SUMMATIVE TEST IN EARTH AND LIFE SCIENCE

Quarter 1 Weeks 5 and 6 (October 11 - 22, 2021)

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General Instructions: Please read the questions below thoroughly and write the letter of your
answer on the space before each number.
____1. Which of the following refers to a type of fault caused by compressional stresses?
a. Strike - slip b. Reverse c. Normal d. all of these
____2. What do you call a region where two plates meet?
a. fault line b. seamount c. plate boundary d. folds
____3. What will happen to a rock if two plates converge?
a. Rocks will be broken down into pieces.
b. Rocks will be squeezed and shortened.
c. Rocks will be pushed in different directions.
d. All of these
____4. Which of the following is formed in a transform boundary?
a. earthquakes b. trenches c. rift valleys d. lakes
____5. Which type of plate boundary creates a zone of tension by moving the plates apart?
a. convergent boundary b. divergent boundary
c. transform fault d. none of these
____6. Which of the following is not associated with convergent plate movement/margin?
a. deep-focus earthquake b. valley c. trench d. volcanic arc
____7. What do you call a fault in which the hanging wall moves up along the dip with
respect to the footwall?
a. normal fault b. strike-slip fault c. dip fault d. reverse fault
____8. What do we call a fault in which the movement is horizontal along the strike?
a. strike-slip fault b. reverse fault c. horizontal fault d. dip-slip fault
____9. What produces a reverse fault?
a. Tensional stress b. Shear stress c. Compressional stress d. All of these
____10. The Marikina Valley Fault System which extends from Doña Remedios Trinidad,
Bulacan in the north and runs through the provinces of Rizal is a _______ in a ________.
a. normal fault in a transform plate boundary
b. a strike-slip fault in a convergent plate boundary
c. a reverse fault in a transform plate boundary
d. a strike-slip fault in a transform plate boundary
____11. How does a reverse fault form?
a. The hanging wall moves upward relative to the footwall.
b. Blocks slide past each other.
c. Compression thrusts the fault into reverse.
d. The hanging wall moves downward relative to the footwall.
____12. Which of the following refers to a force that acts on rock to change its shape or
volume?
a. faults b. stress c. folds d. epicenter
____13. Which type of stress pushes masses of rocks in opposite directions, in a sideways
movement?
a. compressional b. tensional c. shear d. all of these
____14. Which type of fault where the hanging wall slides down caused by tension?
a. normal fault b. strike-slip fault c. reverse fault d. both A and B
 ____15. Which stress pushes the crust where two plates are moving apart?
a. compressional b. tensional c. shear d. all of these
____16. Which of the following method is used in identifying the absolute age of a rock?
a. Radiometric Dating b. Radioactive Dating c. Relative Dating
____17. Which of the following era is considered as the time of ancient life?
a. Paleozoic b. Mesozoic c. Cenozoic
____18. What term is used to refer to the fossils utilized to identify the age of rocks?
a. control fossil b. index fossil c. sample fossil
____19. When did reptiles rule the world?
a. Silurian Period b. Ordovician Period c. Permian period
____20. Which of the following principles states that the layer at the bottom is older than
that at the top?
a. Cross - cutting b. Original Horizontality c. Superposition
____21. Which of the terms below is used to refer to the division of geologic time scale?
a. Era b. Period c. Epoch
____22. Which of the following are the characteristics of fossils to be used as index fossils?
a. Common, easily to identify and found in large scale.
b. easily to identify, unique and found in a place where the species are said to
inhabit.
c. Both a and b
____23. Which of the following principles states that the intruded rocks is younger than the
pre – existing rocks?
a. Cross - cutting b. Original Horizontality c. Superposition
____24. Which of the following is used in order to study the history of the Earth?
a. caves b. ancient temples c. rocks
____25. Which of the following era is dominated by mammals?
a. Cenozoic b. Mesozoic c. Cenozoic
____26. If an index fossil is found in two rock layers that are separated by an ocean, what
do you know about the relationship between the two rock layers?
a. They are about the same age. C. They used to be in the same area.
b. They are made of the same kind of rock. D. The rock layers are unrelated.
____27. The term 'rock strata' refers to _____.
a. layers of any rocks C. layers of sedimentary rocks
b. lava flows D. lake bed sediment only
____28. Which of the following plate movements results to an intense folding and faulting?
a. Convergent B. Divergent C. Transform D. Lateral
____29. What term is used to describe rocks being folded downwards?
a. Monocline B. Syncline C. Anticline D. Strike - slip
____30. When two plates break apart, what will happen to the particles of a broken plate?
a. The particles will become part of the crust.
b. The particles will eventually form into mountains.
c. The particles will turn into magma.
d. The particles will sink down to the Earth's core.

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