EARTH AND LIFE SCIENCE

FIRST QUARTER EXAMINATION

First Semester S.Y. 2019 – 2020
Name: __________________________________________________ Date: ______________
Year/Section: ________________ Score: _____________

TEST I. MULTIPLE CHOICE

Instruction: Choose the correct answer by writing the letter of choice on the blank provided before each number/item.
No erasures allowed.

____1. It is the thinnest and outermost layer which is inhabited by almost all forms of life including human. What is it?
a. outer core b. inner core c. crust d. mantle
____2. What do you call the theory used to use the dynamics of the Earth’s surface resulting from the interaction of the
overlying rigid plates with the underlying mantle?
a. Continental Plate b. Plate Tectonics c. Relative Dating d. Oceanic Plate
____3. These are rocks that are formed from magma underground. What do you call these rocks?
a. Sedimentary rock b. Intrusive Igneous rock c. Metamorphic rock d. Extrusive Igneous rock
____4. These are geological processes which come from forces above the Earth’s surface. What is it?
a. Endogenic Processes b. Intrusive Processes c. Exogenic Processes d. Extrusive Processes
____5. What type of exogenic process which refers to the movement of sediments from one place to another?
a. Erosion b. Sedimentation c. Weathering d. Mass Wasting
____6. Who made a calculation of the size of the Milky Way galaxy?
a. Albert Einstein b. Harlow Shapley c. Isaac Newton d. Stephen Hawking
____7. This layer of atmosphere serves as protection from the destruction that meteorites can cause. What layer is it?
a. Asthenosphere b. Magnetosphere c. Mesosphere d. Eratosphere
____8. There were a lot of theories proposed in order to understand the origin of the solar system and the earth. Which among
these theories explained why the planets revolved around the sun in the same direction?
a. Nebular hypothesis b. Planetesimal hypothesis c. Tidal Hypothesis d. Binary Star Hypothesis
____9.When rocks are weathered, it produces fragments of materials that are easily eroded and
settle down. These will become hard an cemented and later, it form _________________.
a. Sedimentary rock b. Metamorphic rock c. Igneous rock d. Fold
____10. How does Harold C. Urey, a famous astronomer, explain the Gas Dust Cloud Hypothesis?
a. The universe is composed of gas and dust which began to condense and spin, later become sun and planets.
b. A companion star was revolving around the sun with an opposite revolutionary direction and attracted towards the
companion star.
c. A disk shaped cloud of gas and dust which was remnant after the formation of the sun began to clump together
forming bodies of planetesimals.
d. The origin of the solar system is that the Earth, planets and sun originated from a spinning cloud of dust.
____11. What are the first three most abundant elements on the universe?
a. Hydrogen, Beryllium, Helium c. Hydrogen, Helium, Lithium
b. Helium, Beryllium, Lithium d. Hydrogen. Lithium, Beryllium
____12. What is the building block of galaxies which are born out of clouds of gas and dust in galaxies?
a. Protostar b. Star c. Baryonic Matter d. Dark Energy
____13. . A star is much bigger than the Sun passing by the Sun and draws gaseous filaments from both.
What particular Encounter Hypothesis is being described?
a. Sun-comet b. Sun-star c. Planetesimal d. Proto-planet
____14. Which of the following is an earth’s subsystem?
a. Lithosphere b. HydoSphere c. Altosphere d. Geosphere
____15. Gravity pulls down slope the soil or rock in different directions over time. What type of mass movement is described?
a. Landslide b. slump c. soil creep d. fall
____16. What do you call the process of breaking up of big rocks into small fragments without changing the mineral content of
the rock?
a. Endogenous b. disintegration c. oxidation d. hydrolysis
____17. Which of the following correctly describe a stratosphere?
a. A weather layer of the Earth where climatic changes take place.
b. An uppermost part of the troposphere that blocks the water vapor.
c. The second layer of the atmosphere which is like the earth’s natural sunblock.
d. Serves as protection from the destruction of meteorites.
____18. It is like a melted plastic and is 1,800 miles thick which is the thickest among the Earth’s layer. What is it?
a. outer core b. inner core c. crust d. mantle
____19. How many percent of Nitrogen the early atmosphere has?
a. 21% b. 78% c. 4% d. 9%
____20. How old is the universe?
a. 13.5 billion years old b. 13.8 billion years old c. 12.5 billion years d. 12.8 billion years

