SCIENCE 10 QUARTERLY REVIEWER
MODULE 1
I. IDENTIFICATION
1. Outermost layer of the Earth.
2. Made up by the crust and upper
mantle.
3. Continuously moving part of
Earth’s crust.
4. Theory that states that the
entire crust is broken and is
continuously moving.
5. Sudden release of energy within
some limited region of the rocks
of Earth.
6. Disturbance in the ocean’s
current caused by underwater
topography.
7. Chain of mountains.
8. Landmass that projects well
above its surroundings.
9. Location above the Earth’s
surface directly above the focus
of an earthquake.
10. Plate that pushes the Philippine
plate toward the Eurasian plate.
11. Float on the surface of the
mantle.
12. Location of earthquake
epicenters relative to the
location of volcanoes around the
world.
13. Found in places where
volcanoes and earthquake
epicenters are also situated.
14. Volcano with accounts of
eruption documented within
10,000 years.
15. Vibration of the Earth due to the
rapid release of energy.
16. Exact site of origin of an
earthquake, below the
epicenter.
17. Liquid rock below the Earth’s
surface.
18. Another term for earthquake
waves.
19. First type of seismic waves;
fastest and travel through solids,
liquids, and gasses.
20. Second type of earthquake;
stronger but only move through
solids.
21. Graphical record of an
earthquake.
22. Measuring instrument for
measuring the intensity,
direction, and duration of
movements of earthquakes.
23. Japanese term for “big wave in
the part”; undersea quakes.
24. A mountain or hill, typically
conical, having a crater or vent
where lava, rock fragments, hot
vapor, and gas escape.
25. Area in the world where most
volcanic activity happens.
26. Plate boundary in the Eurasian
plate and Indo-Australian plate.
27. Plate boundary between Pacific
and Nazca plate.
28. Ocean that has a ring of
volcanoes around it.
29. Philippine volcano is usually
seen in world maps due to its
violent eruption in 1991.
30. Plate not included in the Pacific
Ring of Fire.
31. Plate which is thicker but less
dense.
32. Plate that is thinner but more
dense.
33. Suggests that Earth’s crust is
made up of plates that
constantly move.
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34. Where are volcanic activity,
earthquakes, and mountain
ranges situated on continents.
35. Basis of scientists in dividing
Earth’s lithosphere.
36. Thickest in mountain regions,
include the crust and upper
mantle, and vary in thickness.
37. Safest place in the country due
to its very low risk in geologic
disasters.
38. Big body of land on the globe.
39. Majority of Earth’s volcanoes are
situated here.
40. When lightning occurs in ash
clouds during eruptions.
41. Phenomenon when volcanic
eruptions inject large quantities
of ash and gas into the
stratosphere, causing a
temporary cooling effect on the
Earth’s climate.
42. Where the most powerful
earthquake occurred.
43. Year when this earthquake
occurred.
44.Magnitude of this earthquake
on the Richter scale.
45. The Chinese polymath that
invented the seismograph in 132
AD.
46. Earthquakes on the moon.
47. Home to the Banaue Rice
Terraces.
48. Longest mountain range that
stretches for 4,300 miles (7,000
kilometers).
49. World’s tallest mountain that
rise by 2.4 inches (6.1 cm) due to
tectonic activity.
50. Region prone to earthquakes
but not to a volcanic eruption.
MODULE 2
I. IDENTIFICATION
1. Plate boundary where plates
move apart.
2. Where plates slide past each
other.
3. Boundary between two plates
moving toward each other.
4. Seafloor spreading belongs to
what type of boundary.
5. An example would be the East
African Rift.
6. Himalayan mountain range of
India is a type of what
boundary?
7. Plate where the Philippine plate
moves toward which plate.
8. Which of the following are
examples of transform fault
boundaries: Appalachian
Mountain, Mid-Atlantic Ridge,
San Andreas Fault, Himalayas.
9. Plate boundary that occurs
between African and Arabian
Plate.
10. Plate boundary between Nazca
and South American plate.
11. Plate boundary where older
crust is recycled by subduction.
12. Force that causes plates to
move.
13. Break in a rock along which
movement has occurred.
14. Outermost rigid layer of the
Earth that consists of the crust
and upper mantle.
15. Lines at the edges of the
different pieces of the
lithosphere.
16. Causes lithospheric plates to
move.
17. Also called strike slip fault.
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18. Refer to plates that separate and
move apart in opposite
directions.
