water-magma interaction through which large amounts of steam and

magmatic gases are released.

a. Magmatic eruption c. Phreatomagmatic eruption
Third Quarterly Examination b. Phreatic eruption ` d. Explosive eruption
S.Y. 2016 – 2017 10. Which of the following is NOT a parameter in determining the timing of an
eruption in a monitored volcano?
Science - Grade 9 a. seismic activity at the volcano c. gas emissions
b. animal behavior d. ground deformations
11. It is formed from rock fragments following a volcanic explosion
MULTIPLE CHOICE: Choose the letter of the correct answer. a. pyroclastic flow c. geysers
b. glowing avalanche d. lava outflow
1. These are openings in the earth's crust from which lava, ash, and hot 12. It is heat that is generated within the Earth
gases flow or eject during an eruption a. Solar energy c. Volcanic energy
a. Geysers c. Fissures b. Geothermal energy d. Radiation energy
b. Hot spots d. Volcanoes 13. Which of the following is NOT a source of Geothermal energy?
2. Which of the following is NOT a basis of classifying volcanoes? a. geysers c. mud pots
a. structure c. type of rocks formed b. fossil fuels d. hot springs
b. periodicity of eruption d. composition 14. Where most active geothermal resources usually found?
3. It is a cone shaped volcano with very steep slope and the most common a. along plate boundaries c. along earthquake epicenter
type of volcano. b. near hot springs d. in hot places
a. cinder cone c. composite 15. This form of geothermal energy uses water that has been heated as a
b. caldera d. shield by product in oil and gas wells.
4. What type of lava makes a volcano erupt violently? a. Low-temperature c. Enhanced geothermal system
a. viscous and slow flowing c. low viscosity and b. Geothermal heat pumps d. Co-Produced
b. less gas and cooler d. thinner and more ashes 16. It is a factor affecting climate which refers to the arrangement of the
5. Which is an example of an active volcano in the Philippines? natural and artificial physical features of an area
a. Mt. Makiling c. Mt. Banahaw
a. Latitude c. Altitude
b. Mt. Mayon d. Mt. Apo
b. Topography d. Global wind patterns
6. Which of the following is NOT a sign of volcanoes activeness?
17. What happens to the temperature as the altitude of a place increases?
a. amount of gas emission c. state of regular eruption
a. increases c. decreases
b. frequent seismic activities d. shape of a volcano
b. remains constant d. absorbed
7. Which of the following is NOT a feature of an inactive volcano?
18. What causes the difference between summer and winter day lengths at
a. Reduced size c. Obliterated cone
the poles?
b. Hot springs d. Vegetation
a. prevailing winds on Earth c. rotation of the Earth
8. An extinct volcano is one that is capable of erupting, and will probably erupt b. Earth’s tilt d. polarity reversion
again in the future. The statement is… 19. It is a region of light and irregular wind forms when Southeast and
a. True at all means c. True in certain aspect Northeast trade winds converge in a low pressure zone, near the equator.
b. Not true to all cases d. case to case basis a. monsoons c. Doldrums
9. It is a classification of volcanic eruption characterized by an explosive b. ITCZ d. Horse latitude
20. Place just above and below the equator which receives grater amount of a. Red c. Blue
heat from the sun due to the overhead position of the sun. b. White d. Yellow
a. Tropic region c. Polar region 31. Which of the following is the brightest star?
b. Temperate region d. Equatorial region a. -5 magnitude c. 15th magnitude
21. These are unusual occurrences that pertaining to worldwide climate b. 1st magnitude d. -1 magnitude
conditions. 32. The stars which appear in the form of closed groups and form
a. Global Seasonal Shift c. Global Trade Winds recognizable shapes and patterns are known as ________.
b. Global climate phenomenon d. Global Economic Trade a. Zodiac c. Nebula
22. It is insufficiency of precipitation for a long period of time which may last b. Galaxy d. Constellations
for months or one season. 33. Which of the following is not part of the Zodiacal Constellations?
a. Global warming c. Drought
a. Sagittarius c. Centaurus
b. El Niño d. La Niña
b. Capricorn d. Aquarius
23. It is a change in the average weather that a given region experiences.
34. It is a northern hemisphere constellation resembling a queen sitting on the
a. Climate change c. ENSO
throne
b. Greenhouse effect d. Drought
a. Cassiopeia c. Circinus
24. Shortage on water supply, starvation for large numbers of people and
b. Camelopardalis d. Cepheus
increase of food prices are effects of ________.
