SECOND QUARTERLY EXAMINATION IN PHYSICAL SCIENCE

SY 2022-2023

Instructions: Read each question carefully and shade the correct answer in the
answer sheet provided to you. Do not write anything on this test questionnaire.

1. Which of the following is the shape of the Earth according to ancient Greeks?
A. cylinder
B. octagon
C. 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 Sun is directly overhead in Syene while in Alexandria, it is only

almost directly overhead.
II. The light rays coming from the sun are parallel, and the Earth is
curved.
III. The light rays coming from the sun are curved, and the Earth is flat.
IV. 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. Why does 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 of the Earth that makes the Moon not visible.
D. It is because sunlight illuminates the atmosphere so much that the dark
face of the new moon can't be seen.

5. 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 shadow of the sun.
II. The Sun reaches its highest point in midday.
III. They are able to observe the sun rises in the eastern part of the sky.
IV. The Sun sets in the western part of the sky.

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

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6. 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. I, II and 1V only
7. Luisa is fascinated with the moon and she learned in her Science class that Full
moon took place every 29.5 days. If Luisa recorded the last Full on last February
16, when will be the date of the next Full Moon?
A. March 18,2022
B. March 19,2022
C. March 20,2022
D. March 21,2022

8. How does Kepler found out that the shape of the orbit was elliptical?
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.

9. What do you think is the common between the structures of Stonehenge, the
Templo Mayor, the Sun Dagger, and the Big Horn Medicine Wheel?

A. They all can be used as lunar calendars.

B. They were all places used for religious sacrifice.
C. They were all built on the orders of ancient kings.
D. They were all used by ancient people for astronomical observations.

10. Andre is a volunteer during the giving of 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.

11. 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 to the motion
of the cabinet.
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School: Surigao del Norte National High School Sukdanan
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12. 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.
13. What is Galileo's concept of falling objects in his experimentation?
A. object falling with changing speed
B. object falling with changing direction
C. object falling with uniform acceleration
D. object falling with changing acceleration
14. 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, Y, and Z will fall at the same time.
B. object X will reach the ground first for it is lighter.
C. object Z will reach the ground first for it is heavier.
D. object Y will reach the ground following the object X.
15. What is the common unbalanced force acting on an object in motion?
A. acceleration
B. friction
C. inertia
D. speed
16. 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.

17. 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 coming 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. The pages of the books will remain at rest if there is no unbalanced

force acting on it.
II. Rikko should transfer the books to another table where there is no
open window.
III. Rikko should close the window so that the unbalanced force from the
air won’t change the books position.
IV. The air coming from the open window has nothing to do to keep the
pages and position of the book to remains the same.

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

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School: Surigao del Norte National High School Sukdanan
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18. What is the angle of reflection made by a light ray that is incident at 10° on the
mirror, as shown in the figure 1 below?

Figure 1. An angle of reflection made by a light ray that is incident at 10° on the mirror
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A. 10°
B. 80°
C. 90°
D. 110°

19. Why is red colour always seen on top while blue is at the bottom of 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.

20. Atomic spectra are created due to the changes in the energy. What subatomic
particle is involved in this phenomenon?
A. electrons
B. neutrons
C. positrons
D. protons

21. A light bulb produces various wavelengths of energy called light spectrum. The
visible light is the segment of electromagnetic spectrum that is visible to human
eye. Which of the following colors of the visible light spectrum contains the lowest
amount of energy?
A. blue
B. green
C. red
D. yellow

22. The theory that states all matter and light shows the characteristics of both
wave and particle.
A. dual wave-portion theory
B. wave-dual particle theory
C. wave-particle duality theory
D. duality of wave-product theory

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23. Which of the following is/are true about de Broglie’s discovery?

I. The larger the objects, the smaller wavelength can be observed.

II. The larger the objects, the larger wavelength can be observed.
III. The larger the amplitude of the wave at a particular point, the larger the
probability that the electron will be found there.
IV. The smaller the amplitude of the wave at a particular point, the larger the
probability that the electron will be found there.

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

24. What does the dark fringe patterns of light wave on the screen in double slit
experiment show?
A. reflected interference
B. diffracted interference
C. destructive interference
D. constructive interference

25. 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 object to move at 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
26. What phenomenon occurs when colors of a rainbow are seen when light
passes through a glass prism?
A. diffraction of light
B. dispersion of light
C. scattering of light
D. reflection of light
27. 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

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28. When illustrating a ray diagram, you can draw the mirrored image by using at
least how many rays?
A. 1 line
B. 2 lines
C. 3 lines
D. 4 lines
29. 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
30. Which of the following DOES NOT explain the shining of light through a
cellophane?
A. As a white light passes through red cellophane, the cellophane absorbs all
colors except red.
B. Green light can’t easily pass through green cellophane because it shows
the same color.
C. A red light passing through red cellophane will simply go through since
they have the same color.
D. Red light can’t easily pass through green cellophane since the cellophane
absorbs the red light.

