Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
CARAGA Administrative Region
Division of Butuan City
AUPAGAN NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
Aupagan, Butuan City

PHYSICAL SCIENCE SCORE

Final Examination
S.Y. 2022 - 2023

Name: _____________________________________ Grade & Section: ______________ Date: _________

Directions: Write the letter of the correct answer in the space provided.

_______ 1. Moon and our planet Earth have the same shape and they both travel around the Sun. According
to the ancient Greeks, which of the following is the shape of the Earth?
A. Cylinder C. Octagon
B. Flat Disc D. Sphere
_______ 2. What can be observed of a cruising ship if the Earth is a flat disc?
A. It will not change its size.
B. It will become bigger and bigger.
C. It will become smaller and smaller until it disappears.
D. It will shrink then only the sail will be visible until it completely disappears.
_______ 3. According to Eratosthenes, which of the following explains why a vertical stick casts a shadow in
Alexandria but not in Syene?
I. The light rays coming from the sun are curved, and the Earth is flat.
II. The light rays coming from the sun are parallel, and the Earth is curved.
III. The Sun is directly overhead in Syene while in Alexandria, it is only almost directly
overhead.
IV. The Sun is directly overhead in Alexandria while in Syene, it is only almost directly
overhead.
A. I only B. I and II C. III and IV D. II and IV
_______ 4. Gnomon is a primitive version of a sundial that Babylonian and Egyptian civilizations used in
observing the motion of the Sun. Arrange the following on how they used Gnomon.
I. Gnomon cast a shadow of the sun.
II. The Sun reaches its highest point at midday.
III. They are able to observe the sun rising the eastern part of the sky.
IV. The Sun sets in the western part of the sky.

A. I, II, III, IV B. I, III, II, IV C. II, III, I, IV D. III, IV, II, I

_______ 5. Which of the following should be the alignment for a solar eclipse to occur?
A. Sun, Moon, Earth C. Earth, Sun, Moon
B. Sun, Earth, Moon D. None of these

_______ 6. Which of the following occurs when Earth casts its shadow on the moon when the Earth is between
sun and the moon?
A. Phases of the moon C. Lunar Eclipse
B. Motion of the Star D. Solar Eclipse

_______ 7. A new moon occurs when the moon is on the same side of Earth as the Sun. Why do the people
on Earth cannot see the Moon during New Moon?
A. It is because the Moon is too little up above the sky.
B. It is because the Moon is not on the same side of the Earth as the sun.
C. It is because of the weather on the Earth that makes the Moon is not visible.
D. It is because sunlight illuminates the atmosphere so much that the dark face of the new
moon can't be seen.

_______ 8. Why don't we have a lunar eclipse every month?

I. Lunar eclipses can only occur in autumn.
 II. Astronomers have yet to provide an answer to this question.
III. We do have them every month, but they are not visible everywhere.
IV. The Moon's orbit is inclined relative to Earth's orbit and when the moon is full, it is generally
either north or south of Earth's shadow

A. I only B. IV only C. I and II only D. III and IV only

_______ 9. Luisa is fascinated with the moon and she learned in her Science class that the Full moon took
place every 29.5 days. If Luisa recorded the last Full on last February 6, 2022, when will be the
date of the next Full Moon??
A. March 18,2022 C. March 20, 2022
B. March 19, 2022 D. March 21, 2022
_______ 10. Which of the following statements is/are CORRECT about Tycho Brahe?
A. He compiled extensive data on the planet Mars.
B. He determined the detailed motions of the planets more precisely.
C. He devised the most precise instruments available for observing the heavens before the
telescope's invention.
D. All of the above
_______ 11. Which of the following was discovered by Kepler with the use of Brahe’s extensive collection of
data in observational astronomy?
A. Law of Motion C. Law of Acceleration
B. Law of Relativity D. Law of Planetary Motion
_______ 12. How did Kepler find out that the shape of the orbit was elliptical? In high temperatures and
pressure, molecules tend to break their bonds and transform into a new different substance.
A. By observing the position of the stars.
B. By observing the sky by using different astronomical instruments.
C. By using Brahe’s observations and data he concluded that the orbit followed by the planets
was elliptical.
D. By observing that only the sun and the moon revolved around the earth; the other planets
revolved around the sun, which itself revolved around the earth.

_______ 13. Which of the following statements is/are CORRECT about Tycho Brahe?
A. He compiled extensive data on the planet Mars.
B. He determined the detailed motions of the planets more precisely.
C. He devised the most precise instruments available for observing the heavens before the
telescope's invention.
D. All of the above

_______ 14. Which of the following is TRUE about Kepler’s Third Law?
A. Any planet joining the Sun sweeps out equal areas in equal lengths of time.
B. Planets move in an ellipse with the Sun at one focus point, offset from the center.
C. There is a precise mathematical relationship between a planet’s distance from the Sun and
the amount of time it takes to revolve around the Sun.
D. Both A and B

_______ 15. Which of the following statements is/are TRUE about Kepler?
Statement I - Kepler noticed that an imaginary line drawn from a planet to the Sun swept out an
equal area of space at the same time, irrespective of where the planet was in its
orbit.
Statement II - Kepler discovered that the planets move in an ellipse with the Sun at one focus
the point, offset from the center.

