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5 points extra credit if this review is completed correctly and submitted BEFORE
taking the final exam.
1. As the number of combined pulleys is increased, does it become easier or more difficult to
lift the load?
2. What type of energy is used in a moving object?
3,4. With forces pulling in opposite directions, in which direction will an object move when
one force is stronger?
5. Simple machines, such as a ramp, don’t decrease the work needed but they make work
easier. This is called
(1) height
(3) output work
(2) output force
(4) efficiency
6. In order for work to be done, the force must ___________ an object.
7. Do wheels reduce or increase friction? _______________
Will there be more or less friction with a smooth or rough surface?
Hint: compare all of the pictures for wheels or not; smooth or rough surface.
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8. Hint: use the Law of Conservation of energy: Energy can
Neither be _______________ or ___________________.
When chemical energy is converted into thermal energy, is any energy lost or destroyed?
Does the total amount of energy change? _______________
9. Describe each simple machine:
Inclined plane
_____________________________________
Lever
___________________________________________
Wheel and axle
____________________________________
Pulley
___________________________________________
Which one is on the wheelchair? ____________________
Which one is the wheelchair on?_______________________
10.Goal component
A student determined that shaking a container of sand caused the temperature of the sand to
rise.
The student then performed a new experiment to see if shaking a container of pebbles would
cause the temperature of the pebbles to rise.
Does the amount of shaking depend on the rising temperature, or the temperature rise depend
on the amount of shaking? Hint: what happens to the temperature of your hands when you
rub them together (like shaking)?
Identify the dependent (responding) variable in this experiment.
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11. How can you make the block harder to pull
without changing the height of the ramp?
16. Identify the phase of each object:
Phase (solid, liquid, or gas)
Water in Pan A
Steam
Drops of water
under Pan B
Ice
Use: Freezing, melting, vaporization, condensation
in the table below:
Phase change
Solid to liquid
Liquid to gas
Gas to liquid
Use: Freezing, melting, vaporization, condensation in the table below:
Phase change
Water to steam in Pan A
Ice to water in Pan B
Steam to water under Pan B
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__________
__________
___________ 18. Write solid, liquid, or gas under each picture.
Hint: Are atoms closer together or farthest apart in solids, liquids, or gases?
12. Relate the height of bar in the graph to distance between atoms.
When the bar is tallest, will it represent the atoms being far apart or close together?
______________________________________________________
Circle the graph the represents the correct relationship for the distance between atoms.
19 through 21:
Use a group of 20 students in an empty room to represent the particles in a sample of matter.
19. How should the students be placed in the room to represent the arrangement of particles
in a solid (close together or far apart)?
________________________________________________________________
20. What should the 20 student “particles” do to show that they are being heated?
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
21. What instruction should be given to the 20 student “particles” to represent a liquid (close
together, far apart, or in between)?
___________________________________________________________________
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13 to 15 Which of the
following words means that it
can change?
Definite
Not definite
Hint: an object with a definite shape has the shape of the container.
Is the shape of a solid, definite or indefinite? _____________________________________
Is the shape of a solid, definite or indefinite? _____________________________________
Is the shape of a solid, definite or indefinite? _____________________________________
Hint: Volume means the amount of space that an object takes up.
Is the volume of a solid, definite or indefinite? _____________________________________
Is the volume of a solid, definite or indefinite? _____________________________________
Is the volume of a solid, definite or indefinite? _____________________________________
Hint: Will the atoms be moving faster or slower in order for them to be far apart from
eachother? ______________________________________________________
Will the atoms of the solid, liquid, or gas be moving fastest? ________________________
Will the atoms of the solid, liquid, or gas be moving slowest? ________________________
31. Which description best describes a solid?
(1) It has a definite shape and volume.
(2) It has a definite shape but not a definite volume.
(3) It adjusts to the shape of its container.
(4) It can flow.
32.What happens to an object as its kinetic energy increases?
(1) It holds more tightly to nearby objects.
(2) Its mass increases.
(3) Its particles move more slowly.
(4) Its particles move faster.
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30. Explain why water
droplets have formed on
the outside of the glass.
_____________________
Hint: Use one of these
processes:
Freezing
Melting
Vaporization
Condensation
Hint: There is water vapor (gas) in the air outside the glass.
38. Explain why a bathroom mirror becomes fogged while you take a shower.
_________________________________________________________________________
Hint: the hot shower puts water vapor in the air. The mirror is colder than the air.
