NAME: _________________________________ SCORE: _________________

GRADE AND SECTION: __________________ DATE: __________________

SUMMATIVE TEST I
Physical Science

I. IDENTIFICATION: Identify what is being asked in the following questions.

____________________ 1. The shape of the Earth. It has a bulging equator and squeezed poles.
____________________ 2. It is an obscuring of the light from one celestial body by the passage of another celestial body
between it.
____________________3. It is the longest day in a year that happens in the month of June.
____________________4. It is the shortest day in a year that happens in the month of December.
____________________5. The two times of the year in which the sun reaches its highest or lowest point in the sky at
noon.
____________________6. What is the angle of the tilt of the earth?
____________________7. Vernal equinox is the start of the spring season. This happens during ______________.
____________________8. This phenomenon happens during September 23. It marks the start of the autumn season.
____________________9. The earth is in between the sun and the moon. It occurs during the full moon phase.
____________________10. The moon is in between the earth and the sun. It occurs during the new moon phase.

II. Matching Type. Match Column A to Column B.

Answer Contributions Name of Scientist

1. The first Greek who proposed a spherical earth. A. Nicolaus Copernicus
2. He listed several arguments for a spherical earth such as
the North Star, shape of the moon and sun and the
B. Galileo Galilei
disappearance of the ships when they sail over the
horizon.
3. He gave the most accurate size of the circumference of
C. Claudius Ptolemy
Earth.
4. He was able to explain what causes the phases of the
D. Aristotle
moon and the source of the light of the moon.
5. He believed that the sun, moon and the five known
E. Aristarchus
planets and the stars were attached to spheres.
6. The very first Greek to profess the heliocentric views. F. Hipparchus
7. He is considered as the greatest of the early Greek
G. Eudoxus
astronomers and observed the brightness of 850 stars.
8. He believed that the Earth was the center of the universe
H. Pythagoras
and his model moved in epicycles.
9. He developed the heliocentric theory which states that the
I. Anaxagoras
sun is the center of the universe.
10. He supported the heliocentric views and was persecuted. J. Eratosthenes

III. Choose among the following on what you should do to explain the difference between the heliocentric theory
and the geocentric theory. Use the back page of this paper.

1. Write an essay.
2. Draw the model.