NAME: GRADE/SECTION: SCORE:

DATE: PREPARED BY: MRS. KARISSA R. ENCABO

1ST QUARTER
IN
EARTH AND LIFE SCIENCE
I. MULTIPLE CHOICE
Direction. Read each item carefully. Write your answer on the blank provided before the number.

1. The four inner planets in the Solar System are also known as ______?
A. Terrestrial Planets c.Gas Planets
B. Planetesimal Planets d. Tidal Planets
2. What is the name given to the “crunchy” layer of the crust and uppermost part of the mantle?
a. Atmosphere b. Hydrosphere c. Lithosphere d. Biosphere
3. It is the study of the Earth’s shape?
a. Geodesy b. Asthenosphere c. Gutenburg d. Geology
4. What do you call the boundary between the mantle and the core?
A.Gutenburg Discontinuity c. Mohorovicic Discontinuity
B. Lehman Discontinuity d. Pierre Discontinuity
5. This matter or theory expanded and started to cool down, going through different transitional
phases.
A. Big - Bang Theory c. Cosmic Inflation Theory
B. Steady State Theory d. Formation of the Star
6. A sub-discipline of stratigraphy which deals with the use of fossils in correlation and
establishing the relative ages of rocks.
A. Fossil b. Index Fossil c. Biostratigraphy d. Time scale
7. A scientific theory that describes the large-scale motion of Earth's lithosphere.
A. Tectonic Plate Theory c. Transform Plate Theory
B. Continental Drift Theory d. Convergent Plate Theory
8. It explains the occurrence of earthquakes and seismic activities.
a. Geodesy b. Asthenosphere c. Gutenburg d. Geology
9. This theory states that the early universe was a rapidly expanding bubble of pure vacuum
energy.
a. Big - Bang Theory c. Cosmic Inflation Theory
b. Steady State Theory d. Formation of the star
10. This layer is the hottest layer because of its absorption of highly energetic solar heat.
a. Troposphere b. Stratosphere c. Mesosphere d. Thermosphere
11. This is considered the least reliable means of identifying minerals.
a. Color b. Hardness c. Streak d. Cleavage
12. This mineral are one of the mankind’s most highly prized possessions.
A. Metallic Minerals c. Semi-Metallic Minerals
B. Non-Metallic Minerals d. Sulfate Minerals
13. Which of the following minerals contain sulfur atoms bonded to four oxygen atoms, just like
silicates and phosphates.
A. Metallic Minerals c. Semi-Metallic Minerals
B. Non-Metallic Minerals d. Sulfate Minerals
14. It is a physical properties of mineral that refers to the reaction of a mineral to light. It
determines how brilliant or dull the mineral is.
a. Magnetism b. Odor c. Luster d. Tenacity
15. This is a chemical property of minerals that contains metals and intermetallic elements,
semimetals, nonmetals or natural alloys, and constituents of a few rare meteorites.
A. Halide Class b. Oxide Class c. Sulphide Class d. Native Class
16. It is the unknown substance responsible for the extra weight of the universe.
a. Dark Energy b. Dark Matter c. Light Energy d. Light Matter
17. It is the force that’s accelerating the expansion of the universe.
a. Dark Energy b. Dark Matter c. Light Energy d. Light Matter
18. This hypothesis proposes that life on Earth actually began somewhere in the universe.
A. Primordial Soup c. Panspermia
B. Deap-sea vent d. Inflation
19. It contains all matter and radiation and encompasses all known space.
 a. Sun b. Galaxy c. Universe d. Solar System
20. This Earth’s subsystem are composed of various layers which differ in thickness,
temperature, and density.
a. Atmosphere b. Hydrosphere c. Lithosphere d. Biosphere
21. A nuclear fusion reaction responsible for the energy produced by the stars.
A. Light years c. Protostar
B. Main Sequence Stars d. Thermonuclear Reaction
22. An elastic shock wave that travels outward in all direction from an earthquake source.
A. Seismic Wave b. core c. Moho d. Convection
23. What is the shape of the Earth?
A. Sphere b. Circle c. Oblate d. Oblate Spheroid
24. Are natural substances consisting of aggregate minerals clumped together with the other
Earth materials through natural processes.
A. Mineral b. Rocks c. Resources d. Material
25. Which of the following textures of Igneous Rocks comprised of large crystals that are clearly
visible to the eye with or without a hand lens or binocular microscope.
A. Aphanitic b. Glassy c. Phaneritic d. Vesicular
