Name:__________________________ Period: ___ Date: _______ Westchester Square Academy Quarterly Assessment 3 Physical Science Spring 2016 This is a test of your knowledge of Physical Science. Use that knowledge to answer all questions in this examination according to the directions provided in this booklet. If you finish the test early, please review your answers in all sections. There is a Reference Sheet provided for you on the last page of this test booklet. It shows some important formulas, and the periodic table. You may refer to this sheet at any time during the test. o Section One (40 pts) Multiple Choice Score: _______/ 40 pts o Section Two (10 pts) Short Answer Questions Score: _______/ 10 pts o Section Three (10 pts) Writing Score: _______/ 10 pts o Section Four (40 pts) Reading and Annotation Score: _______/ 40 pts QA FINAL GRADE: _________/ 100 Section One: Multiple Choice (40 pts) Directions: Read each statement or question, choose the word or expression that, of those given, best completes the statement or answers the question. Then mark your answer by filling in the circle on your answer sheet (scantron). If you need to change an answer on your answer sheet, be sure to erase your first mark completely. 1. The nutritional label above came from a can of soup. How many servings of soup would you need to eat to receive your recommended daily value of 25 grams of dietary fiber? A) 7 servings B) 8 servings C) 9 servings D)10 servings 2. A well-tested explanation for a set of observations or experimental results is a A) rule B) hypothesis C) law D) theory 3. If you have a control group for your experiment, which of the following is true? A) The control group is exactly the same as the test group. B) The control group is identical to each test group except for one variable. C) There can be more than one difference between the control group and the test groups. D) The control group and the test groups may have two or more differences between them. 4. When a substance undergoes a phase change it still has a definite A) mass B) shape C) volume D) temperature 5. Your environmental science class has collected information on the trash your school throws away. To reduce the amount of trash your school produces what should you recommend to your principal? A) Distribute paper recycling bins. B) Create plastic and glass bottle recycling stations. C) Ban aluminum can vending machines. D) Educate students about not wasting food. 6. If you wanted to find the volume of an irregularly-shaped object such as a pebble it is be best to use – A) a precise ruler. B) the displacement method. C) at least two formulas on your formula sheet. D) an electronic balance and a very precise ruler. 7. When you boil water on the stove some steam will rise from the pan. Which of these is a true statement right as the water begins to boil? A. The water and steam are at the same temperature. B. The water and steam contain the same amount of energy. C. The density of the water is the same as the density of the steam. D. The particles in the water are moving at the same speed as the particles in the steam. 8. To measure a specific volume of a gas, you must have a(n) A. scale. B. open container. C. closed container. D. open or closed container depending on the type of gas. 9. Most elements in the periodic table are __________ at room temperature. A. solids B. gases C. liquids D. plasmas 10. If you filled a flat car tire with lots of dry ice and screwed the cap tightly on the valve stem what will happen over time? A. The tire will begin to inflate. B. The tire will get really cold but the dry ice would stay as a solid. C. The tire will inflate for a while and then the vapor would re-form into dry ice. D. There will be no effect on the tire at all since dry ice is not the same as air. 11. Which of these is an example of a physical change? A. wood burning C. sugar dissolving in water B. a piece of metal rusting D. a mineral weathering to form another mineral 12. If an object has a mass of 20 grams and a volume of 40 cm3, what is its density in g/cm3? A. 0.5 B. 2 C. 60 D. 800 13. If the density of an object is 30 g/cm3 and its volume is 10 cm3, what is its mass in grams? A) 0.33 B) 3 C) 40 D) 300 14. Which of these is an irreversible physical change? A) freezing water C) splitting a diamond B) condensing steam D) stretching a rubber band 15. Which of these materials is the most malleable? A) copper B) granite C) window glass D) notebook paper 16. The freezing point of water is the same as ice's __________ point. A) boiling B) melting C) condensing D) sublimation 17. Which of these is not a physical property of gasoline? A) density B) how it burns C) boiling point D) its odor 18. What is a chemical property of copper? A) It reacts in acid. B) It conducts heat well. C) It conducts electricity well. D) It is easily stretched into wire. 19. When baking soda and vinegar are mixed together bubbles form and the vinegar and baking soda are changed into new chemicals. This is an example of A) a physical change. B) a chemical change. C) both a physical and chemical change. D) neither a physical nor a chemical change. 