SAN JOSE NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

Antipolo City

UNIT TEST IN EARTH & LIFE SCIENCE GRADE 11

S.Y. 2019 – 2020

NAME: ____________________________________________________ SCORE: ___________________

GRADE & SECTION: ________________________________________ DATE: _____________________

Directions: Give what is being asked. Wrong spelling is not allowed. Avoid erasures.

1. What theory suggests that the universe originated from a singularity that expanded
continuously?______________________________
2. This theory suggests that the universe will stay the same throughout time_______________
3. According to this theory, the universe resulted from a series of Big Bang and Big Crunch.______
4. This theory suggests that the solar system were formed by the collision of the sun and a giant
comet._______________________________.
5. As proposed by the Nebular theory, what event led to the disruption of the nebula?___________
6. This theory in the formation of the solar system suggests that the planets were formed from the
substance that was torn out of the sun._____________________
7. What planet permits growth and life?_______________________
8. How do Oxygen and Carbon dioxide make the Earth habitable?________________________
9. What characteristic/s of Earth in the proliferation of life?_____________________________
10. What are the Earth’s four subsystems?_________________________
11. What is the most abundant gas in the atmosphere?_______________________
12. What comprises the Earth’s hydrosphere?________________________
13. What comprises the Geosphere?____________________
14. What can you say about the Earth’s subsystem?____________________
15. What is the importance of the Geosphere?_________________
16. What will happen if the atmosphere of the Earth is removed?
17. Give an example of the interaction of the biosphere with hydrosphere.____________
18. How does the atmosphere support the other subsystems?_________________
19. Give an example of a dwarf planet?__________________
20. What observation led to the assumption of astronomers that Mars has water in the past?_______
21. Who is the father of modern geology?________________
22. Who proposed the Gaia Hypothesis?________________________
23. Who first use the Daisy World Model to illustrate how the biosphere is capable of regulating its
environment?____________________
24. What is the hottest and densest layer of the Earth?________________
25. What material makes up the mantle?_____________
26. What causes the mantle to flow?__________________
27. What are the thickest and thinnest layers of the Earth, respectively?_________________
28. Why is the inner core solid, but the outer core liquid, if both regions have very high
temperatures?___________________
29. What is the main difference between the asthenosphere and the lithosphere?____________
30. What are the layers of the Earth’s Lithosphere?________________________
31. What layers of the Earth generates magnetic field?__________________
32. What do you call to a solid, inorganic, naturally occurring substance with a fixed structure and
definite composition?_______________
33. What physical characteristic of the mineral refers to resistance from scratch or abrasion?______
34. What type of rock is formed from pre-existing rocks exposed to extreme heat and pressure in the
Earth’s interior?________________
35. What type of rock is formed from the lithifaction/cementation of sediments?__________________
36. What type of igneous rocks is formed from solidification of lava?____________________
37. What type of rock is formed from the slow cooling magma under the Earth’s surface?__________
38. What type of rock is limestone and sandstone?______________________
39. What type of rock is granite?______________________----- -- -

40. Give a characteristic is common to metamorphic rocks?_________________

41. What geologic process can change any type of rock into sediment?__________________
42. What type of erosion happens when light materials, such as small rocks and pebbles, are carried
by the wind to different areas?_____________________
43. Give an example of areas where the sediments are deposited?_____________________
44. Where does the internal heat of the Earth come from?__________________
45. The melting of metamorphic rocks or igneous rocks form what substance?
46. What do you call the process of bringing up the magma through an opening of the Earth’s
crust?____________________
47. Which describes the activity or motion of molten rock materials in the Earth’s crust?_______
48. What is the process of forming magma from metamorphic rocks?___________
49. What kind of rock is formed when the lava solidified after reaching the Erath’s surface?______
50. When compression occurs in the Earth’s crust, what would likely happen?_______________
51. What is the importance of the different types stresses on the Earth’s crust?_____________.
52. What is the importance of tillites/glacial till found in some tropical areas in the world support
the Continental Drift Theory?___________________
53. You have learned that your house is built in a hanging wall. After an earthquake, you noticed
that your house moved slightly lower to the ground. In what type of plate boundary and Fault is
you house most probably built on?________________________
54. Why blocks of rock deeper in the Earth’s crust deform by folding instead of breaking when
subjected to compressional and tensional stresses?____________________
55. During a field trip, you observed that the cross-section of a mountain is U-shaped. What type of
fold is most likely happened on the mountain?_______________
56. Atlantic Ocean is at a divergent boundary where the seafloor spreads. What do you think is
happening to the Atlantic Basin?__________________________
57. What does the seafloor spreading suggests on the age of the ocean floor?_____________
58. What method of dating rocks gives the actual time?_____________________
59. Which method of arranging the geologic events based on rock sequence?
60. It is a method used to describe relationships between events that happen throughout
history.____________