JJ Summative

Naga National High School
Gubawang, Naga, Zamboanga Sibugay

S.Y.2022-2023
Grade 10 Science
Name: _ Grade and Section:

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MULTIPLE CHOICE
Direction: Read and analyze the question. Choose the letter of the correct answer.
1. What is the outermost layer of the Earth?

a. Crust b. Inner core c. Mantle d. Outer core
2. It is the location on the Earth’s surface directly above the focus of an earthquake
a. Center b. Direct Center c. Epic center d. Epicenter
3. How will you relate the distributions of mountain ranges, earthquake epicenters, and
volcanoes?
a. Mountain ranges are found in places between where volcanoes and earthquake
epicenters are also situated.
b. Mountain ranges are found in places between where volcanoes and/or earthquake
epicenters are also situated.
c. Mountain ranges are found only in places where earthquake epicenters are situated.
d. Mountain ranges are found only in places where volcanoes are situated.
4. Which theory states that the entire crust is broken and is continuously moving?
a. Continental Drift c. Seafloor Spreading
b. Plate Tectonics d. Titanic Theory
5. Why is it important to be aware of places prone to earthquakes?
a. To identify what crop must be stored.
b. To identify when to evacuate.
c. To locate where to stay best.
d. To perform necessary precautions.
6. How are tsunamis created?
a. A submarine earthquake causes a huge amount of water to be displaced.
b. Differences in temperature cause hot seawater to rise.
c. The gravitational pull of the moon causes the ocean water to rise.
d. Topography underwater causes disturbances in the oceans’ current.
7. The Himalayan mountain range of India was formed at the .
a. Divergent boundary c. Hot spot
b. Convergent boundary d. Transform fault boundary
8. In what direction is South America moving away from Africa?
a. West b. East c. North d. South
9. The following features found at divergent plate boundary EXCEPT:
a. Mid-ocean ridges c. Crumpled mountains
b. Deep-sea trenches d. Volcano Island Arc
10. Which of the following is an example of a transform-fault boundary?
a. Appalachian Mountain c. San Andreas Fault
b. Mid-Atlantic Ridge d. Himalayas
11. Which of the following boundary found between two plates, moving toward each other?
a. Divergent boundary c. Lithosphere
b. Transform-Fault boundary d. Convergent boundary
12. Which type of plate boundary that occurs between the African Plate and the Arabian Plate?
a. Divergent boundary c. Convergent oceanic-continental boundary
b. Transform-Fault boundary d. Convergent oceanic-oceanic boundary
13. The word used to refer the shaking of the ground due to any activity in the lithosphere.
a. Intensity b. earthquake c. volcanism d. wave
14. What do you call a chain of volcanoes developed parallel to a trench or a crack under the
ocean?
a. Mountain range c. Volcanic Island Arc
b. Volcanoes d. mountainous
15. What is the other term for an underwater mountain?
a. Oceanic ridge b. Trench c. Hill d. Volcanic Island
16. Materials in the mantle flow up and down. Which of the following best describes the
mantle?
a. A solid layer b. partially liquid c. a metallic layer d. very hot layer
17. Which of the following type of plate boundary does a rift valley formed simultaneously?
a. Convergent c. Transform-Fault
b. Divergent d. Both convergent and divergent
18. How do the plates move when we feel that the ground is shaking?
a. Towards each other c. Slide past each other
b. Away from each other d. All of the above
19. What is the source of heat in mantle convection current?

a. The Sun b. The Crust c. The Core d. The Moon
20. What do you call a heat transfer process that involves the movement of energy from one
place to another?
a. Radiation current c. Convection current
b. Conduction current d. Seafloor spreading
21. What layer of the Earth does convection current also happens?
a. crust b. inner core c. mantle d. outer core
22. Which of the following theory explains how the heavy plates move along the different types
of plate boundaries?
a. Continental Drift Theory c. Seafloor Spreading Theory
b. Plate Tectonic Theory d. titanic Theory
23. What is the name of a German Scientist who hypothesized in 1912 that the continents were
once a large landmass called pangea?
a. Harry Hammond Hess c. Alfred Lothar Wegener
b. Robert Dietz d. Charles Darwin
24. What do you call the supercontinent landmass formed a million years ago?
a. Pangea b. Panthalasa c. Asia d. Eurasia
25. Why was Alfred Wegener’s Continental Drift Theory not accepted immediately by the
people during his time?
a. He cannot explain what causes the continents to drift.
b. He explains that South America and Africa fit together like a puzzle.
c. He described that the rocks and mountains at the edges of the continents were similar.
d. He explains that fossils of ancient plants such as “Glossopteris” can be found in almost
all continents.
PART II – DEFINITION
Direction: Define the following terms.
26. Continental Drift Theory –
27. Magma –
28. Convection Current –
29. Plate Tectonic Theory –
30. Pangea –
PART III – ENUMERATION

A. THREE TYPES OF BOUNDARY
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32.
33.
B. TYPES OF CRUST
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35.
For OPAL only. Answer the question briefly.
36. Where does divergence of plates usually takes place?
37. If the divergence continues, what could probably happen to the size of the space between
the splitting crusts?
38. What makes the lithospheric plates move?
39. What geologic event do you think may happen if two lithospheric plates slide past each
other?
40. Explain convection current.
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Naga National High School

Gubawang, Naga, Zamboanga Sibugay

Name: _ Grade and Section:

1. What is the outermost layer of the Earth?

19. What is the source of heat in mantle convection current?

28. Convection Current –

29. Plate Tectonic Theory –

PART III – ENUMERATION

38. What makes the lithospheric plates move?

40. Explain convection current.

JEZZA JANE E. HERNANE

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