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
C. Asthenosphere
D. Lithosphere
6. Compared to the continental crust,
oceanic crust is:
A. Less dense but thicker
B. B. Less dense but thinner
C. Denser but thicker
D. 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. 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 17.If rifting continues in a continental rift
formed above the ocean crust as the valley, which is most likely to form
two plates converge? next?
A. Trench A hotspot track
B. subduction B. A subduction zone
C. volcanic island arc C. A new ocean basin
D. ocean ridge D. A high, wide mountain
belt
11.What geologic feature that will be
formed above the continental crust as 18.During oceanic-continental
the two plates converge? convergence, as the oceanic plate slides
A. Trench beneath the overriding plate, a ________
B. B. subduction is often produced adjacent to the zone
C. volcanic island arc of subduction.
D. ocean ridge A. Divergent boundary
B. transform fault
12.What is the type of boundary where two C. deep-ocean ridge
plates move together, causing one of D. deep-ocean trench
the slabs of the lithosphere to descend
into the mantle beneath an overriding 19.The Red Sea is believed to be the site of
plate? a recently formed _______________.
A. oceanic-continental convergent A. Hot spot
B. transform B. ocean trench
C. divergent C. divergent boundary
D. continental-continental D. convergent boundary
convergent
20.What would you most likely to find at a
13.A collision between two pieces of divergent boundary between two pieces
continental crust at of continental crust?
colliding/convergent boundary A. Rift Valleys
produces a ______________. B. Mid-Ocean Ridge
A. mid-ocean ridge. C. Flatland
B. mountain ranges D. Island arc
C. rift valley.
D. ocean trench. 21.Divergent plate boundaries can be
described as _____________.
14.The oceanic lithosphere is destroyed at A. Conservative
____. B. reverse
A. transform fault boundaries C. constructive
B. convergent boundaries D. destructive
C. ocean ridges
D. divergent boundaries 22.Transform faults can join two segments
of a mid-ocean ridge.
15.What type of plate boundary is the A. True
Himalayas in South Asia? B. False
A. convergent oceanic-continental C. Maybe
boundary D. all of the above
B. convergent continental-
continental 23. What do you expect parallel to the
C. divergent boundary trench?
D. transform fault boundary A. Hot Spot
B. Ocean Ridge
16.Volcanic island arcs are associated with C. Rift Valley
what type of plate boundary? D. Volcanic Arc
A. divergent boundary
B. convergent oceanic-continental
boundary
C. convergent continental-
continental boundary
D. convergent oceanic-oceanic
boundary
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
28.How many reversals of the Earth’s
magnetic field are depicted in the
diagram?
A. 3 C. 5
B. 4 D. 6
29.In which cross-section do the arrows best
show the convection occurring with the
asthenosphere beneath line XY?
A. 1 B. 2 C. 3 D. 4
30.Who proposed the seafloor spreading
theory?
A. Alfred Wegener
B. B. Harry Hess
C. Michael Faraday
D. Marie Curie Sklodowska
31.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
32.Which of the following increases with
distance from a mid-ocean ridge?
A. the age of oceanic lithosphere
B. the depth to the seafloor
C. the thickness of the lithosphere
D. all of the above

33.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
The cross-section above depicts
magnetized oceanic crust at a spreading 34.An area in the mantle from which heat
center. The “+” symbol indicates normal from deep within the Earth rises as a
magnetic bands and the “-“symbol thermal plume is known as _________.
indicates reversed magnetic bands. A. Hot spot
B. Magma
C. Plate boundary
D. Trenches
35.A process where two plates collide in 39. The idea that Earth’s lithosphere is broken
which the denser plate goes beneath up into separate plates that float on the
mantle is the theory of __________.
the less dense plate is called __________.
A. continental drift
A. Convergence B. seafloor spreading
B. Divergence C. tectonic movement
C. Subduction D. plate tectonics
D. transform
40. Which of the following is NOT a driving
36.Which of the following statements is force of tectonic plates?
A. ridge push
TRUE?
B. slab push
A. The Earth’s magnetic poles are C. drag force
aligned with the Earth’s rotation D. mantle convection
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.

37.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

38.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.