SUMMATIVE TEST

EARTH AND LIFE SCIENCE

I. Choose the letter of the best answer.

1. Which among the set of planets are called terrestrial?
A. Jupiter, Neptune, Uranus
B. Mercury, Venus, Mars, Earth
C. Earth, Venus, Mars, Jupiter
D. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

2. What makes planet Earth habitable?

A. It has comfortable distance from the sun.
B. It has atmosphere that protects from radiation.
C. The atmosphere holds carbon dioxide and other gases.
D. All of the above

3. Which of the following best describes the surface of the planet Earth?
A. a thick layer of hydrogen gas
B. cloudy and hot with lots of volcano
C. cold, rocky, and covered with red dust
D. mostly water surface with some areas of land

4. Which is supported and sustained by planet?

A. life C. a rocky core B. a moon D. an atmosphere

5. Which factors are needed for organisms to live on Earth?

A. temperature and nutrient
C. only A
B. atmosphere and energy
D. both A and B

6. When nitrogen is returned to the soil when dead plants decompose is an interaction that occurs in what system?
A. biosphere and atmosphere
C. biosphere and geosphere
B. geosphere and atmosphere
D. atmosphere and geosphere

7. Carbon dioxide dissolving from the air into the ocean is an interaction that occurs in which system?
A. atmosphere and hydrosphere C. atmosphere and geosphere
B. atmosphere and atmosphere D. atmosphere and biosphere

8. The atmosphere of the Earth is composed of ___ oxygen and _____ nitrogen and other gases.
A. 0% and 100% C. 78% and 21%
B. 21% and 78% D. 50% and 50%

9. A thin layer of solid rock that makes up the outermost part of the Earth is visible to which part of geosphere?
A. core C. mantle
B. crust D. biosphere

10. Ozone plays an important function in every single organism on Earth. To what sphere does ozone layer belong?
A. atmosphere C. geosphere
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11. Pyrite is a yellowish mineral that looks like gold and is commonly called fool’s gold. What is the property of
mineral exhibited by pyrite wherein it reflects light and with a metallic look?
A. Color C. Luster
B. Hardness D. Streak

12. Some minerals like mica has surfaces with planes of weak bonds in the crystals. Thus, its crystals can be
peeled like layers of onion. What is the property exhibited by mica?
A. Cleavage C. Hardness
B. Fracture D. Tenacity

13.What are the building blocks of rocks and it is mostly found in the geosphere?
A. elements C. ore
B. minerals D. soil

14. Which is not a property that can be used to identify a mineral?

A. hardness C. opaque
B. luster D. streak

15. Which refers to a naturally occurring, inorganic solid that has a definite crystalline structure and chemical
composition?
A. compound C. mineral
B. crystal D. rocks

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