of surfaces involved
24. Speed of an object, but in a specific direction
a. Velocity b. Gravity c. Friction d. Speed
25. If two species occupy the same niche, one of the species might eventually die off because of
a. Mutualism b. Environmental loss c. Competition d. Natural selection
26. Plants make their own food during photosynthesis. In what group do plants belong?
a. Consumers b. Decomposers c. Chloroplasts d. Producers
27. Which of the following are autotrophs?
a. Deer b. Plants c. Leopards d. Mushrooms
 28. Which of the following is NOT a way that carbon in dead organisms is returned to the carbon cycle?
a. by becoming fossil fuel c. through decomposition
b. through combustion d. through photosynthesis
29. What is a community?
a. A habitat with abiotic factors added
b. A really small habitat
c. All biotic factors in a specific area
d. All the different populations that live together in an area
30. When a particular species shares their environment and interacts with populations of another species, it is
called a _______________ .
a. Ecoprovince b. Biome c. Friendship Paradigm d. Community

II. IDENTIFICATION: Write the correct answer to the following description. NO ERASURE
1. It is a force of attraction between two objects. ___________________________
2. It is an amount of matter an object has. ________________________________
3. Consumers that eat both plants and animals. ____________________________
4. It is known as a magnetic field with invisible force around a magnet. ________________________
5. It refers to how fast the object is moving. ____________________
6. A relationship where one organism is inhibited or killed while the other organism is unaffected.
________________________
7. Animals with unstable body temperature. ________________________
8. It pertains to the alkalinity or acidity of the soil. _______________________
9. An interaction between species in which the survival of one participating organism is lowered by the
presence of another. ___________________
10. It is the number and variety of species living within an ecosystem is called ____________________
11. It is describe as a change in position. ___________________________
12. Plants that grow in areas with moderate amount of water. _____________________
13. Interaction wherein both participating organisms benefit from their association. __________________
14. It is a place where organisms lives. _______________________
15. The relationship between people and mosquitoes are example of which kind of symbiosis.
__________________

III. TRUE or FALSE: Write TRUE if the statement is correct and FALSE if it is incorrect
________________1. The speed of a falling object is slowed by air resistance.
________________2. An object in motion remains in motion when acted on by an unbalanced force.
________________3. An objects inertia is affected by its weight.
________________4. The larger the mass of an object, the smaller its gravitational force.
________________5. A ball rolling on the grass has more friction than the ball rolling on a tile.
________________6. The hottest and driest biome is desert.
________________7. All animals are autotrophs.
________________8. Biosphere is where living things are found.
________________9. Dead and decaying plants are called decompost.
________________10. The force of gravity pushes objects away from the center of the earth.
________________11. Objects can be the same size but weigh differently.
________________12. The force of gravity is what pulls roller coaster car to the earth.
________________13. Force has no direction.
________________14. An organisms “job” or “work” in its environment is called habitat.
________________15. An organism that makes its own food is a heterotroph.

IV. PROBLEM SOLVING. Show the process on how to solve each questions.
1. Ben traveled 175 miles in 4 hours, 100 miles in 2 hours and 70 miles in 1 hour. What is his average
speed?

2. It took 2.50 hour for a car to travel a distance of 150 km.What is his average speed?

3. You are driving an old car along a straight road for 15 km at 70 km/h. At this point, you run out of gas.
You walk 3 km farther to the nearest gas station for 30 minutes. What is your average velocity from the
time you started your car to the time you arrived at the station?
 4. As a car comes to a stop, it slows from 25 m/s in 2.8 s. Find the acceleration of the car.

5. Car one starts from point A and heads for point B at 60mph. Fifteen minutes later, car two leaves the same
point A and heads for point B at 75 mph. How long before car two overtake car one?

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