FIFTH MODULAR SUMMATIVE EXAM IN EARTH SCIENCE 10

1ST QUARTER

Name: ______________________________ Grade/ Section: ________________ Date: ___________

I. Identification/ Enumeration
Write the term or scientists being defined or described by the following on your answer sheets.
Choose among the words below.
1 – 2. The two continents which drifted northward and began to collide to form volcanoes that gave
rise to the Philippine islands.
3. The period when the Philippines was starting to take shape with the development of three major
geological blocks.
4. The period when the major geological units were approaching one another.
5. The period when the major geological units began to emerge above sea level.
6. About 10 mya, ____________ was uplifted and large land areas were already exposed for the
two other geological units.
7. Starting in the Pliocene, 5 mya, ____________ emerged, while other smaller islands and
peninsulas only surfaced much later.
8. - 11. The islands and peninsulas which emerged later in the Pliocene period.
12. The only Philippine island which was connected to Asian landmass.
13. - 14. The evidences that explains the uniqueness of the Philippine islands from the rest of Asian
countries.
15. The last period when Philippine islands grow together with the repeated formation and melting
of glaciers.
16. – 20. Five major Pleistocene island groups that became prominent during glacial events.
21. The plate boundary where plates slide past one another in a horizontal motion parallel to the
plate boundary separating the two plates.
22. The term used to describe Transform boundaries which means regions with no production or
destruction of crust occurs.
23. These are areas where rocks are being broken and weakened by ongoing fault action.
24. _______________ occur as curvilinear breaks in the seafloor; they are traces of the transform
boundary past the ridges and trenches which no longer experience movement.
25. Transform boundary is typically known as____________________, they build up pressure when
friction prevents them from sliding until the pressure exceeds the force of the friction and results in an
earthquake.
26. – 30. Five most active faults in the Philippines.

Australia mid-Oligocene Miocene Palawan

Asia Cenozoic Mindoro Sebuyan
Bicol Camiguin Sulu flora
Fauna Pleistocene greater Luzon greater Mindanao
Greater Negros-Panay Greater Sulu greater Palawan transform faults
conservative margins Fault zones Fracture zones strike-slip faults
Marikina/Valley Fault System Western Philippine Fault
Eastern Philippine Fault Mindanao Fault Central Philippine Fault

II. Essay (5pts)

Based on your own understanding about the presence of faults and trenches in the Philippines and
how it emerged, what is theory do you support most – Continental Drift or Plate Tectonics? Explain.