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Maria National High School

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FIRST PERIODICAL EXAMINATION
SCIENCE 10
Name: ___________________________________ Date: _____________ Score:______/25
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Directions: Read each item carefully. SHADE THE CIRCLE of the correct answer on the Zipgrade answer sheet below.
9. What do you call the arc around the Pacific Ocean which is
commonly known for frequent volcanic and seismic activity?
A. Pacific Ring of Fire C. Mid-ocean ridge
B. Circum Atlantic belt D. Convection current
10. It is described as the shaking of the ground caused by plate
movement.
A. Tsunami B. Earthquake C. Typhoon D. Volcano
11. What do you call the device that is used to measure the seismic
waves/vibrations from an Earthquake?
A. Seismograph C. Earthquake device
B. Seismogram D. Earthquake meter

12. Which of the following statements best describes Plate

Boundaries?
A. Plate boundaries are the edges where two plates meet.
B. Plate boundaries are rigid sections of the lithosphere that
moves as a unit.
C. Plate boundaries causes the occurrence of tsunami.
D. Plate boundaries are irrelevant.
13. What type of plate boundary causes the plates to separate?
A. Convergent C. Transform
B. Divergent D. Constructive
14. What geologic event is most likely to happen at a transform
boundary?
A. Volcano C. Earthquake
B. Mountain D. Rift valley
15. What is the type of plate boundary is present when two plates slide
of slip past each other?
A. Convergent C. Transform fault
1. What is the outermost and the thinnest among the layers of the
B. Divergent D. Constructive
Earth?
16. What do you call the process of submerging or going down of the
A. Crust C. Mantle
oceanic crust below the continental crust?
B. Inner core D. Outer core
A. Convection C. Collision
2. Which two layers of the Earth comprises the lithosphere?
B. Tectonics D. Subduction
A. Crust and core C. Mantle and lithosphere 17. If you visit a place in the Pacific known to be along converging
B. Crust and upper mantle D. Mantle and inner core plates, which of these should you NOT expect to see?
3. Which of the following terms best describes the puzzle-like A. Active volcanoes C. Mountain ranges
pieces/segments of the lithosphere?
B. Rift valleys D. Volcanic island arcs
A. Crust B. Tectonic C. Mantle D. Plates
18. What do you call the device that is used to measure the seismic
4. Which statement best describe the location of the majority of
waves/vibrations from an Earthquake?
earthquake epicenters relative to the location of volcanoes A. Seismograph C. Earthquake device
around the world? B. Seismogram D. Earthquake meter
A. They are far adjacent. 19. Right in the middle of an island, you can find a rift valley. What
B. They are not necessarily relevant. type of plate boundary exist on that island?
C. Earthquake epicenters and volcanoes are both situated at A. Convergent C. normal fault
the same location. B. Divergent D. transform fault
D. Some are located near the edges of the continents. 20. When two tectonic plates collide, the oceanic crust usually
5. Which of the following is TRUE about the tectonic plates? subducts beneath the continental crust because it is_____.
A. They are constantly moving. A. denser B. thicker C. less dense D. thinner
B. There are fewer and fewer of them. 21. The process of subduction happens when a denser plate submerges
C. The tectonic plates don't move for centuries. below a less dense plate. Which type of convergent plate boundary
D. Earthquakes cause the tectonic plates to crack. does NOT exhibit subduction?
6. What is the underlying force that drives the tectonic plates? A. Continental to oceanic C. Oceanic to oceanic
A. Ocean tides C. Earthquake B. Continental to continental D. Oceanic to continental
B. Tectonics D. Convection 22. What do you expect to find parallel to a trench?
7. What is the other term for focus? A. Hotspot B. Ocean ridge C. valley D. Volcano
A. Center C. Epicenter
B. Hypocenter D. Direct center
8. It is described as the shaking of the ground caused by plate
movement.
23. Tsunami B. Earthquake C. Typhoon D. Volcano
 37. Who were the two scientists who proposed the theory of
23. What plate boundary is shown in the diagram below?
seafloor spreading?
A. Charles Darwin and James Hutton
A. Convergent C. Transform B. Harry Hess and Robert Dietz
B. Divergent D. Constructive C. John Butler and Arthur Smite
24. In a hotspot, Volcano A is on top of the mantle plume. Volcano B D. F. Vine and D. Matthews
is 10km farther from A while Volcano C is the farthest. What can 38. During the 1960s, scientists where already equipped with
you infer about the ages of the volcanoes? gadgets needed to explore the deep ocean. What discovery
A. Volcano A is older than C C. Volcano B is the youngest about the ocean floor is associated with the seafloor
B. Volcano B is the oldest D. volcano B is younger than C spreading?
25.-26. Refer to the diagram below. A. Mountains are denser than the mantle.
B. The rotational poles of the earth have migrated.
C. The crust of the continents is denser than the crust of the

