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1. The document is a year-end exam in Earth Science for Manay National High School for the school year 2023-2024. 2. It consists of 40 multiple choice questions testing students' knowledge of various Earth Science topics like weathering, erosion, deposition, plate tectonics, volcanism, earth's structure and more. 3. The questions assess students' understanding of concepts like the rock cycle, weathering and erosion processes, plate boundary types, plate tectonics theory and evidence.

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Year End Summative Earth Science

1. The document is a year-end exam in Earth Science for Manay National High School for the school year 2023-2024. 2. It consists of 40 multiple choice questions testing students' knowledge of various Earth Science topics like weathering, erosion, deposition, plate tectonics, volcanism, earth's structure and more. 3. The questions assess students' understanding of concepts like the rock cycle, weathering and erosion processes, plate boundary types, plate tectonics theory and evidence.

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MANAY NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

YEAR END EXAM IN EARTH SCIENCE


S.Y. 2023 – 2024
Direction: Read and analyse the following questions. Encircle the letter of the correct answer, strictly no erasure.
1. Which of the following refers to the process at or near Earth’s surface that cause rocks and minerals to
breakdown?
a. Weathering b. Erosion c. Deposition d. Abrasion
2. It is the processes that break a rock or mineral into smaller pieces without altering its composition?
a. Physical Weathering b. Deposition c. Mass Erosion d. Chemical Weathering
3. It is the processes that change the chemical composition of rocks and minerals?
a. Mechanical Weathering b. Physical Weathering d. Chemical Weathering d. Erosion
4. The process of moving weathered products from one place to another is called?___
a. Weathering b. Transportation c. Deposition d. Erosion
5. These are geological phenomena and processes that originate externally to the earth’s surface?
a. Exogenic Process b. Endogenic Process c. Weathering d. Erosion
6. The incorporation and transportation of material by a mobile agent such as water, wind and ice.
a. Deposition b. Erosion c. Exogenic process d. Weathering
7. Once the movement of sediments reach their final or temporary destination, it is called___.
a. Saltation b. Weathering c. Deposition d. Erosion
8. It refers to the water that flows over Earth’s Surface can cause erosion and deposition.
a. Sea waves b. Gravity c. Glaciers d. Running Water
9. It refers to the ability of stream to erode and transport.
a. Speed b. Velocity c. Discharge d. Solution
10. It is a volume of water passing through a cross section of a stream during a given time.
a. Discharge b. Abrasion c. Velocity d. Solution
11. It is a process of erosion when the water dissolves certain types of rocks.
a. Solution b. Hydraulic Solution c. Abrasion d. Attrition
12. What is the primary source of energy for Exogenic Process?
a. Heat from inside the earth c. Heat from both the sun and the earth
b. Heat From the sun d. None of the above
13. The breakdown of rock by oxygen and water, often giving iron – rich rocks a rusty – coloured weather surface.
a. Oxidation b. Hydrolysis c. Carbonation d. Solution
14. The breakdown of rock by acidic water to produce clay and soluble salts.
a. Hydrolysis b. Oxidation c. Solution d. Carbonation
15. What happens during mass wasting?
a. Rapid Erosion b. Deposition c. Abrasion d. Exfoliation
16. How magma is’ formed?
a. Magma’s formed under certain circumstances in special location deep in the crust or in the upper
mantle.
b. Magma’s formed through heating and cooling of materials on earth’s surface.
c. Magma’s formed through movement of rocks and minerals.
d. Magma’s formed under the earth’s mantle with the help of worms.
17. How does decompression melting occur?
a. It occurs when the temperature decreases directly proportional to pressure.
b. It occurs when the temperature is constant but pressure decreases.
c. It occurs when the temperature increases inversely proportional to pressure.
d. It occurs when the temperature is constant but the pressure increases.
18. What are the natural cracks in the rocks produced by brittle deformation?
a. Dip b. Joints c. Fault d. Wall
19. Which of the following is NOT a result of tensional stress?
a. Mid Ocean Ridges b. Folds c. Cliff d. Decrease in pressure
20. Where burial metamorphism does takes place?
a. Sedimentary Environment b. Subduction Zone c. Mid Ocean ridge d. Polar Regions
21. What will happen to the rock after re – crystallization process?
a. Minerals grains partially dissolve c. Different crystal structure
b. Same chemical formula d. Change in size and shape
22. What happens after magma is formed?
a. Magma escaped in two forms intrusion and extrusion
b. Magma escaped in the form of a magma monster
c. Magma escaped in a tube that can be found on the earth’s mantle
d. Magma escaped using door
23. Which of the following is NOT a cause of Metamorphism?
a. Weather b. Pressure c. Heat d. Hydrothermal Solution
24. Why the Earth is interior hot?
a. Because of the magma inside the Earth’s mantle
b. Because of the global warming that happened on the earth’s atmosphere
c. Because of the metamorphism happened beneath the earth’s surface
d. Because of the left over heat from its formation and disintegration of radioactive element
25. How do rocks behave under compressional stress?
a. Rocks stretches, causing an elongation parallel to the direction of stress
b. Rocks expand causing it to move in opposite direction
c. Rock move directly towards each other but not along the same axis
d. Rocks squeezes parallel to the direction of stress

