Republic of the Philippines
Department of Education
Caraga Administrative Region
Division of Agusan del Sur
VERUELA NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
Poblacion, Veruela, Agusan del Sur
School I.D. # 304754
4th Quarter Summative Test
in Physical Science 12
Name: __________________________________ Grade & Section:___________ Score: ____________
I. Multiple Choice. Select the best answer from the choices and write the letter that corresponds to
your answer on the answer sheet.
1. What is the shape of the Earth according to Socrates and Plato?
a. Flat b. oblong c. sphere d. triangle
2. Which of the following evidence/s explain/s that the shape of the Earth is spherical?
a. The Earth’s shadow on the moon in an eclipse looks circular not elliptical
b. The Earth’s shadow on the moon in an eclipse looks elliptical not circular
c. Ships seem to sink /disappear over the horizon
d. A and C only
3. He is the astronomer who estimated the Earth’s circumference.
a. Eratosthenes b. Socrates c. Empedocles d. Aristotle
4. What do you call a phenomena when the Earth cast its shadow on the moon and the Earth is between
the sun and the moon?
a. Solar eclipse b. Lunar eclipse c. Total Eclipse d. Sun eclipse
5. When does solar eclipse happen?
a. When the moon is in between the sun and the Earth
b. When the Earth casts its shadow on the moon
c. When the Earth is between the sun and the moon
d. When the Earth is beneath the moon
6. Who invented sundials?
a. Early Americans b. Egyptians c. Babylonians d. Greek
7. Before the inventions of the telescope, astronomers had established their system of studying the Solar
system Earth and universe, and also observed astronomical phenomena. The following are are the
astronomical phenomena observed by astronomers EXCEPT_______________.
a. Sunrise in the East and sunset in the West
b. Variation of point in horizon where Sun rises and sets in a year
c. The Moon’s Phases
d. The projectile motion
8. Who invented the first telescope?
a. Newton b. Einstein c. Aristotle d. Galileo
9. What do you call an instrument that is used to measure the time of the day from the movement of the
sun?
a. Sundials b. Mayan Calendar c. Solar eclipse d. Lunar Eclipse
10. What do you call a phenomena where it can be used in determining the shape of the Earth?
a. Solar eclipse b. Lunar eclipse c. total eclipse d. Moon eclipse
11. What does positive initial velocity indicates?
a. Upward direction b. downward c. horizontal motion d. vertical motion
12. Which of the following is an example of scalar quantity?
a. 80 m b. 95 km c. 9.8 m/s2 d. all of the above
13. When will you use the Pythagorean theorem formula in solving for displacement?
a. If it creates right angle
b. If it forms 90 degrees
c. If it forms a rectangular motion
d. Only A & B
For items 14-15 Refer to the given problem below to answer the following questions.
A car travels at point A to point B and covers a length of 10 meters. Later on the car moves starting
from point B to point A with a length of 10 meters.
14. What is the total distance covers by the car?
a. 0 b. 1 m c. 10 m d. 20 m
15. What is the car’s displacement?
a. 0 b. 1 m c. 10 m d. 20 m
16. What is a scalar quantity?
a. has only direction
b. has only a magnitude
c. has one direction
d. has both magnitude and direction
17. Which of the following physical quantities are scalar?
a. distance, displacement
b. speed , velocity
c. free fall, projectile
d. distance, speed
18. What do you call a quantity which has both magnitude and direction?
a. Scalar b. Vector c. Physical d. chemical
19. What was Galileo’s notion about moving object sin a horizontal motion?
a. Force is required to keep things moving
b. Objects moving in a straight line requires no force to keep them moving
c. It will continue to move unless acted upon an external force
d. B & C
20. Razel travels along a straight road 80 m east then 40 meters west. What is her displacement?
a. 120 m , W b. 120 m,E C. 40 m, W d. 40 m, E
II. True or False. Write T if the statement is true and write F if the statement is false.
_______21. Perihilion is the closest point to the sun in a planets orbit.
_______22. Distance is a scalar quantity.
_______23. Meter is the unit used for distance
_______24. All planets revolve around the sun in an elliptical path.
_______25. A planet moves fastest when it is closest to the sun.
_______26. The Earth is casting a curved shadow on the moon during lunar eclipse.
_______27. Aristotelian concept explains that force is not required to maintain a horizontal motion.
_______28. Objects in vacuum fall with uniform acceleration
_______29. Galileo thought that heavy objects fall faster than light objects.
_______30. 9.8 m/s2 is an example of a scalar quantity
III. Identification. State whether each of the given scenarios is an example of distance or
displacement.
_______31. Racing between a Hare and a Tortoise
_______32. A teacher walking across a blackboard from right to the left
_______33. Jogging from school office to senior high school building
_______34. A baby crawls 2 meters to the East
_______35. A student walks 18 meters to the South
III a. Identify what is being ask in the following statements. Choose your answer from the given pool of
words below.
Galileo Free fall Vector
Aristotle Distance Displacement
Projectile Motion Speed
_______36. He said that objects moving in a straight line at constant speed requires no force to keep them
moving.
_______37. A body or particle in two dimensional motion moving in a curved path under the influence of
gravity.
_______38. A quantity which has both the magnitude and direction
_______39. The total length taken by an object
_______40. The shortest path travelled by an object
_______41. The rate at which distance is covered
IV. Problem Solving.
Assuming that Kitty is standing in a number line with an origin of O. She walks 10 m to the left, and
later walks another 18 meters to the right.
42-43. Find Kitty’s total distance covered.
44-45. Find her displacement
God bless you!
from Teacher JBC
