1ST MONTHLY EXAMINATION IN SCIENCE 10

NAME: _________________________________ YEAR/SECTION: ________ SCORE:

MULTIPLE CHOICE: Write the letter of the correct answer before the number.
1. Tectonic is derived from a Greek word “tekton”, which means _____.
a. Carpenter b. Farmer c. Fisherman d. Soldier
2. Which technology is used to measure the movement along major faults to track the relative
motion of the crustal plates?
a. Creepmeter c. Laser light
b. Global positioning system d. Seismograph
3. This is another effect of an earthquake characterized by large waves that move up and down
instead of forward.
a. Tsunami b. Tidal wave c. Seiche d. Liquefaction
4. These are areas or columns where heat or rocks in the mantle are rising toward earth’s
surface.
a. Focus b. Footwall c. Plumes d. Vent
5. Activity in this area is thought to be directly responsible for Earth’s magnetic field.
a. Crust b. Mantle c. Outer core d. Plume
6. Aeolian landforms are formed by the chemical and mechanical action of the wind. Which of
the following does not belong to the classification?
a. Buttes b. Dunes c. Loess d. Mushroom rock
7. Who among the following proposed the Continental Drift Theory
a. Alfred Wegener c. Douglas McGregor
b. Alfredo Santos d. Abraham Ortelius
8. How much water is contained on Earth?
a. 70.8 percent c. 85 percent
b. 29.2 percent d. 30.5 percent
9. This landform is low-lying area of land between hills or mountains that is usually formed by
the actions of rivers and glaciers.
a. Meander b. Mesa c. Peninsula d. Valley
10. This type of boundary is also called the destructive plate boundary.
a. Convergent b. Divergent c. Fault d. Transform
11. There are three types of convergent boundaries except one _______.
a. Continent-continent collision
b. Continent-oceanic crust collision
c. Ocean-ocean collision
d. Ridge-trench collision
12. It is the scientific study of landform and the processes that shape them.
a. Landform b. Geology c. Geomorphology d. Earth Science
13. The following are examples of erosional landforms except______.
a. Loess b. Buttes c. Mesas d. Canyons
14. A typically low-lying triangular area located at the mouth of the rivers where it meets an
ocean, a sea, or an estuary.
a. Peninsula b. Delta c. Sea cliffs d. Meander
15. It is a zone where two lithospheric plates move apart from each other.
a. Divergent c. Transform
b. Convergent d. Continent-continent collision
16. Over what surface do lithospheric plates move?
a. Lower mantle b. Outer Core c. Inner Core d. Asthenosphere
17. In 1912, German meteorologist Henry Hess introduced the Continental drift Theory, starting
that the world was once made up of a single continent, and called it Pangaea.
a. True b. False c. Maybe d. None of the above
18. The following are evidences for plate tectonics except______.
a. Hotspots b. Earthquakes c. Deep Ocean Drilling d. none of the above
19. Heat can be transferred from one place to another through a process known as____.
a. Convection c. Hotspot
b. Slab pull d. Rifting
20. The layer of rock that forms Earth’s outer skin. It is a layer of solid rock that includes both dry
land and the ocean floor. This layer of the Earth is much thinner than the layers beneath it.
What layer of the Earth is being described?
a. Mantle b. Inner Core c. Outer Core d. Crust
21. Earth’s layer experience a change in pressure, temperature, and density as one moves
toward the core.
a. True b. False c. Maybe d. All of the above
22. How do we know what the earth is made of?
a. Through geophysical surveys
b. Through gravity
c. Through magnetic and electrical anomalies by air
d. All of the above
23. What are tectonic plates made of?
a. Lithosphere c. Exosphere
b. Atmosphere d. Asthenosphere
24. What lies beneath the tectonic plates?
a. Lithosphere c. Exosphere
b. Atmosphere d. Asthenosphere
25. Seismic waves travel along Earth’s outer layer and can travel only through solids. What kind
of wave is being described?
a. S waves c. Longitudinal waves
b. P waves d. Rayleigh waves
26. In which of the following plate boundary types does the San Andreas Fault belong?
a. Convergent c. Transform
b. Divergent d. Seismic
27. This kind of landform also known as flat- topped mountains in which the portion of the land
elevated thousands of feet above their surroundings.
a. Sea cliffs c. Plateaus
b. Plains d. Hills
28. It is a natural phenomenon that is characterized by a sudden, violent shifting of massive
plates underneath Earth’s surface.
a. Tsunami
 b. Typhoon
c. Earthquakes
d. Landslide
29. The subduction plate is bent downward to form a very deep depression in the ocean floor
called a ________.
a. Subduction
b. Trench
c. Vent
d. Hotspot
30. Volcanoes are formed by the following reasons except ____.
a. Hotspot
b. Rifting
c. Subduction
d. Typhoon

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