Rovelyn Joy J.

Raterta
BEED-II
EDUC-5
MTW 5-6PM

Grade III
Earth Science

Instruction: Choose the letter of the best answer.

1. Why is soil so important ?

a. Provides food and support for plants
b. Eaten by animals
c. Eaten by people
d. Keeps Earth clean
2. A rock is usually made up of one or more ____.
a. Minerals
b. Sands
c. Fossils
d. Soils
3. What weather tool is used to measure how hot or how cold something is ?
a. Boiling Point
b. Air Prressure
c. Thermometer
d. Temperature
4. Examples of natural resources include soil, water, metals, and fossil fuels.
a. True b. False
5. Which is not ocean ?
a. Indian
b. Pacific
c. Superior
d. Atlantic
6. The crust is the highest layer of Earth ?
a. True
b. False
7. What type of resource is a tree ?
a. Renewable
b. Non-renewable
c. Limited resource
8. What type of rock is created when Earth’s materials are put under great pressure ?
a. Sedimentary
b. Igneous
c. Metamorphic
9. All of the following are examples of precipitation except/
a. Hail
b. Rain
c. Lightning
d. Snow
10. What is huge body of salt water called ?
a. Pond
b. Stream
c. Ocean
d. Lake
11. Gravity can pull rocks and soil rapidly down a hillside causing a _______.
a. Tsunami
b. Earthquake
c. Landslide
d. Volcano
12. What are the 3 major layers of soil ? Select 3.
a. Subsoil
 b. Bottomsoil
c. Grainsoil
d. Topsoil
e. Bedrock
13. Where did dinasaurs live ?
a. Africa
b. Asia
c. North America
d. All of the continents
14. A rain gauge is a tool that measure the ______ of rainfall.
a. Temperature
b. Amount
c. Speed
d. Time
15. Oil, dumped trash, and other pollutants put into water doesn’t cause water
pollution.
a. True
b. False
16. Is there is a limited supply of tossil fuels like coal, oil, and natural gas ?
a. Yes
b. No
17. Fossils are ONLY found in rocks.
a. True
b. False
18. Stratus clouds that form near the ground are called.
a. Steam
b. Water vapor
c. Cumulus
d. Fog
19. Earth is titled on its axis. This causes.
a. Day and night
b. Phases of the Moon
c. The seasons
 d. A year
20. The scientist found a fossil a triceratops. What does the word fossil mean ?
21.
a. To soak in water
b. A part of a planet
c. The Earth’s crust
d. The hardened remains or tracaes of animals and plants that lived long ago.

Identification:
Fill in the blanks.

22. The changing of a liquid into a gas is ____________.

23. Blowing air is called ____________.
24. A large mound of earth and rock, usually larger than 2,000 feet, is a
____________.
25.