19. Also called destructive
boundaries.
20. Plates that slide past or slip past
each other.
21. Formed when two plates are
sliding past each other.
22. Boundary that forms a new
lithosphere/young seafloor.
23. Two plates that move toward
each other.
24. Also called constructive
boundary.
25. No subduction, no trenches, no
volcanoes in this type of
boundary.
26. Sinks because it is denser.
27. Which plate would sink: older or
younger?
28. Occurs at mid-ocean ridges
(seafloor spreading) or
continental margins (rift valley).
29. No subduction occurs in this
type of boundary.
30. Causes magma to rise from the
Earth’s mantle to the surface.
31. Formed by the divergence of
oceanic plates.
32. Formed between divergence of
continental plates.
33. Can also be found at the bottom
of the ocean where seafloor
spreading occurs.
34. Boundary where tension zones
are formed.
35. Process where plates bend
down into the mantle.
36. Formed when the leading edge
of the subducted plate melts in
the mantle and magma rises;
oceanic-continental.
37. Formed due to subduction in
the oceanic-oceanic boundary.
38. Formed due to a crack caused
by the transform fault boundary.
39. Geologic feature between
divergent oceanic plates.
40. Philippine islands originated
from this boundary.
II. CONVERGENT, DIVERGENT, OR
TRANSFORM
1. San Andreas Fault
2. Eurasia and Philippine plate
3. Nazca and South American
plate
4. Cocos and Nazca plate
5. Pacific and Nazca plate
6. North American and Eurasian
plate
7. Arabian and African plate
8. Cocos and Caribbean plate
9. Pacific and Australian plate
10. South American and African
plate
MODULE 3
I. IDENTIFICATION
1. Happens when magma in the
Earth’s mantle is pushed
upward in the middle of an
ocean.
2. Plate that dives down under a
less dense plate during
subduction.
3. If materials in the mantle flow
up and down, describe the
mantle’s composition.
4. Plate boundary that forms rift
valleys.
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5. Where is the San Andreas Fault
located?
6. Where most transform fault
boundaries are found.
7. Known as an underwater
mountain.
8. Chain of volcanoes developed
parallel to a trench or a crack
under the ocean.
9. Point where two plates meet or
collide while converging.
10. Place where a subducting plate
reaches the mantle during
convergence.
11. A crack between crusts
underwater when an oceanic
crust converges with
continental crust.
12. Column of rising magma that
pushes the ground above it due
to heat in the mantle.
13. Volcanoes that are formed due
to continuous subduction;
formed at the surface of the
continental crust along the
boundary.
14. Refers when water may flip or
kick upwards a few meters high.
15. Landform that is formed as
volcanoes move away from
magma deposits due to
subduction.
16. Formed due to convergence of
continental plates that could
cause shallow earthquakes.
17. A crack in the Earth’s surface.
18. Landform produced between
convergence of two oceanic
crusts.
19. Depression along a plate
boundary.
20. Crack along the collision zone
which may cause an
earthquake.
21. Plate boundaries that mostly
happen under oceans.
22. Vertical space that may extend
deep down into the lowest layer
of the crust.
23. Force of separation which may
cause shallow earthquakes.
24. Formed when magma piles up
near the tension zone.
25. Process where new materials
from the Earth may push the
old ones, filling up space
between the plates.
26. Down faulted valleys.
27. Underwater mountain ranges.
28. Crack caused by plates moving
horizontally to each other.
29. Convergence between ______
have no volcanic formations.
30. Formation due to subduction
toward the mantle and forms
magma.
31. Associated with shallow
earthquakes.
32. Formed in the convergence of
two oceanic and
oceanic-continental plates.
33. A crack on the ground when an
oceanic crust interacts with
another crust.
34. Crack caused by horizontal plate
movement.
35. Land formation produced by the
convergence of two oceanic
plates.
36. Valley formed when two oceanic
plates diverge with each other.
37. A crack between converging
oceanic crusts.
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38. A process by which the leading
edge of an oceanic crust
submerged into the mantle.
39. Huge displacement of water
caused by plate movement.
40. Landform created by two
converging continental plates.
41. Underwater mountain ranges.
42. Layers based on chemical
composition; core, mantle, crust.
43. Mechanical properties;
lithosphere, asthenosphere,
lower mantle, inner and outer
core.
44.Series of volcanoes surrounded
by water.
45. Plate boundary that mostly
happens in the crust but may
also occur underwater.