35. It is considered as the fastest moving star in the sky
a. Global warming c. Drought
a. Betelguese  c. Proxima Centauri
b. El Niño d. La Niña
b. Barnard’s star d. Polaris
25. Which of the following is the common effect of Climate change, La Niña
36. Those constellations that can be seen year round are called _______.
and Global warming?
a. Zodiacal Constellations c. Spherical Constellations
a. Drought c. Species Extinction
b. Circumpolar Constellations d. Fixed Constellations
b. Hurricanes d. Pollution
37. How composite, shield and cinder-cone volcanoes are being classified?
26. It involves adjusting to actual or expected future climate
a. according to its shape and height
a. Mitigation c. Precautionary measures
b. according to composition and structure
b. Adaptation d. Conservation
c. according to periodicity of its eruption
27. These involves reducing the production of greenhouse gases releasing in
d. according to pyroclastic materials it releases
the atmosphere by reducing sources of these gases
38. What indicates if a volcano will erupt explosively or quietly?
a. Adaptation c. Mitigation
a. the viscosity of the magma and buildup of gas
b. Prevention d. Precaution
c. the size of its crater and height of its cone
28. It refers to the star's luminosity, its distance from Earth, and the altering of
b. the length of time it last erupted
the star's light as it passes through Earth's atmosphere
d. all of the above
a. Apparent magnitude c. Absolute magnitude
39. What is the basis of classifying whether a volcano is active or inactive?
b. Relative magnitude d. Ideal magnitude
a. the presence of geysers and hot springs
29. It is a very powerful tool that enables astrophysicists to infer many
b. the amount of magma in the magma chamber
physical and chemical properties of stars
c. the periodicity of its eruption and signs of volcanic activity
a. convergent plate boundaries c. divergent plate boundaries
d. the physical features and acid gases and vapor emission
b. Stellar Spectroscopy d. all are possible
30. What is the color of the hottest star?
40. How will you classify a volcano with reduced size, obliterated cone and
visible vegetation?
a. Active c. In active
b. Extinct d. Middle classification
41. Which of the following is the feature of magmatic eruption?
a. large amounts of steam and magmatic gases are released
b. rising magma makes contact with ground or surface water
c. outpouring of lava without significant explosive eruption
d. produce juvenile clasts during explosive decompression of gas
42. How the buoyancy of the magma triggers a volcanic eruption?
a. the amount of a dissolved gas in magma rises with increasing
pressure driving the magma moves toward the surface,
b. if the density of the magma is less than the surrounding and
overlying rocks, the magma reaches the surface and erupts.
c. injection forces some of the magma in the chamber to move up and
erupt at the surface.
d. the thermal contraction from chilling on contact with water
causing magma to erupt
43. Most of Geothermal energy is cannot be seen. So, how Geologists can be
sure that there is a geothermal resource in the area?
a. by drilling wells to measure underground temperatures
b. by injecting water to create steam  b. increase in the amount of gasses emitted naturally and man-caused
c. by breaking up the rock covering to allow water to circulate
d. by waiting water to be released through geysers and  hot springs
44. Why geothermal energy is considered as renewable energy source?
a. because heat energy from the mantle is replenished by the core
b. because the energy released does not run out
c. because the Earth has virtually endless amounts of energy and heat
beneath its surface
d. because water is replenished by rainfall, and the heat is
continuously produced by the earth.
