SCIENCE 10

1st Quarter PARALLEL ASSESSMENT

Name: ____________________________________ Section: ________________ Score: ____________

Multiple Choice: Encircle the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.

1. The crust and upper mantle make up Earth's ____________.

A. lithosphere B. asthenosphere
C. core D. continents

2. Most earthquakes happen ___________.

A. without warning
B. in areas where earthquakes have occurred in the past
C. along plate boundaries
D. all of the above

3. Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE about Plate Tectonics?

A. Plate tectonics is a scientific theory describing the large-scale motion of seven large
plates and the movements of a larger number of smaller plates of the Earth's
lithosphere.
B. Plates move rapidly in constant, random motion.
C. Plate boundaries are commonly associated with geological events such as earthquakes
and the creation of mountains, volcanoes, and mountain ranges.
D. Most the world's active volcanoes occur along plate boundaries, with the Pacific Plate's
Ring of Fire being the most active.

4. Which region of the Earth has the most frequent earthquakes?

A. Antarctic plate B. Eurasian plate
C. Pacific plate D. Indian plate

5. The layer that supports and moves the tectonic plates is ________________.
A. Crust B. Core
B. Asthenosphere D. Lithosphere

6. Compared to the continental crust, oceanic crust is:

A. Less dense but thicker B. Less dense but thinner
B. Denser but thicker D. Denser but thinner

7. Which of the following is NOT a major tectonic plate?

A. Philippine plate B. Pacific Plate
C. Eurasian plate D. Indo- Australian plate

8. Which of the following serves as the basis of scientists in dividing Earth’s lithosphere?
A. seismicity (occurrence of an earthquake) B. volcanism
C. mountain formation D. All of the above

9. What type of plate boundary is illustrated in the Figure?

A. transform fault boundary
B. convergent oceanic-oceanic boundary
C. divergent boundary
D. convergent oceanic-continental boundary

10.What geologic feature that will be formed above the ocean crust as the two plates converge?
A. Trench B. subduction
C. volcanic island arc D. ocean ridge
11.What geologic feature that will be formed above the continental crust as the two plates
converge?
A. Trench B. subduction
C. volcanic island arc D. ocean ridge

12.What is the type of boundary where two plates move together, causing one of the slabs of the
lithosphere to descend into the mantle beneath an overriding plate?
A. oceanic-continental convergent B. transform
C. divergent D. continental-continental convergent

13.A collision between two pieces of continental crust at colliding/convergent boundary

produces a ______________.
A. mid-ocean ridge. B. mountain ranges
C. rift valley. D. ocean trench.

14.The oceanic lithosphere is destroyed at ____.

A. transform fault boundaries B. convergent boundaries
B. ocean ridges D. divergent boundaries

15.What type of plate boundary is the Himalayas in South Asia?

A. convergent oceanic-continental boundary B.convergent continental-continental
C. divergent boundary D. transform fault boundary

16.Volcanic island arcs are associated with what type of plate boundary?
A. divergent boundary
B. convergent oceanic-continental boundary
C. convergent continental-continental boundary
D. convergent oceanic-oceanic boundary

17.If rifting continues in a continental rift valley, which is most likely to form next?
A. A hotspot track B. A subduction zone
C. A new ocean basin D. A high, wide mountain belt

18.During oceanic-continental convergence, as the oceanic plate slides beneath the overriding
plate, a ____________ is often produced adjacent to the zone of subduction.
A. divergent boundary B. transform fault
B. deep-ocean ridge D. deep-ocean trench

19.The Red Sea is believed to be the site of a recently formed _______________.

A. hot spot B. ocean trench
C. divergent boundary D. convergent boundary

20.What would you most likely to find at a divergent boundary between two pieces of continental
crust?
A. Rift Valleys B. Mid-Ocean Ridge
C. Flatland D. Island arc

21.Divergent plate boundaries can be described as _____________.

A. Conservative B. reverse
C. constructive D. destructive

22.Transform faults can join two segments of a mid-ocean ridge.

