Name___________________________ Date________ Class_____
Physical Science Final Exam
Formulas: P = F/A
K.E. =1/2 mv2
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Physical Science is the study of nonliving creation other than the earth
and space it includes how things move, how energy is transferred, and
how substances change into other substances T or F
1. What law states that temperature and pressure are directly related
when volume is held constant?
A. Boyle’s law
B. Amon ton’s law
C. Archimedes’ law
D. Charles law
2. What is the density of an object with a mass of 27 g and a volume of
9.0 cm3
A. 3.0 g/cm3
B. 4.0 g/cm3
C. 5.0 g/cm3
D. 6.0 g/cm3
3. How many significant digits are in 0.02063
A. 3
B. 4
C. 5
D. 6
4. What is the attractive force between unlike molecules?
A. cohesion
B. surface tension
C. capillarity
D. adhesion
5. What device measures altitude
A. thermometer
B. barometer
C. hydrometer
D. altimeter
6. What is the average speed of a person who walks 28 km in 7.0 hr
A. 2.0 km/h
B. 4.0 km/h
C. 8.0 km/h
D. 10 km/h
7. What law states that the force required to accelerated an object at
a certain rate equals the object’s mass times the desired acceleration?
A. law of conservation of momentum
B. first law of motion
C. second law of motion
D. third law of motion
8. What is the product of an objects mass and velocity?
A. force
B. momentum
C. power
D. friction
9. What principle states that the buoyant force experienced by and
object is exactly equal to the weight of the object displaced
A. pascal’s principle
B. Boyle’s principle
C. Bernoulli’s principle
D. Archimedes principle
10. What is the SI unit of pressure?
A. pascal
B. standard atmosphere
C. torr
D. bar
11. Who discovered the laws of motion and gravitation?
A. Galileo Galilei
B. Sir Isaac Newton
C. James Clerk Maxwell
D. Enrico Fermi
12. What is the fluid friction that tends to slow an object as it moves
through a fluid?
A. drag
B. streamlining
C. lift
D. angle of attack
13. What property of a gas must remain constant for Boyle’s law to be
uses _________________________
14. What system of measurement was designed by French scientists to
be simpler to learn and use than the F.P.S system
__________________________________________
15. What law states that the pressure of a gas is constant. Its volume
and temperature are directly proportional? __________________
16. What is the ability for other scientists to reach the same
conclusion by performing the same experiment under different
conditions and by performing other experiments to test the same
hypothesis
A. falsifiability
B. repeatability
C. testability
D. reproducibility
17. What is the amount of gravitational pull on an object?
A. mass
B. weight
C. volume
D. density
18. Which of the following expresses 2702 correctly in scientific
notation
A. 2.702 x 103
B. 2.702 x 10-3
C. 270.2 x 103
D. 27.02 x 10-3
19. What is the force per unit area?
A. surface tension
B. cohesion
C. pressure
D. capillarity
20. What is a factor that is changed to test a hypothesis?
A. control group
B. independent variable
C. control variable
D. dependent variable
21. A hollow silver cube has a mass of 30 g and a volume of 35 cm3 How
much mass must be placed inside the cube neutral buoyancy in water
which has a density of 1.00 g/cm3
A. 0.83 g
B. 5.0 g
C. 10 g
D. 15 g
22. The amount of matter in a object is_________________
23. The metric prefix that means 1/100 is______________
24. The state of matter which molecules can move freely and conform
to the shape of the container but remains attracted is the
__________ state
25. The closeness of a measurement to the quantity’s actual value is
its_________________
26. When a glass of water spills on a table why does the water bead
and puddle instead of flattening to the smooth surface?
A. The water coheres and pulls back from the table
B. The water adheres to the table
C. The water moves over the table because of gravity
27. What is the energy of motion ______________ ____________
28. Energy associated with the position of an object and the forces
acting on the object is _______________ energy
29. A 2500 kg truck is traveling at 20 m/s. What is the kinetic energy
of the truck? K.E = 1/2mv2
30. What is the kinetic energy of a 0.145 kg basketball thrown at a
speed of 40.2 m/s2