Department of Education

Region VII, Central Visayas

Division of City Schools
City of Naga, Cebu
NPC- Colon Elementary School
First Periodical Test in Science III
I. Direction: Read each item carefully. Write the letter of the correct answer
in your answer sheet.
1. It is anything that occupies space and has mass.
a. energy
b. matter
c. volume
2. Which has least mass?
a. candy
b. book
c. glass
3. Which of these substances do you use to clean your body?
a. soap and water
b. alcohol and acid c. chlorox and
detergent
4. It is made up of of two or more substance.
a. pure substance
b. matter
c. mixtures
5. All of these are phases of matter except.
a. solid
b. liquid
c. gas stove
6. It is the amount of space and object or matter occupies.
a. mass
b. volume
c. hardness
7. If you protect yourself from direct exposure of sunlight. What kind of
umbrellas should you use?
a. Made of clear plastic
c. made of light-colored and thick
cloth
b. Made of black and thick cloth
8. These are materials that are made up of only one kind of matter.
a. pure substance
b. mixtures
c. mass
9. It is an instrument used to get the mass of an object.
a. cubic meter
b. weighing scale
c.meterstick
10.
Which of the following is a characteristic of gas?
a. density
b. transparent
c. compressibility
11.
Which is an example of liquids?
a. softdrinks
b. book
c. wood
12.
What characteristic of solids that can be bent?
a. hardness
b. brittleness
c. malleability
13.
It is a characteristics of solid that easily break.
a. brittleness
b. hardness
c. elasticity
14.
Which of these materials that can be used to measure liquids.
a. table
b. balloon
c. glass
15.
What properties of matter that has a definite shape, volume and
mass?
a. solid
b. liquid
c. gas
16.
It is a property of matter that has the ability to flow.
a. solid
b. liquid
c. gas
17.
All of these are examples of gaseous state of matter except one?

a. air
b. smoke
c. matches
18.
What is the unit of mass?
a. cubic unit
b. grams
c. marbles
19.
Which is not good drinking water?
a. sea
b. dam
c. spring
20.
It has no definite shape and their particles are far from each
other and can be squeezed or compressed.
a. solid
b. liquid
c. gas
II. Write S if the object is solid; L if it is a liquid and G if it is a gas.
______21. oxygen

_______26. glass window

______22. bond paper

_______27. smoke

______23. milk

_______28. eyeglass

_______24. fish sauce

_______29. juice

_______25. water vapor

_______30. cooking gas

III. Answer with Yes it the statement is correct and No if not. Write your
answer on the blank.
______31. Gases and liquids are fluids.
______32. Particles in gases are very close to each other.
______33. Cooking oil is a liquid.
______34. Ice is water in solid form.
______35. Particles in liquids are farther apart from each other.
______36. Rubber band and modeling clay are malleable materials.
______37. Liquids can change their volume easily.
______38. Solids has definite mass.
______39. Liquids have definite shape and volume.
______40. When you squeeze a gas, its volume become bigger.

Table of Specification in Science III

Skills

No. of Items

Placement of

Percentage

Items
2, 6, 9, 12, 13,
15, 18,
36, 38

Identify solids
and its
characteristics

Identify liquids
and its
characteristics

11, 14, 16, 19,

33, 34,
35, 37, 39

22.5%

Identify gas and

its characterictics

17, 10, 20, 31,

32, 40

15%

15

1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8,
21, 22, 23, 24,
25, 26, 27, 28,
29, 30

37.5%

Identify mater
and phases of
matter

22.5%

Prepared by:
THERESA R.
VILLASENCIO
Noted by:
MARIBEL S. PANTORILLA
School Head