This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 7 > Science > Motion And Time > Class 7 Science Chapter 9 Motion And Time – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 7 Science Chapter 9 Motion And Time Quiz 1 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. 1 nanosecond is ..... of a second. A) 1 billionth. B) 23 millionth. C) 1 trillionth. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1 billionth. 2. The time between two sunrises is considered as A) Year. B) Day. C) Month. D) Season. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Day. 3. An object moving in a straight line with constant speed is said to be in A) Oscillatory motion. B) Non uniform motion. C) Oscilatery motion. D) Uniform motion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Uniform motion. 4. A simple pendulum takes 42 sec. to complete 20 oscillations. What is its time period?(a) 2.1 s(b) 4.2 s(c) 21 s(d) 8.40 s A) . B) . C) . D) . Show Answer Correct Answer: A) . 5. The pace an object travels in a certain amount of time A) Acceleration. B) Motion. C) Speed. D) Velocity. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Speed. 6. The basic unit of time is A) HOUR. B) KM. C) YEAR. D) SECOND. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) SECOND. 7. Uniform Speed-When an object covers different distances in different time gaps, it is said to have a non-uniform speed. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 8. Which clocks vibration are very regular and are accurate to one second? A) Atomic clock. B) Quartz. C) Stopwatch. D) Pendulum clock. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Atomic clock. 9. A diagram showing relationship between two variable quantities each measured along one of a pair of axes is called ..... A) Coordinates. B) Variables. C) Axis. D) Graph. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Graph. 10. Which type of motion is exhibited by the hands of a clock? A) Periodic motion. B) Circular motion. C) Straight line motion. D) Oscillatory motion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Circular motion. 11. The graphical representation of uniform motion of an object A) Linear graph. B) Curved graph. C) Parallel graph. D) Both a and b. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Linear graph. 12. Some time measuring devices which were used before discovery of pendulum are A) Sundials. B) Water Clocks. C) Sand clocks. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 13. The meter that is used to measure speed of a vehicle is A) Anemometer. B) Speedometer. C) Thermometer. D) Odometer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Speedometer. 14. The gnomon in a sundial points in which direction? A) North-South. B) East-West. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) North-South. 15. The smaller units of time are ..... and ..... A) Kilometers, meters (km), (m). B) Centimetre, millimetre (cm), (mm). C) Centimeters, kilometers (cm), (km). D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Centimetre, millimetre (cm), (mm). 16. The instrument used to measure speed of a vehicle is A) Ammeter. B) Odometer. C) Voltmeter. D) Speedometer. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Speedometer. 17. MOTION OF AN OBJECT IS REPRESNTED IN PICTORIAL FORM KNOWN AS ..... A) DISTANCE-TIME GRAPH. B) BAR-DISTANCE GRAPH. C) Pictograph. D) SPEED-TIME GRAPH. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) DISTANCE-TIME GRAPH. 18. A person starts riding at 9:00 am to reach a location X which is about 175 km away from the starting point. He drives at an average speed of 70 km/hr. When is the person likely to reach the destination? A) 10:00 am. B) 11:00 am. C) 11:30 am. D) 10:30 am. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 11:30 am. 19. What is the time taken by a pendulum bob to complete one oscillation called? A) Frequency. B) Time interval. C) Oscillation time. D) Time period. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Time period. 20. The animals that prey on other animals are known as ..... A) Preyers. B) Herbivores. C) Predators. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Predators. 21. Who invented the simple pendulum? A) Galileo Galilei. B) Newton. C) Nikola Tesla. D) Einstein. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Galileo Galilei. 22. If a car covers 300 km in 5 hours, what is the speed of the car in m/s? A) 6.6. B) 60.6. C) 16.6. D) 60. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 16.6. 23. The park is 2 miles east of the school. What is the frame of reference in the sentence? A) The school. B) The park. C) East. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The school. 24. What is a chronometer? A) An instrument that measures steps accurately. B) An instrument that measures time accurately. C) An instrument that measures power accurately. D) An instrument that measures speed accurately. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An instrument that measures time accurately. 25. Faster vehicle has a slowest speed. A) False. B) True. C) None of these. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 26. The sun appears to move across the sky. This apparent motion of the sun is caused because Earth is A) Rotating on its axis. B) Revolving around the sun. C) Much smaller than the sun. D) Tilted on its axis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rotating on its axis. 27. Time between one sunrise and the next sunrise was called as A) Month. B) Year. C) Hour. D) Day. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Day. 28. The water clock is also known as A) Better. B) Clapsidra. C) Clepsydra. D) Hourglass. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Clepsydra. 29. In amoeba digestive juice are secreted in A) Food vacuole. B) False feet. C) Contractile vacuole. D) Nucleus. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Food vacuole. 30. What is the significance of the slope in a distance-time graph? A) The slope indicates the speed of the object. B) The slope shows the direction of the object. C) The slope indicates the time taken for the journey. D) The slope represents the distance traveled. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The slope indicates the speed of the object. 31. A car moves with a speed of 40 km/h for 15 minutes and then with a speed of 60 km/h for the next 15 minutes. The total distance covered by the car is A) 60. B) 25. C) 50. D) 100. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 25. 32. 1 microsecond is ..... of a second A) 1 millionth. B) 10 billionth. C) 38 trillionth. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1 millionth. 33. Salma takes 15 minutes to walk from her home to her friend's house. She finds the house closed and she comes back to her house jogging in 9 minutes. What is her average speed, if the distance between her house and her friend's house is 2 km? A) 10 km/hr. B) 5 km/hr. C) 15 km/hr. D) 0.35 km/hr. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 10 km/hr. 34. The shortest distance between two places along the straight-line path is called ..... A) Track. B) Speed. C) Distance. D) Displacement. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Displacement. 35. Which of the following devices can help measure the speed of a vehicle? A) Pedometer. B) Speedometer. C) Odometer. D) Accelerometer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Speedometer. 36. In a distance-time graph, what does a straight line indicate? A) Non-uniform motion. B) Rest. C) Uniform motion. D) Acceleration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Uniform motion. 37. The time from one full moon to next was known as A) A week. B) A day. C) A month. D) A year. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A month. 38. What is the metallic ball in the pendulum called? A) Bob. B) Ball. C) Equilibrium. D) Oscillater. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bob. 39. A car travels at 54 km/h for first 20 s, 36 km/h for next 30 s and finally 18 km/h for next 10 s. Average speed of the car is: A) 39 km/h. B) 40 km/h. C) 37 km/h. D) 38 km/h. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 39 km/h. 40. A spaceship travels 36000 km in one hour.Express its speed in km/s. A) 30 km/s. B) 50 km/s. C) 10 km/s. D) 20 km/s. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 10 km/s. 41. The smallest unit measured by a wrist watch accurately is A) Hour. B) Second. C) Millisecond. D) Minute. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Second. 42. ..... is a refinement of the pendulum clock. A) Wristwatch. B) Digital watch. C) Stopwatch. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wristwatch. 43. Example of a pendulum? A) Atomic clock. B) Water clock. C) Gauge clock. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) None of these. 44. One of the following is not a type of soil A) Loamy soil. B) Sitly soil. C) Clayey soil. D) Sandy soil. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sitly soil. 45. The time period of a simple pendulum depends upon ..... A) Material of the ball. B) Size of the ball. C) Length of the thread. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Length of the thread. 46. THE DISTANCE COVERED BY A OBJECT IN UNIT TIME IS CALLED ITS A) COLOUR. B) TIME/ DISTANCE. C) SPEED. D) DISTANCE. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) SPEED. 47. Which astronomer is the one to prove that the motion of a pendulum is periodic? A) Galileo Galilei. B) Christian Huygens. C) Alfred Wegner. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Galileo Galilei. 48. In a mechanical wristwatch, which part works in the same way as a pendulum in a clock? A) Balance wheel. B) Long wheel. C) Short wheel. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Balance wheel. 49. What instrument is used to measure time intervals in a laboratory experiment? A) Ammeter. B) Thermometer. C) Barometer. D) Stopwatch. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stopwatch. 50. Which of the following is a unit of speed? A) Hr. B) Km/hr. C) S. D) Km. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Km/hr. 51. The basic unit of speed is km/h. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 52. Nearly all the clocks make use of? A) Straight line motion. B) Circular motion. C) Random motion. D) Periodic motion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Periodic motion. 53. A train travels 25 km in.5 hrs. How fast is the train going? A) 50 km/hr. B) 125 km/hr. C) 25 miles/hr. D) 5 miles/hr. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 50 km/hr. 54. If a car travels 200 km in 4 hours, what is its speed? A) 25 km/h. B) 100 km/h. C) 50 km/h. D) 150 km/h. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 50 km/h. 55. The pictorial representation of two variables inter dependent of one another is known as A) Time. B) Graph. C) Motion. D) Speed. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Graph. 56. The unit of speed is A) Km/s. B) Km/hr. C) M/s. D) M/my. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) M/s. 57. How will you convert the speed given in km/h to m/s? A) By multiplying with 6/5. B) By multiplying with 5/18. C) By multiplying with 18/5. D) By multiplying with 5/16. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) By multiplying with 5/18. 58. A storm is moving toward your house at a speed of 20 km/hr. It is now 60 km away from your house. In what time will the storm reach your house? A) 1200 hours. B) 3 km. C) 3 hours. D) 0.3 hours. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 3 hours. 59. The meter that measure the distance moved by the vehicle is called as A) Speedometer. B) Odometer. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Odometer. 60. Describe a scenario that illustrates non-uniform motion. A) A bicycle coasting downhill without pedaling. B) A person walking in a straight line at a steady pace. C) A car accelerating and decelerating while navigating a curve. D) A train moving at a constant speed on a straight track. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A car accelerating and decelerating while navigating a curve. 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