Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Region III – Central Luzon
Tarlac City Schools Division
MATATALAIB HIGH SCHOOL
Sitio Buno, Matatalaib, Tarlac City
SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
S.Y. 2019 – 2020

MIDTERM EXAMINATION
Earth and Life Science

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100
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the test. If you are caught cheating you would not be allowed to take the exam, garner a score of 0 and would be subjected
to disciplinary measures. God bless!

I. MULTIPLE CHOICE 6. This theory states that the universe expanded but did
not change density. In order to maintain this, matter
Write the letter of the correct answer on the space was inserted into the universe.
provided before the number.
a) Primordial Universe
1. He is the Belgian priest to whom the big bang theory is b) Oscillating Universe
attributed. c) Divine Theory
d) Steady State Theory
a) Edwin Hubble
b) Albert Einstein 7. According to the Rigveda, the universe is oscillating in
c) George Lemaitre which a “cosmic egg” or ___________containing the
d) Nicolaus Copernicus whole universe – including the sun, moon, planets, and
space – expands out of the single concentrated point
and will eventually collapse again.
2. Edwin Hubble discovered that the universe is
expanding from his observation of ______________.
a) Brahmanda
b) Bindu
a) Photons
c) Dharma
b) Redshifts
d) Brahman
c) Gravitational pull
d) Conservation of angular momentum
8. Is a representation of a scientist’s description of an
event or idea which demonstrating how science
3. The first person to establish a geocentric universe in
knowledge is tentative.
which fixed, spherical Earth is at the center surrounded
by concentric celestial spheres of planets and stars.
a) Theory
b) Hypothesis
a) Anaxagoras
c) Law
b) Aristarchus
d) Model
c) Aristotle
d) Ptolemy
9. All of the planets in the Solar System share the same
origin with Earth – as dust particles that combined
4. This theory on the origin of the universe described how
through accretion. The following are the reasons why
God, in six days, created the heaven, land, sea, moon,
Earth is the only planet able to sustain life. Which of the
stars and living creatures.
following IS NOT INCLUDED?

a) Divine Theory
a) Water can exist in three phases
b) Big Bang Theory
b) It has an atmosphere
c) Steady State Theory
c) It has a retrograde rotation
d) Oscillating Universe
d) It has the ability to maintain sustainable heat

5. According to Greek philosophers Leucippus and

10. This is the name given to the galaxy where our solar
Democritus the universe was ________________.
system is near to.

a) originally a primordial mixture of all its ingredients

a) Andromeda Galaxy
which existed infinitesimally small fragments of
b) Milky Way Galaxy
themselves.
c) Cigar Galaxy
b) composed of very small, indivisible, indestructible
d) NGC 1300
atoms.
c) matter on the large scale is uniformly distributed and
gravitationally balanced, but essentially unstable. 11. Is rain part of the Atmosphere?
d) that matter was inserted into the universe as it
expanded in order to maintain a constant density. a) Yes, it is
b) No, it is not
12. A zone no wider than 20 km where interactions a) Weathering
between the lithosphere, hydrosphere, and b) Metamorphism
atmosphere create a habitable environment. c) Erosion
d) Lithification
a) Atmosphere
b) Litoshpere 22. The relationship between the silica content of a
c) Hydrosphere magma is _______ proportional to its viscosity.
d) Biosphere
a) Directly proportional
b) Inversely proportional
13. These are processes that allow the circulation of biotic
c) Reversely proportional
and abiotic components of the Earth.
d) Increasing then decreasing

a) Biochemical cycles 23. If magma undergoes the process of solidification, we

b) Rock cycle will classify it as ____________.
c) Biogeochemical cycles a) Igneous Rock
d) Biotic cycles b) Sedimentary Rock
c) Metamorphic Rock
14. These are the living components of the Earth. d) Sediments

a) Abiotic components 24. Rocks necessarily go through the cycle in a single path
b) Biotic components only since other paths are not possible.
c) Detritivores a) True
b) False
15. These are the loose particles of rocks blanketing the 25. This is the molten rock generated by partial melting of
surface of Earth. rocks in Earth’s mantle and in the lower crust in smaller
amounts and is the beginning of every rock.
a) Soil a) Magma
b) Fragments b) Lava
c) Sediments c) Silica
d) Regolith d) Minerals

