First Periodical Test in Earth and Life Science

NAME: ________________________________. SECTION: ______________________

Multiple Choice: Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
_____ 1. What is our current estimate age of the Earth and the entire Solar System?
A. 4.6 million years B. 3.6 billion years C. 4.6 billion years D. 46 billion years
_____ 2. In what sphere of the earth are the rocks and minerals found?
A. Atmosphere B. Biosphere C. Hydrosphere D. Lithosphere
_____ 3. What instruments can detect, measure, and record seismic waves from an earthquake?
A. sonargraphs B. seismographs C. Richter scales D. magnetometers
_____ 4. Which of the following is not a gas giant?
A. Jupiter B. Mercury C. Uranus D. Saturn
_____ 5. How old is the Universe?
A. 13.2 million B. 13.8 million C. 13.8 billion D. 4.6 billion
_____ 6. What process in planetesimal formation where solid particles stick together?
A. condensation B. accretion C. collision D. carboxylation
_____ 7. Which best describes the relationship between the earth's four spheres?
A. system B. isolated C. separate. D. unchanging
_____ 8. What part of Earth's spheres is composed of a mixture of gases?
A. Atmosphere B. Biosphere C. Geosphere. D. Hydrosphere
_____ 9. It refers to any natural hazard or threat that causes fatality or damages to property.
A. risk reduction B. natural disaster. C. weather forecast. D. saltwater intrusion
_____ 10. Which of the following is not monitored by PHIVOLCS?
A. volcanoes B. earthquakes C. weather pattern D. volcanic activities
______ 11. Which of the following is not an effect of seismic or volcanic activity?
A.. tsunami. B. monsoon C. landslide D. earthquake
______ 12. What process from which rocks of one type are transformed into rocks of another type?
A. Rock B. Mineral C.Rock cycle D. Glass
______ 13. A Belgian priest to whom the big bang theory is attributed:
A. Edwin Hubble B. Albert Einstein C. George Lemaitre D. Nicolaus Copernicus
______ 14. Edwin Hubnle discovered that the universe is expanding from his observation of:
A. Photon B. Red Shifts C. Gravitational Pull D. Conservation of Momentum
______ 15. These rocks that are formed through the cooling and solidification of magma.
A. sedimentary. B. metamorphic. C. extrusive igneous D. intrusive igneous
______ 16. Which of the following types of rocks is formed by changes in heat and pressure?
A. igneous B. metamorphic C. sedimentary D. rock cycle
______ 17. What types of rocks is formed through the cooling of magma or lava?
A. igneous B. metamorphic C. sedimentary D. rock cycle
_____ 18. Relative cooling rates of igneous intrusive rocks can be estimated by comparing rocks' _______.
A. density. B. compositon C. crystal sizes D. chemical reactivity
_____ 19. The color left behind when a mineral is scratched on a white tile.
A. color. B. streak. C. luster. D. hardness
_____ 20. The way a surface of a mineral reflects light which is either metallic or nonmetallic.
A. cleavage. B. streak. C. luster. D. hardness
_____ 21. The breaking up of rocks intk smaller pieces.
A. weathering. B. erosion. C. deposition. D. compaction
_____ 22. What is the only liquid layer of the earth?
A. Inner core. B. Outer core. C. Crust. D. Mantle
_____ 23. Which mineral property describe how a mineral tends to break along preferred planes?
A. fracture B. cleavage. C. breakage. D. hardness
_____ 24. Which mineral property does irregular breaks not along the preferred planes this describe?
A. fracture B. cleavage. C. breakage. D. hardness
_____ 25. What type of mass movement in which much of the involved materials is pulverized?
A. slides. B. falls. C. avalanche. D. slump
_____ 26. Which statement correctly describes the theory of the "Big Bang"?
A. The universe is in an unchanging steady state.
_____ 28. Which of the following statements best describes how the planets of the solar system formed?
A. They are condensed rings of matter thrown off by the young Sun.
B. They are the remains of an explode star once paired with the Sun.
C. The Sun captured them from smaller, older nearby stars.
D. They formed from a nebular cloud of dust and gas.
_____ 29. If one rock body contains fragments of another rock body it must be younger than the fragments of rock it
contains.
