Department of Education
Caraga Administrative Region
Division of Surigao del Norte
PLACER NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
Magsaysay, Placer, Surigao del Norte
EARTH AND LIFE SCIENCES
PRETEST
Test I. Choose the correct answer and write your answer on your paper.
1. What branch of science that studies the circulation and distribution of water of the Earth?
a. Biology b. Geology c. Hydrology d. Meteorology
2. Which is the hottest layer of the Earth?
a. Crust b. Mantle c. Core d. None of the choices
3. The Earth’s core is made up?
a. Rock and salt b. Rock and metal c. Metal and Gold d. Gold and Salt
4. The sphere that includes all things living is the ___________?
a. Hydrosphere b. Biosphere c. Geosphere d. Atmosphere
5. What process by which ocean water is converted from its liquid state to its vapor from and thus transferred from ocean
masses to the atmosphere?
a. Condensation b. Evaporation c. Sublimation d. Deposition
6. An observer watching sailing ship at sea notes that the ship appears to be sinking as it moves away. Which statement
best explains this observation?
a. The Earth has a curved surface. C. The Earth is revolving
b. The surface of the ocean has depression d. The Earth is rotating
7. What body of water that stuck beneath the surface of the water and then flows out the ground?
a. Estuary b. Groundwater c. River d. Spring
8. What branch of Science that studies atmosphere condition and phenomena interacting the oceans and life in general?
a. Biology b. Geology c. Hydrology d. Meteorology
9. What phase of the moon is being described when you see the half lighted surface of the moon as it moves from the
new phase in its orbit around the Earth?
a. Third Quarter b. Waxing Crescent c. First Quarter d. Waxing Gibbous
10. What astronomical model of our universe believed by Ancient Greeks that Sun and the other planets is revolving
around the Earth?
a. Big Bang Model b. Nebula c. Heliocentric d. Geocentric
11. Which of the following is orderly arranged?
a. First Quarter – Waning Gibbous – Waning Crescent – Third Quarter
b. Waning Crescent – Waxing Gibbous - Third Quarter - Waning Crescent
c. Waning Crescent – Third Quarter – Waxing Crescent – Waning Gibbous
d. First Quarter- Full Moon – Waxing Gibbous – Full moon.
12. What do you call to the supercontinent that composes the seven continent plates?
a. Pangaea b. Gondwanaland c. Laurasia d. South America
13. Which shadow of the Earth is reflected to the surface of the moon when the Earth experienced the total Lunar Eclipse?
a. Penumbral Shadow c. Both Umbral and Penumbral Shadow
b. Umbral Shadow d. Cannot be determined
14. The Science that studies the atmosphere and weather phenomena is ____________?
a. Astronomy b. Astrology c. Meteorology d. Space Science
15. What is the small body of water?
a. Run off b. Streams c. Lake d. Groundwater
16. What part of the river where the freshwater mixes with the saltwater from the oceans?
a. Riverbanks b. Channel c. Estuary d. Dreams
17. What surface of the land covered by shallow bodies water?
a. Estuary b. River c. Stream d. Swamp
18. What Is the major source of water?
a. Streams b. Underground water c. Precipitation d. River
19. Which terms does not describe any layer of the Earth’ atmosphere?
a. Thermosphere b. Stratosphere c. Asthenosphere d. Troposphere
20. What is the solid outermost shell of the Earth which includes the uppermost layer of the mantle?
a. Asthenosphere b. Crust c. Upper Mantle d. Outer core
21. The following are the discoveries of Galileo Galilei, EXCEPT?
a. Jupiter has four natural satellites c. Moon has different phases like Venus
b. Planets are Circular d. None of these
22. What minor member of the Solar System composed of rocky and metallic pieces held together by frozen gases?
a. Asteroids b. Comets c. Meteors d. Meteoroids
23. When the visible portion of the moon is increasing, the moon is __________________?
a. Waxing b. Full c. Waning d. Last Quarter
24. What planet is the fastest revolving planet in the solar system?
a. Neptune b. Saturn c. Jupiter d. Uranus
25. What eclipse is shown when the moon passes the Earth and covering part of the Sun showing the Sun’s disk?
a. Annular Solar Eclipse b. Total Solar Eclipse c. Partial Lunar Eclipse d. Annular Lunar Eclipse
26. It was developed through the use of relative dating and specific dates were applied to it via radiometric dating?
a. Radiometric Dating b. Relative Dating c. Precambrian Time d. Geologic Time Scale
27. What is the most abundant compound near or on the surface of the Earth?
a. O2 b. H2O c. CO2 d. N2
28. The most common Precambrian fossils are called?
a. Paleozoic b. Ordovician c. Stromatolites d. Cambrian
29. The period brought about the emergence of terrestrial life, the earliest being the terrestrial plants with well-developed
circulatory system (vascular plants)?
a. Devonian period b. Silurian Period c. Permian Period d. Carboniferous Period
30. This is known as the “age of mammals” because mammals replaced reptiles as the dominant land animal?
a. Devonian period b. Silurian Period c. Permian Period d. Cenozoic era
Test II – TRUE OR FALSE
Write JEROME if the statement is True on the space provided and write CORTEZ if the statement is False.
________________ 31. Any form of water that falls from the clouds and reaches the ground is called precipitation.
________________ 32. The air pressure of the atmosphere increases as it increases its height.
________________ 33. The water of streams, ponds, lakes, and swamp is collectively called as standing water.
________________ 34. Thermosphere is the outermost layer of the Earth where gas atoms and molecules escape from and
merge with the vacuum of space.
________________ 35. Crater is an opening in the surface of the Earth which molten rocks and gases are released.
________________ 36. The moon’s elliptical orbit brings closest to the Earth at a point called pedigree.
________________ 37. A shooting star is a meteorite.
________________ 38. The large gap between Mars and Jupiter is populated by thousands of small rocky bodies called
asteroids.
________________ 39. The term COMET was derived from the Greek word meaning “long-haired”.
________________ 40. A comet revolves around the sun in either the Kuiper belt or Oort cloud.
Test III – 41-50 Label the parts of the Atmospheric Layer and Earth Internal Structure.
Prepared
by:
JEROME P. CORTEZ
SHS TEACHER II
