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FIRST QUARTER EXAMINATION: EARTH SCIENCE

First Semester
SY 2023-2024

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Test I. Multiple Choice

Direction: Read and analyze each question carefully. Choose and write the letter of your answer on the answer sheet. (30
points)

1. What do you call a tested explanation of a natural phenomenon that has become widely adopted?
a. hypothesis b. scientific law c. scientific theory d. observation
2. If experimental results do not match their predictions, scientists generally will _____________.
a. Repeat the experiment until they do match. c. Revise their working hypothesis.
b. Make the measurement more precise. d. Change their experimental results.
3. Which quantities that a scientist wants to manipulate during experimentation?
a. Dependent variable b. independent variable c. controlled variable d. control group
4. A scientist conducted an experiment to determine how the amount of salt in the body of water affects the number of plants
that can live in the water. In this experiment, what is the independent variable?
a. The temperature of the water. c. The number of plants in the water.
b. The amount of salt in the water. d. The water.
5. A scientist who wants to study the effects of fertilizer on plants sets up an experiment. Plant A gets no fertilizer, Plant B
gets 5 mg of fertilizer each day, and Plant C gets 10 mg of fertilizer each day. Which plant is the control group?
a. Plant A b. Plant B c. Plant C d. All of them
6. Which of the following is not related in the study of the Earth Science?
a. Geology b. Astrology c. Meteorology d. Astronomy
7. Which of the following describes the Goldilocks Zone?
a. A zone composed mainly of frozen water. c. A zone composed of rocks and other objects.
b. A region where life is impossible to exist. d. A zone where temperature is neither too hot nor
too cold.
8. Which of the following is the most widely accepted model of the origin of the universe?
a. The Big Bang theory b. String Theory c. Steady State Theory d. M- Theory
9. Which of the following events best illustrates the interrelationship between the geosphere and the atmosphere?
a. The formation of mountains. c. The carbon dioxide-oxygen cycle
b. Volcanic eruptions release gas. d. The water cycle
10. What element makes up the largest percentage in the atmosphere?
a. Oxygen b. Carbon c. Nitrogen d. Argon
11. The crust and the rigid upper part of the mantle is found on what part of the Earth?
a. Asthenosphere b. Lithosphere c. Mesosphere d. Geosphere
12. Which of the following methods of energy transfer drives the volcanic activity on the Earth’s surface?
a. Radioactive decay b. Convection c. Kinetic Transfer d. Conduction
13. Which of these theories described that the vacuum of space is not empty but swirled around small vortices?
a. Descartes’ Vortices c. Kant-Laplace Nebular Hypothesis
b. b. Jeans – Jeffrey’s Tidal Model d. Buffon’s Collision Model
14. Which of the following events describes the Solar Nebular Theory?
a. A large cloud of gas contracts under self-gravity.
b. A rogue star passes close to the sun about 5 billion years ago.
c. An infinitely tiny, dense point or singularity began to expand.
d. A slowly rotating gas and dust cloud contracts due to gravity and the mass that moved to the center became
the sun and the planets.
15. “Our Universe looks the same from every spot in it every time. It has no beginning or end.” What theory is being described
in the statement?
a. Geocentric theory c. Big Crunch Theory
b. Steady State Theory d. Big Bang Theory
16. What do you call the huge collection of gas, dust, and billions of stars and their solar system that is held together by
gravity?
a. Galaxy b. Nebula c. Constellation d. Singularity
17. Which of the following statements does NOT support the Big Bang hypothesis?
a. The existence of the so-called CMB radiation.
b. Galaxies move away from each other at increasing velocities.
c. The relative abundance of light elements in the universe
d. The shifting of the stars position on the sky map during solar eclipse.
18. What do you call the mineral’s ratio of its mass to volume?
a. Atomic weight b. Density c. Mass d. Weight

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FIRST QUARTER EXAMINATION
SUBJECT: EARTH SCIENCE

19. The words waxy, pearly, and dull describes a mineral’s __________.
a. Luster b. Hardness c. Streak d. Fluorescence.
20. Which of the following describes Earth’s minerals?
a. Have a crystalline structure c. Classified as pyroxenes or amphiboles
b. Classified as ring silicates d. Have no silicon in their tetrahedral structure.
21. Minerals can be identified by all of the following except _____________.
a. Specimen Color b. Specimen Shape c. Specimen Hardness d. Crystalline structure
22. Which of the following properties refers to the colored powder resulting from rubbing a mineral against a harder surface?
a. Cleavage b. Streak c. Hardness d. Luster
23. Which of the following minerals is the softest on Moh's Hardness Scale?
a. Fluorite b. Diamond c. Talc d. Quartz
24. Which of the following events show an interaction between geosphere and hydrosphere?
a. Bacteria converting nitrogen to ammonium
b. Plants undergoing the process of transpiration
c. Rocks undergoing the process of weathering due to flood
d. Water evaporating from the soil
25. Most minerals do not split apart evenly. Instead, they have a characteristic type of ________.
a. Cleavage b. Fracture c. Crystal d. Luster
26. Which of the following is NOT a factor that affects the size of minerals crystals formed in magma?
a. Rate of cooling b. gas composition c. fluorescence d. chemical composition
27. If you broke a mineral into several pieces, which of these would best describe each piece?
a. Still show the same crystal structure. c. be cleaved into the same pattern
b. Have the same shape d. be metallic and exhibit luster.
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 exploded 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. As part of the modern theory of the origins of the elements, it is hypothesized that before the formation of the stars, most
of the matter in the universe consisted of what atoms?
a. Hydrogen and Helium b. Nitrogen and Carbon c. Silicon and Lithium d. Uranium and Radium
30. What is the difference between the lithosphere and the asthenosphere?
a. The lithosphere is solid, while the asthenosphere is liquid.
b. The lithosphere is rich in silicon, while the asthenosphere is rich in iron.
c. The lithosphere is hard and rigid, while the asthenosphere is soft and weak.
d. The lithosphere makes up the continents, while the asthenosphere underlies the oceans.

Test II. True or False

Directions: Read and analyze each item carefully. Write TRUE if the statement is true and FALSE, if otherwise. Write your
answers on your answer sheet. (7 points)

1. The major reason the planets in the solar system all lie in the same plain is that gravity drew them together along that
plain.
2. The most abundant element in the atmosphere is oxygen.
3. The theory of the Descartes’ vortices is the most widely accepted theory on the origin of the solar system.
4. Buffon’s Collision theory states that an intruding star came closer to the sun that influenced its gravitational force.
5. Hydrosphere is mostly responsible for the formation of typhoons in our planet.
6. The higher the biodiversity, the more stable the ecosystem will be.
7. The big bang hypothesis can accurately explain the force that drove the expansion of the early universe.

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