EARTH AND LIFE SCIENCE

GRADE 11
FIRST QUARTER LONG TEST (EARTH SCIENCE)
Direction: Write the letter of the correct answer.
1. Which is true about the characteristics of Earth and Venus?
a. Venus doesn’t have landforms
b. Both rotates counterclockwise
c. Both have water
d. Both have atmosphere
2. Which is not considered a part of the Biosphere?
a. The soil that is filled by the farmers
b. The biodiversity of the flora and fauna
c. The deep vent exotic animals
d. Bacteria on hot springs and glaciers
3. What do you call the Earth's orbit in which the planet receives sufficient
energy to allow water to exist on its surface?
a. The ozone layer
b. Kuiper belt
c. Oort Cloud
d. Goldilocks zone
4. What is the role of Hydrosphere in our survival?
a. It produces El Niño.
b. It provides salinity to the ocean.
c. It provides Landforms and creates magnetic field.
d. It provides fresh water and habitat for some of the organisms.
5. Which is not considered as part of biosphere?
a. The biodiversity of the flora and fauna
b. The soil that is filled by the farmers
c. Bacteria on hot springs and glaciers
d. The deep vent exotic animals
6. The tendency of a fine-grained metamorphic rock to split along planar
fractures is termed:
a. Cataclastic
b. Cleavage
c. Foliation
d. Metasomatism
7. What type of rocks are formed by the cooling of the Earth's surface from a
molten state?
a. extrusive igneous rock
b. metamorphic rock
c. intrusive igneous rock
d. sedimentary rock
8. Which of the following statement is true based from the rock cycle?
a. Igneous rocks are made up of three types of minerals.
b. The magma that settles beneath the Earth’s surface cools slowly.
c. Lava is made of melted minerals and magma is contained beneath the
earth’s surface
d. Igneous rocks are the primary rocks while sedimentary and
metamorphic rocks are derived from it.

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9. What type of fault does the picture show?
a. A reverse fault
b. A thrust fault
c. A normal fault
d. A strike- slip fault
10.Ungab Rock formation in Marinduque (natural attraction in the Philippines)
was classified into what type of rock?
a. Igneous rocks
b. Sedimentary rocks
c. Metamorphic rocks
d. None of the choices

11.Which of the following is considered as a regional metamorphism of the rocks?

a. Plates pushing together, causing pressure and heat at the boundary
where they
meet.
b. Plates pulling apart and allowing magma into layers of rock that bakes
the rock.
c. An underground intrusion of magma into layers of rock that bake the
rock.
d. An explosion of lava from a volcano that causes rock to metamorphose.
12.Granite, diorite, and peridotite are examples of plutonic type of igneous rocks,
while
obsidian, basalt, and pumice are examples of ________ type of igneous rocks?
a. felsic b. mafic c. volcanic d. intermediate
13.Metamorphism that caused by high temperature and high pressure imposed
over a large volume of crust is what type of metamorphism?
a. Burial b. Contact c. Catalactic d. Regional
14.Which type of Earth’s internal heat that results from heat of accretion due to
frictional heat?
a. Radiogenic Heat c. Primordial Heat
b. Radioactive Heat d. Primogenic Heat
15.Which of the following statements best describes Radiogenic heat?
a. This resulted from molten magma
b. This resulted from radioactive decay of isotopes
c. This resulted from heat of accretion due to frictional heat
d. This resulted from internal heat energy accumulated by dissipation in
a planet during its first few million years of evolution.
16.What causes the earthquakes, volcanoes, and ridges on Earth?
a. Earth’s internal heat c. Convection currents in the
crust
b. Sinking of the oceanic crust d. Convection currents in the
mantle
17.What refers to the group of metamorphic rocks that have visible layers or
bands of
mineral within them?
a. Foliated c. Stratified
b. Unfoliated d. Sedimentary
18.In what type of rocks does foliation occur?
a. sedimentary rock c. metamorphic rock
b. extrusive igneous rock d. intrusive igneous rock

