.

Solar System

Sun Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Earth Venus

(star) (planet) (planet) (planet) (planet) (planet) (planet)

Mars Ganymede Titan Mercury Callisto Io Moon

(moon of (moon of (moon of
(planet) (moon of Saturn) (planet) (moon of Earth)
Jupiter) Jupiter) Jupiter)

Europa Triton Pluto Titania Rhea Oberon Iapetus

(moon of (moon of (Kuiper belt (moon of (moon of
(moon of Saturn) (moon of Saturn)
Jupiter) Neptune) object) Uranus) Uranus)

Charon Umbriel Ariel Dione Tethys Ceres Vesta

(moon of (moon of
(moon of Pluto) (moon of Saturn) (moon of Saturn) (belt asteroid) (belt asteroid)
Uranus) Uranus)

Enceladus Miranda Proteus Mimas Hyperion Phoebe Janus

(moon of (moon of
(moon of Saturn) (moon of Saturn) (moon of Saturn) (moon of Saturn) (moon of Saturn)
Uranus) Neptune)

Epimetheus Lutetia Prometheus Pandora Mathilde Helene Ida

(moon of Saturn) (belt asteroid) (moon of Saturn) (moon of Saturn) (belt asteroid) (moon of Saturn) (belt asteroid)

Phobos Deimos
(moon of Mars) (moon of Mars)
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FIRST PERIODICAL EXAM

August 8, 2018

Name: ________________________________________________ Score: _______________

Grade/Level: __________________ Date: ______________________
I. MULTIPLE CHOICE
Direction: Choose the letter of the correct answer and write it on the space provided
before each number.
_____ 1. A geologist who remarked “Stars have died that we might live.”
a. Aristotle c. Preston Claud
b. Plato d. Claudius Ptolemy
_____ 2. He created a mathematical model of the Aristotelian universe.
a. Aristotle c. Preston Claud
b. Plato d. Claudius Ptolemy
_____ 3. He argued that the heavens were perfect.
a. Aristotle c. Preston Claud
b. Plato d. Claudius Ptolemy
_____ 4. Plato’s student who argued that Earth was imperfect and lay at the center of the
universe.
a. Aristotle c. Preston Claud
b. Plato d. Claudius Ptolemy
_____ 5. He was a Renaissance-era mathematician and astronomer who formulated a
model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the
universe.
a. Aristotle c. Preston Claud
b. Plato d. Nicolaus Copernicus
_____ 6. It is the leading explanation about how the universe began.
a. Creation c. Solar Nebula
b. Big Bang theory d. Solar System
______ 7. It is the cloud of gas from which our own Solar System formed.
a. Creation c. Solar Nebula
b. Big Bang theory d. Solar System
_____ 8. The matter in the early Universe was about_______________________.
a. 75% hydrogen (by mass) and 25% helium
b. 75% helium (by mass) and 25% hydrogen
c. 25% hydrogen (by mass) and 75% helium.
d. 75% nitrogen (by mass) and 25% helium.
_____ 9. Our galaxy contains at least 100 billion stars, of which the ________ is one.
a. cloud c. atoms
b. sun d. gas
_____ 10. It is the collection of eight planets and their moons in orbit around the sun,
together with smaller bodies in the form of asteroids, meteoroids, and comets.
a. Solar Nebula c. Big Bang Theory
b. Solar System d. Ptolemaic Model
_____ 11. It is a yellow dwarf star, a hot ball of glowing gases. Its gravity holds the solar
system together, keeping everything from the biggest planets to the smallest
particles of debris in its orbit.
a. Sun c. Earth
b. Moon d. Planet
______ 12. The result when ½ of the Earth is facing towards the Sun.
a. Day c. Eclipse
b. Night d. Rotation
______ 13. It is the result when ½ of the Earth is facing away from the Sun.
a. Day c. Eclipse
b. Night d. Rotation
______ 14. The Earth takes __________ days to make its one complete revolution around the
Sun.
a. 356 days c. 365 days
b. 355 days d. 335 days
______ 15. It is an imaginary line through both the north and south poles on which the Earth
rotates
a. Orbit c. Rotation
b. Axis d. Revolution
______ 16. It is the acton of rotating around its axis.
a. Orbit c. Rotation
b. Axis d. Revolution
_______ 17. A half of the earth, usually as divided into northern and southern halves by the
equator, or into western and eastern halves by an imaginary line passing through the poles.
a. Day c. Hemisphere
b. Night d. Revolution

