SCIENCE 10

FIRST QUARTER
MELC: Describe and relate the distribution of active volcanoes, earthquake epicenters and major mountain
belts to Plate Tectonic Theory

Easy Questions:
1. The movement of the lithospheric plates is facilitated by a soft, weak and plastic-like layer. Which of
the following layers is described in the statement?
a. Asthenosphere b. Atmosphere c. Lithosphere d. Mesosphere

2. It is defined as the vibration of the Earth due to the rapid release of energy.
a. Tsunami b. Volcanic eruption c. earthquake d. landslide

3. The earth’s lithosphere is consisting of what layers?

a. Inner core and outer core c. mantle and outer core
b. Crust and upper mantle d. upper and lower mantle

Average Questions:
4. Which of these is false about lithospheric plates?
a. Have the same thickness everywhere
b. Include the crust and upper mantle
c. Thickest in the mountain regions
d. Vary in thickness

5. What method is used to locate earthquake’s epicenter with the use of data from three recording
stations?
a. Experimental method c. seismological method
b. Triangulation method d. observation method

6. You would like to calculate the distance of an earthquake’s epicenter from the recording station,
what equation should you use?
a. d = Td * 8 sec/100km c. d= Td/8 sec*100km
b. d = d*8sec/T d. d = 8 sec/Td

Difficult Questions
7. How do you compare the densities of the earth’s crust, mantle, and core?
a. The mantle is less dense than the core but denser than the crust.
b. The mantle is less dense than both the core and the crust.
c. The mantle is denser than the core but less dense than the crust.
d. The mantle is denser than the core and the crust.

8. The difference between the arrival time of the P-wave and S-wave was recorded as 34.2 seconds in
the recording station. What is the distance of the epicenter from the recording station?
a. 427.2 km b. 472.5 km c. 427.5 km d. 427.3 km

9. You were asked to locate the epicenter of a recent earthquake. Which correct sequence of events
should you
follow?
i. Determine the difference in the arrival time of S and P waves.
ii. Use the triangulation method to locate the center.
 iii. Obtain data from three different seismological stations.
iv. Determine the distance of the epicenter from the station.
a. i, iii, ii, iv b. iii, i, iv, ii c. iii, iv, i, ii d. iv, ii, i, iii

MELC: Describe the different types of plate boundaries

Easy Questions
10. Which of the following will form when two tectonic plates are moving toward each other?
A. convergent B. divergent C. tectonic D. transform

11. What type of plate boundary formed if two plates move away from each other?
A. convergent B. divergent C. tectonic D. transform

12. What type of plate boundary exists in two sliding plates?

A. convergent B. divergent C. tectonic D. transform

Average Questions:
13. What do you expect to find at a mid-ocean ridge?
a. Relatively young rocks c. thick accumulation of sediments
b. Reverse fault d. very ancient rocks

14. Which of the following is not a result of Convergent Boundary?

a. Volcanic arc b. trench c. mountain d. rift valley

15. What do you call the depression in the seafloor produced by subduction process?
a. Ocean-ridge b. trench d. cliff d. sea mount

Difficult Questions
16. Which of the following plates formed the Himalayas mountains?
a. Indian plate and Eurasian plate c. Arabian plate and Eurasian plate
b. African plate and Eurasian plate d. Arabian plate and African plate

17. Which of these is NOT true about the Philippine islands?

a. Most are part of the Philippine mobile belt, except for Palawan, Mindoro and Zamboanga
b. Formed because of the convergence of the Philippine plate and the Pacific plate
c. Originated geologically in an oceanic-oceanic convergence
d. Some are products of subduction process

18. What is formed from the diverging of the North American plate and Eurasian plate in the north and
South American plate and African Plate in the south?
a. Rift valley b. mid-ocean ridge c. earthquake d. sea

MELC: Explain the different processes that occur along the plate boundaries.

Easy Questions:
19. What do you expect to find parallel to a trench?
a. hot spot b. ocean ridge c. rift valley d. volcanic arc

20. Which of the following is not a divergent plate boundary?

 A. Mid-ocean ridge C. spreading of sea floor
B. Mt. Himalayas D. Rift Valley

21. What geologic features resulted from the collision of the two continental plates?
A. volcanic island arc C. mountain
B. fault D. earthquake epicenter

Average Questions
22. Which of the following increases with distance from a mid-ocean ridge?
a. The age of oceanic lithosphere c. The depth of the sea floor
b. The thickness of the lithosphere d. all of the above

23. The Philippine archipelago was formed due to what kind of plate movements?
a. Convergence between two continental plates
b. Convergence of two oceanic plates
c. Convergence of oceanic and continental plates
d. Divergence of plates

24. If you will visit a place in the Pacific known to be along converging plates, which of these should you
not expect to see?
A. active volcanoes C. rift valley
B. mountain ranges D. volcanic arc

Difficult Questions
25. Why does the oceanic crust sink beneath the continental crust at the subduction zone?
a. The oceanic crust has a greater density.
b. The oceanic crust is pulled downward by Earth’s magnetic field.
c. The oceanic crust is pushed from the ridge.
d. The continental crust has a denser composition.