A. True B. False
C. Maybe D. all of the above

23. What do you expect parallel to the trench?

A. Hot Spot B. Ocean Ridge
C. Rift Valley D. Volcanic Arc

24. Why does the oceanic crust sink beneath the continental crust at subduction boundary?
 A. The oceanic crust is pulled downward by Earth’s magnetic field.
B. The continental crust is pulled upward by the Moon’s gravity.
C. The continental crust has a denser composition.
D. The oceanic crust has a greater density.

25.In seafloor spreading, molten materials rise from the mantle and erupts ___________.
A. along mid-ocean ridges
B. at the north and south poles
C. along the edges of all the continents
D. in deep ocean-trenches

26.How did scientists discover that rocks farther away from the mid-ocean ridge were older than
those near it?
A. by determining the age of rock samples obtained by drilling in the seafloor
B. by mapping rocks on the seafloor using sonar
C. by observing eruptions of molten material on the seafloor
D. by measuring how fast seafloor spreading occurs

27.Which diagram correctly shows how mantle convection currents are most likely moving
beneath colliding lithospheric plates?

A. 1 B. 2 C. 3 D. 4

The cross-section above depicts magnetized oceanic crust at a spreading center. The “+” symbol
indicates normal magnetic bands and the “-“symbol indicates reversed magnetic bands.

28.How many reversals of the Earth’s magnetic field are depicted in the diagram?
A. 3 B. 4 C. 5 D. 6

29.In which cross-section do the arrows best show the convection occurring with the
asthenosphere beneath line XY?
30.
A. 1 B. 2 C. 3 D. 4

31.Who proposed the seafloor spreading theory?

A. Alfred Wegener B. Harry Hess
C. Michael Faraday D. Marie Curie Sklodowska

32.Which of these is NOT a correct explanation for how convection works?

 A. Hotter fluids rise above colder fluids
B. Less dense fluids rise above denser fluids
C. Cooler fluids sink below hotter fluids
D. Less dense fluids sink below denser fluids

33.Which of the following increases with distance from a mid-ocean ridge?

A. the age of oceanic lithosphere B. the depth to the seafloor
B. the thickness of the lithosphere D. all of the above

34.Which part of Earth’s interior is referred to have convection currents that cause tectonic
plates to move?
A. inner core B. outer core C. rigid mantle D. asthenosphere

35.An area in the mantle from which heat from deep within the Earth rises as a thermal plume
is known as _________.
A. Hot spot B. Magma C. Plate boundary D. Trenches

36.A process where two plates collide in which the denser plate goes beneath the less dense
plate is called __________.
A. Convergence B. Divergence C. Subduction D. transform

37.Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A. The Earth’s magnetic poles are aligned with the Earth’s rotation axis
B. The earth’s magnetic poles are inclined approximately 11 degrees from the Earth’s
rotation axis
C. The Earth’s magnetic poles are inclined approximately 48 degrees from the Earth’s
rotation axis
D. The Earth’s magnetic poles are perpendicular to the Earth’s rotation axis.

38.Which of the following was not used by Wegener as evidence of continental drift?
A. Fossils that were found on different continents.
B. Magnetic reversals on the seafloor.
C. Evidence of glacial scratches continents found near the equator.
D. The fit of the continents

39.How does the Mesosaurus fossil evidence support the continental drift theory?
A. because it’s unlikely that Mesosaurus could swim between continents.
B. because the Mesosaurus lived millions of years ago when scientists believe the
continents began to drift.
C. the Mesosaurus fossil evidence does not support the continental drift theory. It proves it
wrong.
D. because it is unlikely that the Mesosaurus existed on both continents.

39. The idea that Earth’s lithosphere is broken up into separate plates that float on the mantle is
the theory of __________.
A. continental drift B. seafloor spreading
C. tectonic movement D. plate tectonics

40. Which of the following is NOT a driving force of tectonic plates?

A. ridge push B. slab push C. drag force D. mantle convection