FIRST QUARTERLY EXAMINATION IN SCIENCE 10

S.Y.2023-2024

Directions: Read and analyze each question. Write the letter that corresponds
to your answer on a separate sheet of paper.

1. What do we call the method by which we obtain three intersecting circles

from three different recording stations to find the location of the epicenter?
A. Geological Method C. Location Method
B. Geometrical Method D. Triangulation Method
2. What do you call the location on the earth’s surface directly above the focus
of an earthquake?
A. Epicenter C. Narrow Zone
B. Fault D. Volcano
3. Which volcano has record of recent eruptions?
A. Active Volcano C. Hotspot Volcano
B. Cinder Volcano D. Inactive Volcano
4. What do you call the series of mountains found along the plate boundaries?
A. Earthquake C. Trench
B. Mountain Ranges D. Volcano
5. Where is the location of most active volcanoes, earthquake epicenters, and
mountain ranges?
A. Atlantic Ring of Fire C. Pacific Ring of Fire
B. Pacific Ring of China D. Philippine Ring of Fire
6. Which type of plate boundary occurs when two plates move toward each
other, causing one of the slabs of the lithosphere to subduct beneath an
overriding plate?
A. Convergent B. Divergent C. Normal D. Transform
7. Which of the following is NOT a geologic process that occurs along
convergent boundaries?
A. Earthquakes C. Tornado
B. Mountain-building D. Volcanism
8. What do you call the process by which a plate dives under a less dense
plate?
A. Centralization C. Subduction
B. Condensation D. Sublimation
9. When a convergent boundary occurs between two oceanic plates, what will
happen to
one of those plates?
A. The plate will move toward to the other plate.
B. The plate will move away to the other plate.
C. The plate will subduct toward the other plate.
D. The plate will subduct beneath the other plate.
10. What topographic feature is formed in divergent boundary?
A. Fault B. Mountain C. Rift valley D. Volcano

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11. What is the direction of the movement of hot materials in a convection
current?
A. Any direction B. Downward C. Sideward D. Upward
12. Which is NOT a line of evidence for Plate Tectonics?
A. Fossils C. Shifting Climates
B. Geologic Fit D. Triangulation Method
13. Who proposed that the continents were not stationary but moving or
drifting away from one another?
A. Alfred Wegener C. Charles Darwin
B. Carolus Linnaeus D. Jean Baptiste Lamarck
14. If you visit a place in Pacific known to be along converging plates, which of
these should you not expect to see?
A. Active Volcanoes C. Rift Valleys
B. Mountain Ranges D. Volcanic Islands
15. When two tectonic plates collide, why does the oceanic crust usually
subduct?
A. It is denser than the continental crust

B. It is thicker than the continental crust

C. It is thinner than the continental crust
D. It is less dense than the continental crust
16. Which of the following is NOT an active volcano in the Philippines?
A. Kanlaon C. Paricutin
B. Mayon D. Taal
17. Which is least related to earthquakes?
A. Epicenter C. Lava
B. Fault D. Trench
18. Where can we find most of the world’s earthquakes?
A. Atlantic C. South America
B. Pacific D. Southeast Asia
19. What type of plate boundary exists on a certain island if you can find rift
valley?
A. Convergent C. Tectonic
B. Divergent D. Transform
20. What geologic features resulted from the collision of the two continental
plates?
A. Earthquake Epicenter C. Mountain Range
B. Fault D. Volcanic Island Arc
21. Which of the following geologic features formed in the divergent plate
boundary?
A. Great Rift Valley of East Africa C. San Andreas Fault
B. Mt. Himalayas D. Sierra Madre
22. Which of the following will NOT occur in the convergence of two Continental
Plates?
A. Earthquake C. Mountain Building
B. Fracture. D. Subduction

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23. What is the source of the heat generated by the core to the mantle?
A. Decayed Radioactive Elements C. Molten Metals
B. Gases. D. Molten Rocks
24. In 1912, Alfred Wegener proposed that the earth was once a single mass.
What is the name of the Mesozoic supercontinent that consisted of all the
present continents?
A. Eurasia C. Laurasia
B. Gondwanaland D. Pangaea

25-27. You were asked to locate the epicenter of a recent earthquake. Which
correct sequence of events should you follow?
i. Determine the difference in the arrival time of S and P waves recorded
from each seismological station
ii. Use triangulation method to locate the center
iii. Obtain data from three different seismological stations
iv. Determine the distance of the epicenter from the station
A. i,iii,ii,iv C. iii,iv,i,ii
B. iii, i, iv, ii D. iv,ii,i,iii
28. Which plate boundary is formed between Philippine plate and Eurasian
plate?
A. Convergent C. Reverse fault
B. Divergent D. Transform fault
29. Which of the following does not describe a convection process?
A. The handle of a metal pot is hot while cooking
B. Boiling of Macaroni Pasta
C. A sea breeze
D. Ocean water in the surface is warmer

30.Most Scientists believe that a kind of Thermal Convection is the driving

force for plate movement.
A. False; Convection Current C. False; Seafloor Spreading
B. False; Plate Tectonics D. False; Slab Pull
31. Which of the following can you infer from the continuous movement of the
lithospheric plates over the asthenosphere?
A. All the continents will cease to exist
B. All the volcanoes in the Philippines will be inactive
C. The continents will not be in the same place as they are now
D. The islands of the Philippines will be scattered all over the world
32. Which of the following is False about lithospheric plates?
A. Vary in thickness
B. Thickest in the mountain regions
C. Have the same thickness everywhere
D. Include the upper crust and the mantle
33. Which of the following would not be formed in a divergent plate boundary?
A. Mt. Everest C. Rift Valley
B. Mid Ocean Ridge D. Seafloor spreading

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 34. Right in the middle of the island you can find a rift valley. What type of
plate boundary exists on that island?
A. Convergent C. Normal fault
B. Divergent D. Transform fault
35. Which observation was NOT instrumental in formulating the hypothesis of
sea floor spreading?
A. Depth of the ocean
B. Identifying the location of the glacial deposits
C. Magnetization of the oceanic crust
D. Thickness of seafloor sediments
36. If all the inner layers of the earth are firm solid, what could have happened
to Pangaea?
A. It remained as a supercontinent
B. It would have become as it is today
C. It would have slowly disappeared in the ocean
D. It would have stretched and covered the whole world
37. What do you expect to find parallel to a trench?
A. Hot spot C. Rift valley
B. Ocean ridge D. Volcanic arc
38. The lithospheric plates are believed to be moving slowly. What is the driving
force that facilitates this movement?
A. Magnetic force at the poles
B. The force of the atmosphere
C. Gravitational force of the moon
D. Convection current in the mantle

39. In a hot spot, Volcano A is on top of the mantle plume. Volcano B is 10 km

farther form Volcano A while C is the farthest What can you infer about the
ages of the volcanoes?
A. Volcano A is older than C C. Volcano B is the youngest
B. Volcano B is the oldest D. Volcano B is younger than C
40. If you are a cartographer, what will give you an idea that the continents
were once joined?
A. Ocean depth C. Shape of the continents
B. Position of the south pole D. Size of the Atlantic Ocean

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