16. This sphere includes the permanently frozen parts of 26. Rocks may go to different pathways, one of which is
the Earth. to undergo the process of metamorphism. Which type
of rock will be the result?
a) Igneous Rock
a) Cryosphere
b) Sedimentary Rock
b) Icesphere
c) Metamorphic Rock
c) Hydrosphere
d) Sediments
d) Lithosphere
27. If a rock is uplifted on the Earth’s surface and be
exposed to weathering and erosion which will give us
17. What is the most abundant element on the Earth’s ________.
surface? a) Igneous Rock
b) Sedimentary Rock
a) Nitrogen c) Metamorphic Rock
b) Silicon d) Sediments
c) Carbon
d) Oxygen 28. This type of rock results from compaction or
cementation. The rock that would most likely result
18. A rock composes of 60% silica. What group of igneous from this is what we call:
rocks does it belong to? a) Igneous Rock
b) Sedimentary Rock
c) Metamorphic Rock
a) Andesitic igneous rock
d) Sediments
b) Basaltic igneous rock
29. Earth’s crust and mantle are composed primarily of
c) Rhyolitic igneous rock
___________ and is proven by studying earthquake –
generated waves.
19. This demonstrates that any rock type, under the right a) Plastic – like rock
circumstances, can be transformed into any other b) Solid rock
type. c) Molten rock
d) Liquified rock
a) Mineral Cycle 30. The geothermal gradient states that as you go deeper
b) Rock Cycle the earth the temperature _______ while the
c) Bowen’s Reaction Series temperature ______ as you go near the Earth’s surface.
d) Igneous, Sedimentary, Metamorphic Rocks a) Increases, decreases
Cycle b) Decreases, increases
20. A process included in the rock cycle where molten c) Both increases
rock cools and solidifies. d) Both decreases
31. Even if the rate of temperature change varies
a) Weathering considerably from place to place, it averages about
b) Erosion _____° C per ______ in the upper crust.
c) Crystallization a) 35° C , kilometer
d) Metamorphism b) 35° C , meter
21. If igneous rocks are exposed at the surface, they c) 20° C , kilometer
undergo _______ in which the daily influences of the d) 25° C , kilometer
atmosphere slowly disintegrate and decompose 32. As you go to a higher place, popularly like Baguio City,
rocks. the confining pressure ______ which is why your ears
 suddenly “pop” while as you go deeper on the Earth’s
surface the confining pressure ______ .
a) Increases, decreases
b) Decreases, increases
c) Both increases
d) Both decreases

33. If we reduce the pressure exerted on a rock, we

________ its melting temperature.
a) Increase
b) Decrease
c) Stays the same 41. Approximately how long did the Gauss epoch last?
d) Increases then decreases overtime
34. This occurs when hot, solid mantle rock ascends in a) 5 million years
zones of convective upwelling, thereby moving into b) 3 million years
regions of lower pressure. c) 1 million years
a) Metamorphism d) 100,000 years
b) Cementation
c) Lithification 42. Which epoch saw the most fluctuations between
d) Decompression Melting normal and reverse polarity?
35. When these are added to rocks, it causes them to melt
at lower temperatures.
a) Gauss
a) Salt
b) Matuyama
b) Carbon dioxide
c) Gilbert
c) Volatiles
d) Brunhes
d) Sediments
36. This describes all the processes associated with the
discharge of magma, hot fluids, and gases. 43. Generally, what is the age of oceanic crust?
a) Magmatism
b) Volcanism a) the same age as the continental crust
c) Metamorphism b) younger than the continental crust
d) Vulcanization c) older than the continental crust
37. A volcano erupted violently. It was discovered that the d) science has never determined its age
silica composition was more than 60%. From these
facts, what type of magma was involved in the 44. Which observation was not instrumental in formulating
eruption? the hypothesis of seafloor spreading?
a) Rhyolitic
b) Basaltic
a) magnetization of the oceanic crust
c) Andesitic
b) depth of the ocean
d) Porphyritic
c) thickness of seafloor sediments
38. It was found out by the PHILVOCS that the lava from
d) identifying the location of glacial deposits
the eruption had low viscosity and produce quiet
eruptions. From these, we say that the type of magma
is: 45. How fast do plates move relative to each other?
a) Rhyolitic
b) Basaltic a) millimeters per day
c) Andesitic b) centimeters per year
d) Porphyritic c) meters per year
39. From our study of the different types of magma, we d) centimeters per day
can infer that the relationship between the silica
content is _______ proportional to the violence of the 46. What process creates deep-sea trenches?
eruption.
a) Directly proportional
b) Inversely proportional a) subduction
c) Reversely proportional b) magnetism
d) No relationship at all c) earthquakes
d) transform boundaries

40. When lava is too viscous to flow freely from the vent,
pressure builds up in the lava until the volcano Use the photo below to answer Questions 47 and 48.
explodes, throwing lava and rock into the air. The
erupted materials are called what?

a) Lahar
b) Tephra
c) Tempra
d) Ashes

Use the figure below to answer Questions 41 and 42

47. As shown, which direction does the icy water move?

a) up
b) down
c) remains in the same place
d) sideways
48. Which is modeled by the water movement? a) an ocean ridge
b) a continental-continental boundary
a) subduction c) a transform boundary
b) continental drift d) an oceanic-continental boundary
c) magnetic reversal
d) mantle convection 57. Which feature forms along this type of boundary?

