4th Quarter Examination

Name: _______________________________________ Date: ____________

Grade level/Section: __________________

PHYSICAL SCIENCE
Directions: Write TRUE if the statement is correct and if FALSE write the word that makes the
statement false. Write your answer on the space provided before the number.
________1. Revolution is the motion of a body, such as planet or moon, along a path around some
point in space.
________2. The reason we have seasons is that we get closer and farther to the sun.
________3. Kepler's second law or the equal area law states that the closer a planet is to the sun the
faster it travels.
________4. A planet moves faster when it is farthest from the sun.
________5. Perihelion is the place where a planet is farthest away from the Sun in its orbit around the
Sun.
________6. Ptolemy believes that the universe orbits about a stationary Earth.
________7. Geocentric system is a cosmological model in which the Sun was assumed to lie at or
near a central point while the Earth and other bodies revolve around it.
________8. Heliocentric model is an outdated description of the Universe with Earth at the center.
________9. The Greeks idea of spherical Earth was supported by lunar eclipse where the Earth’s
shadow is circular.
________10. Galileo Galilei was the first astronomer to use a telescope to study the heavens.

II. Solved the following problems. Show your solution (10 points each).
1. An airplane from rest accelerates on a runway at 50 m/s2 for 25 s until it finally takes off the
ground. What is the distance covered before take-off?

2. A boy accidentally dropped his toy from the top of the building. How long will it take the toy
to hit the ground when the cliff 95 m high?