SCIENCE REVIEWER
QUESTION 1. Which two waves lie at the ends of the visible spectrum?
A. infrared and ultraviolet rays
QUESTION 2. In the visible spectrum, which color has the longest wavelength?
C. Red
QUESTION 3. What region of electromagnetic spectrum is often used by Internet Service
Providers in fiber optic technology?
B. infrared
QUESTION 4. What region of electromagnetic wave is commonly used in wireless
communication such as the signal transmission in cellphone?
D. microwave
QUESTION 6. Philippine paper bills are printed with watermarks to avoid counterfeiting. What
region of the EM spectrum can be used to see these watermarks?
D. ultraviolet
QUESTION 7. Which EM wave carries more energy than the others?
C. UV radiation
QUESTION 8. What electromagnetic wave is sometimes called heat rays?
B. infrared
QUESTION 9. What electromagnetic waves is used to check luggage and bags in airports as
part of security measures?
C. X-rays
QUESTION 12. Which BEST explains why microwaves can be used in cooking?
D. It causes water molecules in food to vibrate. producing heat that cooks the food.
QUESTION 13. Who discovered electromagnetic induction, but was not recognized because
Michael Faraday had already published his results?
A. Joseph Henry
QUESTION 14. Which is NOT TRUE about fiber optic cables?
A. It uses electric current to transmit data signals.
QUESTION 15. Who discovered that Earth was magnetic and theorized that electricity and
magnetism were not the same?
A. William Gilbert
QUESTION 16. Which is TRUE about microwaves?
C. This region of the EM spectrum has shorter wavelength than radio waves.
QUESTION 17. Which region of the EM spectrum has the highest frequency?
B. Gamma radiation
QUESTION 18. Which statement is true about EM waves?
B. EM waves can travel through vacuum.
QUESTION 19. Which BEST explains why doctors advise us to have a chest X-ray once a
month at most?
A. It can damage our lungs because of high energy.
QUESTION 25. Arrange the visible light colors in order from longest wavelength to shortest
wavelength.
C. Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Violet
II.
QUESTION 1. What is the height of Harvey's image if he stands 1.8-m tall in front of a plane
mirror?
A. 1.8 m
QUESTION 2. Which is NOT true about a mirror?
D. It is an object which refracts the rays of light falling upon it.
QUESTION 3. Which group of words describes an image formed when a small object is placed
on the principal axis of a concave mirror between the focus and the mirror?
B. erect, magnified, and virtual
QUESTION 4. Which mirror is being used if the focal length is negative?
D. diverging, convex
QUESTION 6. Which of the following is TRUE about the images formed by a plane mirror?
C. virtual and erect
QUESTION 7. A real image having a size of 10 cm is formed by a concave mirror. The size of
the object is 5 cm. What is the magnification of the image?
D.-2
QUESTION 8. What do you call the distance from the center of a concave mirror to its focal
point?
A. focal length
QUESTION 9. Which combination is found in a refracting telescope?
C. two convex lenses.
QUESTION 11. Which optical instrument is the man's answer to the eye's inability to produce a
permanent record of the image formed at the retina?
B. camera
QUESTION 12. Objective lens and eyepiece lens are used in a microscope to see a very small
object such as cells. Which of the following describes these lenses?
A. They are both convex lenses with short focal length.
QUESTION 13. Which of the following cannot refract light?
D. bathroom mirror
QUESTION 14. Which telescope uses concave mirrors?
A. reflecting telescopes