A. Both statements are true. C. Only statement II is true.

B. Only statement I is true. D. Both statements are false.

_______ 16. Which of the following is NOT evidence that Earth is a sphere?
A. South of the equator, the North Star is not visible.
B. Polaris is located over the South Pole of the Earth.
C. When the North Star is visible at the horizon, you are located at the equator.
D. Ships appear to sink gradually below the horizon as they travel far away from the observer
and over the horizon.

_______ 17. Which of the following agrees with Galileo’s view of motion?
A. The air rises because the sky is in its natural state.
B. The 5.0kg boulder will stop midway when dropped into the sea.
 C. The cotton ball will be as fast as the metal ball if dropped in a vacuum.
D. The natural tendency of a mobile phone to drop from a certain height is to go back to Earth,
its natural state.
______ 18. Which of the following BEST explains why Aristotle’s view on motion stood for many years?
A. Aristotle was a very influential Greek philosopher.
B. Aristotle’s ideas are readily proven through observation.
C. People at the time were gullible to the ideas of philosophers.
D. Aristotle supported his ideas with laboratory experimentation.
_______ 19. Which of the following is an example of a violent motion?
A. water flowing in a river
B. rocks falling from a mountain
C. a ball kicked from the ground
D. a dropped pen falling to the ground

_______ 20. Which of the following statements AGREES with Galileo’s concept of falling objects? Falling
objects fall with________
A. changing acceleration C. changing speed
B. constant acceleration D. constant speed
_______ 21. Andre is a volunteer giving relief goods to the affected people during Typhoon Odette. If Andre
will pull the sack horizontally, what will most likely occur?
A. The sack of rice will have to undergo momentum.
B. The sack of rice will have to undergo violent motion.
C. The sack of rice will have to undergo natural motion.
D. The sack of rice will have to undergo projectile motion.

_______ 22. Sarah is pushing the cabinet towards the corner of her room. When she stops pushing the
cabinet, the motion stops. What explains this scenario according to Aristotle?
A. The cabinet is too heavy to push.
B. The cabinet will move if the floor is not rough.
C. The floor is rough thus allowing the motion to stop.
D. The force Sarah exerted pushing the cabinet is responsible for the motion of the cabinet.

_______ 23. Which of the following agrees with Galileo’s view of motion?
A. The air rises because the sky is in its natural state.
B. The 5.0kg boulder will stop midway when dropped to the sea.
C. The cotton ball will be as fast as the metal ball if dropped in a vacuum.
D. The natural tendency of a mobile phone dropped from a certain height is to go back to
Earth, its natural state.

_______ 24. Galileo was determined to test Aristotelian beliefs through careful experimentation and
mathematical development. He dropped objects from the top of the famous Leaning Tower of
Pisa, measuring the time, it took for each to fall. Based on his experiment, what is Galileo’s
concept of falling objects?
A. object falling with changing speed
B. object falling with changing direction
C. object falling with uniform acceleration
D. object falling with changing acceleration

_______ 25. Three objects X, Y, and Z, with masses of 6 kg, 8 kg, and 16 kg respectively, were dropped
simultaneously. Provided that there is no air resistance which object will first reach the ground?
A. Object X will reach the ground first for it is lighter.
B. Object Z will reach the ground first for it is heavier.
C. Object Y will reach the ground following the object X.
D. Objects X, Y, and Z will reach the ground at the same time.

_______ 26. A rolling marble on the floor suddenly stops when it reached a rough surface. What is the
common an unbalanced force acting on marble in motion?
A. Acceleration B. Friction C. Inertia D. Speed

_______ 27. A piece of paper is at rest on your desk. Which of the following statements best describes this
situation?
A. The desk pushes on the paper only.
 B. The paper pushes on the desk only.
C. There are no forces acting on the paper.
D. The forces acting on the paper are balanced.

_______ 28. Rikko wants to keep the books on its page and position as he goes on researching for more
information in the library. As he placed the books on the table, the air from the open window keeps
on flipping the pages of the book. How can Rikko keep the pages and position of the books to stay
at place?
I. Rikko should transfer the books to another table where there is no open window.
II. Rikko should close the window so that the unbalanced force from the air won’t change the
position of the book.
III. The air coming from the open window has nothing to do to keep the pages and position of
the book to remain the same.