26. It is the break down of rocks by mechanical forces concentrated along rock fractures.
A. Physical Weathering c. Mechanical Weathering
B. Chemical Weathering d. Mass Wasting
27. It is the process by which Earth’s surface is worn away by wind, water, or ice.
A. Weathering b. Erosion c. Mass Wasting d. Sedimentation
28. It is the disintegration of rocks, soil, and minerals together with other materials through
contact with earth’s subsystem.
a. Weathering b. Erosion c. Mass Wasting d. Sedimentation
29. It is form from the accumulation and lithification of sediments derived from the break-down of
pre-existing rocks.
a. Semi-clastic b. Non-Clastic c. Clastic d. Chemical
30. It is a molten rock material beneath the surface of the Earth
a. Lava b. Magma c. Rocks d. Igneous
31. They came from preexisting rocks or pieces of dead organisms that have been lithified or
cemented together by natural processes.
A. Sedimentary b. Metamorphic c. Igneous d. Magma
32. Which of the following mass wasting that results when a large amount of sediments, usually
rocks of various sizes, falls down the slope.
A. Debris Flow b. Mudflow c. Slump d. Volcanism
33. It is a type of slide wherein downward rotation of rock or legolith occurs along a curve
surface.
a. Sediment Flow b. Rock Slide c. Rock Fall d. Slurry Flow
34. It is a distinctive type of landscape which develops as a consequence of subsurface solution.
a. Karst Topography b. Cavern c. Sinkholes d. Tower Karst
35. Circular depressions which form through dissolution of underlying soluble rocks or the
collapse of a cave’s roof.
a. Karst Topography b. Cavern c. Sinkholes d. Tower Karst
36. It is chemical process by which the composition of a liquid such as magma and changes
due to crystallization.
a. Crystal Fractionation b. Partial Melting c. Magma Mixing d. Lava Mixing
37. It is form when hot rocks in the mantle slowly rise and encounter lower pressure.
A. Basalt and Basaltic Magma c. Andesite and Andesitic Magma
B. Rhyolite and Rhyolitic Magma d. Viscosity
38. Is it possible to find fossils in metamorphic rocks?
a. Yes b. No c. Maybe b. not determine
39. Is there a direct correlation between the grain size of metamorphic rocks and the
metamorphic grades?
a. Yes b. No c. Maybe d. not determine
40. It is the pervasive planar structure that results from the nearly parallel alignment of
sheet silicate minerals and compositional and minerology layering in the rock.
a. Foliation b. Metamorphic c. Crystallization d. Metamorphism
41. It is a type of Earth movement resulting the compression of rock strata or rock layers.
a. Folding c. Seafloor Spreading
b. Faulting d. Ocean Basin Formation
42. It is a method used to determine the relative order of geologic events.
 a. Absolute Dating c. Relative Dating
b. Radioactive Decay Dating d. Thermal Dating
43. A freshwater reptile whose fossils were found only in black shells about 260 million years
of age in africa and brazil.
a.Glossopteris Flora c. Lystosaurus
b. Mesosaurus d. Cynognathus
44. Which of the following scientist hypothesized the continental drift theory.
a. Immanuel Kant c. Alfred Wegener
b. James Jeans d. Hermann Bondi
45. It is a type of sonar which measures depth by emitting a burst of high frequency sound
and listening for the echo from the seafloor.
a. Sounding line c. Satellite altimetry
b. Echo sounding d. Continental margin
46. It is a continental margin that characterized by a narrow shelf and slope that descends into a
trench or trough
a. Passive b. atlantic c. active d. ocean
47. He proposed that seafloor separates at mid-ocean ridges where new crust forms by
upwelling magma.
a. Pierre Simon c. Galileo Galilie
b. Harry Hess d. Wegener
48. Which of the following marker fossils used to define periods of geologic time.
a. Fossil Fuel c. Index Fossil
b. Biostratigraphy d. Time scale
49. It is a method that can tell which sediments were deposited first and also the approximate age
of the specimen.
a. bsolute Dating c. Relative Dating
b. Radioactive Decay Dating d. Thermal Dating
50. The four outer planets are also known as _______?
a. Terrestrial Planet c. Gas Planet
b. Telluric Planet d. None of these

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