Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Region II
Schools Division of Isabela
GAMU DISTRICT
306113 - GAMU RURAL SCHOOL ANNEX

SCIENCE 10 – FIRST QUARTER TEST

Name: ____________________________________ Section: ___________________
MULTIPLE CHOICES: Directions: Read each question carefully and make sure you understand the facts
before you begin answering. Select the best answer and write the letter of your answer on your answer sheet.

1. What is a volcano? For items 8-10, use the diagram below.

A. A mountain or hill formed around a
crack
in the earth’s crust.
B. A mountain with a jagged peak
C. A mountain or hill with a flat top
D. Both a and c
2. Where is the location of volcanic belts?
A. islands in the Pacific
B. North American mountain ranges
C. the boundaries of Earth’s plates
D. the coast of Antarctica
3. In the pie chart of volcanoes around the world, how may
percent of active volcanoes are found in Asia?
A. 11%
B. 13%
C. 27%
D. 37%
4. What continent has the largest percentage of volcanoes?
A. Africa
B. Asia
C. Australia
D. Antarctica
For items 5-6, use the illustration of the Anatomy of a
Volcano.
8. Where is the hypocenter of an earthquake?
9. Point B is called the earthquake ___.
10. Point C is called ___.
11. Which of the following sequences correctly lists the
different arrivals from first to last?
A. P waves…S waves…Surface waves
B. Surface waves…P waves…S waves
C. P waves…Surface waves…S waves
D. S waves…P waves…Surface waves
12. How do rock particles move during the passage of a P
wave through the rock?
A. back and forth parallel to the direction of
wave travel
B. back and forth perpendicular to the
direction of wave travel
C. in a rolling circular motion
D. the particles do not move
13. According to the figure above, which of the following
types of plate boundaries produce the deepest earthquakes?

5. What is the smallest vent structure on the side of

volcanoes?
A. summit C. reservoir
B. magma D. parasitic cone
6. What is the molten rock within the Earth’s crust?
A. magma C. lahar
B. lava D. silicate A. transform fault boundary
7. Earthquakes are the shaking, rolling or sudden shock of B. divergent boundary
the earth’s surface. Earthquakes happen along “fault lines” C. continental collision boundary
in the earth’s crust. What is the amount displacement in an D. subduction zone boundary
earthquake? 14. What type of plate boundary is the San Andreas Fault?
A. epicenter A. convergent boundary
B. dip B. divergent boundary
C. slip C. transform boundary
D. focus D. sea-floor spreading
For items 15-16, use the three types of plate boundaries to
answer the next set of questions and the given diagram.
A. Transform B. Divergent C.
Convergent
15. At which boundary would crust be melted (as it sinks
into the mantle) as subduction occurs?
16. The African Rift Valley an example of which type of
boundary?
17. What is the topographic feature at A called
______.
A. oceanic basin
B. ocean ridge
C. oceanic trench
D. volcanic center
18. Why mountains rise? Because of the _____.
A. shifting of the Earth’s mantle and crust
B. continuous movements of the Earth’s rock
C. dense rocks at the base of the Earth’s crust
D. movements of the mantle
For items 19-20, identify the different plate boundaries
25. When oceanic crust meets oceanic crust along a
convergent boundary, which plate is most likely to be
subducted?
A. the plate with an island arc
B. the plate with the biggest continent
C. the plate with the oldest crust
D. the plate with the youngest crust
26. Why did the distribution of earthquakes and volcanoes
help confirm plate tectonic theory?
A. Both earthquakes and volcanoes were
distributed randomly.
B. Earthquakes and volcanoes were different
along different types of boundaries.
C. Earthquakes and volcanoes were the same
along all of the plate boundaries.
D. Neither earthquakes nor volcanoes had
been studied much before plate tectonics.
Refer to the diagram, Coastal Cross-Section to answer the
following two questions. (questions #27 – 28)