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19.What do you call a fault in which the footwall moves up along with respect to
the hanging wall?
a. A reverse fault c. A normal fault
b. A thrust fault d. A strike- slip fault
20.Igneous rock is divided into two groups, extrusive and intrusive. Extrusive
igneous rocks form when magma makes its way to its surface as lava and the
cools forming rocks. Which of the following will be the characteristics of the
crystals?
a. Crystals are very large.
b. Crystals are phaneritic.
c. Crystals are fine-grained.
d. Crystals are coarse-grained.
21.What type of rocks are formed from sediments over long period of time?
a. Minerals c. Sedimentary Rocks
b. Igneous Rocks d. Metamorphic Rocks
22.What law or principle states that sedimentary rocks are originally formed in
horizontal layers?
a. Law of superposition
b. Idea of unconformities
c. Law of original horizontality
d. Principle of crosscutting relations
23.Which of the following statements is true for an earthquake 's epicenter?
a. The epicenter is a place on the fault where it intersects the surface
b. The epicenter is at Caltech in Pasadena, where the seismographs are
located
c. The epicenter is the point on the faults surface within the Earth where
the rapture on the fault began.
d. The epicenter is the point on the Earth’s surface just above the location
where
movement on the fault began
24.Which of the following are the points, lines, shapes, and colors used in the
hazard
map?
a. Titles b. legends c. symbols d. sources
25. Which of the following is not an earthquake hazard?
a. Fire b. tsunamis c. liquefaction d. pyroclastic
flow
26.Which of the following is the proper geological time scale division sequence?
a. Era, eon, epoch, period c. Eon, era, period, epoch
b. Epoch, eon, era, period d. Eon, period, era, epoch
27.What type of dating gives the specific age of a specie?
a. Geologic time scale c. Absolute dating
b. Relative dating d. Radiometric dating
28.What geologic activity occur when the materials such as lava, rocks, ashes
and
gases are released within 1 to 2 km.?
a. Tsunami c. earthquake
b. landslides d. volcanic eruption

29.Which theory states that the events in the present occurred in the past as
well?
a. Idea of unconformities c. Idea of uniformitarianism
b. Principle of cross-cutting d. Principle of superposition
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30.Which of the following statement is TRUE about relative dating?
a. It uses sedimentary layers of rock
b. It determines the numerical age of an object
c. It is a qualitative measurement and is sequential.
d. Both A and C
31.Which of the following statement best describes stratified rocks?
a. Formed through the cooling and solidification of magma or lava.
b. Rock that has undergone transformation by heat, pressure, or other
natural agencies
c. The layering that occurs in most sedimentary rocks and in those
igneous
rocks formed at the Earth's surface.
d. All of the above
32.Which dating system is used to relate stratigraphy and time to geologic?
a. It determines the age of rocks by measuring its radioactive decay
b. It identifies the oldest rock layers
c. It gives the numerical age of the rock
d. It is time consuming
For items 33-34 refer to the given illustration.
33.Which layer is considered the youngest?
a. Layer A c. Layer C
b. Layer B d. Layer D
34.. Which dating approach is applied for identifying the oldest rock
layers?
a. Geologic time scale c. Absolute dating
b. Relative dating d. Radiometric dating
35.Which dating system is used to relate stratigraphy and time to geologic?
a. Geologic time scale c. Absolute dating
b. Relative dating d. Radiometric dating
36. Which of the following man-made activities will trigger and cause landslides.
a. Terrace farming, strip farming and irrigation
b. Mining, monsoon rains and agricultural terracing.
c. Natural phenomenon such as heavy rains and earthquakes.
d. Construction that changes slopes, surface water and groundwater.
37.What type of hazard is caused by the extreme meteorological and climate
events such as floods, droughts, hurricanes, tornadoes and monsoons?
a. Biological hazard c. Physical hazard
b. Environmental hazard d. Hydro meteorological hazard
38.Which type of hydro meteorological hazard are violently rotating columns of
air in contact with the earth and a cloud?
a. Flood c. Storm surge
b. Tornado (ipo-ipo) d. Tropical cyclone
39.Which of the following are examples of coastal erosion?
a. Corrasion, abrasion, hydraulic action and attrition
b. Corrasion, abrasion, hydraulic action, attrition, and traction
c. Corrasion, abrasion, hydraulic action, attrition, and suspension
d. Corrasion,abrasion, hydraulic action, attrition, and corrosion/ solution
40.Commonly known as the sandpaper effect, which type of coastal erosion
involves breaking waves, concentrated between the high and low watermarks,
which contain sand and larger fragments wearing away the base of a cliff or
headland?
a. Abrasion B. Attrition C. Corrasion D. Solution
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