Quiz Name: Missouri State Testing Material "Physical Science"
Type: Multiple Choice
Instructions: Write your answers on a separate sheet of paper. Check your answers by clicking on “answer key” below the last question.
Question 1: What occurs when a gas changes to a liquid?
sublimation
evaporation
solidification
condensation
fusion
Question 2: What occurs when a solid changes directly to a gas?
sublimation
evaporation
solidification
condensation
fusion
Question 3: What occurs when a liquid changes to a gas?
sublimation
evaporation
solidification
condensation
fusion
Question 4: What occurs when a liquid changes to a solid?
sublimation
evaporation
solidification
condensation
fusion
Question 5: What state of matter has molecules the farthest apart?
solid
liquid
gas
water
gold
Question 6: When condensation takes place which of the following is occurring?
Molecules slow down and get closer together.
Molecules speed up and get further apart.
Molecules stay exactly the same distance apart.
Question 7: When evaporation takes place which of the following is occurring?
Molecules slow down and get closer together.
Molecules speed up and get further apart.
Molecules stay exactly the same distance apart.
Question 8: When dry ice goes directly to a gas which of the following is occurring?
Molecules slow down and get closer together.
Molecules speed up and get further apart.
Molecules stay exactly the same distance apart.
Question 9: Which of the following actually changes the nucleus of the atom?
Vaporizing water
Electrolysis of water.
Nuclear fission.
None of these answers.
All of these answers.
Question 10: Which of the following rearranges atoms into different types of molecules?
Vaporizing water
Electrolysis of water
Nuclear fission.
None of these answers.
All of these answers.
Question 11: Which of these does not change what a material is made of?
Vaporizing water
Electrolysis of water
Nuclear fission.
None of these answers.
All of these answers.
Question 12: How many electrons are in the outside shell of oxygen atoms?
six
eight
two
three
ten
Question 13: How many electrons are in the outside shell of chlorine atoms?
seventeen
seven
one
eight
three
Question 14: How many electrons are in the outside shell of neon atoms?
ten
two
three
eight
Question 15: How many electrons are in the outside shell of sodium atoms?
eleven
three
one
two
Question 16: Which of the following elements have atoms that are stable?
neon
oxygen
chlorine
sodium
lead
Question 17: Which of the following elements would not combine with oxygen?
sodium
iron
potassium
chlorine
Question 18: How many fluorine atoms would be in a molecule that results when magnesium combines with fluorine?
one
two
three
four
Question 19: Which of the following elements would need three atoms in the molecule when combining with aluminum?
phosphorus
neon
oxygen
sodium
Question 20: Which of the following requires energy to be added?
solidification
condensation
evaporation
gas to solid
Question 21: What type of reaction occurs when two elements combine to form one compound?
single replacement
double replacement
decomposition
synthesis
neutralization
Question 22: What type of reaction occurs when iron is placed into hydrochloric acid (HCl)?
single replacement
double replacement
decomposition
synthesis
neutralization
Question 23: When the base NaOH is added to HCl two compounds are formed: NaCl and Water. What type of reaction is this?
single replacement
double replacement
decomposition
synthesis
neutralization
Question 24: When electricity is placed into water hydrogen and oxygen gases are produced. What type of reaction is this?
single replacement
double replacement
decomposition
synthesis
neutralization
Question 25: What is the atomic mass of zinc?
30
65.39
35
65
Question 26: What is the mass number for zinc?
30
65.39
35
65
Question 27: How many electrons and protons are in atoms of zinc?
30
65.39
35
65
Question 28: How many neutrons are in atoms of zinc?
30
65.39
35
65
Question 29: What is the atomic number for zinc?
30
65.39
35
65
Question 30: How could zinc be classified?
As a nonmetal.
As a stable element.
As a metal.
As a metalloid.
Question 31: Which of the following is not a unit of volume?
grams
liters
cubic centimeters
milliliters
Question 32: Which of the following is a unit that could be used for density?
grams
liters
g/ml
ml/g
ml/cm
Question 33: The newton can be used as a unit of which of the following?
mass
density
volume
weight
temperature
Question 34: The watt is a metric unit for which of the following?
mass
work
power
volume
density
Question 35: Which of the following would apply to a salad?
substance
element
heterogeneous
homogeneous
colloid
Question 36: Elements and compounds are classified as which of the following?
mixtures
colloids
heterogeneous
homogeneous
substances
Question 37: The tyndall effect and brownian motion are both characteristics of which of the following?
colloids
solutions
elements
all compounds
Question 38: The material that is dissolved in another is called the
solution
solvent
solute
colloid
Question 39: Which of the following could not be formed when an acid and base combine?
neutral solution
salt
water
more charged particles
Question 40: Which of the following is not a property of a base?
taste bitter
produce OH ions in water.
Reacts with metals
Are often poisonous.
Change red litmus to blue.
Question 41: Which of the following is plotted on the vertical axis in a graph?
dependent variable
independent variable
control group
Question 42: As a roller coaster goes up the first hill which of the following is occurring?
potential energy changes to kinetic energy
kinetic energy changes to potential energy
the potential energy stays constant
the kinetic energy stays constant
Question 43: What happens to wavelength as frequency increases?
wavelength increases
wavelength stays constant
wavelength decrease
wavelength always doubles
Question 44: What is the bending of light as it passes through a transparent material called?
reflection
refraction
conversion
radiation
Question 45: Which of the following does not require matter?
radiation
conduction
convection
refraction
Question 46: Heat traveling by moving currents is known as
radiation
conduction
convection
refraction
Question 47: The type of current produced by moving magnets is called
direct current
alternating current
both A and B
neither A or B
Question 48: The splitting of atoms to produce energy is called
fusion
radiation
fission
conduction
Question 49: A postively charge particle consisting of two protons and two neutrons is know as a
alpha particle
beta particle
gamma ray
none of these answers
Question 50: Which of the following is produced by radioactive decay and is high energy electromagnetic radiation?
beta particles
alpha particles
alternating current
gamma rays