26. What happens when two oceanic plates collide?

A. The hot spot will form.
B. The volcano island arc will form.
C. The volcanoes on the edge of a continent will form.
D. The volcano along the mid-oceanic ridge will form.

27. When a convergent boundary occurs between two oceanic plates, what will happen to one of those
plates?
A. The plate will subduct beneath to the other plate.
B. The plate will subduct toward to the other plate.
C. The plate will move away to the other plate.
D. The plate will move toward to the other plate.

MELC: Describe the possible causes of plate movement.

Easy Questions
28. What was the name of the super continent that existed 250 million years?
A. Eurasia B. Pangea C. Disneyland D. Wegenerland

29. Alfred Wegener is a German scientist who hypothesized that the Earth was once made up of a
single large landmass called Pangaea. Which of the following theories did Wegener propose?
 a. Continental Drift Theory c. Plate tectonics
b. Continental Shift Theory d. Seafloor Spreading Theory

30. Who were the two scientist who proposed the theory of seafloor spreading in the early 1960’s?
a. John Butler and Arthur Smite c. Charles Darwin and James Hutton
b. Vine and D. Matthews d. Harry Hess and Robert Dietz

Average Questions
31. Earth’s crust is being actively recycled. Where is new oceanic crust created?
A. At convergent boundaries C. At subduction zones
B. At mid-ocean ridges D. At transform boundaries

32. Where does seafloor spreading occur?

A. Mid-ocean ridges C. divergent boundaries between two oceanic
B. Oceanic rift zones D. convergent boundaries

33.The heat process caused by the uneven distribution of thermal energy in Earth’s interior is called
A. Ridge push C. slab pull
B. Seafloor spreading D. mantle convection

Difficult Questions
34. If all the inner layers of the Earth are firm solid, what could have happened to Pangaea?
a. It remained as a supercontinent.
b. It would have become as it is today.
c. It would have stretched and covered the whole world.
d. It would have slowly disappeared in the ocean.

35. Which of following observations about landforms best supports the theory of plate tectonics?
A. Volcanoes are distributed randomly on every continent.
B. As lava cools on Earth’s surface, it forms a variety of igneous rocks
C. Impact craters have been found both on dry land and on the ocean floor
D. Mountain ranges sometimes appear to be continuous on opposite sides of an ocean.

36. Which of the following discoveries would provide the best evidence that Earth's continents had
once been part of a large landmass that has since broken apart?
A. fossils of different species of organisms found
B. fossils of the same species of organism found
C. fossils of organisms that lived during the same time period found
D. fossils of organisms that lived hundreds of millions of years apart found

MELC: Enumerate the lines of evidence that support plate movement

Easy Questions
37. Which of the following is NOT evidence about Continental Drift Theory?
a. the continental jigsaw puzzle c. fossils
b. coal deposits d. magnetic reversal

38. What is used to tells the directions on Earth?

a. magnetic compass b. telescope c. seismograph d. wind vane
 39. If you are a cartographer, what will give you an idea that the continents were once joined?
a. Ocean depth c. Shape of the continents
b. Position of the south pole d. Size of the Atlantic Ocean

Average Questions
40. According to plate tectonics, which of the following is true?
A. Continents never move but the plates underneath them do
B. Earthquakes happen in the middle of continents
C. The continents used to all be connected in one continent
D. The youngest rock is found at the tops of mountains

41. Which of the following supports Seafloor Spreading Theory?

a. Rocks are older at the mid-ocean ridge.
b. Rocks far from the mid-ocean ridge are older
c. Sediments are thicker at the ridge
d. Rocks at the ocean floor are older than those at the continents.

42. Which observation was NOT instrumental in formulating the hypothesis of seafloor spreading?
a. Depth of the ocean
b. Identifying the location of the glacial deposits
c. Magnetization of the oceanic crust
d. Thickness of the seafloor sediments

Difficult Questions
43. Which of the following types of evidence best supports the theory of plate tectonics?
A. precise measurements of the thickness of continental crust
B. precise measurements of the thickness of oceanic crust
C. precise measurements of the relative motions of pieces of Earth’s lithosphere
D. precise measurements of the relative motions of Earth’s inner and outer cores

44. How is plate tectonics supported by the apparent fit of the continental coastlines?
A. The continents appear to have once been joined together and to have since drifted apart.
B. The continents appear to have once been joined to oceanic crust and to have since been
lifted above sea level.
C. The continents appear to have once been joined to additional continents that have since
been destroyed.
D. Plate tectonics is not supported by the apparent fit of the continental coastlines.

45. The lithospheric plates are believed to be moving slowly. What is the driving force that facilitates
this movement?
a. Gravitational force of the moon
b. Magnetic force at the poles
c. Convection current in the mantle
d. The force of the atmosphere