TEST II. (ITEMS 21-40)

MODIFIED TRUE OR FALSE (2 Points Each)
Instruction: Write TRUE if the statement is correct and if it’s FALSE, ENCIRCLE the word/s or phrase/s that
made the statement wrong then change the identified word/s or phrase/s to make the statement
true. Write your answer on the line provided. No erasures allowed.

_______Big Bang Theory states that the universe originated from an enormous explosion.
_______The central idea of Nebular Hypothesis is that the Earth, planets and sun originated from
a spinning cloud of dust which collapsed on its gravity.
_______Copernican model which is the opposite of Ptolemaic system was proposed by Sir Isaac Newton.
_______According to Johannes Kepler, the orbits of the planets are not in circles but in ellipses.
_______Planetesimal Hypothesis explains why the planets revolved around the sun in the same direction
and why the inner planets are denser than the gaseous planets.
_______Eratosthenes is a Greek astronomer who used the sun to measure the size of the Earth.
_______Gas Dust Cloud Hypothesis states that the universe is composed of dust and gas. This very
large amount of dust and gas began to condense and spin.
_______Albert Einstein improvised the optical telescope leading to the discovery of Jupiter’s four primary
moons and rings of Saturn.
_______Galileo Galilee is considered the greatest mind of human history who proposed that the speed of
light in a vacuum is constant and that the Laws of Physics are the same throughout the universe.
_______Fault is formed in rocks when the stresses overcome the internal strength of the rock resulting in a
fracture.

III. COMPLETION
Instruction: Choose the correct word that can complete the following statements from the given words inside
the box. No erasures allowed.

Hardness Diaphaneity Mass Movement Recumbent

Streak Tenacity Folds Fault
Diamond Metamorphic Rock Flow Horst Fault
Extrusive Igneous Rock Mechanical Weathering Landslide Biosphere
Erosion Oxidation Anticline Lithosphere

___________41. A physical property of a mineral which is the scratch resistance refers to ________________.
___________42. ________ is the subsystem of the earth which serves as a habitat of the various species of
Flora and fauna.
___________43. The life sphere of the Earth is called _______.
___________44. The breaking up of big rocks into smaller fragments without changing the mineral content of rock refers to ___.
___________45. ______happens when soil, sand, and rocks move downslope typically as a mass, due to the force of gravity.
___________46. A type of chemical weathering which implies the reaction of an element like iron with oxygen is called _______.
___________47. A type of mass movement which includes avalanches, mudflows, earth flows and lahars is called ____________.
___________48. ______is a rapid movement of a large mass of rocks down a hill or mountainside in areas with less vegetation.
___________49. ______ is a property of mineral which allows light to pass through.
___________50. A color of mineral in powder form is called ____________.
___________51. ________is the hardest mineral in the world which has a scale of 10 in Mohs Hardness Scale.
___________52. A property of mineral which refers to the resistant to breakage and fracture.
___________53. _________are igneous rocks formed from molten rocks above the ground.
___________54. _________ are formed when rocks are exposed to extreme pressure and heat.
___________55. Movement of sediments from one place to another is called ________.
___________56. ________occurs when two reverse fault causes a block of rock to be pushed up.
___________57. ________formed in rocks when the stresses overcome the internal strength of the rocks resulting in a fracture.
___________58. _______formed when there is a convex up fold in rock that is similar to an arch-like structure with the rock
Bends dipping away from the center.
___________59. ________formed when the center of the fold moves from being once vertical to a horizontal position because
Compression or shear forces are stronger in one direction.
___________60. A deformation and displacement of rocks which results in crumpling and bending of rocks is called __________.

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