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This document contains a summative test with 30 multiple choice and true/false questions about various topics relating to weathering and soil erosion. The test covers different types of weathering like physical, chemical and mechanical weathering. It also addresses various human and environmental factors that can cause soil erosion, such as deforestation, overgrazing, uncontrolled mining, and bad farming practices. The key provided contains the answers to all the questions in the test.

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This document contains a summative test with 30 multiple choice and true/false questions about various topics relating to weathering and soil erosion. The test covers different types of weathering like physical, chemical and mechanical weathering. It also addresses various human and environmental factors that can cause soil erosion, such as deforestation, overgrazing, uncontrolled mining, and bad farming practices. The key provided contains the answers to all the questions in the test.

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SCIENCE 5

QUARTER 4
SUMMATIVE TEST NO.1

I. Direction: Read and understand carefully the sentence. Choose the letter of the
best answer.

1. What process causes the breaking down of rocks into fragments?


A. Erosion
B. Flooding
C. Runoff
D. Weathering

2. What type of weathering involves a change in the composition rocks?


A. Chemical
B. Mechanical
C. Both chemical and mechanical
D. None of these

3. What is the process of removing rocks from mountains to be used for construction
purposes?
A. Digging
B. Flattering
C. Weathering
D. Quarrying

4. There are animals which dig up soil for shelter and to find food. How does the activity
of some animals contribute to the breaking down of rocks?
A. The food that these animals bring underground causes the breaking of rocks.
B. The digging of borrowing of animals breaks the rocks into small pieces.
C. Small rocks wiil be exposed to sunlight.
D. Animals will enjoy staying in the dug holes and cause the rising of temperature
inside.

5. Which of the following is NOT a factor that causes chemical weathering?


A. carbon dioxide
B. inorganic acids.
C. oxygen
D. water

6. What process moves sediments from rocks?


A. Soil erosion
B. Weathering
C. Dissolution
D. Fracture
7. The following human activities are caused by physical weathering, EXCEPT.
A. Quarrying of rocks
B. Mining ores
C. Building roads and tunnels
D. Boating and fishing

8. What makes the water muddy after a heavy rain?


A. The pebbles picked up by water.
B. The trees block the way of running water
C. The soil and sand are mixed with water and carried by it.
D. The goddess of rain make muddy rain fall on the ground.

9. The following are the processes of preventing soil erosion, EXCEPT.


A. Contour plowing
B. Gardening
C. Riprapping
D. Strip Cropping

10. What is the process of using chunks of stones or rocks arranged on the edge of the
slope that serves as the foundation and a ridge to control soil erosion?
A. Building Dikes
B. Rip rapping
C. Strip Cropping
D. Terracing

11. When is wind an agent of soil erosion?


A. When it presses down rocks
B. When it stops picking up rocks
C. When it breaks rocks into pieces
D. When it blows rock pieces to other places

12. Landslides on mountain slopes show the force of .


A. gravity B. running water C. runoff D. wind

13. What makes the water muddy after a heavy rain?


A. The rain pour dirty water.
B. The pebbles picked up by water.
C. The rain makes muddy rain-fall on the ground.
D. The soil and sand are mixed with water and carried by it.

14. Which of the following shows that soil erosion is caused by animals?
A. Sandstorm
B. Hen is digging the soil.
C. Root of plants are growing.
D. Construction workers are building a housing project.
15. All of these are causes of soil erosion except one.
A. People B. Sun C. Water D. Wind

II. Directions: Identify what is being described in each sentence. Write PW for
physical weathering and CW for chemical weathering.

16. This chemical process occurs more rapidly at higher temperature such as in warm
regions and damp climates.

17. This is caused by an acid rain water reacting with the mineral grains in rocks to form
new minerals such as clay and soluble salts.

18. Weathering happens when a rock is exposed to a changing temperature and


weather condition.

19. Weathering happens especially in places where there is little soil and few plants
grow, such as in mountain regions and hot deserts.

20. This type of weathering is the first stage in the production of soils especially
hydrolysis and oxidation.

III. Direction: Below are jumbled letters. Arrange them accordingly to form a word
related to weathering.

21. UQARYNGRI
22. TPASNL
23. SMILANA
24. AHUMN
25. ERATMERPUE

IV. Direction: Write AGREE if the statement is correct and DISAGREE if the
statement is incorrect.

26. Bad farming is one of the factors of soil erosion wherein farmers use excessive
fertilizers and irrigation, which damage the land.

27. Many vehicles passing through non-cemented roads cannot cause soil erosion.

28. Cutting of trees causes soil to erode due to the lack of roots that hold the soil
together.

29. Kaingin system is an agricultural practice wherein farmers clear the land by burning
trees thus, exposing the soil to rain and wind.
30. Animals expose the soil by consuming the grass in a place, making it possible for
the soil to easily be carried by water and wind.

ANSWER KEY:
1. D 21. QUARRYING
2. A 22. PLANTS
3. D 23. ANIMALS
4. B 24. HUMANS
5. B 25. TEMPERATURE
6. A 26. AGREE
7. D 27. DISAGREE
8. C 28. AGREE
9. B 29. AGREE
10. B 30. AGREE
11. D
12. A
13. D
14. B
15. B
16. CW
17. CW
18. PW
19. PW
20. CW

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