SEMIFINAL TEST IN PHYSICAL SCIENCE 2023

1.    Different models were proposed during the ancient years. What is the astronomical model stating that the Earth and planets revolve around the Sun?

• A. Geocentrism                         

• B. Heliocentrism

• C. Solstice           

•   D. Eclipse

Any theory of the structure of the solar system (or the universe) in which Earth is assumed to be at the center of it all while the sun and some planets revolve around it.

• A. Geocentrism        

• B. Heliocentrism                          

• C. Solstice

• D. Eclipse

What is the shape of the Earth as described by modern astronomy?

                      

• A.      FLATTENED

•   B. Hyperboloid

• C. Oblate spheroid  

• D. Oblate paraloid

In which of the following events can the circular shadow of the Earth be observed most notably?

• A. solar eclipse                    

• B. summer solstice    

• C. lunar eclipse     

• D. winter solstice

Which of the following ancient Greek philosophers computed for the circumference of the Earth?

• A.    Anaxagoras                                   

• B. Pythagoras    

• C. Eratosthenes     

• D. Aristotle

An obscuring of the light from one celestial body of the passage of another between it and the observer or between it and its source of illumination.

• A.      Eclipse                          

• B. Geocentric  

•   C.   Phases of Moon

• D. Solstice  

Which of the following describes the position of the North Star if you go nearer the equator?

                              

• A. Closer to the horizon   

• B. Farther away from the horizon.       

•    C. The North Star is fixed wherever you are on the Earth.

•   D. It disappears completely

Which of the following can be observed of a cruising ship if the Earth is a flat disc?

• A. It will shrink then only the sail will be visible until it completely disappears.

• B. It will become bigger and bigger.

• C. It will not change its size.

• D. It will become smaller and smaller until it disappears

The phase of the Moon that follows the waning crescent is called the:

                                       

• A. First Quarter    

• B. Full Moon    

•   C. New Moon   

•    D. Third Quarter

The phase of the Moon that follows the waning gibbous is called the:

            

• A. First Quarter  

•    B. Full Moon             

• C.    New Moon                

•        D. Third Quarter