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The document outlines 10 formative tests on geology topics that students must complete. The tests cover concepts like the rock cycle, plate tectonics, geological timescales and dating methods. Students are required to answer questions, create diagrams, maps and timescales, and do activities like carbon dating calculations.

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The document outlines 10 formative tests on geology topics that students must complete. The tests cover concepts like the rock cycle, plate tectonics, geological timescales and dating methods. Students are required to answer questions, create diagrams, maps and timescales, and do activities like carbon dating calculations.

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FORMATIVE TESTS

FORMATIVE TEST I
- Make a simple map on the concept of the three types of rock

- Answer the questions that follow.


1. How does each type of rock being formed?
2. How can the environment affect the formation of rocks?
3. Explain metamorphism.

FORMATIVE TEST II
- Draw the complete rock cycle and present before the class.

- Answer the questions that follow.


1. How important is the rock cycle?
2. Does every rock go through complete rock cycle?
3. What do butterflies and metamorphic rock have in common?

FORMATIVE TEST III

- Draw a volcano, illustrating the endogenic processes involved in it.

- Answer the questions that follow.


1. Is magma formation of great importance? Why or why not?
2. What do you think will happen if the internal source of energy of the earth shuts off?

FORMATIVE TEST IV

- Make a concept map on the exogenic processes. Present in front of the class.

- Answer the questions that follow.


1. How are you going to familiarize yourself with the different processes involved in the rock formation
on the surface of the earth?
2. How are you going to prepare yourself for the effects of the exogenic processes?

FORMATIVE TEST V

- Explain how continents drift and include how the folds and faults formed after drifting.

- Answer the questions that follow.


1. How are you going to state Continental Drift Theory in your own words?
2. Can you cite evidences of continental drift theory? What are these? Are these evidences reliable?
3. How are you going to differentiate folds from faults?

FORMATIVE TEST VI

- Make your own time scale based on the discussion of the earth’s history.

- Using a Venn diagram, differentiate radio dating, absolute, and relative dating in your own words.

- How important is geologic time scale in interpreting the age of our mother earth?

FORMATIVE TEST VII


- Answer the questions that follow.
1. When is the particular time that man started to exist?
2. What kind of organism had lived during the pre-Cambrian eon?
3. What do you think is the reason of extinction of organisms in the last era?
4. Is absolute dating important in determining the geologic division of time? Why or why not?
5. Make or create a complete geologic time scale indicating the species and events that had taken
place every time interval.
FORMATIVE TEST VIII

- Fill in the needed data to complete the geologic time scale.

EON ERAS PERIODS EPOCHS


 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
PHANEROZOIC

 
 
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

FORMATIVE TEST IX

- Calculate the age of certain object through carbon dating, if a fossil has found out that it contains 10%
of carbon.
- Calculate the age of certain object through carbon dating, if a fossil has found out that it contains
96.02% of carbon.

- Answer the questions that follow.


1. How accurate is dating methods, esp. carbon dating?

2. What is/are the disadvantages of using these different dating methods?

FORMATIVE TEST X

- Make a concept map on the evolution of the earth.

- What are the four divisions of time?

- What is the largest time interval? Smallest time interval?

- How important is Geologic time scale?

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