20. After a match has burned which of these is not proof that a chemical reaction occurred? A) smoke was formed B) heat was released C) some of the match stick did not burn D) the red chemical on the end of the matchstick is gone 21. If the density of an object is 60 g/cm3 and its mass is 20 grams, what is its volume in cm3? A) 0.33 B) 3 C) 80 D) 1200 22. Which of these is an example of a reversible physical change? A) boiling water B) breaking glass C) cracking an egg D) splitting a diamond 23. Which of these is the most ductile? A) clay B) gold C) wood D) glass 24. Which of these is not an example of a physical change? A) a nail rusting B) a rock cracking C) blowing up a balloon D) stretching a piece of clay 25. Which of these is a chemical property of gasoline? A) density B) how it burns C) boiling point D) its odor 26. What is a physical property of copper? A) It reacts in acid. B) It sometimes turns green. C) It boils at a very high temperature. D) It will combine with some nonmetals. 27. Adding sodium to chlorine gas will produce table salt. The formation of a new substance shows that __________ change occurred. A) a physical B) a chemical C) both a physical and chemical D) neither a physical nor a chemical 28. If salt and sugar are dissolved in water together, and the water is evaporated, they will be found on the bottom of the container. This shows that A) salt and sugar reacted chemically. B) evaporation is a physical process. C) dissolving and evaporation are physical processes. D) salt and sugar are exactly the same except for how they taste. 29. This particle is found in the nucleus and adds mass to the nucleus, but changing its number does not change what the element is. This particle is the A) proton. B) photon. C) neutron. 30. Most of the mass of an atom can be found in the D) electron. A) nucleus. D) electron cloud. B) atomic zone. C) electron shells. 31. Which of these particles are equal in number when an atom is neutral? A) protons, neutrons B) protons, electrons C) neutrons, electrons D) protons, neutrons, electrons 32. These two particles have approximately the same mass: A) proton, neutron C) neutron, electron B) proton, electron D) All atomic particles have very different masses. 33.The particle that determines the identity of an element is the A) proton. B) photon. C) neutron. D) electron. 34. Electrons are found in the A) nucleus. B) zone of electrons. C) atomic zone. D) electron shells or cloud. 35. The mass of an electron is A) about the same as a proton's mass. B) about 100 times less than a proton's mass. C) much less than the mass of a proton or a neutron. D) exactly equal to the difference of the proton and neutron's mass. 36. What is the maximum number of electrons that can exist in the second shell surrounding the nucleus? A) 2 B) 4 C) 8 D) It depends on what the element is. 37. __________ may be shared by or transferred to other atoms. A) Protons B) Photons C) Neutrons D) Electrons 38. An atom with two protons, three neutrons and two electrons would have a mass of about how many atomic mass units? A) 2 B) 3 C) 5 D) 7 39. How many electrons can exist in the second shell surrounding an atomic nucleus? A) 1 or 2 B) 1 to 8 C) more than 8 D) It depends on what the element is. 40. Electrons may be __________ or __________ other atoms. A) ionized, de-ionized by B) created, destroyed by C) shared by, transferred to D) negatively charged, positively charged by Section Two: Short Answer Questions (10pts) Directions: For each statement or question, base your answers on the information from iLearn Compass content and on your knowledge of physical science. A. Bobbie mixes 100 grams of vinegar with 100 grams of baking soda. At first the liquid foams and bubbles. When the bubbling settles down, only a liquid remains. When she measures the mass of the liquid, she finds it is less than 200 grams. 1. What accounts for the loss of the mass? (2) _________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. Provide two clues that help this as a chemical change. (2) _________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________ B. Think about the three states of matter. Identify the two forms of change. Explain the characteristics of each. (2) _________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________ C. Identify the three particles that make up an atom and describe their properties and location within the atom. 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(2) _________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________ Section Three: Writing (10) Imagine explaining physical and chemical changes to a group of school students. Describe some items around your house to use as examples of physical and chemical changes. Also, include these terms: physical property, chemical property, and molecular arrangement in your explanation. _________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________ 4 Specificity of - Clear and specific response Content - Includes an accurate and detailed discussion of the topic using precise and accurate vocabulary 3 - Clear and specific response - Includes a brief but sufficient discussion of the topic - May include minor inaccuracies in vocab 2 1 - Response is not - Response does not clearly written answer question - Vague discussion - Does not discuss the of the topic topic - Uses vague and/or - Includes major inaccurate inaccuracies and lacks vocabulary vocabulary - May not address all aspects of the task Points 10 8.5 7.5 6.5 Section Four: Reading and Annotation (40 pts) READING 1 : The Mass of Matter Annotate for: The focus questions: What happens to the mass of matter when it undergoes change? What rules apply to phase change? Can the same rules be applied to chemical reactions? Summary: Compare and contrast the two changes Observations and Questions: Drawing Visuals: Imagine you are Antoine Lavoisier. How could you design an experiment to investigate what happens to the total mass of matter when a caterpillar eats a