COR 5 – Earth and Life Sciences

PRELIM EXAMINATION

Name: _________________________ Date: ________________

Grade Level & Section: ______________ Score: _______________

General Instructions: This is a 60 – item test, read each instruction written every type of
test. Answer this test in one hour. Use black pen in answering the
test questionnaire. ERASURES ARE CONSIDERED WRONG.
NO CHEATING.

TEST I. MULTIPLE CHOICE

INSTRUCTION: Read each statement carefully and encircle your best answer.
1. Geocentric model states that the earth is the center of our solar system. Who proposed a
geocentric model?
a. Claudius Ptelomy
b. Clauduis Ptolemy
c. Claudus Ptolemy
d. Claudius Ptolemy
2. This theory is occurred under the influence of tidal action and the nebula broke into
whirlpool of gas within the rotating mass.
a. Protoplanet Theory
b. Tidal Theories
c. Planetesimal and Tidal theories
d. Nebular Hypothesis
3. It is the layer of earth that is incredibly dense and composed of iron and nickel that
known as the innermost part of the earth.
a. Outer Core
b. Inner Core
c. Mantle
d. Crust
4. This layer of earth is responsible for the earth’s magnetic field.
a. Outer core
b. Inner core
c. Mantle
d. Crust
5. This layer of earth is responsible for providing thermal and mechanical driving forces for
plate tectonics.
a. Outer core
b. Inner core
c. Mantle
d. Crust
6. Why is the source of heat as the characteristic of earth can support life?
a. It can help increase efficiency of heat or energy use as well as increase understanding
of things like weather changes and survival. Mammals consume food which provides
calories for the body.
b. It can help increase efficiency of heat or energy use as well as increase understanding
of things like plate tectonics, chemical changes, and survival.
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 c. It is important because it can help mammals consume food which provides calories for
the body.
d. None of the above
7. How do the four subsystems interact with each other?
a. Earth’s subsystem is very important in living things in our earth since it serves as the
cycle to sustain life on earth.
b. Earth’s subsystems are interconnected by processes and cycles. Over time, they store,
transform and transfer matter and energy throughout the whole Earth system, and
react with each other.
c. Earth Subsystems are very crucial in life forms on earth.
d. None of the above
8. What will happen if matter or energy does not change from one form to another?
a. Earth will be composed of biotic and abiotic things.
b. Earth will still rise as it is because as we know Earth will still exist even though the
matter or energy does not change from one form to another.
c. Earth will not necessarily support life, since the four subsystems need to interact with
each other to cycle the matter inside our earth.
d. Both a and b
9. Where can we find the large temperature in the layers of atmosphere?
a. Troposphere
b. Stratosphere
c. Mesosphere
d. Thermosphere
10. This subsystem is comprised of all living things and the areas where they are found all
microbes, plants, and animals.
a. Atmosphere
b. Geosphere
c. Hydrosphere
d. Biosphere
11. This type of subsystem is composed of soil, rocks and minerals present in the crust to the
core of the earth.
a. Atmosphere
b. Geosphere
c. Hydrosphere
d. Biosphere
12. Earth has a thin layer that includes the continents and the ocean floor, it is composed of
two types of rocks the silicon and aluminum. What type of Earth’s layer is this?
a. Inner core and Outer core
b. Mantle and Crust
c. Crust
d. Mantle
13. It describes how the mineral appears to reflect light and how brilliant or dull the mineral
is.
a. Luster
b. Good luster
c. Dull luster
d. Metallic Luster
14. A light color will be absorbed, and which will be reflected. Those wavelengths are
reflected to our eyes to determine its characteristics. What type of mineral physical and
chemical properties is this?
a. Pyroxene
b. Plagioclase
c. Calcite

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 d. Color
15. Which of the following is NOT an example of dull luster mineral?
a. Vitreous
b. Adamantine
c. Greasy
d. Fusible
16. How do mineralogists use streaks to determine the physical and chemical properties of
rocks?
a. It is a method used to determine the color of a mineral in powdered form. The color
of a mineral's powder is often a very important property for identifying the mineral.
b. Streak is useful in distinguishing two minerals with the same color but different
streak.
c. Streak is useful and a more reliable property than color because streak does not vary.
Minerals that are the same color may have a different colored streak.
d. All of the above
17. How the mineralogists determine the hardness scale of minerals or rocks?
a. By using Moss Hardness Scale
b. By using Mosh Hardness Scale
c. By using Mohs Hardness Scale
d. By using Mohs Harness Scale
18. What is the 6th hardest minerals according to the level of the scale used by mineralogists?
a. Orthoclase
b. Quartz
c. Apatite
d. Fluorite
19. It is referred to the textures of rock that have grains which big enough to see.
a. Textures
b. Textures and Aphanitic
c. Phaneritic
d. Phaneritic and Aphanitic
20. What are the three classifications or rocks?
a. Igneuos, sedimentary, metamorphic
b. Igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic
c. Igneous, sedimentary, metamopic
d. Igneos, sedimentary, metamorphic
21. How can we determine if it is an igneous rock?
a. When molten material inside or outside the earth cools and becomes solid. This
melted rock is called magma when it is inside the earth.
b. When some magma cools slowly underneath the earth surface and lava cools in a
surface due to volcanic eruption.
c. Start by identifying and list all visible minerals present in the rock. All igneous rocks
are derived by the action of heat and/or pressure on pre-existing different types of
rocks.
d. Both A and B
22. Which of the following is NOT an example of Sedimentary rocks?
a. Limestone c. Sandstone
b. Shale d. Pumice
23. It is referring to the rocks that are wholly or partially comprised of compacted plant or
animal remains.
a. Sedimentary rocks
b. Clastic
c. Bioclastic
d. Clastic and bioclastic

