Republic of the Philippines

Region VI- Western Visayas

Division of Capiz
Elizalde Academy, Inc.
5803 President Roxas, Capiz

MID-TERM EXAMINATION IN EARTH AND LIFE SCIENCE 11

Name:____________________________________Grade and Section:_____________________ Date:_____________

Direction: Read the following questions. Write your answer on the space provided for each number.

I. IDENTIFICATION:
____1. When tow forces push towards each other from opposite sides, the rock layers will bend into folds.
____2. It is the fracturing and displacement of more brittle rock strata along a fault plane either cause by tension
or compression.
____3. The balance between gravity and buoyancy on the earth’s lithosphere, as it floats on the asthenosphere.
____4. The amount of force per unit area that acts on the rock.
____5. Causes the rock to bulge up and down.
____6. Causes the rock to become thinner.
____7. Any change in a rock’s shape or volume caused by stress.
____8. Results in cracks or fractures.
____9. Change in volume or shape without breaking.
____10. Both limbs are nearly horizontal.
____11. Hanging wall moves downward.
____12. Hanging walls moves upward.
____13. A German Scientist that developed the theory of continental drift.
____14. A trace of an ancient organism that has been preserved in a rock.
____15. The large landmass that included all of Earth’s present day continents.
____16. He was one of the first scientists to publish maps depicting the apparent fit of the continents.
____17. A fossil of a seed from a fern plant.
____18. The longest chain of mountains in the world, located along the sea floor.
____19. Device that bounces sound waves off underwater object and then records the echoes of the sound waves.
____20. The process by which the ocean floor sinks beneath a deep ocean trench and back into the mantle.
____21. Drilling ship built in 1969; samples from the ocean floor were brought up through pipes.
____22. It will only result in elastic or ductile deformation at varied depths beneath Earth’s surface.
____23. The process by which a radioactive isotope changes into a new stable element.
____24. Are atoms of elements that give off radiation from their nuclei.
____25. Uses the radioactive isotope that continually absorbed by food and water that stays constant in living
things.
____26. A period were modern humans develop and ice sheets are predominant.
____27. It is exposed rock layers at the Earth’s surface.
____28. In undisturbed sedimentary rocks the oldest rocks layers are at the bottom and the youngest are at the top.
____29. Matching of rock layers that can be seen at the earth’s surface, over a large area
____30. Earliest span of time.

II. ENUMERATION:

1-3. State the three Era’s of Geologic Time Scale.

4-11. Enumerate the eight Periods of Paleozoic Era.
12-16. State the five types of fossil.
17-19. Types of Faults
20-22. Types of Stress
23-25. Give at least three fossil remains of ancient organism that will proof the continental drift theory.

III. ESSAY:

1. What is the relevance of the past that will determine how the life of living organisms starts and until they extinct?

2. What is the importance of endogenic process in shaping and deforming the Earth?