leaf? Draw a picture of the apparatus you would use and write a short description of the procedure you would follow (Remember that Antoine Lavoisier did not have electronic balances) Matter may change from a solid to a liquid. Elements may react together to form compounds. What happens to the mass of matter in a bowl of water when it is left to stand in the hot sun? What happens to the mass of matter in a piece of paper when it is burned? Sometimes in situations like this it seems as if matter is disappearing. But the disappearance of matter is an illusion. Matter may change from one form into another through physical and chemical changes. Physical change or phase change is the process that alters one or more physical Antoine Lavoisier (1743–1794) was one of the properties of an element or a compound founders of modern chemistry. without altering its chemical composition. For example, when the water in the bowl absorbs energy from the sun and evaporates, it becomes water vapor in the atmosphere. The chemical composition of liquid water (H2O) and water vapor (H2O) remains unchanged. Chemical change is the interaction between chemicals in which there is a change in chemical composition of the elements or compounds involved in a chemical reaction. For instance, the piece of paper gives off heat and light energy as it burns, and the matter in it is converted into carbon dioxide, water vapor, and other gases that escape into the atmosphere. Some of the mass will remain behind as ash. A chemical equation is an expression of the net composition change associated with a chemical reaction. It shows how a certain amount of reactants yields a certain amount of products. Both of these amounts are measured in moles. In other words, for any chemical equation in a closed system, the mass of the reactants must equal the mass of the products. Therefore, there must be the same number of atoms of each element on each side of the equation. In both cases, the matter changes its form, but its total mass stays the same. The same mass of each element is present before and after the change. Matter is neither created nor destroyed during these changes. It took early scientists hundreds of years of scientific study before the law of conservation of mass became accepted. For a long time, scientists had suspected that matter could not be created or destroyed, but nobody had performed an experiment that proved it. During the late 18th century, French chemist Antoine Lavoisier and his wife Marie-Anne conducted several experiments that demonstrated the conservation of mass. Antoine was famous for his accurate observations and insistence on careful measurements. He used accurate balances that could measure very small changes in mass during his experiments. Many of the Lavoisiers' experiments were conducted in sealed glass containers from which matter could not escape or enter. For example, in one experiment, Antoine put fruit into a sealed container, measured its mass, and then left it in a warm place for a few days. The fruit rotted and changed into a putrid mess. Gas was released from the decomposing fruit and droplets of water formed on the glass, but nothing escaped from the container. Lots of changes had taken place, but the mass of the sealed container and the rotten fruit was equal to the mass measured at the beginning of the experiment. In other experiments, Antoine heated elements in enclosed containers with air inside them. He discovered that new substances were formed but that the container and its contents had the same mass as they did before heating. When he measured the mass of the new solid substances he had made, he discovered that they were heavier than the original elements he heated. In this way, he determined that they must have gained their mass from the air. On the basis of these experiments, he also concluded that air contained several gases, one of which reacted with the elements in the experiment. He called this gas oxygen (which had previously been discovered and described—but not named—by Carl Wilhelm Scheele and by Joseph Priestley). In 1789, Antoine wrote the best textbook on chemistry the world had seen. In it, he introduced a new scientific law that he called the law of conservation of mass. This law stated that in any closed system (as small as a sealed container or as big as the whole universe!) the total mass remains the same, regardless of what changes take place inside. Antoine Lavoisier was particularly interested in the chemistry of gases. This picture shows him working with other scientists on an investigation of the gases exchanged during breathing. Answer focus questions: What happens to the mass of matter when it undergoes change? What rules apply to phase change? Can the same rules be applied to chemical reactions? _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ Summary:____________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ Drawing Visuals: Imagine you are Antoine Lavoisier. How could you design an experiment to investigate what happens to the total mass of matter when a caterpillar eats a leaf? Draw a picture of the apparatus you would use and write a short description of the procedure you would follow (Remember that Antoine Lavoisier did not have electronic balances) Westchester Square Academy Annotation Rubric 4 3 2 1 -Frequently pauses to explain -Occasionally pauses -Attempts to summarize main ideas - No comprehension the main idea of a portion of -Explains main ideas but, may - Summary is not clearly stated or is evident the text be unclear somewhat inaccurate - Little or no attempt to -Includes relevant details that -May lack precision and/or summarize are clearly and logically some details connected -Summary is accurate -Works through text until -Works through text until -Reading is mostly complete or may be -Incomplete reading Persists completion completion late -No attempt to -Finds a way to work through -Often accurately understands -Limited attempt to understand when understand difficulty and build vocabulary usage in context the text gets challenging vocabulary understanding (defines -Completes work on time -Misinterpreted vocabulary vocabulary, asks for help) -Completes work on time -Makes connections between -Makes weak or superficial -Asks no questions Interacts with Text -Makes thought-provoking connections between and and within texts presented connections between texts or demonstrates no within texts -Brings outside knowledge to understanding of text - When appropriate, asks the text -Asks questions with little original (and answers) relevant - Poses questions that are thought or relevance throughout -Incorrect or no questions that can stimulate relevant and original conclusions reveal conversation -Identifies logical conclusions -Makes superficial or some erroneous understanding - Draws insightful, logical revealed from implied conclusions revealed from text conclusions from implied meaning meaning -All key aspects of the text are -Most key aspects of the text -Some key aspects of the text are -Little to no attempt to Content Lens: represented in the are represented in the represented in the visual. Minor represent the text with visual. Visual is accurate and visual. Visual is accurate. inaccuracies may occur or the visual a visual. clear. may be unclear. -Most parts of the visual are -Little to no attempt to -All parts of the visual are explained with appropriate -Some parts of the visual are explain the visual. clearly explained with detail and terms. explained. Visual may lack appropriate detail and terms. appropriate detail and terms. -Little to no attempt to -Is able to gather some gather evidence from -Consistently gathers evidence from the text to -Attempts to gather evidence from the the text to address the evidence from the text to address the focus question text to address the focus question(s) focus question. address the focus question(s). 20 15 10 5 Total Points Summarizes with Accuracy and Precision READING 2 : Structure and Properties of Matter Annotate for: The focus questions: What are the properties of matter and how are they distinguished from each other? Which is easier to observe, the physical or chemical properties of an object? Support your answer with evidence from the passage. Summary Observations and Questions Drawing visuals when appropriate: Everything in our physical world is made of matter. Whether it’s a synthetic or natural object, a bowl of cereal, a bike pump or a torrent of hail, it has essential physical properties that define its character as matter. When we use matter or react to it, we think about it in all sorts of different ways. If we are playing basketball, we think about where the ball is going to go in physical space and how we can control it. If we are making a sandwich, we think about different combinations of flavors and how to make the sandwich taste as good as possible by combining those flavors. If we are deciding what to wear in the morning, we think about the visual qualities of different clothes, imagining what the most appealing combination might be. As scientists, we can think about matter in two categorical ways. We can think about its physical properties, and we can think about its chemical properties. Physical properties have to do with the matter itself; chemical properties have to do with how that matter exists in relation to the matter around it. In the case of, say, a basketball, as scientists, we might think about properties like its appearance (round, knobby texture, orange color), buoyancy (Does it float? Yes.), or conductivity (no, it can’t carry an electrical current). Other physical properties, some Immediately observable and some only discernible under testing, are boiling point, density, ductility, hardness, magnetism, malleability, mass, melting point, and odor. These include physical properties we can test using just our five senses and properties we test more rigorously using scientific tools. We can change some of the physical properties of matter, while others are fixed, unless we alter them with the interference of other substances. For instance, we can take a big block of cheddar cheese and chop it into tiny pieces, even put it in a blender, and turn it into cheese puree. That changes the cheese’s texture, but not its color. Also, the cheese still has the same level of facility in carrying electrical current. You won’t be able to stretch the cheese like a rubber balloon or use it to scratch glass, like a diamond. The blended cheese will still have the same mass as the original block of cheddar. Put it on some nachos and have a snack. Another category is matter’s chemical properties. Chemical properties are defined by one kind of matter’s reaction to other conditions, or types of matter on a chemical level. The product of a chemical reaction is irreversible. When wood burns in a fire, for instance, it changes from wood into ash and smoke. That ash and smoke will never be wood again. You can usually tell when a chemical change is taking place because there will be a tell tale signal. If a substance is changing color, giving off heat, foaming, fizzing, or