27. Which of the flowing numbers (shown on the diagram)

Convergent 19.___ 20.___
refers to the subduction zone?
21. Which of the three main boundary types is least A. 2
common? B. 3
A. they are all equally common C. 4
B. convergent D. 5
C. divergent 28. What kind of plate boundary is illustrated here?
D. transform fault A. convergent
22. A map of the ocean floor shows a variety of B. divergent
topographic features: flat plains, long mountain chains, C. transform
and deep trenches. What is the longest mountain chain on D. subduction
Earth? 29. What makes up the lithosphere?
A. the Mid-Atlantic Ridge A. Continental crust
B. East Pacific Rise B. divergent
C. the East African Rift Valley C. transform
D. the Andes Mountains D. subduction
30. Alfred Wegener is a German scientist who hypothesized
that the earth was once made of single large landmass called
Pangaea. Which of the following theories did Wegener
proposed?
A. Continental Drift Theory
23. What is the process shown above by which molten B. Continental Shift Theory
material moves through the Earth’s mantle? C. Plate Tectonics Theory
A. Radiation D. Seafloor Spreading Theory
B. Convection Currents 31. Seafloor spreading is a process by which new ocean floor
C. Faulting is formed near the mid-ocean ridge and moves outward. Who
D. Sea-floor spreading were the two scientist who proposed the theory spreading in
24. The San Andreas Fault in California is an example the early 1960’s?
of what kind of boundary? A. Charles Darwin and James Hutton
A. convergent B. Harry Hess and Robert Dietz
B. divergent C. John Butler and Arthur Smile
C. plate boundary zone D. F. Vine and D. Matthews
D. transform fault
32. What is the relative motion of the plates in divergent 38. Which of Earth's layers is shown by the letter Z in the
boundary? image above?
A. Moving away from each other A. Mantle
B. Moving towards each other B. Inner Core
C. Sliding past each other C. Outer Core
D. No motion at all
D. Crust
33. As a new seafloor is formed at the mid-ocean ridge,
the old seafloor farthest from the ridge is destroyed. Which 39. What is the name of the layer of the Earth that is labeled
of the stated process describes how the oceanic crust with the letter Y?
plunges into the Earth and destroyed the mantle? A. Mantle
A. Convection
B. Construction B. Inner Core
C. Diversion C. Outer Core
D. Subduction D. Crust
34. Why are we able to measure past plate motion using
hotspots? For item #40, Use the following diagram to answer the
A. Hotspots are relatively stationary, next number.
whereas plates move.
B. Hotspots are unaffected by gravity,
which drives plate motion.
C. Hotspots only erupt every 1,000 years.
D. Hotspots only erupt when a plate move

24. In 1912, Alfred Wegener proposed a theory that the

Earth is once a single landmass. What is the name of the
Mesozoic supercontinent that consisted of all present
continents?
Which of the following plate boundaries is shown at Y in
A. Eurasia the diagram?
B. Lauresia A. a transform boundary
C. Gondwanaland B. a continental-oceanic boundary
D. Pangaea C. an oceanic-oceanic boundary
26. What geologic features/events are present in transform D. a continental-continental boundary
fault boundary?
A. Earthquake Modified Identification. Identify what is being asked in
B. Mountain the sentence. The letter provided is given as the first letter
C. Volcanoes of the word.
D. Rift valleys
35. In the diagram below, which two are the best examples
T _______________55. Group of extinct fossil arthropods
easily recognized by their distinctive three-lobed, three-
of different continental positions in the past?
segmented form.
U _______________56. Apparently formed in super
novae about 6.6 billion years ago. It occurs in most rocks
in concentrations of 2 to 4 parts per million, and in much
lower concentrations in seawater. Its radioactive decay
provides the main source of heat inside the earth, causing
A. North America – South America convection and continental drift.
B. North America – Africa L ________________57. The large northern continent is
C. South America – Asia
called _______________ and the southern continent is
D. South America – Africa called Gondwanaland
36. According to Wegener's model, what evidence did
glaciers leave for the existence of Pangaea? I ________________58. During the journey of Charles
A. fossils Darwin to the Galápagos in 1835, he spotted
B. striations land __________ racing about on the island of Santiago.
C. glacial lakes He wasn't a fan. “From their low facial angle they have a
D. soil deposits singularly stupid appearance,” he wrote, also opining that
37. Who was the father of the plate tectonic theory? the animals are “lazy and half torpid.”
A. Alfred Wegener A _______________59. Largest continent.
B. J. Tuzo Wilson
C. Harry Hess O _____________60. Third layer of the Earth. It is the
D. Robert Deitz only liquid layer, and is mainly made up of the metals iron
and nickel.