Earth Science Reviewer 2

1. The figure shows a plate boundary that is form ed when plates slide
horizontally past one another. What kind of plate boundary is formed?
A. convergent plate boundary
B. divergent plate boundary
C. transform plate boundary

2. Orogenesis is the process that results to the formation of new landform.

Which of the following is NOT a product of orogenesis?
A. lakes
B. hills
C. mountain

3. Which of the following is NOT a volcanic product produced by a

volcano?
A. ash cloud
B. formation of secondary vents
C. lava

4. Which of the following is an example of oxidation?

A. some of the minerals get dissolved in water
B. rust decomposes rocks completely with the passage of time
C. the joints enlarge in size and lime is removed in solution

5. What do we call the process where carbon dioxide is dissolved in water

and reacts with the carbonate rocks?
A. erosion C. mass wasting
B. deposition
6. Which of the following is an example of a recycling method?
A. plastic bottles can be used again for drinking
B. using eco-bag or paper bags to lessen plastic usage
C. creating eco-bricks from a used water bottle and tetra packs

7. Baste and his men perform a milling operation in one of the mountains
of Luzon. Which of the following is INCORRECT waste disposal of the
milling operation?
A. put the tailing in an incinerator
 B. metal scrap recycling in tailing waste
C. building tailing dams for the reservoir of tailing waste.

8. Which of the following scenario has the BEST example of a source

reduction method?
A. dumpster diving
B. waste segregation
C. strawless policy in fast foods

9. What is the instrument used in detecting and measuring an

earthquake’s magnitude?
A. snotel
B. seismograph
C. speedometer

10. The boundary between the mantle and the core.

A. Guttenberg Discontinuity
B. Lehmann Discontinuity
C. Mohorovicic Discontinuity
11. A geologist is studying a region with a convergent plate boundary
where two continental plates are colliding. What type of geological
feature is most likely to be formed in this setting?
A. Mid-ocean ridge
B. Ocean trench
C. Mountain range

12. A geologist is conducting research and finds that the coastlines of South
America and Africa seem to match up, suggesting they were once
connected. What was the name of the supercontinent that included
these landmasses?
A. Laurasia
B. Pangaea
C. Gondwana

13. What is the driving force behind the movement of tectonic plates in the
theory of plate tectonics?
A. Tsunami
B. Earth's magnetic field
C. Convection currents in the mantle
14. A geologist is studying a mid-ocean ridge and the formation of new
oceanic crust. Which theory is most relevant to this geological feature?
A. Seafloor spreading theory
B. Plate tectonics theory
C. Subduction theory

15. What is the name of the supercontinent believed to have existed about
1.3 billion years ago, prior to the breakup of Pangaea?
A. Gondawana
B. Rodinia
C. Laurasia

16. In which country would you find the volcano Mount Vesuvius, known
for its destructive eruption in 79 AD that buried the city of Pompeii?
A. Greece
B. Italy
C. Poland

17. What will be the result when tension is applied to brittle rock?
A. Boudins
B. Fault (normal)
C. Fault (reverse)

18. . Which layer has the highest density?

A. Crust
B. Mantle
C. Core

19. Identify the type of seismic wave is being illustrated.

A. Body wave: Love wave C. Surface wave: Love wave
B. Body wave: Rayleigh wave D. Surface wave: Rayleigh wave

20. Two plate boundaries were observed to have moved away from each
other. Which type of plate is this?
A. Convergent
B. Divergent
C. Transform

21. Which of the following time geologic timespan is the shortest?

A. Epoch
 B. Age
C. Era

22. Which of the following concepts were unified by plate tectonic theory?
A. Continental drift theory
B. Seafloor spreading theory
C. Both A and B

23. If you were asked to determine the absolute age of an organism that
recently died, which method should you use?
A. Potassium -argon method
B. Rubidium-strontium method
C. Carbon-14 method

24. Which type of erosion will take place if rainwater penetrated through a
hole where a root has decayed?
A. Rill
B. Scalding
C. Tunnel

25. Which of the following is the end result of erosion?

A. Weathering
B. Deposition
C. Mass wasting

26. Which of the following refers to the method of designing, manufacturing,

purchasing, using, and reusing materials so that the amount of waste or its
toxicity is reduced?
A. Recycling
B. Reusing
C. Reduction

27. which of the following processes is NOT an example of an endogenic

process?
A. Magmatism
B. Metamorphism
C. Frost wedging

28. Which Earth layer consists of the crust and the upper mantle?
A. Asthenosphere
B. Core
C. Lithosphere
29. Why does debris avalanche very fast in comparison to creep?
A. because creep has a very high-velocity flow.
B. because creep has a very high volume of rocks.
C. because debris avalanche is a slow movement of regolith.
D. because debris avalanche has a very high-velocity flow of large
volumes of rocks.

30. Loews are created by which agent of erosion?

A. Wave
B. Wind
C. Running water