bubbling, or producing sound or new light, it’s probably undergoing some kind of chemical reaction. Next time you’re watching fireworks, take a second to appreciate how many chemical changes and reactions are taking place moment by moment, one right after the other— sometimes right on top of one another. While we can appreciate that chemical changes are always happening all around us, it’s fascinating to see a display of chemical change that’s designed to express itself so dramatically. Fireworks are a unique art form based on manipulating the changing chemical properties in reactive matter. Chemists who design fireworks have the fun job of creating, exciting looking and sounding chemical reactions between substances. Their first priority is safety, of course. Firework specialists, or pyrotechnicians, are responsible for unleashing those reactions in a carefully choreographed sequence, specially designed to make the show as tense and exciting as possible. One thing all matter has in common is that its basic building block is the atom. Raisins are made up of atoms. Glass windows and chandeliers are made of atoms. Your parents are made up of atoms. Leonardo Da Vinci’s painting the Mona Lisa is made up of atoms. The air we breathe is made up of atoms. Atoms are so tiny that we can’t see them—even with the aid of powerful microscopes. Different fundamental types of matter—we call them elements, and they’re all listed on the Periodic Table of the Elements—are made up of atoms with different but discrete chemical structures. There are about one hundred elements, and together those elements compose everything in the known physical universe. Atoms are made up of even smaller component structures. Again, there’s no way for us to observe these structures physically. That’s what sets them apart from the physical properties of matter, which, as we know, are discernible to our five senses. But those physical properties all answer to their basic chemical makeup. The buoyancy of raisins in a bowl of cereal isn’t just a random trait. It’s because the type of atoms in a raisin is constructed to behave in certain ways in relation to the atoms around it. On the Periodic Table of the Elements, scientists have, over time, placed different essential atomic types of matter into different groups, based on their atomic or chemical makeup. Those basic materials can combine in practically infinite ways. It’s exciting to think about the creative and organic possibilities that matter holds for the future. The focus questions: What are the properties of matter and how are they distinguished from each other? Which is easier to observe, the physical or chemical properties of an object? Support your answer with evidence from the passage. Summary Observations and Questions Drawing visuals when appropriate: Westchester Square Academy Annotation Rubric 4 3 2 1 -Frequently pauses to explain -Occasionally pauses -Attempts to summarize main ideas - No comprehension the main idea of a portion of -Explains main ideas but, may - Summary is not clearly stated or is evident the text be unclear somewhat inaccurate - Little or no attempt to -Includes relevant details that -May lack precision and/or summarize are clearly and logically some details connected -Summary is accurate -Works through text until -Works through text until -Reading is mostly complete or may be -Incomplete reading Persists completion completion late -No attempt to -Finds a way to work through -Often accurately understands -Limited attempt to understand when understand difficulty and build vocabulary usage in context the text gets challenging vocabulary understanding (defines -Completes work on time -Misinterpreted vocabulary vocabulary, asks for help) -Completes work on time -Makes connections between -Makes weak or superficial -Asks no questions Interacts with Text -Makes thought-provoking connections between and and within texts presented connections between texts or demonstrates no within texts -Brings outside knowledge to understanding of text - When appropriate, asks the text -Asks questions with little original (and answers) relevant - Poses questions that are thought or relevance throughout -Incorrect or no questions that can stimulate relevant and original conclusions reveal conversation -Identifies logical conclusions -Makes superficial or some erroneous understanding - Draws insightful, logical revealed from implied conclusions revealed from text conclusions from implied meaning meaning -All key aspects of the text are -Most key aspects of the text -Some key aspects of the text are -Little to no attempt to Content Lens: represented in the are represented in the represented in the visual. Minor represent the text with visual. Visual is accurate and visual. Visual is accurate. inaccuracies may occur or the visual a visual. clear. may be unclear. -Most parts of the visual are -Little to no attempt to -All parts of the visual are explained with appropriate -Some parts of the visual are explain the visual. clearly explained with detail and terms. explained. Visual may lack appropriate detail and terms. appropriate detail and terms. -Little to no attempt to -Is able to gather some gather evidence from -Consistently gathers evidence from the text to -Attempts to gather evidence from the the text to address the evidence from the text to address the focus question text to address the focus question(s) focus question. address the focus question(s). 20 15 10 5 Total Points Summarizes with Accuracy and Precision
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