49. Which is not a force causing plates to move? a) subduction zones

b) oceanic trenches
a) ridge push c) island arcs
b) slab pull d) folded mountains
c) volcanism
d) convection 58. The weight of a subducting plate helps pull it into a
subduction zone in which process?
50. What type of plate boundary is shown?
a) slab pull
a) ocean ridge b) slab push
b) continental-continental boundary c) ridge push
c) transform boundary d) ridge pull
d) oceanic-continental boundary
59. Which is a convergent boundary that does not have a
51. Which feature forms along this type of boundary? subduction zone?

a) subduction zones a) oceanic-oceanic

b) oceanic trenches b) oceanic- continental
c) island arcs c) continental-continental
d) folded mountains d) transform

52. What is the best way to get out of a rip current? 60. The word means “all Earth” in Greek

a) swim parallel to the shore a) Gondwana

b) swim with the rip current b) Laurasia
c) swim against the rip current c) Eurasia
d) swim under the rip current d) Pangaea

53. The smooth parts of the ocean floor located 5 to 6 km II. TRUE OR FALSE
below sea level are called the
Write T if the statement is true, while write F if the statement
a) mid-ocean ridges is false.
b) deep-sea trenches
c) abyssal plains _______________ 1. A theory is a representation of an idea,
d) continental rises on object, or even a process that is used to describe and
explain phenomena that cannot be experienced directly.
54. Which suggested to early cartographers that the
continents were once joined? _______________ 2. According to the big bang theory, the
universe began about 13.7 million years ago in a
a) ocean depth cataclysmic explosion, then continued to expand, cool,
b) position of south pole and evolve to its current state.
c) shape of continents
d) size of Atlantic Ocean _______________ 3. The study of the universe, including its
properties, structure, and evolution is what we call
55. What was Wegener’s hypothesis called? Cosmology.

a) seafloor spreading _______________ 4. Centripetal force and Centrifugal force

b) plate tectonics are just the same thing. It was just given this name to be
c) continental drift easily remembered.
d) slab pull
_______________ 5. The Big Bang theory is subdivided into
Use the figure below to answer Questions 56 and 57. two major events which are called Radiation Era and
Matter Era.

_______________ 6. Mercury is classified as a mineral

according to the criteria of a mineral.

_______________ 7. Sugar, is a crystalline solid like salt. They

come from sugarcane or sugar beets therefore, we classify
sugar as a mineral.

_______________ 8. Substances produced in a laboratory or

by human intervention are not considered as minerals
56. What type of boundary is shown?
_______________ 9. Not all rocks are minerals, but all
minerals are rocks.
_______________ 10. Fast-moving water can transport larger 13) If Water has the chemical formula of H2O, the most
particles better than slow moving water. As water slows
abundant compound that has greatest effect on
down, the largest particles settle out first, then the next
largest, and so on, so that different-sized particles are magma characteristics chemical formula is _______.
sorted into layers.
14) These are the mix of molten rock, dissolved gases, and

_______________ 11. Contact metamorphism happens
when high temperature and pressure affect large regions
of Earth’s crust.
_______________ 12. All rocks form at high temperatures and
pressures.
mineral crystals beneath the Earth’s surface.
15) Quartz consists of silicon (Si) and oxygen (O) atoms in
a ratio of one-to-two. This proportion of silicon to
oxygen is true for any sample of pure quartz,
regardless of its origin. This shows that quartz has a

_______________ 13. When the concentration of dissolved definite __________________

minerals in a body of water reaches saturation, crystal
grains precipitate out of solution and settle to the bottom.
IV. ENUMERATION
As a result, layers of chemical sedimentary rocks form,
which are called evaporites.
Give what is asked for each item and write your answer on
_______________ 14. Chlorite, muscovite, and garnet are
index minerals for metamorphic rocks. the space provided after the number.

_______________ 15. A process called sea-floor spreading

Give the three types of plate boundaries
happens when at a mid-ocean ridge, melted rock rises
through cracks in the sea floor. As the melted rock cools 1.
and hardens it forms new crust. The newly formed crust
2.
pushes the older crust away from the mid-ocean ridge.
3.
III. IDENTIFICATION Scientists divide Earth into five layers based on physical
properties give only 3.
Write your answer after the question.
4.
1) These are small pieces of rock that are moved and 5.
deposited by water, wind, and gravity. 6.
2) The process of removal and transport of rock Give the 4 types of texture we use to classify rocks
fragments. 7.
3) This process occurs when occurs when mineral growth 8.
glues sediment grains together into solid rock. 9.
4) These are layers and bands of minerals that 10.
characterize a type of metamorphic rocks.
5) To be a mineral, a substance must have atoms that
are arranged in an orderly, repetitive manner. This only
tells us that minerals must have an ______________
structure.
6) A geologist finds two metamorphic rocks. One
contains chlorite. The other contains garnet. Which
rock probably formed at the greatest depth?
7) These types of metamorphic rocks are composed
mainly of minerals that form with blocky crystal shapes.
8) Usually, sediments are deposited in layers. Therefore,
most sedimentary rocks contain layers called what?
9) Metamorphic rock forms when the chemical
composition of a rock changes because of heat and
pressure. This change is called what? Prepared by:

10) These are features of sedimentary rocks that can give Sarah Nicole L. Briones
you clues about how the rocks formed. Special Science Teacher - I

11) These can indicate the temperature and pressure or

depth at which a rock formed.
12) These are any naturally occurring inorganic solid that Noted:
possesses an orderly crystalline structure and can be
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represented by a chemical formula. Principal II