A. Relative dating. B. Law of Superposition. C. Law of Inclusions D. Cross-Cutting Law
_____ 30. The science of determining the relative order of past events, without necessarily determininh their absolute
age,
A. Absolute dating. B. Relative dating C. Law of Inclusions D. Cross-Cutting Law
_____ 31. States that rock formations that cut across other rocks must be younger than the rocks thay they cut across.
The same idea applies to fault lines that slide rock layers apart from each other.
A. Absolute dating. B. Relative dating C. Law of Inclusions D. Cross-Cutting Law
_____ 32. The expansion of the Universe was discovered by observing that all galaxies are moving away from us. Who
made this discovery?
A. Albert Einstein. B. Johannes Kepler C. Edwin Hubble. D. Both a & c
______ 33. Hardness is a property that helps identify minerals. Scientists use a scale of 1-10 to show the hardness of a
mineral. What number would be given to the hardest?
A. 10 B. 5. C. 1. D. 0
______ 34. The primary processes involved in the rock cycle at ___________, _____________, and __________.
A. magma, heat, and soil C. pressure, temperature, and fragmenation
B. water, temperature, and elements. D. sodium, calcium, and hydrogen
______ 35. An inorganic solid that has a characteristic chemical composition, an olderly internal structure and a
characteristic set of physical properties is a/an:
A. element B. mineral C. radioactive waste D. nuclear fusion
______ 36. In any undisturbed sequence of strata, the oldest layer is at the bottom of the sequence, and the youngest
layer is at the top of the sequence.
A. Law of Superposition B. Relative dating C. Law of Inclusions D. Cross-Cutting Law
______ 37. What part of Earth's spheres is composed of all living things?
A. Atmosphere B. Biosphere C. Geosphere D. Hydrosphere
______ 38. Which of the following principal types of tectonic forces pull parts of the crust away from each other?
A. Shearing B. Tensional C. Compressional D. Folding
______ 39. Which of the following are the types of weathering by which the rocks broken into small pieces, each
retaining the characteristics of the original rock?
A. Chemical. B. Biological. C. Physical. D. Natural
______ 40. Which of the following statements is not true?
A. All classes at kindergarten level are suspended for PSWS 1.
B. All classes in all levels (including college and graduate schools) are suspended for PSWS 3.
C. A red color in a color-coded rainfall warning system alerts communities for possible evacuation.
D. PSWS 1 means that the storm has a wind speed of 30-60 km/h which may occur in the next 36 hours.
______ 41. What type of rock where a fossil preserved?
A. Igneous rock B. Sedimentary rock C. Metamorphic rock. D. Rock cycle
______ 42. This is the occurence of two tectonic plates moving away from each other.
A. convergent boundary B. transform boundary C. divergent boundary. D. none of the above
______ 43. It occurs when rocks is squeezed until folds or breaks in a convergent boundary.
A. compression B. shear C. tension D. Transform
______ 44. It refers to a sudden, rapid shaking of Earth caused by a release of energy stored in rocks.
A. tsunami B. flood C. landslide D. earthquake
______ 45. What are the two types of folds?
A. normal & reverse B. ductile & brittle C. tension & sheard D. anticline & syncline
______ 46. It includes the crust and upper mantle.
A. asthenosphere. B. lithosphere C. geosphere D. hydrosphere
______ 47. Which of the following is sedimentary rock?
A. granite. B. obsidian C. pumice D. shale
______ 48. In what layer of the atmosphere, many satellites orbit?
A. exosphere B. troposphere C. mesosphere D. stratosphere
______ 49. What is the largest part of the earth?
A. Biosphere B. Geosphere C. Atmosphere D. Hydrosphere
______ 50. The hardest mineral that exist on Earth.
A. Fluoride B. Talc. C. Diamond D. Sulfur