Department of Education

Region VI – Western Visayas

Schools Division of Capiz
PONTEVEDRA NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
Pontevedra, Capiz

SUMMATIVE TEST IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE

Name: __________________________________ Grade and Section: __________ Date________ Score:_______

Directions: Read each item carefully. Encircle the letter of the correct answer for each question.

1. Why Environmental Science is considered interdisciplinary?

a. Because it welcomes all events.
b. Because it warns us for upcoming disaster.
c. Because it tells us about the changes taking place in the world.
d. Because it incorporates information and ideas from multiple disciplines.
2. What is Environmental Science?
a. It is all about natural things.
b. It is the study pertaining to the environment only
c. It is the course that teaches how to manage the surroundings.
d. It answers questions about how the natural world functions, how humans interact with the environment, and how humans
influence their environment.
3. Which is NOT a goal of Environmental Science?
a. To develop all areas that we owned.
b. To learn how the natural world works.
c. To determine how we as humans affect the environment.
d. To understand how we as humans interact with the environment.
4. Which of the following does NOT belong to natural sciences?
a. Biology b. Chemistry c. Geology d. Sociology
5. How is the ecosystem maintained to be healthy and functional?
a. by the cycling energy and nutrients obtained from different external sources. c. by using it extensively
b. Through interactions of living things d. no maintenance at all
6. Which biogeochemical cycles involve evaporation, condensation and precipitation?
a. carbon cycle b. nitrogen cycle c. phosphorus cycle d. water cycle
7. Which of the following substances is NOT the form of matter being returned back to the ecosystem?
a. carbon b. protein c. water d. minerals
8. If matter cycles in the ecosystem, what about the energy?
a. destroys b. created c. flows d. stores
9. Who among of these are producer in the ecosystems?
a. animals b. plants c. humans d. all of these
10. Which are the abiotic components?
a. ant, spider, centipede c. butterfly,dragon fly, bird
b. sunlight, soil, water d. carrots, onion, garlic
11. Which is the role of decomposer in the environment?
a. To complete the existing organisms c. To recover all decomposing bodies
b. To return back the nutrients to the soil d. For making the soil fertile
12. What are biotic components?
a. those with life c. only living in a specific area
b. those without life d. those needed for survival
13. Which of the following adaptation the organisms cannot escape from its eater?
a. going alone c. always in the group
b. camouflaging d. being the fastest and the strongest
14. What is the period of deep sleep that occurs in some animals when outside temperature is cold?
a. migration c. adaptation
b. hibernation d. extinction
15. Which of the following belongs to physical adaptation?
a. body coverings b. camouflaging c. hibernating d. mimicry
16. How do adaptations help animals?
a. To hide from predator c. To hunt for foods
b. To survive in their habitats d. all of these are correct
17. Which animals are most likely to survive?
a. the most domesticated c. the strongest
b. the best adapted d. the fastest
18. What do you call organisms that directly feed on the producer?
a. primary consumer b. primary consumer c. secondary consumer d. detrivores
19. The worm feeds on the leaves of the plant and the worm is eaten by the bird. Who is the producer?
a. worm b. plant c. bird d. A and B is correct
20. Why animals need to eat more than one kind of food?
a. to participate in the food chain c. to become part of the trophic level
b. to eliminate other existing animals d. in order to meet their food and energy requirements
21. The cow eats only plants therefore cow is an example of______?
a. carnivore b. omnivore c. hervibore d. producer
22. What interaction takes place between mosquito and human?
a. mutualism b. competition c. parasitism d. predation
23. How do you describe the interaction in mutualism?
a. Both organisms are harmed c. One organism benefits from the relation
b. no one benefits nor harmed d. Both organisms are benefited the relationship
24. What interaction exists between bees and flowers?
a. predation b. parasitism c. commensalism d. mutualism
25. Some living things depend on each other in a very close relationship, which lasts over time. What relationship is this?
a. mutualism b. parasitism c. symbiosis d. commensalism
26. A process by which liquid turns into gas.
a. evaporation b. condensation c. precipitation d. ran off
27. A process by which gas turns into liquid.
a. evaporation b. condensation c. precipitation d. ran off
28. It is in the form of liquid or frozen water that forms in the atmosphere and falls back to the earth.
a. evaporation b. condensation c. precipitation d. ran off
29. Biodiversity is the total variety of _____on earth.
a. resources b. life c. materials d. plants
30. The reaches of species in the ecosystem makes it _________?
a. unstable b. stable c. temporary d. unproductive

“May your knowledge here will serve as your weapon to change the world. Be the catalyst of change!”
-SIR ED-

Prepared by: Checked/Verified:

EDWIN G. DUMOPOY ALLAN A. ALOVERA PhD

Teacher I Science Coordinator