Department of Education

Region III
Division of Pampanga

FIRST QUARTER EXAMINATION IN GRADE 10-SCIENCE

DIRECTIONS; Multiple Choices: Choose the letter of the best answer. (Use capital
letter)
1. What most likely to happen when convection occurs?
A. Rocks with the same temperature float
B. Rocks with different temperature sink
C. Heavy rocks sink while lighter rocks float
D. Rocks with high temperature rise while rocks with low temperature sink
2. Which statement describes the location of the earthquake epicenters and
the location of volcanoes around the world?
A. They are far from each other
B. They are near from each other
C. If earthquakes epicenter is at Pt A then volcanoes are at Pt B
D. If earthquakes epicenter is at pt A then volcanoes are at Pt A
3. The following are the steps in locating the epicenter of an earthquake.
Arrange
them in order
I. Once you have drawn the circles , locate the point where all intersect
II. Detemine the time interval between the arrival of the Pwave and
Swave
From at least three different seismic stations
III. Measure the epicentral distances then draw circles to represent each
distance on a map
IV. Measure the interval to the closes second then use a graph to convert
the
S-P interval to the epicentral distance
A. II,IV,III,I
B. IV,II,III,I
C. III,I,II,IV
D. II,III,IV,I
4. What causes the formation of current?
I. Amount of heat supplied to the substance
II. Amount of molecules at the top and bottom
III. High temperature at the bottom and low temperature at the top
IV. The difference in density of the molecules is caused by the difference
in temperature
A. I only
B. I and II only
C. II and IV only
D. I, III and IV
5. Which of the following could cause major earthquake?
A. Less active fault line
B. More active fault line
C. Inactive fault line for a short period of time
D. Active fault line for a long period of time

6. The following are the important geological processes that occur when plates
are in constant motion except
A. Forest
B. Earthquake
C. Volcanoes
D. Formation of mountain belts
7. During earthquake, the most violent shaking occurs at the
A. Ridge
B. Focus
C. Epicenter
D. Ring of fire
8. What supports the statement oceanic crust sinks deeper than the
continental crust?
 A. oceanic crust is denser than the continental crust
B. continental crust is denser than the oceanic crust
C. they are of the same densities
D. oceanic crust is thicker than the continental crust
9. Which statement best describes the distribution and location of earthquakes
epicenter, volcanoes and mountain ranges?
A. They are found in some continental plates
B. They are found in both continental and oceanic plates
C. They are not randomly distributed and are found along the edges of some
continents
D. They are randomly distributed and are found between continents and
oceans
10.Plates M and N create a zone of tension , what type of plate boundary is
Exhibited?
A. convergent
B. divergent
C. transform
D. subduction
11.The following are the basis of scientist in dividing earths lithosphere into
several plates except
A. mountain formation
B. seismicity
C. Volcanism
D. Rock formation
12.Which best describes San Andreas Fault?
A. Fault located within the ocean basin
B. Fault take place in the middle of a layer
C. Fault that is found in the continent
D. Fault where plates move apart
13 .Plates X and Y converge, plate Y bends downward while plate X floats
higher.
What plates are they?
A. Plates X and Y are continental plates
B. Plates X and Y are oceanic plates
C. Plate X is the continental plate while Plate Y is the oceanic plate
D. Plate X is the oceanic plate while plate Y is the continental plate
14.Outer core is made of iron and nickel, what states of matter is it and why?
A. Solid due to the great pressure
B. Liquid due to high temperature
C. Gas due to high pressure and temperature
D. Liquid due to high pressure and temperature
15. It is the property of the upper mantle that facilitates the movement of the
lithosphere plates.
A. Elasticity
B. Durability
C. Plasticity
D. Ductility
16.What type of plate boundary is displayed by Nazca Plate and South
American Plate?
A. Convergent
B. Divergent
C. Subduction
D. Transform fault

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 17.The velocity of the seismic wave increases as it passes from crust to the
mantle, what factors affect the velocity?
A. Density
B. Volume
C. Pressure
D. Temperature
18.What most likely to happen when denser plate slides under the less dense
plate?
A. Subduction
B. Depression
C. Conduction
D. Convection
19.When two plates of different densities converge, a depression on the ocean
floor is formed, this is known as
A. Island arc
B. mountain ridges
C. volcano
D. trench

20. Two oceanic plates converge (plates B and C).Plate C sinks deeper
towards
The mantle, what geologic features might form at the surface of Plate B?
A. Tsunami
B. Trench
C. Volcanoes
D. Earthquake
21.Please refer to question # 20
If the edge of plate B suddenly flicks upward, what would be formed at the
surface of the ocean?
A. Trench
B. Tsunami
C. Volcanoes
D. Earthquake
22.The area in the mantle from which hot materials rise as a thermal plume is
known as
A. Island arc
B. Mountain
C. Hot pot
D. Convection current
23.It is the theory which suggests that earths crust is made up of plates that
interact in various ways, thus producing earthquakes, mountains, volcanoes
and other geologic activities.
A. Pangaea
B. Continental Drift theory
C. Vegmons theory
D. Plate tectonics
24.What type of plate boundary is involved when there is no subduction
process, thus mountains are formed instead of volcanoes.
A. Convergent
B. Divergent
C. Transform
D. Slip-slide
25.The following are the effects found at a divergent boundary between oceanic
plates except
A. Mountains
B. Volcanic activity
C. Creation of new sea floor
D. Submarine mountain range
26. Rift valley formation, shallow earthquake activities and numerous normal
faults
Are effects of
A. Tsunami
B. Divergent (continental)
C. Divergent (oceanic)
D. Convergent ( continental)

