DIPLAHAN NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

Poblacion, Diplahan, Zamboanga Sibugay

FIRST QUARTER EXAMINATION
GRADE 11-EARTH and LIFE SCIENCE

NAME___________________________ Year &Section: _______________ Date: __________ Score: ______

MULTIPLE CHOICE: CHOOSE THE LETTER OF THE CORRECT ANSWER. WRITE IT IN THE SPACE PROVIDED.

_____ 1. In what galaxy does our solar system belong?

a. Milky Way Galaxy b. Andromeda Galaxy c. Betelgeuse Galaxy d. Orion Galaxy
_____ 2. As part of the modern theory of the origins of the elements, it is hypothesized that before the
formation of the stars, most of the matter in the universe consisted of what atoms?
a. Hydrogen and Helium b. Nitrogen and Carbon c. Silicon and Lithium d.
Uranium and Radium
_____ 3.In these non-scientific thoughts of the origin of the universe, who is this creator god of the Kuba
people of Central Africa who felt an intense stomach pain and then vomited the stars, sun, and
moon?
a. Mbombo b. Purusha c. Egyptian d. Juda
_____ 4. The large scale features of the solar system says that, the periods of revolution of the planets
increase with increasing distance from the sun. Which of the following moves the fastest?
a. Mercury b. Earth c. Jupiter d. Saturn
_____ 5. Which of the following lies between Mars and Jupiter?
a. Asteroid belt b. Kuiper belt c. Oort cloud d. Icy objects
_____ 6. Given the value: 1 light year = 9.4607*12 km, if the galaxy is about 100 million light years, how
many kilometers will it be?
a. 511B more or less b. 51B more or less c. 5B more or less d. 511M more or
less
_____ 7. Which of thefollowing is mismatch?
a. Buffon: Planetesimal hypothesis b. Buffon: Sun-Comet encounter
c. James Jean: Sun- Star interaction d. Moulton: Sun – Star encounter
_____ 8. Arrange the following events according to the NebularTheory on the origin of the Solar System.
I- Self gravity contracts a gas cloud II- disk begins to rotate III- ring forms into a
planet
a. I-III-II b. I-II-III c. II-I-III d. III-II-I
_____ 9. Which of the four spheres of the Earth where life exists?
a. Hydrosphere b. Biosphere c. Atmosphere d. Geosphere
_____10. What is the outermost layer of the Earth?
a. Mantle b. Crust c. Outer Core d. Inner core
_____11. Which of the layers of the Earth produced magnetic field?
a. Crust b. Inner Core c. Outer Core d. Mantle
_____12. Which of the following serves as the boundary that separates mantle and core?
a. Moho discontinuity b. Gutenberg discontinuity c. asthenosphere d. exosphere
For questions 13 – 16, please refer to the information given below.

Elements Symbol % by weight of % atoms

the Earth’s crust
Oxygen O 46.6 62.6
Silicon Si 27.7 21.2
Aluminum Al 8.1 6.5
Iron Fe 5.0 1.9
Calcium Ca 3.6 1.9
Sodium Na 2.8 2.6
Potassium K 2.6 1.4
Magnesium Mg 2.1 1.8

_____13. Which of the eight elements has the least percentage of atoms?
a. Aluminum b. Oxygen c. Potassium d. Magnesium
_____14. Approximately, how many percent of the Earth’s crust is composed of Oxygen an Silicon?
a. 64.3% b. 69.8% c. 74.3% d. 94.3%
_____15. What is the total computed value of the TOP 3 elements?
a. 82.9% b. 84.3% c. 90.3% d. 92.4%
_____16. Which of the following is the appropriate description of the Hydrosphere?
a. The mixture of gases that surround the Earth b. The solid portion of the Earth
C All waters on Earth including subsurface and atmospheric water d. Only surface water on Earth
_____17. What is produce when magma cools and solidifies?
a. Ore Minerals b. Extrusive rocks c. Intrusive Rocks d. Metamorphic Rocks
_____18. Which of the following rocks is the most common extrusive rock?
a. Shale b. basalt c. granite d. gabbro
_____19. Limestone: Sedimentary rock ; Pumice: _______ rock
a. Sedimentary b. Metamorphic c. Mineral d. Igneous
_____20. What do you call the breakdown of rock materials into its current form?
a. Erosion b. Sedimentation c. Weathering d. Deposition
_____21. Avalanche is a type of_______.
a. Weathering b. Erosion c. Deposition d. Mass wasting
_____22. Which of the following refers to the slow downslope movement of water-saturated soil?
a. Creep b. falls c. slide d. solifluction
_____23.In Exogenic Process, which comes first?
a. Erosion b. Sedimentation c. Mass wasting d. Weathering?
_____24. Which of the following fields of Science that devotedly deals with the study of landforms?
a. Geography b. Biology c. Meteorology d. Geomorphology

For questions 25 & 26, please refer to the information given below.
I-Compressional Tectonic Forces II- Tensional Tectonic Forces III- Shearing Tectonic Forces

_____25. Which of the following refers to the pushing of crustal rock together?
a. I only b. II only c. I & II d. I & III
_____26. When it caused the Earth’s crust past each other and slide, what type of Tectonic force is involve?
a. III b. II c. I I,II,III
_____27. When crust is pushed towards each other by compressional tectonic force, fold is formed. What is
most like be formed to the one that come upward?
a. Mountain b. rift valleys c. plains d. bedrock
______28. Who proposed the Theory of Continental Drift?
a. Alfred Wegener b. Albert Einstein c. Edwin Hubble d. Isaac Newton
_____29. It refers to the single supercontinent in the early history of the Earth.
a. Pangaea b. Pangae c. Gondwana d. Laurasia
_____30. It was hypothesized that the supercontinent later split into two large landmasses. Which of the
seven continents now are parts of Southern Hemisphere?
a. South America & Africa b. Australia & Europe c. India & Asia d. Europe & Asia

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