MASTERY TEST IN EARTH SCIENCE
NB: strictly no ERASURES AND ALTERATIONS. Each erasures and/or alterations is equivalent
to one-point deduction against your total score.
Multiple Choice. Choose the letter of the correct answer and write it on ½ lengthwise.
1. What is a Bigbang Theory all about?
a. Explosion in the outer space
b. It is a description or model of the very early universe
c. Explosion of stars when they get old
d. None of the above
2. Georges Lemaître was famous for his work regarding
the ______.
a. Steady State Theory
b. Big Bang Theory
c. Eternal Inflation Theory
d. Pulsating Universe Theory
3. This zone in the Solar System is characterized by its
distance from the sun where there is just the right amount
of energy received to make the temperature of a planet
neither too hot nor too cold.
a. Danger zone
c. Goldilocks zone
b. Seen zone
d. Core Zone
4. If water is present in Venus and Mercury, in what form
would it exist?
a. It will exist in solid form because of low temperature.
b. It will exist in gaseous form because high
temperature.
c. It will exist in liquid form because of moderate
temperature.
d. It will exist in condensate form because of very low
temperature.
5. It has a depth of 6400km, making it the largest sphere of
Earth. It is divided into different layers.
a. Crust, hardcore, outer core, and inner core
b. Crust, mantle, outer core, and inner core
c. Blue core, mantle, outer core, and inner core
d. Crust, mantle, dual core, and inner core
6.Which analogy correctly corresponds to the
characteristics of the following Earth’s spheres?
a. Hydrosphere : water portion; atmosphere : living
organisms
b. Atmosphere : solid earth; biosphere : living
organisms
c. Geosphere : solid earth; hydrosphere : gaseous
envelope
d. Biosphere : living organisms; geosphere : solid earth
7. Why is system important?
a. sets of interconnected components that are
interacting to form a unified whole.
b. sets rules that everyone should follow
c. gives norms of the society
d. maintains the balance of nature
8. Earth is a Germanic word which means
a. the life
c. the metal
b. the rock
d. the ground
9. Carbon dioxide from the air dissolves into the ocean.
The interaction is between __________.
a. the atmosphere and biosphere
b. the atmosphere and hydrosphere
c. the atmosphere and geosphere
d. the atmosphere and lithosphere
10. What are the major components or features of Earth?
a. air, water, soil, fire
b. air, water, land, life
c. crust, mantle, outer core, inner core
d. atmosphere, biosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere
11. Which is not a reason why Earth is considered a closed
system?
a. holds a fixed quantity of matter.
b. volume of resources will remain the same all through
time.
c. resources used can be regenerated, and the waste
produced can be disposed.
d. once used up, mineral resources are transformed into
something else
12. Why is it important that a planet possesses the right
temperature?
a. For the planet to sustain life.
b. For the water to remain in liquid form.
c. To transform water into three phases (solid,
liquid, gas).
d. To prevent dreadful microorganisms from
increasing rapidly.
13. It covers all ecosystem – from the soil to the rainforest,
from mangroves to coral reefs, and from the plankton –
rich ocean surface to the deep sea.
a. Biosphere
c. Atmosphere
b. Geosphere
d. Hydrosphere
14. Which analogy correctly corresponds to the
characteristics of the following Earth’s spheres?
a. Biosphere : living organisms; geosphere : solid earth
b. Atmosphere : solid earth; biosphere : living organisms
c. Geosphere : solid earth; hydrosphere : gaseous
envelope
d. Hydrosphere : water portion; atmosphere : living
organisms
15. It includes the following on its processes condensation,
precipitation,evaporation, transpiration, infiltration, and
surface run off.
a. Biosphere
c. Atmosphere
b. Geosphere
d. Hydrosphere
16. Which analogy correctly corresponds to the
characteristics of the following Earth’s spheres?
a.Hydrosphere : water portion; atmosphere : living
organisms
b. Atmosphere : solid earth; biosphere : living organisms
c. Geosphere : solid earth; hydrosphere : gaseous
envelope
d. Biosphere : living organisms; geosphere : solid earth
17. The present atmosphere is composed of 78% nitrogen
(N), 21% oxygen (O2), 0.9% argon, and trace amount
of other gases.
a. Biosphere
c. Atmosphere
b. Geosphere
d. Hydrosphere
18. Extends from the surface to the center.
a. Biosphere
c. Atmosphere
b. Geosphere
d. Hydrosphere
19. Which is not true about minerals?
a. They are naturally occurring
b. They can be solid, liquid, or gas
c. They are mostly compounds
d. They have a definite crystal structure
20. According to Mohs scale, which minerals properly
correspond to the hardest and least hard?
