Department of Education

Caraga Administrative Region

Division of Butuan City
AGUSAN NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
AD Curato St., Butuan City

Pre/Post Test – First Quarter

Science 10
Name_________________________Grade&Sec.______________Date__________Score____

I. MULTIPLE CHOICE. Write the letter of the best answer on the space provided.

____1. What do we call the numerous broken segments in the entire lithosphere of the earth?
a. inner core c. plates
b. outer core d. mantle
____2. Majority of the islands in the Philippine Archipelago are considered as a part of
a. Manila Trench c. Eurasian Plate
b. Philippine Mobile Belt d. Sulu Trench
____ 3. It is a series of ocean waves with very long wavelengths caused by large-scale
disturbances in the ocean.
a. love waves c. body waves
b. tsunamis d. compressional waves
_____4. Crust and upper portion of the mantle are part of a single geologic unit called
a. aenosphere b. ionosphere c. lithosphere d. stratosphere
_____5. The position of the land surface immediately above the focus is the
a. epicenter c. the area of greatest building damage
b. epic center d. area of least building damage
_____6. How do you compare the densities of the earth’s crust, mantle and core?
a. The mantle is denser than both the core and the crust
b. The mantle is less dense than the core but denser than the crust
c. The mantle is less dense than both the core and the crust.
d. The mantle is denser than the core but less dense than the crust.
_____7. Which of these is NOT true about the Philippine Islands?
a. Most part of the Philippine Mobile Belt, except Palawan, Mindoro, and Zamboanga
b. Formed because of the convergence of the Philippine Plate and the Pacific
Plate
c. Some are products of subduction process
d. Originated geologically in an oceanic-oceanic convergence
_____8. How are volcanoes distributed in the earth’s surface?
a. not randomly distributed
b. randomly distributed
c. majority are not found along the edges of the continent
d. None of the above
_____9. Where do most earthquakes and volcanoes occur?
a. mid-ocean ridges c. mantle
b. along plate boundaries d. inner core
_____10. What happened to the speed of a tsunami as it enters the shallow water adjacent to a
Landmass lying in its path?
a. increases c. remains the same
b. decreases d. none of the above
_____11. Which color of light has the highest frequency?
a. green b. violet c. red d. yellow
_____12. It is a depression on the ocean floor.
a. magma c. oceanic plate
b. crust d. trench
______3. What should you NOT DO to reduce the impact of earthquakes?
a. Assemble in open areas outside the building during an evacuation
b. Use steel frames that could not sway during an earthquake.
c. Use rubber shock absorbers in the foundations to absorb the earth’s tremor.
d. Keep calm
_____14. The type of plate boundary which is similar to strike-slip fault in terms of the relative
motion of adjacent slabs of rocks.
a. transform fault boundary c.convergent plate boundary
b. divergent plate boundary d. Philippine Plate
_____15.Which plate sinks at continental-oceanic boundaries?
a. less dense crust c. new crust
b. oceanic d. continental
_____16. What is the result when two continental plates converge?
a. mountains b. earthquakes c. river d. tornado
_____17.Right in the middle of an island, you can find a rift valley. What type of plate boundary
exist on that island?
a. convergent c. normal fault
b. divergent d. transform fault
_____18. Which of the following would you expect to result from a collision between a
continental lithospheric plate and oceanic lithospheric plate?
a. A volcanic arc c. a mid-oceanic ridge
b. A chain of coastal volcanic mountains d. A transform fault
_____19. In a hotspot, Volcano is on top of the mantle plume, Volcano B is 15 km farther from A
While Volcano C is 30 km away. What can you infer about the ages of the volcano?
a. Volcano B is younger than C c. Volcano B is youngest
b. Volcano B is oldest d. Volcano A is older than C
b. The magnetic field consists of straight lines parallel to the wire
c. The magnetic field does not vary with the distance from the wire.
d. The magnetic field gets stronger with increasing distance from the wire.
_____20. Kathryn and Daniel were having a query, they were asking whether it is possible or
not the plate’s shape and size would change million years from now. If you were there
and being asked by them, what would be your answer? Why?
a. Yes, because the plates would possibly change its shape and size.
b. Yes, because plates are moving slowly but constantly. So as time goes by it would
change its shape and size.
c. No, because I feel it.
d. No, because they are not having interaction and they are not moving.
_____21. The cycle of heating, rising, cooling and striking is called____
a. subduction zone b. convergent boundary c. convection current d. conduction current
_____22. Why does the earth’s size remain the same in spite of the movement of plates away
from each other at oceanic ridge?
a. The edge of the continents are maintained.
b. It is composed of continental and oceanic crust of constant size.
c.Creation of crust at divergent margin is balanced by destruction at convergent margins
d. What happen at oceanic ridge merely shakes the ocean water and does not cause
them to rise to increase the size of the earth
_____23. Seafloor spreading occurs because_______
a. New material is being added to the asthenosphere.
b. Earthquakes brea apart the ocean floor.
c. Sediments accumulate on the ocean floor.
d. Hot, less dense material below the Earth’s crust is forced upward toward the surface.
_____24. What is the name of the Mesozoic supercontinent that consisted of all the present
continents?
a. Gondwanaland b. Pangaea c. Laurasia d. Eurasia
_____25. A machine that measures the strength of an earthquake is called
a. seismogram c. seismograph
b. compass d. SONAR