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24. How can we determine metamorphic rocks?
a. When molten material inside or outside the earth cools and becomes solid. This
melted rock is called magma when it is inside the earth.
b. When some magma cools slowly underneath the earth surface and lava cools in a
surface due to volcanic eruption.
c. Start by identifying and list all visible minerals present in the rock. All metamorphic
rocks are derived by the action of heat and/or pressure on pre-existing different types
of rocks and it can be formed by being dip under the earth while pressure and
temperatures are high.
d. Formed when particles accumulate over time and deposits and form layers. These
layers become squeezed and compressed over time until it consolidates into a rock.
25. It is a dense and fast-moving flow of solidified lavas pieces, volcanic ash, and hot gases.
a. Pyroclastic
b. Clastic
c. Bioclastic
d. Metrocalstic
26. It is the result of disintegration of rocks into particles of soil.
a. Wind erosion
b. Sheet erosion
c. Rill erosion
d. Soil erosion
27. It is the erosion that when a wind carries a vast quantity of fine soil particles and sand
away from the region.
a. Wind erosion
b. Sheet erosion
c. Rill erosion
d. Soil erosion
28. How does gully erosion and rill erosion differ to each other?
a. Rill erosion is small streams while gully erosion created large streams.
b. Rill and Gully erosion are the same that created streams.
c. Rill erosion is the reason why gully erosion occurs.
d. Gully erosion is very important in rill erosion since gully erosion is the one who gives
rill erosion a pathway to occur.
29. Erosion is the action of surface processes (such as water flow or wind) that removes soil,
rock, or dissolved material from one location on the Earth's crust and then transports it to
another location where it is deposited. Why erosion occur?
a. Erosion is the geological process in which earthen materials are worn away and
transported.
b. Erosion happens when there is a removal of surface material from Earth’s crust,
primarily soil and rock debris, and the transportation of the eroded materials by
natural agencies such as water or wind from the point of removal.
c. Erosion happens when there is a removal of surface material from Earth’s crust,
primarily soil and rock debris, and the transportation of the eroded materials by
natural agencies such as physical and chemical weathering from the point of removal.
d. Both B and C

30. It is the type of erosions that result in small, yet well defined streams. What type of soil
erosion is this?
a. Soil erosion
b. Wind erosion
c. Gully erosion
d. Rill erosion

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TEST II. ENUMERATION
INSTRUCTION: List or enumerate what is being asked on each of the following items.
List down the five different types of folding
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List down the 3 agents that can melt rocks in magmatism.
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List down the two major Sources of Earth’s Internal Heat
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TEST III. SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS
INSTRUCTIONS: Answer the following questions in 5 sentences only.

Your score will be based on the following:

CRITERIA Excellent Satisfactory Needs Improvement
3 2 1
- Exceptional clarity - Clear expression of - Ideas lack clarity and
and coherence. ideas. coherence.
Clarity and coherence - Smooth flow of - Ideas are presented - Limited connection
thoughts. logically. between ideas.
- Easily - Reader can follow the - Difficult to follow the
understandable response. response.
- Thoroughly - Addresses the main - incomplete or tangential
Appropriateness or addresses all points of the question. response to the
Accuracy aspects of the - Shows understanding question.
question. of the topic. - Limited understanding
- - Demonstrates a - Response is generally reflected in the
deep understanding relevant. response.
of the topic. - Response lacks
- Response is highly relevance to the
relevant. question.
The use of words are The use of words are good and The use of words are fair and has
excellent and has no errors in has a few errors only many serious errors
Grammar and Spelling the grammatical structures

41-43. What do you think is the importance of studying the interactions among the four
subsystems?

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 44-46. Does the temperature and pressure have the biggest contribution in the physical
and chemical changes of the rock? Why and why not?

47-49. How does the layer of stratified rocks formed?

50 – 52. How can we determine the age of stratified rocks?

TEST IV. PROBLEM SOLVING

INSTRUCTIONS: Analyze and solve the following problems. In answering, it should be in a
correct process of solution, it means it involves a formula, given and
solutions. Underline or encircle your final answer.

53-56. The density of iron is 7850 kg/m3. What is the specific gravity of iron-related to
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 water ?

57– 60. You have a sample of granite with density 2.8 g/cm2. The density of water is
1.0 g/cm3. What is the specific gravity of your granite?

“Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were
easier; wish you were better. “
-Ma’am Cris-

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