SUMMATIVE TEST IN EARTH SCIENCE

Unstable elements undergo ______________ to attain a more stable form.

• Gravitational contraction

• Radiogenic transmission

• Radioactive decay

• Emission of particles

How many percent of the solar energy that reaches the surface of Earth is reflected to space?

• 10%

• 20%

• 30%

• 40%

The following are the evidences provided by Alfred Wegener to back up his Continental Drift Theory, EXCEPT:

• Seafloor spreading

• Continental Fit

• Fossil Evidence

• Climate Mismatch

This is a force that causes hotter, less dense material to force itself up through a ridge.

• Slab-pull

• Geothermal gradient

• Conduction

• Ridge-push

Parallel but opposite directions.

• Tension

• Shear

• Compression

• Convergent

These are the flat parts of the ocean.

• Abyssal plains

• Smokers

• Trenches

• Seamount

The series of wave-like ripples or bends formed during mountain building are called ____________.

• Shear

• Concentration gradient

• Folds

• Divergent

It’s a term that can be used to classify rocks which formed the interior of the Earth.

• Volcanic

• Plutonic

• Plutonism

• Pahoehoe

It is a type of convergent boundary that happens when a continental crust moves toward another landmass.

• Continental to Oceanic

• Oceanic to Oceanic

• Continental to Continental

• None of the above

It is formed when two plates move apart.

• Convergent boundary

• Transform boundary

• Shearing

• Divergent boundary