A B ocean.
D. The crust of the ocean is very young relative to the age of
the crust of the continents.
C D 39. If the Atlantic Ocean is widening at a rate of 3cm per year,
how far (in km) will it spread in a million of years?
25. What type of plate boundary is present between plate B and C? A. 3km B. 30km C. 300km D. 3000km
A. Convergent C. Destructive 40. Which of the following can you infer from the continuous
B. Divergent D. Transform fault movement of the lithospheric plates over the asthenosphere?
26. What geologic event is most likely to happen at the given type of A. All the continents will cease to exist.
plate boundary in number 26? B. All the volcanoes in the Philippines will become inactive.
A. Earthquake C. Rift valley formation C. The continents will not be located in the same place as
B. Mountain formation D. Volcanic eruption they are now.
27. In 1912, Alfred Wegener proposed a theory that the earth is once a D. The islands of the Philippines will become scattered all
single landmass. What is the name of the Mesozoic supercontinent over the world.
that consisted of all the present continents? 41. Why does the oceanic crust sink beneath the continental crust
A. Eurasia B. Laurasia C. Pangaea D. Gondwana at the subduction zone?
28. Continental drift theory was rejected by scientist. What did Alfred A. The oceanic crust has a greater density.
Wegener fail to explain about his theory of continental drift? B. The oceanic crust is pulled downward by Earth’s
A. Climate change C. coal deposits in Antarctica magnetic field.
B. Formation of mountains D. How the continents move C. The oceanic crust is pushed from the ridge.
29. What can you say about the ages of oceanic crust near and far from D. The continental crust has a denser composition.
the mid oceanic ridge? 42. The lithospheric plates are believed to be moving slowly.
A. The Oceanic crust does not age. What is the driving force that facilitates this movement?
B. Oceanic crust materials have the same ages. A. Gravity C. magnetic force at the poles
C. Oceanic crust is older near the ridge but younger far from it. B. Force D. convection current in the mantle
D. Oceanic crust is younger near the ridge but older far from it. 43. Convection current is caused by the difference in
30. Which of the following statements is INCORRECT? ___________ and ___________ of the layers of Earth.
A. The youngest rocks can be found on the middle of an ocean. A. temperature and density C. density and pressure
B. The oldest rocks on the seafloor can be seen on trenches. B. temperature and pressure D. density and weight
C. Subduction is faster than seafloor spreading all over the world. 44. What is the mantle’s source of heat?
D. The earth is not getting heavier because of seafloor spreading A. Crust B. Core C. Lithosphere D. Sun
31. The following are the fossils found to support the Continental Drift 45. What invention in the 1950s and 1960s enables scientists to
Theory, which of them is a plant? have a clearer view of the ocean floor?
A. Laser B. Solar C. Sonar D. Seismograph
A. Cynognathus C. Lystosaurus
46. What causes the occurrence of the same pattern of rocks on
B. Glossopteris D. Mesosaurus
the ocean floor?
32. If two plates are diverging, what is happening on the far end part
A. Waves B. Gravity C. Pressure D. Magnetic field
of the two sides of the plates?
47. Wegener suggested that coal beds discovered in Antarctica
A. colliding with the other plates C. sliding pass the other indicated that this continent was ___________.
B. diverging with the other one D. building mountains A. Once underwater C. Always frozen
33. Why are the rocks found in the mid-ocean ridge consider as the B. Part of Africa D. Once near the equator.
youngest rocks? 48. This theory states that the continents are moving and were
A. They are made out of sediments. once connected before to a supercontinent called Pangaea.
B. They are just newly made from hardened magma. A. Convection current C. Seafloor spreading
C. Rocks there are alive and are giving births to new rocks. B. Continental Drift ` D. Plate Tectonics
D. Nonsense! Rocks found in mid-ocean ridge are the oldest. 49. What makes up the lithosphere?
34. Why does the magnetic field of the Earth reverses? A. Continental Crust C. Crust and upper mantle
A. The flow of fluids in the inner core changes. B. Upper mantle D. Oceanic and continental crust
B. The flow of fluids in the outer core changes. 50. The movement of the lithosphere is facilitated by a soft, weak
C. The flow of fluids in the mantle changes. and plastic-like layer. Which of the following is described in
D. The flow of fluids in the crust changes. the statement?
35. Which of the following increases with distance from a mid-ocean A. Asthenosphere C. Atmosphere
ridge? B. Lithosphere D. Hydrosphere
A. The age of the oceanic lithosphere C. The depth of the sea floor
B. The thickness of the lithosphere D. All of the above.
36. What molten material flows out of mid-ocean ridge?
A. Magma B. Sonar C. Trench D. Valley
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1. A
2. B
3. D
4. C
5. A
6. D
7. B
8. B
9. A
10. B
11. A
12. A
13. B
14. C
15. C
16. D
17. B
18. A
19. B
20. A
21. B
22. D
23. A
24. D
25. D
26. A
27. C
28. D
29. D
30. D
31. B
32. A
33. B
34. B
35. D
36. A
37. B
38. D
39. B
40. D
41. A
42. D
43. A
44. B
45. C
46. D
47. D
48. B
49. C
50. A