_____26. They are the called the Earth’s scientist who studies the sudden violent movement of
earth connected with earthquakes.
a. seismologists c. seismographers
b. physicists d. oceanographers
_____27. The youngest rocks in the ocean floor are located at the mid-ocean____
a. volcanoes c. trenches
b. basins d. ridges
_____28. The tectonic plates on earth move because of____
a. earthquakes c.volcanoes erupting
b. convection in the mantle d. mountains forming
_____29. At what zone does old crust get recycled?
a. subduction zone c.submarine zones
b. transform zones d. divergent zones
____30. Which of the following increases with distance from mid-ocean ridge?
a. The age of oceanic lithosphere c. the depth to the sea floor
b. The thickness of the lithosphere. D. all of the above
____31. Why does the oceanic crust sink beneath the continental crust at the subduction zone?
a. The oceanic crust has greater density
b. The oceanic crust is pulled downward by the earth’s magnetic field
c. The oceanic crust is pulled from the ridge
d. The continental crust is denser.
____32. If we experience an earthquake and all of the books come crashing off of the shelves,
What wave is responsible for this?
a. primary waves c. secondary waves
b. surface waves d. sound waves
____33. Why do most earthquakes occur at tectonic plate boundaries?
a. Most faults occur in the middle of the plates.
b. Very little stress builds up along the plates.
c. There is little or no movement of rocks.
d. Large amounts of stress builds up as plates move.
____34. A rift valley is evidence of which kind of plate boundary?
a. divergent plate boundary c. transform plate boundary
b. convergent plate boundary d. both divergent and convergent
____35. Why do plates get subducted?
a. They are very thick c. They are very dense.
b. They are very thin. d. They are very light
____36. If the seafloor is suddenly displaced upward, the what happens to the sea surface?
a. It will subside c. It will momentarily rise
b. It will remain unchanged d. none of these
____37. What do you expect to find parallel to the trench?
a. ocean ridge b. rift valley c. volcanic arc d. hot spot
____38. When geologist determined the age of each volcanic island through radiometric dating,
they noticed that the farther the volcano from Hawaii is___
a. the older and less active it is c. the younger and less active it is
b. the older and more active it is d. none of these

_____39. Which type of plate boundary is known for causing big earthquakes?
a. divergent b. convergent c. transform d. fault

____40. The Hawaiian Islands formed at a ______

a. convergent boundary c. divergent boundary
b. transform boundary d. none of these

____41.About 40 to 50 million years ago, two large land masses, India and Eurasia, collided to
begin the formation of the most visible product of plate tectonics-
a. San Andreas Fault c. The Himalayas
b. Philippine Deep d. Mayon Volcano

____42. How do you keep safe during an earthquake?.

a. Stay near the windows. c.stay outdoors until the shaking stops.
b. Drop, cover and hold on. d. stay under the tree if outdoors.
____43.Jennifer was asked to locate the epicenter of a recent earthquake. Which correct
sequence of events should she follow ?
w. Determine the distance of the epicenter from the station
x. Use the triangulation method to locate the center
y. Obtain data from tree different seismological stations.
z. Determine the difference in the arrival time of S and P waves recorded from each
of the seismological stations
a. yzwx b. wxyz c. xwzy d. zwyx
_____44. Oceanic plates separate from each other at a divergent plate boundary at the bottom
ocean. Magma comes up and cools between the plates forming…
a. a fault b. a mid-ocean ridge c. a rift valley d. a trench
____45. An ocean trench occurs when
a. plates divide and magma rise up c. we dig a hole in the ocean
b. oceanic crust subducts below continental crust d. when plates slide past each other
____46. An early hypothesis that eventually lead to the theory of plate tectonics was
a. The elastic rebound theory of G.K. Gilbert in the early 1900’s
b. Theory of Erath by James Hutton, 1788
c. Seafloor spreading by Harry Hess, 1962
d. All of these
____47. Alfred Wegener:________________; Henry Hess:_____________________
a. Plate Tectonics; Seafloor spreading Theory
b. Continental Drift Theory; Seafloor spreading theory
c. Continental Drift Theory; Plate Tectonics
d. Plate Tectonics; Continental Drift Theory
____48. Which of the following was NOT used by `Wegener as evidence of Continental Drift?
a. Fossils that was common to many continents.
b. Evidence of glaciation on widely separated continents.
c. The geometric fit of continents.
d. The magnetic anomalies of the seafloor.
____49.How does the Mesosaurus fossil evidence support the Continental Drift Theory?
a. Because it’s unlikely that the Mesosaurus could swim between continents.
b. Because it’s unlikely that the Mesosaurus existed in both continents.
c. The Mesosaurus fossil evidence does not support the Continental drift Theory.
d. Because the Mesosaurus lived millions of years ago, when scientists believe the
continents began
____50. Most geologist rejected Alfred Wegener’s idea of continental drift because
a. they were afraid of a new uidea.
b. Wegener could not identify a force that could move the continents.
c. Wegener was interested in what Earth was like millions of years ago.
d. Wegener used several different types of evidence to support his hypothesis.

Prepared by:

MA. FE M. JADUMAS
MT – II, Science

Checked by:

CATHERINE T. FUSILERO
SSHT – VI, Science

Approved by:

RUEL T. GABOR, Ph.D.

Principal IV