17. The earth’s surface is heated unevenly which
results what kind of heat transfer (shown by the
circulating arrows)?
________________________________
The Earth’s weather is primarily caused by the
(1) drifting of Earth’s crustal plates
(2) gravitational attraction of the Moon
(3) uneven heating of Earth’s surface
(4) changing distance between Earth and the Sun
34. How does water vapor in air form clouds?
(1) Melting
(3) evaporation
(2) Condensation
(4) sublimation (gas becomes a solid)
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23, 24, 25. Identify each instrument below
(choices: thermometer, graduated cylinder, ruler, stopwatch)
______________
__________________
_________________ ___________________
24, 25. The rock is irregularly shaped. It
doesn’t have a definite shape.
Which instrument could be used to determine
the volume of an irregularly shaped solid?
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_________26. Which instrument could be used to determine the temperature?
__________ 24. Which instrument could be used to determine the volume of a regularly
shaped object (it has a definite shape)?
Process
melting
Freezing
boiling
What happens during the process
Needs heat to make atoms in solids move so they become a liquid
Atoms in a liquid slow down, gives off heat, and become a solid.
Needs heat to make liquid into a gas
33. During which process do particles of matter release energy?
(1) Melting
(3) freezing
(2) Sublimation
(4) boiling
When atoms move faster in matter, does expansion or contraction result? ________________
35. Which change results in an increase in gas pressure in a balloon?
(1) decrease in temperature (3) decrease in volume
(2) increase in volume
(4) increase in altitude
Hint: sunlight warms the balloon.
40. Why do some balloons pop when they are left in sunlight for too long?
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Density is ____________________________________________________________
When objects are mixed, which floats on the top, the least or most dense?
_____________ _________________________________________________
27, 28. If 1 = least dense and 4 = most dense, write numbers on the
lines that represent the order that liquids will float when mixed
together.
22. Explain why oil floats on water:
_______________________________________________________________________
29. Explain why icebergs float on water:
_______________________________________________________________________
Buoyancy is when objects float because their density makes them move against gravity.
36. In which case will an object float on a
37. Which is equal to the buoyant force on an
fluid?
object?
(1) Buoyant force is greater than weight.
(1) volume of the object
(2) Buoyant force is less than weight.
(2) weight of object
(3) Buoyant force equals weight.
(3) weight of the displaced fluid
(4) Buoyant force equals zero.
(4) volume of fluid
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39. A king’s crown has a volume of 110 cm3 and a mass of 1800g. The density of gold is 19.3
g/ cm3. Is the crown pure gold or not? Explain why.
________________________________________________________________________
Hint: Use the density formula
Density equals mass divided by volume
fo find the density of the king’s crown. Compare the density of the king’s crown to the
density of gold.
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Cycle 1 Midterm exam
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Exam Year 2004 – Item 24
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Exam Year 2002 – Item 57
Exam Year 2006 – Item 61
Exam Year 2002 – Item 34
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19-21
Exam Year 2009 – Item 15
Exam Year 2001 – Item 57
22
Exam Year 2004 – Item 76
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25,26
24
27,28
Exam Year 2006 – Item 21
Modified for questions
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41
Exam Year 2006 – Item 59
Exam Year 2007 – Item 70
Glencoe p. 130-1
Exam Year 2008 – Item 71
Exam Year 2008 – Item 31
Exam Year 2005 – Item 63
Standard 4 PS 3.1c The motion of particles helps to
explain the phases (states) of matter as well as
changes from one phase to another. The phase in
which matter exists depends on the attractive forces
among its particles.
Standard 4 PS 3.1c
Standard 4 PS 3.1c
Standard 4 PS 2.2k The uneven heating of Earth's
surface is the cause of weather.
Standard 4 PS 3.1c
Standard 4 PS 3.1e A liquid has definite volume, but
takes the shape of a container.
Standard 4 PS 3.1h Density can be described as the
amount of matter that is in a given amount of space. If
two objects have equal volume, but one has more
mass, the one with more mass is denser.
Standard 4 PS 3.1f A solid has definite shape and
volume. Particles resist a change in position.
Standard 4 PS 3.1f
Standard 4 PS 3.1i Buoyancy is determined by
comparative densities.
Standard 4 PS 3.1i
Standard 4 PS 3.1i
Assigned for homework during cycle 2
Standard 4 PS 3.1i