a. Hardest: apatite; least hard: talc
b. Hardest: diamond; least hard: talc
c. Hardest: diamond; least hard: fluorite
d. Hardest: orthoclase; least hard: calcite
21. The processes involved in the rock cycle include all of
the following EXCEPT.
a. Condensation
c. Erosion
b. Weathering
d. Compaction
22. The ____ shows how one rock changes into another.
a. Weathering
c. Rock cycle
b. Exogenic process
d. Metamorphism
23. The rock cycle indicates that each type of rock can
_____________________.
a. provide materials to make other rocks
b. form other rocks
c. be changed by forces at Earth's surface
d. all of the above
24. What ideas can you relate to rocks
a. made of molten material
b. a mixture of minerals, organic matter or volcanic glass
c. formed by heat and pressure
d. either igneous or sedimentary
25. Rocks are formed when magma or lava ____.
a. erodes
c. undergoes radioactive decay
b. crystallizes
d. weathers
26. Which of the following characteristics should NOT be
considered in identifying a genuine mineral?
a. Crystalline structure
c. Hardness
b. Naturally-occurring
d. Solid
27. Which type of scientist analyzes the composition of
rocks?
a. archeologist
c. rockerist
b. geologist
d. petrologist
For numbers 28 – 30, match the process in rock cycle best
explains how each type of rock is formed.
a. heat and pressure
c. melting
b. compacting
d. weathering
_______ 28. Igneous rock to sedimentary
_______ 29. Metamorphic rock to igneous
_______ 30. Sedimentary rock to metamorphic rock
31. How is minerals related to rocks?
a. minerals are formed by rocks
b. rocks are composed of minerals
c. rocks are solid same as minerals
d. minerals have color same with rocks
32. Classify minerals according to common rock-forming?
a. feldspar, apatite, olivine, garnet
b. garnet, micas, olivine, calcite
c. pyrite, zircon, amphiboles, quartz
d. pyroxenes, monazite, titanite, tourmaline
33. Which of the following is not an example of exogenic
process?
a. weathering
c. erosion
b. disposition
d. deposition
37. Which of the following is not an importance of studying
minerals?
a. They protect us from soil erosion.
b. It help us to develop new technologies that are used in
our everyday lives.
c. They are utilized as building materials, cosmetics, cars,
roads, and appliances.
d. They play a valuable role in natural systems such as
providing habitat and provide soil nutrients where the tallest
trees in the world grow.
38. What are hydrocarbon-containing material of biological
origin that can be burned for energy?
a. Coal
c. Natural gas
b. Fossil fuels
d. Oil
39. What is the process of formation of coal from plant
material?
a. Metamorphism c. Fossil fuels
b. Coalification
d. Solidification
40. What are energy producing radioactive waste which is
dangerous and has to be seal in containers and buried for
thousands of years?
a. Coal
c. Solar
b. Nuclear
d. Geothermal
41. Which is not a property of water?
a. Viscosity
c. Conductivity
b. Specific weight d. Specific gravity
42. Which is the correct movement of water in hydrologic
cycle?
a. Precipitation, evaporation, condensation
b. Evaporation, condensation, precipitation
c. Condensation, precipitation, evaporation
d. Transpiration, precipitation, evaporation
43. It favors the growth of algae known as dinoflagellates
causing an algal bloom.
a. Sedimentation
c. Eutrophication
b. Red tide
d. Dinoflagellates
44. Which of the following is not an effect of climate change?
a. Ocean acidification
b. Sea level rise
c. Coral bleaching
d. Changes in precipitation
45. An environmental principle where removal of an
organism within a food chain affects all?
a. All forms of life are important
b. Everything is connected to everything else
c. Everything must go somewhere
d. Ours is a finite Earth
“I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me”
Philippians 4:13
34. Coal is an example of fossil fuel that is also?
a. Chemical sedimentary rock
b. Organic sedimentary rock
c. Clastic sedimentary rock
d. Rock-forming mineral
35. Oil, coal, wind, sunlight and waves are examples of what
type of resources?
a. Natural resources c. Renewable energy resources
b. Energy resources d. Non renewable energy resources
36. Which of the following best fits the analogy; wind is to
renewable while ______________ is to _____________?
a. Coal; renewable
c. Oil; Gas
b. Natural gas; Non renewable
d. Petroleum; Burning
Prepared by:
PETER PAUL P. PAALAN
STEM Teacher II