27.They are the indications that the crust is spreading or splitting apart ,
situated along underwater mountain ranges.
A. Oceanic ridges
B. Rift valleys
C. Trenches
D. Volcanoes
28.The soft weak layer that facilitates the movement of the lithospheric plates
A. Mantle
B. Crust
C. Asthenosphere
D. Outer core
29.The following are the properties of seismic wave that are used by scientists
to study the structure and composition of the earths interior except
A. Velocity
B. Reflection
C. Refraction
D. Diffraction
30.Which of the of the following best describe the lithosphere
A. Crust and mantle
B. Crust and upper mantle
C. Continental crust
D. Oceanic and continental crust
31.A boundary produced when two plates slide past each other.
A. Convergent
B. Divergent
C. Subduction
D. Transform fault
32.Long,long time ago India and Eurasia collided, what was the visible product
of
Plate tectonics?
A. Subduction
B. Hawaiian Island
C. Himalayan Peaks
D. Ocean floor
33.What causes the formation of active volcanoes in the Philippine Archipelago?
A. Subduction of Philippine sea plate
B. Convergence of continental plates
C. Collision of Philippine mobile belt with the Sundaland block
D. Downward movement of oceanic lithosphere underneath the Philippine
Archipelago
34. Seismologists gained an idea that the outer core is liquid because
A. P waves travel through all states of matter
B. P waves can only travel through solid
C. S waves travel through all states of matter
D. S waves cannot travel through liquid

34.Which of the following statement is true?

A. The earth is getting larger when plates drift away from each other
B. The earth is getting smaller when plates drift away from each other
C. The earth is neither getting bigger nor smaller when plates drift away
from each other
D. The earth is neither getting bigger nor smaller, does production of new
sea floor correspond to a destruction of an old seafloor.
 36 .Eurasian plate moves 2.5 cm per year away from Philippine plate, how far
in
Meters will these two plates be in 50 yrs?
A. 125 m
B. 1.25 m
C. .125 m
D. 12.5 m
37. The most abundant element in the Earths crust is
A. Iron
B. Silicon
C. Oxygen
D. Magnesium
38. Temperature at the inner core is too high, what keeps the iron and nickel at
the inner core solid?
A. High pressure
B. High temperature
C. Low pressure
D. Low temperature
39. Plates are believed to be moving slowly, what causes this movement?
A. Magnetic force at the poles
B. Force of the atmosphere
C. Gravitational force of the plates
D. Convection current in the mantle
40. Which statement best describe the earths crust, mantle and core?
A.the mantle is less dense than the core but denser than the crust
B. the mantle is less dense than both the core and the crust
C. the mantle is denser than the core but less dense than the crust
D. the mantle is denser than both the core and the crust
41. Who were the two scientists who proposed the Theory of Seafloor
Spreading
In the early 60 s?
A. Charles Darwin and James Hutton
B. Harry Hess and Robert Diez
C. John Buttler and Arthur Smite
D. F. Vine and D. Mathews
42. The process which when weight of the subducting plate pulls the trailing
slab
Into the subducting zone.
A. Subduction
B. Plate Tectonics
C. Slab pull
D. Convection

43. Which diagram represents the Magnetic Reversal?

A. N B. S C. N D. N
N S

S S N N N S S S

44. The following statement describes the earths magnetic field except
A. It is dipole
B. Has North and South Pole
C. It is generated in the very hot molten outer core
D. Existed since the birth of Jupiter
45. What most likely to happen when subduction is faster than seafloor
Spreading?
A. Ocean gets wider
B. Ocean shrinks
C. Ocean gets narrow
D. Ocean gets deeper
46. It is one of the most active sites of seafloor spreading.
A. African plate
B. Philippine Plate
C. Arabian Plate
D. East Pacific Rise
47. A long trail of volcanic islands were formed, if there were 10 volcanoes,
How do you describe the farthest one?
A. The youngest and the least active
B. The youngest and the most active
C. The eldest and the least active
D. The eldest and the most active
48. Oceanic ridges are found along divergent boundaries, what are the
Structural features found along convergent boundaries?
A. Fault line
B. Rift valleys ,seafloor spreading
C. Subduction,folded mountains, seafloor spreading
D. Mountain ranges, island arcs and trenches
49. Which of the following does not support the concept of Continental
Drift Theory?
A. Fit of the continent
B. Similarity of fossils in different continents
C. Skeletal remains of humans in different continents
D. Presence of coal seams and tillites in different continents
50. The age of rocks and the magnetic stripes in the ocean floor support
A. Plate Tectonic theory
B. Continental Drift Theory
C. Seafloor Spreading Theory
D. Alfred Wegeners Theory