CLAREMONT SCHOOL OF BINANGONAN

Binangonan, Rizal
SENIOR HIGH DEPARTMENT
SY: 2020 - 2021

PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION IN PHYSICAL SCIENCE 11

NAME: ________________________________________________ DATE: _________________

I. VOCABULARY
Directions: Analyze the sentences and identify the definitions of the underlined words used in each. Choose the correct
answer from the box below. Write your answer in the answer sheet.
1. The elements are organized in a periodic table.
2. The Greeks at the time believed that there were 4 basic elements.
3. These fundamental substances could be identified by experimentation.
4. It also encompassed physics, medicine, astrology, mysticism, spiritualism, and art.
5. Medieval science was still dominated by the ideas of Aristotle.
6. He carried out some experiments.
7. It is not necessarily a true picture of the exact structure of an atom.
8. He used this discovery to revise the model of the atom.
9. He believed metals grew on the Earth.
10. Their function was to separate the impure from the pure.
nonessential arranged purpose perform

control cultivated remake

embraced accept important

II.IDENTIFICATION
Directions: Read and analyze the following statements carefully and identify the words being described. Write your
answer in the answer sheet.
11. He recognized elements as the simplest substances that constitute mixtures, and that elements are those that
cannot be decomposed into other substances via chemical reactions.
12. He determined that equivalent volumes of two gasses under similar conditions contained equal numbers of particles
and that differences in their masses were a result of a difference in their molecular mass.
13. His chemical atomic theory merged the concepts of the atom and element.
14. He published a periodic table of elements that ordered elements according to their atomic weights.
15. He determined that oxygen gas was made of 2 atoms of oxygen and took the form of a molecule instead of an atom.
16. He is a philosopher who argued that there was an infinite number of elementary natural substances in the form of
infinitesimally small particles that combined to compromise the different things in the universe.
17. He is a scholar, also “Geber”. He translated the practices and Aristotelian thinking of the Greeks and wrote
extensively on how metals can be purified.
18. He is a philosopher who stated that everything is made up of four eternal and unchanging kinds of matter fire, air (all
gasses), water (all liquid and metals), and earth (all solid)
19. According to him, each of the four kinds of matter is composed of geometrical solids (Platonic solids) further divisible
into triangles.
20. According to him, the four elements could be balanced in substances in an infinite number of ways, and that when
combined gave proportions of “essential qualities”, hot, dry, cold, and wet.
III. MATCHING TYPE
Directions: Read and analyze each statement. Match column A with the correct scientist in column B. Write the letter of
your answer in the answer sheet.
COLUMN A COLUMN B
21. The explosive death of a star.
22. A theory of the exponential expansion of space in the early
universe.
23. The process that creates new atomic nuclei from pre-existing
nucleons, primarily protons, and neutrons.
24. A point in space and a moment in time where the universe
was infinitely hot and dense.
25. It refers to the epoch at which charged electrons and protons
First became bound to form electrically neutral hydrogen atoms.

IV. MODIFIED TRUE OF FALSE

Directions: Read the statements carefully and identify whether they are TRUE or FALSE. If the statement is FALSE. Write
your answer in the answer sheet.
26. A star gets lighter as time goes on.
27. Most of the heaviest elements were formed in main–sequence stars.
28. The heavy elements in a star are found in its core.
29. In stellar nucleosynthesis, heavier elements are formed by combining lighter ones.
30. The shape, size, and weight of individual atoms influence the characteristics of the things they make up.
31. There is a chemical process that significantly changes the percentages of the composition of the universe.
32. Isotope is a type of atom of a chemical element that has different atomic numbers and positions on the periodic
table.
33. In a Supernova, a neutron capture reaction takes place, leading to the formation of light elements.
34. A red giant is a star that has run out of helium in its core and has begun to fuse hydrogen in a shell around the core.
35. 90% of the stars are main–sequence stars.
V. ENUMERATION
Directions: Enumerate what is being asked in each item.
36 – 38. The Composition of the Universe
39 – 41. Isotopes of Hydrogen
42 – 45. Unscientific Contribution of Alchemy
VI. ESSAY
Directions: Through your critical analysis, answer the question briefly. Make your writing as legible as possible.
RUBRIC POINTS

Clarity of Ideas 3

Relevance 2

46 - 50. Why alchemy is important in our history, especially in the field of science?

Prepared by: Checked by:

MS. ROUSE LEANNE A. NICOLAS MR. MARK JOHN BALIGNASAY