31. Which of the following, lists the electromagnetic waves in order of increasing
wavelength?
A. Ultraviolet, Gamma – rays, X – rays, Optical, Infrared, Microwaves, Radio
waves
B. Microwave, Infrared, Optical, Ultraviolet, X-rays, Gamma – rays and
Radio waves.
C. Gamma – rays, X -rays, Ultraviolet, Optical, Infrared, Microwaves and
Radio waves.
D. Radio waves, Microwaves, Infrared, Optical, Ultraviolet, X -rays and
Gamma -rays.
32. Based on the electromagnetic spectrum, which of the following do radio waves
have?
A. Low frequency and long wavelength
B. Low frequency and short wavelength
C. High frequency and long wavelength
D. High frequency and long wavelength

33. Who founded the special theory of relativity that showed calculations of time
and motion?
A. Aristotle
B. Albert Einstein
C. Isaac Newton
D. James Clerk Maxwell

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34. Which of the following is a postulate of special relativity?
A. The color of light is the same for all observers.
B. Speed of two objects is the same for all observers.
C. Physicists can make no measurement in a moving reference frame.
D. The laws pf physics are the same for all observers in uniformly moving
frames of reference.
35. Ignores the rotation of the Earth. Which clock ticks more slowly? Hint: Movie
Interstellar – Black Holes.
A. They tick at the same time.
B. The one on the top of a mountain.
C. The one at the bottom of that same mountain.
D. Cannot be determined from the information given.
36. Jack and Jill are twins, and both have the same height. Jack was sent on space
mission to circumnavigate the Solar system for 10 years, flying at constant speed.
After the mission, what difference can be observed between the twins.
A. Jill will be taller.
B. Jack will be taller.
C. Jill will look younger.
D. Jack will look younger.
37. A woman on a moving train saw two flashes of lightnings strike the front and
back of the train simultaneously. You have witnessed the same event while setting
on a train station. The following are the possible situations that a you witnessed
EXCEPT.
A. Only one lightning struck the train.
B. The front end of the train was struck by lightning first.
C. The back end of the train was struck by lightning first.
D. Both the front and the end of the train was struck simultaneously.

38. Which postulate states that events happening simultaneously for two different
observers cannot happen?
A. Time dilation
B. Length contraction
C. Relativity of simultaneity
D. Mass - energy equivalence
39. What is special about Special Relativity Theory?
A. The speed of light can be obtained.
B. The reference frames are moving or accelerating.
C. The reference frames are called inertial reference frames.
D. The reference frames are called internal reference frames.

40. Which of the following is NOT an implication of the mass – energy

equivalence?
A. The speed of light can be attained by massive objects.
B. It confirms that the speed of light is the absolute speed.
C. Even the smallest amount of mass has an equivalent energy.
D. Energies in objects that have mass can be harvested to do work.

Test Curator: Rochie F. Valledor DepEd-Caraga

School: Surigao del Norte National High School Sukdanan
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41. What is the approximate value of speed of light?
A. 30, 000 km/s
B. 4.0 x 104 km/s
C. 3.0 x 105 km/s
D. 400, 000 km/s

42.A ship that travels at speeds that is the same as the speed of light in a
vacuum is impossible to achieve for the following reasons, EXCEPT.
A. The size of the ship would be massive.
B. Infinite amounts of resources will be needed to build it.
C. The time on that ship would be faster relative to the time on Earth.
D. The total energy coming from our sun is not even enough to power it.

43. What will happen when Prince as an astronomer will conduct a spectral
analysis?
A. He can determine the composition of the star.
B. He can map the location of celestial bodies in the sky.
C. He can observe celestial bodies that were previously invisible.
D. He can see images in space that are not distorted by Earth’s
atmosphere.

44. Why does Hubble Space Telescope produce clearer images than similar
telescopes that are used on Earth?
A. There is no air pressure in space excretion.
B. There is no interference from Earth’s atmosphere in space.
C. The Hubble Space Telescope is closer to the stars that it is viewing.
D. The Hubble Space Telescope is in orbit at about 550 km from Earth.
45. Justify how the distance between the source and the observer affects the
increase or decrease in the frequency of sound, light, or waves.

A. The wavelength of the light is stretched, so the light is seen as

'shifted' towards the red part of the spectrum.
B. Parallax is an apparent displacement or difference in the apparent
position of an object viewed along two different lines of sight.
C. The cosmic distance ladder is the chain of overlapping methods by
which astronomers establish a distance scale for objects in the
universe.
D. Doppler effect is the apparent difference between the frequency at
which sound or light waves leave a source and that at which they
reach an observer.

46. Who proposed an expanding model for the universe to explain the observed
redshifts of spiral nebulae.
A. Albert Einstein
B. Edwin Hubble
C. Georges Lemaitre
D. Sir Isaac Newton

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School: Surigao del Norte National High School Sukdanan
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47. How the Big Bang Theory supports the idea of the creation of the universe?
A. Galaxies are moving through space, not with space.
B. The Big Bang was an explosion that carried matter outward from a point.
C. The evidence of cosmic microwave background, or energy that was left as
a result of recombination.
D. The universe become hot as it expanded that causes protons and
neutrons came together by nuclear fusion.

48. Scientific evidence proved to expand and continues to expand until today.
Identify what cosmological theory that give evidences on the expanding universe?
A. Hubble redshift
B. Big bang theory
C. Steady state theory
D. Stellar nucleosynthesis

49. If your slits from the double slit experiment are further apart, the light
waves will:
A. have longer bright fringes
B. not produce a diffraction pattern
C. becoming from spots that are further apart
D. remain as is compared when the slits are narrow

50. Which of the following is NOT an implication of the mass – energy equivalence?
A. The speed of light can be attained by massive objects.
B. It confirms that the speed of light is the absolute speed.
C. Even the smallest amount of mass has an equivalent energy.
D. Energies in objects that have mass can be harvested to do work.

Test Curator: Rochie F. Valledor DepEd-Caraga

School: Surigao del Norte National High School Sukdanan
Email Address: [email protected] Standardized Quarterly Exam