45. Why the temperature decreases as altitude increases?
a. highlands are closer to the atmosphere which absorbs heat energy
b. the thick air column in low lands carry grater amount of heat
than thin column of air in high lands
c. the air in high altitudes are less dense and is not capable of retaining
much amount of heat
d. the energy is being released as the height increases and low lands
absorb these heat released from the high altitude area.
46. Which best explains why we do not experience winter here in the Philippines?
a. it is the country’s topography
b. it is the country’s nearness to the equator
c. it is the country’s low altitude
d.it is the country’s wind systems
47. How greenhouse effect becomes beneficial?
a. regulating the temperature on Earth to make it suitable and
beneficial to the living things
b. trapping the heat in the atmosphere gives plants more energy for its
use in the photosynthesis
c. the absorbed heat are being transformed into different forms of
energy that could be used in different activities
d. the heat energy trapped in the atmosphere covers the heat of the
sun that may enter into the earth
48. Why is it important for man to be aware of the climate change?
a. for us to seek for another place to live in
b. for us to ask our government make ways on how to resolve this
c. for us to avoid use of the substances that affects climate change
d. for us to be able to think of resolutions on how to lessen its impact
49. How the global climatic change will be intensified?
a. increase in the activities of man that produces greenhouse gases
c. decrease in awareness of the effects of global climate change
d. all of the above
50. Which of the following is the worst effect of Climate change?
a. Continuous rise of Temperatures
b. Changes in precipitation patterns
c. Rising of Sea Level
d. More droughts and heat waves
51. What is the correct sequence of the effects of Global warming?
a. Sea level rise, floods, worldwide ice melting, spreading diseases
b. Spreading diseases, floods, sea level rise, worldwide ice melting
c. Worldwide ice melting, Sea level rise, Floods, Spreading diseases
d. Floods, sea level rise, spreading diseases, worldwide ice melting
52. What makes monitoring and recording global climatic change more
accurate and easy to manage.
a. the use of weather instruments such as barometer and rain gauge
b. the use of natural indicators of changes in the weather
 c. the use of satellites, computerized monitoring, and other c. because the Earth rotates from west to east
modern technology d. because the Earth moves from east to west
d. the use of animal behaviors and observing the movements of clouds 59. Stars are persistently moving in space. But why their movement is difficult
53. Which of the following is NOT a goal of mitigation based to the 2014 for us to observe?
report on Mitigation of Climate Change from the United Nations . a. because stars are extremely far from us
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change? b. because stars move very slowly
a. avoid dangerous human interference with the climate system c. because the Earth moves the same way as the stars
b. building flood defenses d. because the Earth moves with the stars at the same time
c. ensure that food production is not threatened 60. What will be the effect of the movement of stars in the constellation?
d. enable economic development to proceed in a sustainable manner. a. the image depicted by a constellation will be more defined
54. What is the importance of constellations in our time? b. the constellation will be out of its position
a. for Astronomers to locate and identify distant objects in space c. the constellation will move all together
b. for travelers to give them directions d. the image depicted by a constellation will get distorted
c. for people to express the imaginations
d. for students to have something to study in school
55. Why bigger stars have shorter life span than the smaller ones?
a. because massive stars burn hydrogen more rapidly due to
greater pressure on their cores
b. because massive stars requires more fuels to burn than smaller
stars
c. because bigger stars are already on their final life while small stars
are just beginning their life
d. because bigger stars have lesser fuel to burn than smaller ones
56. What is the importance of knowing the locations and names of
constellations?
a. it able us to track many beautiful and interesting objects in the space
b. it makes studying astronomy more interesting and exciting
c. it gives us idea how immense is the universe
d. it makes us more knowledgeable of the in identifying constellations
57. Why not all of the constellations can be seen in one place?
a. because the stars are continuously moving
b. because the space where the stars are, is moving
c. because the light of the stars change that made the invisible in some
time
d. because the earth is continuously moving
58. Why the stars in constellations appear to rise in the East and set in the
west?
a. because the stars revolves around the earth from east to west
b. because the stars move the same way the sun rises and sets