26. What layer of the Earth is considered as the thinnest layer and composed mainly of silicon and aluminium?
a. Crust b. Mantle c. Inner Core d. Outer core
27. How does inner core differ from outer core?
a. Inner core is composed of liquid metal while outer core is composed of solid iron
b. Inner core is composed molten rocks while outer core is composed of radioactive decay
c. Inner core is composed of solid iron while outer core is composed of melted metal
d. Inner core is composed of silicate mineral while outer core is composed of carbonate mineral.
28. Which of the following is true about shear stress?
a. The two dominant forces are directed away from each other but not along the same axis
b. The dominant force is directed towards each other but not along the same axis
c. The dominant force is directed away from each other
d. The dominant force is directed towards each other
29. A molten mixture of rock – forming substances, gases, and water from the mantle
a. Lahar b. Magma c. Lava d. Mineral
30. What are all the processes associated with the discharge of magma, hot fluids, and gases?
a. Continental Drift b. Seafloor c. Plate Tectonics d. Volcanism
31. The movement of the tectonic plates is caused by:
a. The rotation of the earth c. Convection currents in the Asthenosphere
b. The gravity of the iron – nickel core d. The Moho discontinuity
32. The 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami was caused by a shift in two plates that pushed one section of the seafloor
under another section of the sea floor by 5 meters. What type of boundary is this?
a. Divergent b. Transform c. Convergent d. metamorphic
33. A plate boundary where two plates move away from each other is called
a. Divergent Boundary c. Transform boundary
b. Convergent Boundary d. Subduction
34. Scientist hypothesizes that super continent existed 200 million years ago. This continent is called?
a. America b. Pangea c. Super Earth d. Eurasia
35. Which of the following is where one plate slides under another plate?
a. Submarine zone b. Subduction zone c. Divergence zone d. Lower zone
36. The area around the pacific plate where boundaries form is called..
a. Death ring b. Ring of fire c. Fire zone d. zone of fire
37. The San Andrea Fault in California is known as an active earthquake area. What type of boundary is it?
a. Converging b. Transform c. Diverging d. Sea floor spreading
38. The Himalayas in Asia are an example of what type of plate boundary?
a. Divergent c. Ocean to continent convergent
b. Continent to continent convergent d. Transform
39. What geologic feature / event would you most likely to find at divergent boundary between two pieces of
oceanic crust?
a. Rift valley b. Island Arc c. Mid – Ocean Ridge d. Flat Land
40. When pressure builds between two tectonic plates, it can suddenly release causing a (an) ____.
a. Earthquake b. Convection Current c. Volcano d. Gravitational Pull

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