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ALEOSAN NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

San Mateo, Aleosan, Cotabato

Name: _______________________________ Address: _____________________ Section: ___________

Subject: Science 10 Teacher: FAITH RACHEL I. CAYA Score: ________

Lesson : Quarter 1 Week 1 LAS 1

Activity Title : Distribution of Active Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Epicenters, and major Mountain Belts
Learning Target(s) : Define plate tectonics
Reference(s) : Science 10 learners materials, Regional SLM
LAS Writer : FAITH RACHEL I. CAYA
Content Validator/s : MELINDA C. VILLENA

What Is Plate Tectonics?

Earth’s lithosphere consists of layers, the crust and the upper part of the mantle. This Activity sheets focus
only on the outermost layer of the Earth, the crust, which has two
kinds: the thicker but less dense continental crust, and the thinner but
denser than the continental crust, the oceanic crust. The crust is made
of variety of solid rocks like sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous.
It has an average density of 2.8 g/cm3 and its thickness ranges from 5
to 50 Km. The crust is thickest in a part where a relatively young
mountains is present and thinnest along the ocean floor. According to
the plate tectonic model below, the entire lithosphere of the Earth is
broken into numerous segments called the plates.

Plate Tectonics is a theory which suggests that Earth’s crust is made up of plates that interact with various
ways, thus producing earthquakes, mountains, volcanoes and other geologic features. Plates are rigid
sections of the lithosphere that move as a unit.
Activity 1. FIND ME!
Refer to Map of plate boundaries (Figure 2) to answer the following questions below.

Guide Question:
1. How many plates do you see? __________________________________________
2. List down the seven larger plates and the remaining smaller plates in the table below

Name of Larger Plates Name of Smaller Plates

3. What is your basis in identifying the plate? ___

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ALEOSAN NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
San Mateo, Aleosan, Cotabato

Name: _______________________________ Address: _____________________ Section: ___________

Subject: Science 10 Teacher: FAITH RACHEL I. CAYA Score: ________

Lesson : Quarter 1 Week 1 LAS 2

Activity Title : Distribution of Active Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Epicenters, and major Mountain Belts
Learning Target(s) : Analyze and explain the distribution of active volcanoes, earthquake epicenters and
major mountain belts.
Reference(s) : Science 10 Learner’s materials, Regional SLM
LAS Writer : FAITH RACHEL I. CAYA
Content Validator/s : MELINDA C. VILLENA

A mountain range (mountain chain, mountain belt) is a geographic area with many mountains. Mountain
ranges are long chains or groups of mountains. Ranges are usually 1,000 or more miles long. Individual
mountains of a range were often formed by the same geological processes. In some cases, however, an
individual mountain may have been formed by a different process. A volcanic mountain can be formed by a
rising pocket of magma, while a nearby mountain may have been created earlier by the stress of colliding
tectonic plates, folding the land upward to form mountains.

Major Ranges
1. Himalayas are one of the highest mountain ranges in the world, located in South Asia.
2. The Andes is the longest mountain range in the world and boasts some of the highest peaks.
3. Alps, a small segment of a discontinuous mountain chain that stretches from the Atlas Mountains of North
Africa across southern Europe and Asia to beyond the Himalayas.
4. Rocky Mountains, byname the Rockies, mountain range forming the cordilleran backbone of the great
upland system that dominates the western North American continent.
5. Ural Mountains, also called the Urals, Russian Uralskie Gory or Ural, mountain range forming a rugged
spine in west-central Russia and the major part of the traditional physiographic boundary between Europe
and Asia.

Activity 2. STICK IT UP!

Objective: Identify the longest and the highest mountain range in the world. Material: Map of mountain
ranges, glue and colored paper
Procedure:
1. In the given map identify the longest and the highest mountain range in the world.
2. Stick the colored paper in identifying it. Red colored paper for the highest and blue colored paper for the
longest mountain range.
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Guide Questions:
Q1. What mountain range is the longest? _________________________________
Q2. What mountain range is the highest? _________________________________
Q3. Does the longest and highest mountain range lie on the same location?
______________________________________________________________________

Activity 9. LOCATE IT!

Objective: Locate the mountain ranges in the map.

Material: Map of mountain ranges

Procedure:
1. In the given map locate the mountain ranges in the world.

2. List down the mountain ranges and the location in the map.

Guide Questions:
1. What are the mountain ranges in the map?
____________________________________________________________________
2. How many are the major mountain ranges in the world?
___________________________________________________________________

Prepared by: FAITH RACHEL I. CAYA

Teacher I

Checked by: MELINDA C. VILLENA,

Master Teacher I