A. A.I only B. I and II only C. II and III only D. I,II and III
_______ 29. If you were Galileo, answer the following question: Why do a bowling ball and feather hit the
ground at varying times when dropped from the same height?
A. They don’t, they hit the ground at the same time.
B. One is denser than the other.
C. One is heavier than the other.
D. air resistance
_______ 30. Evaluate the following statement: The more mass an object has, the faster it will fall.
A. A. True C. False
B. B. Galileo - True; Aristotle- False D. Galileo- False; Aristotle – True
_______ 31. Based from Aristotelian Physics, what was natural for planets to do in terms of their type of
motion?
A. They orbit in no particular consistent shape
B. They orbit in a triangular motion
C. They orbit in an elliptical motion
D. The orbit in a circular motion
_______ 32. What kind of terrestrial motion is portrayed by a free-falling object in accordance to Aristotle’s
belief?
A. alteration B. celestial C. natural D. violent
_______ 33. How does Aristotle’s point of view about motion differ from Galileo Galilei’s point of view?
I. Galileo supported the claims of Aristotle, and he proved it by experimentation and reasoned
deductions.
II. According to Aristotle, force would be needed to have constant velocity while Galileo
believed force is not necessary for an object to move at a constant speed.
III. Aristotle believed that heavier objects fall faster than lighter ones while Galileo concluded
that all objects in the absence of air resistance would fall with the same constant
acceleration due to gravity.

A. I, II and III B. I and II only C. II and III only D. I and III only
_______ 34. Which of the following phenomena does NOT show a difference between the wave theory and
particle theory of light?
A. Diffraction B. interference C. refraction D. reflection

_______ 35. When sunlight hits a rain droplet, some of the light is reflected at a different angle. Thus, the
spectrum is separated, producing a rainbow. Red color always seen on top while blue is at the
bottom of a rainbow. How is wavelength related in the position of colors in a rainbow?
A. Red has a long wavelength, so it moves faster and is refracted the least by water droplets in
the air.
B. Blue has a long wavelength, so it moves faster and is refracted the most by water droplets in
the air.
C. Blue has a short wavelength, so it moves faster and is refracted the most by droplets of
water in the atmosphere.
D. Red has a short wavelength, so it moves faster and is refracted the least by droplets of
water in the atmosphere.
_______ 36. Which of the following refers to the bending of light due to the change in its speed when it
obliquely passes two different media?
A. Absorption B. Dispersion C. Reflection D. Refraction
_______ 37. You have learned in your Science class that wavelength is inversely proportional to the energy.
This means that the shorter the wavelength (the higher the frequency), the greater the energy. If
red has the longest wavelength in the visible light spectrum, which of the following colors contains
the lowest amount of energy?
A. Blue B. Green C. Red D. Yellow

_______ 38. Louis de Broglie concluded that everything has a wavelength but the wave properties of matter
are only observable for very small objects. He showed that the wave-particle duality was not
merely on light but can be exhibited by both radiation and matter. Which of the following theories
supports this statement?
A. dual wave-portion theory C. wave-particle duality theory
B. wave-dual particle theory D. duality of wave-product theory
_______ 39. Anna pointed the white light to the prism as part of the activity in Science and she observed that
as the light passes through the glass prism, rainbow of colors are seen. What phenomenon
explains Anna’s observation?
A. diffraction of light C. reflection of light
B. dispersion of light D. scattering of light

_______ 40. Which of the following observations can be seen when you shine a red light in a white paper with
red and green dots?
I. Green dots appear black.
II. White paper appears white.
III. Red dots can be still be seen.

A. I B. II C. I and II D. I and III

_______ 41. Shining light in a crumpled aluminum foil results into a _______.
A. Dispersion C. Diffuse reflection
B. Refraction D. Specular reflection

_______ 42. Who proposed the corpuscular theory of light?

A. Christiaan Huygens C. Rene Descartes
B. Galileo Galilei D. Sir Isaac Newton

_______ 43. Red light is least deflected. This is because the corpuscles of red light are the.
A. Least massive C. Most massive
B. Most reflected D. Most absorbed
_______ 44. According to Christian Huygens, refraction was due to the difference in the ______.
A. Speed of waves in two different media
B. Color of the waves in two different media
C. Amplitude of the waves in two different media
D. Frequency of the waves in two different media

_______ 45. According to Huygens, which of the following describes aether?

A. Aether allows light to pass through.
B. Aether occupies all unoccupied space.
C. Aether constitutes the stars and planets.
D. Aether does not allow light to pass through.

_______ 46. According to Newton, what causes image reversal during reflection?
A. Plenum hitting the surface at different times
B. Plenum hitting the surface at identical times
C. Corpuscles hitting the surface at identical times
D. Corpuscles hitting the surface at different times

_______ 47. According to Newton, what causes refraction?

A. The presence of corpuscles that was directed toward the medium with a lower refractive
index
B. The presence of a force that was directed towards the medium with lower refractive index
C. The presence of a force that was directed towards the medium with higher refractive index
D. The presence of corpuscles that was directed towards the medium with higher refractive
index

_______ 48. Two materials have identical indices of refraction. This implies that when light enters the second
 media, it ______.
A. Speeds up C. Slows down
B. Maintains its speed D. Behaves unpredictably

_______ 49. What is the unit for frequency?

A. Hertz B. Joule C. Watt D. Newton-meter

_______ 50. Sunburn can be likely caused by __________.

A. Infrared light B. Microwaves C. Radio waves D. Ultraviolet light

Prepared by:

LOUIE JANE T. ELECCION-OMPAD

Teacher II

Aupagan National High School

Purok 5, Aupagan, Butuan City
317502@deped.gov.ph