MODULE 4
I. IDENTIFICATION
1. Theory that suggests that the
seven continents were once part
of a supercontinent.
2. The supercontinent in question.
3. The person who proposed this
theory.
4. The layer beneath the less dense
hot molten material rises, and
sinks.
5. A soft, weak, and plastic-like
layer; the upper part of the
mantle where lithospheric
plates move.
6. Hot molten rocks beneath
Earth’s surface.
7. Facilitates the movement of
lithospheric plates.
8. Generates heat to the mantle;
the innermost layer of the Earth.
9. States that the Earth’s
lithospheric crust and upper
mantle is broken up into several
pieces called plates.
10. Year the said theory was
developed.
11. Heat transfer process that
involves the movement of
energy from one place to
another.
12. Rises as it expands.
13. Sinks and contracts.
14. Source of heat from the core.
15. Process of thermal convection
that occurs in the inner layers of
the Earth.
16. Presence of heavier subducting
plates pull down the trailing slab
into the subduction zone.
17. Also called gravitational sliding
process; old oceanic crust
becomes heavier and sinks
which pushes it towards the
trench at the subduction zone.
18. Has faster movement of
molecules.
19. Less density in a convection cell.
20. A driving force for plate motion
at mid-ocean ridges as a result
of the rigid lithosphere sliding
down.
MODULE 5
I. IDENTIFICATION
1. Evidence scientists used to
support the Continental Drift
Theory.
2. Where the youngest crust is
situated relevant to the
mid-ocean ridge.
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3. Discovery that provided strong
support for Continental Drift
Theory.
4. Causes magnets to point north
due to Earth’s magnetic field.
5. Reason why the Continental
Drift Theory was rejected.
6. Process that forms and moves
new oceanic crust.
7. Realized in the 1950s that the
Earth’s crust had been moving
away on each side of oceanic
ridges, down the Atlantic and
Pacific Oceans.
8. The matching illustration shows
similar rocks of large scale
geological features on different
assemblages across different
continents.
9. The ______ of the separate
continents of South America
and Africa match up.
10. Carve rocks and leave marks as
they move.
11. Suggested that it was once
located near the region of the
Earth where the climate is
enough to support complex life
forms.
12. Helps scientists determine the
direction of movement of each
continent.
13. A type of reptile similar to the
modern crocodile that existed in
the Permian period.
14. A dominant species that would
not have been able to migrate
across the Atlantic.
15. Seeds are known to be large and
bulky and could not have
possibly drifted to a separate
continent.
16. A coastal animal that wouldn’t
have been able to swim the
Atlantic Ocean whose remains
are found in South Africa and
Eastern South America.
17. Mammal-like reptile that was as
large as a modern wolf.
18. “Shovel reptile”; herbivore with a
pig-like stout.
19. The most important fossil
evidence.
20. Two specific continents that fit
together most noticeably.
21. Sounding gear that produced
new evidence of what the
seafloor looked like.
22. Published the theory of seafloor
spreading; if the subduction is
faster, the ocean shrinks.
23. Bounced sound waves off of the
seafloor to determine its depth
and features.
24. Who the command of the USS
Cape Johnson was given to; a
geologist in Princeton
University.
25. Observed that the rate of
formation of new seafloor is not
as fast as the destruction of old
seafloor at the subduction zone.
26. Thickness of sediments near the
ridge.
27. Far from the ridge.
28. Boundary that occurs in the
Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
29. Amount of time each magnetic
reversal lasts.
30. Can tell direction.
31. Where the needle of a magnetic
compass usually points to.
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32. Act as a magnetic compass that SCORING:

can tell the Earth’s magnetic MODULE 1 - /50
field direction. MODULE 2 - /46
33. Allow scientists to understand MODULE 3 - /45
ages and rate of movement of MODULE 4 - /20
materials from the mid-oceanic MODULE 5 - /40
ridge.
34. Also called magnetic flip; when TOTAL - /201
the North Pole is transformed
into the South Pole, vice versa.
35. Average number of reversals
over the last 10 million years.
36. Might include a continent, parts
of a continent, and/or undersea
portions of the crust.
37. Theory that refined together the
Continental Drift Theory.
38. Happens because of the
changing direction of the flow of
materials in the Earth’s liquid
outer core.
39. Amounts on both sides added
to the ocean floor.
40. The term geologists agreed on
in the 1970s; continents are not
the only ones that move.