Grade 10 Science Reviewer
Grade 10 Science Reviewer
Grade 10 Science Reviewer
made up of plates
SCIENCE PROCESS SKILS The objection that critiques Wegener’s idea
1. Observation- Noting the properties of is that the continents that were capable of
objects and situations using the five sense: moving was physically impossible
Seeing, Hearing, Touching, Smelling, Tasting The following observations are
2. Classifying- Relating objects and events instrumental in formulating the hypothesis
according to their attributes which may of seafloor spreading:
involve classifying: Places, Objects, Ideas, 1. The depth of the ocean
Events 2. Magnetization of the oceanic crust
3. Measuring- Expressing the amount of an 3. Thickness of seafloor spreading
object in quantitative terms, or comparing NOT the result of tsunami is the mortality
an object to a standard: Length in Meters, rate increase in the next 5 years
Volume in Liters, Mass in Grams, Force in The Earth has a constant surface area, thus,
Newtons, Temperature in Degrees Celsius when new land is created at the ridge
4. Communicating- Process of describing, between plates, the same amount of land
recording, and reporting experimental created must be absorbed into the earth at
procedures and results to others: subduction zone
Oral, written, or mathematical, Organizes Convection current in the mantle is the
ideas using appropriate vocabulary, graphs, driving forces that facilitate the movement
other visual representations, and of the lithospheric plates
mathematical equations. The following increases with the distance
5. Inferring- Giving an explanation for a from a mid-ocean ridge
particular object or event 1. The depth to the sea floor
6. Predicting- Forecasting a future occurrence 2. The age of oceanic lithosphere
based on past observations or the extension 3. The thickness of the lithosphere
of data Through the continuous movement of the
7. Interpreting- Arriving at explanations, lithospheric plates over the asthenosphere,
inferences, or hypotheses from data that has one can infer that the islands of the
been placed in a data table or graph Philippines will become scattered all over
8. Experimenting- Testing a hypothesis the world.
through the manipulation and control of The oceanic crust is pushed from the ridge
independent variables and noting the effects that’s why oceanic crust sink beneath the
on a dependent variable continental crust
Mountain ranges are formed when plates
collide and fold under enormous pressure
The highest mountain and volcano in the How to locate the epicentre of a recent
Solar System is on the planet Mars. It is earthquake:
called Olympus Mons which is three times 1. Obtain data from three different
higher than Mt. Everest. seismological stations
Alfred Wegener proposed the Continental 2. Determine the difference in the arrival
Drift Theory time of S and P waves recorded from
Sliding Process describes the process of each of the seismological stations
subduction 3. Determine the distance of the epicentre
The scientists discover that rocks farther from the station
away from the mid-ocean ridge were older 4. Use the triangulation method to locate
than those near it by determining the age of the center
rock samples obtained by drilling on the sea This is the correct sequence of the different
floor arrivals
When a continental plate collides with an FIRST- P Waves
oceanic plate, the oceanic plate sinks into SECOND- S Waves
the mantle LAST- Surface Waves
Iceland is an example of Divergent You can determine the location of the
Boundary epicentre by having a data showing the
arrival time of the P and S waves recorded
from three stations
If S wave was to go from solid to a liquid, its
velocity will decrease