II. IDENTIFICATION

A. Direction: Identify the word or group of words that being describe in each number.

____________________ 1. A curved path that is taken by an object around a star, planet,

moon, etc.
____________________ 2. Day and night are caused by Earths _________ (spin) on its axis.
____________________ 3. It occurs as the Earth moves around the Sun.
____________________ 4. The center of the Solar System.
____________________ 5. The third planet in the Solar System.
____________________ 6. these planets are closer to the sun and are therefore warmer than
the planets located farther out in the solar system.
_____________________ 7. They are sometimes called gas giants because they are large and
made mostly of gases.
_____________________ 8. It is named for a mythical god who ran very fast
_____________________ 9. It is named for the Roman goddess of love.
_____________________ 10.It is the largest planet in the Solar System.
_____________________ 11. It is named for the Roman god of agriculture
_____________________ 12. It is named for another Roman god, the grandfather of Jupiter.
_____________________ 13. It is named for the Roman god of the ocean.
_____________________ 14. It is named for the Roman god of war.
_____________________ 15. A meteoroid that enters the earth’s atmosphere and vaporizes.

also called a “shooting star.”

_____________________ 16. It is the largest planet in the Solar system.

_____________________ 17. It is well known for its system of three rings.

_____________________ 18. It is surrounded by a system of five rings and at least 14 moons.

_____________________ 19. Number of hours required to complete 1 complete rotation of the

Earth on its axis.

_____________________ 20. One complete revolution is equivalent to how many year?

B.Direction: Identify the following situation whether a Rotation or Revolution. Write your
answer on the space provided before each number.

_________________1. The Earth spinning on its axis.

_________________2. Going around a larger body.
_________________3. Causes the day and night.
_________________4. Causes the Earth’s seasons.
_________________5. It creates a year.
_________________ 6.The moon going around the Earth.

C. Direction: Identify and fill in the names of the planets. (10 points)

III. FILL IN THE BLANKS

Direction: Complete the table by filling in the blanks with the correct answer that
differentiate Jovian Planets from Terrestrial Planets.
TERRESTRIAL JOVIAN

1. 2. Gaseous

3. Closer to the Sun 4.

Size 5. 6.

7. Composed mainly 8.
of CO2 & H2 gases
Moons 9. 10.

11. 12. Light, quick - spinning

IV. ENUMERATION
Direction: Enumerate what are being asked in each number.
1. What are the 2 kinds of planets according to their location?
_________________________________ ______________________________
2. Name the planets of each kind.
_________________________________ ________________________________
_________________________________ ________________________________
_________________________________ ________________________________
_________________________________ ________________________________
3. The 2 motions in the Solar System
_________________________________ ________________________________
4. These are the results when the earth rotates on its axis
_______________________________ ________________________________
5. Two kinds of hypotheses for the origin of the planets in our solar system
_______________________________ __________________________________
6. Give the 6 features that makes Jovian differs from Terrestrial Planets
_______________________________ _________________________________
_______________________________ _________________________________
_______________________________ _________________________________
7. Name the other 3 celestial/heavenly bodies that revolve around the sun aside from the
planet.
________________________________ _________________________________
________________________________
V. DEFINITION OF TERMS
Direction: Define the following terms.
1. Axis –

2. Orbit –

3. Day –

4. Night –

5. Revolution –

6. Rotation –

7. Inner Planets –

8. Outer Planets –

9. Comets –

10. Asteroids –

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