First Quarter Exam In Science 10

August 08-09, 2019

Name: ____________________ Date: __________
Year & Section: _____________ Rating: _________

TEST I: Multiple Choice. Choose the letter of the correct answer.

1. If you visit a place in the Pacific known to be along converging plates, which of these should you not expect to see?
a. active volcanoes b. mountain ranges c. rift valleys d. volcanic islands
2. You are an oceanographer and want to map the ocean floor on the east coast of the Philippines. As you do your study,
you ntice that there is a portion in the ocean floor which is relatively much deeper than the rest. What most likely is that
deeper part?
a. linear sea b. oceanic ridge c. rift valley d. trench
3. What do you expect to find at a mid-ocean ridge?
a. relatively young rocks c. thick accumulation sediments
b. reverse faults d. very ancient rocks
4. What plate boundary is formed between the Philippine plate and the Eurasian plate?
a. convergent b. divergent c. reverse faut d. transform fault
5. Which of these is false about lithospheric plates?
a. have the same thickness everywhere c. include the crust and upper mantle
b. thickest in the mountain regions d. vary in thickness
6. _____ is athin part of the Earth’s Crust located under the oceans.
a. continental Crust b. oceanic Crust c. convergent boundary d. divergent boundary
7. ____ is a concentration of heat in the mantle capable of creating magma.
a. fault b. fracture c. Geology d. hotspot
8. Mountains formed in part by igneous activity associated with subduction of oceanic lithosphere beneath the continent
is called?
a. continental volcanic arc c. convergent boundary
b. continental crust d. diverget boundary
9. A boundary in which two plates move toward eac other, causing one of the slabs of the lithosphere to subduct beneath
an overrideing plate.
a. continental volcanic arc c. convergent boundary
b. continental crust d. diverget boundary
10. The outer portion of the Earth is called?
a. crust b. fault c. magma d. rocks
11. The thick part of the Earth’s crust not located under the oceans is called?
a. continental Crust b. oceanic Crust c. convergent boundary d. divergent boundary
12. It is a region where the crustal plates are moving apart is called?
a. continental crust b. oceanic crust c. divergent boundary d. mid-ocean ridge
13. Vibration of Earth due to rapid release of energy is k own as?
a. earthquake b. fault c. fracture d. subduction
14. The science that studies Earth is?
a. Geology b. Chemistry c. Biology d. Astronomy
15. A mass of molten rock form from a dept, including dissolved gases and crystals is known as?
a. Plate b. Crust c. Rocks d. Magma
16. A continuous mass of land with long with and height on the ocean floor is
a. Plate tectonics b. Primary wave c. Secndary wave d. Trench
17. Rigid sections of the lithosphere that moves as a unit is known as?
a. Palte b. Magma c. Hotspot d. rocks
18. A theory which suggests that Earth’s crust is made up of plates that interact in various ways, thus producing
earthquakes, mountains, volcanoes and other geologic feature.
a. Plate tectonics b. Subduction c. Volcanic arc d. Transform fault boundary
19. The first type of seismic wave to be recorded in a seismic station is?
a. Primary wave b. Secondary wave c. Seismogram d. Subduction
20. _____ are consolidated mxture of minerals.
a. Rocks b. Geoogy c. Fracture d. Fault
21. A record made by a seismograph is called
a. Subduction b. Seismogram c. Trench d. Volcanic arc