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ST. JOSEPH HIGH SCHOOL, CABIAO ANNEX
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1st
Periodical Test in Science 10
SY 2019-2020

Multiple Choice
Direction: Encircle the letter of the correct answer.
1. Earth is the only planet to be named in English. The word “Earth” is an old English word for
_____
a. Land b. Soil c. Island d. water
2. The study of the size and shape of the earth is called ____
a. Geology b. Geodensee c. Geodesy d. geometry
3. It is the transition boundary between the Earth’s crust and the mantle.
a. Lehman b. Gutenberg c. Moho d. athenosphere
4. “Ignis” is the Latin word for ____
a. Fire b. Lava c. Magma d. water
5. It is a type of sedimentary rocks that is made of broken pieces of other rocks
a. Chemical b. Clastic c. Organic d. inorganic
6. It pertains to any movement of the solid part of the Earth and will result in deformation of
Earth’s crust.
a. Diastrophism c. Volcanism
b. Earthquake d. storm
7. A sudden slipping or movement of a portion of the Earth’s crust, followed by a series of
vibrations.
a. Aftershock c. Volcanism
b. Earthquake d. Trenches
8. What theory explains that the earth is shrinking because it is cooling due to great pressure
squeezes parts of the earth into a smaller volume
a. Theory of isostasy
b. The contraction theory
c. Convection theory
d. Theory of evolution
9. ___ occurs when large masses of the rocks in the in the crust slide and slip against each other
due to great forces coming from different directions.
a. Trenching b. Faulting c. Folding d. streching
10. A type of mountain that is found where continents have collided
a. Dome mountains
b. Fault mountain
c. Folded mountain
d. Spire mountain
11. An unusual type of mountain that is formed when molten rock rises but does not break through
the surface
a. Dome mountains
b. Fault mountains
c. Folded mountains
d. Spire mountain

12. The world’s highest mountain ridges, like the ANDES and the ______
 a. Cascade Mts
b. Appalachian Mts
c. Himalayas
d. Arayat
13. ____ also called composite volcanoes and formed of layers of lava and ashes
a. Stratovolcanoes
b. Acid volcanoes
c. Basaltic volcanoes
d. Sulfur volcanoes
14. A type of volcano that is viscous and does not run very far that will create a lava dome
a. Basaltic volcanoes
b. Acid volcanoes
c. Stratovolcanoes
d. Sulfur volcanoes
15. The following is where the volcanoes occur EXCEPT:
a. Subduction zones
b. Hot spot
c. Additional zones
d. Continental zones
16. What makes up the lithosphere?
a. Continental crust
b. Crust and the upper mantle
c. Oceanic crust and continental crust
d. Upper mantle
17. What do you think will happen if the diameter of the earth’s poles will be the same of the
length to its diameter at the equator?
a. The earth shape will be an oblate spheroid.
b. The earth shape will be a perfect sphere.
c. The earth shape will be flat.
d. The earth shape wil be heart.
18. Miners dig into the Earth in search for precious rocks and minerals. In which layer is the
deepest explorations made by miners?
a. Crust c. Mantle
b. Inner core d. Outer core
19. Once a rock is formed, does it stay the same rock forever?
a. Yes! Rock does not undergo any changes
b. No! Rocks are continually changed by many processes
c. Sometimes
d. None of the these.
20. What is the difference between a rock and mineral?
a. Minerals are made up of one or more rocks
b. Rocks are made up of one or more minerals
c. Rocks are made up of one or more rocks
d. All of these
21. How do you compare the densities of the Earth’s 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.
22. Themovement of he lithospheric plates is facilitated by a soft, weak and plastic-like layer.
Which of the following layers is described in the statement?
a. Asthenosphere c. Lithosphere
b. Atmosphere d. Mantle
23. Alfred Wegener is a German scientist who hypothesized that the Earth was once made up of a
single large landmass called Pangaea. Which of the following theories did Wegener propose?
 a. Continental Drift Theory
b. Plate Tectonics
c. Continental Shift Theory
d. Seafloor Spreading Theory
24. If you are a cartographer, what will give you an idea that the continents were once joined?
a. Ocean depth
b. Position of the south pole
c. Shape of the continents
d. Size of the Atlantic Ocean
25. Who do you think is the proponent of the continental drift theory?
a. Alfred Wegener
b. Sir Isaac Newton
c. Aristotle
d. Larry page
26. Which observation was NOT instrumental in formulating the hypothesis of seafloor
spreading?
a. Depth of the ocean
b. Identifying the location of glacial deposits
c. Magnetization of the oceanic crust
d. Thickness of seafloorsediments
27. What do you think is the economic importance of the plains?
a. Excellent sites for airports
b. Plains can be dammed to impound water as a large reservoir
c. Waters of the reservoir can be used for irrigation
d. Plains can be used for panting and buildins houses
28. If you are a cartographer, what will give you an idea that the continents were once joined?
a. Ocean depth
b. Position of the south pole
c. Shape of the continents
d. Size of the Atlantic Ocean
29. As a new seafloor is formed at the mid-ocean ridge, the old seafloor farthest from the ridge is
destroyed. Which of the stated processes describes how the oceanic crust plunges into the Earth
and destroyed at the mantle?
a. Convection
b. Construction
c. Diversion
d. Subduction
30. What is the difference between BASALTIC volcanoes and RHYOLITIC volcanoes?
a. The lava rhyolitic volcanoes are viscous and does not run very far while basaltic
volcanoes are less viscous
b. Rhyolitic volcanoes are less explosive while basaltic volcanoes are highly explosive
c. Basaltic volcanoes and rhyolitic volcanoes are the same
d. None of these
31. What would happen to a rock when it is exposed to heat and pressure?
a. It will turn into igneous rock
b. It will turn into sedimentary rock
c. It will turn into metamorphic rock
d. Nothing happens
32. What would happen to a rock when it undergoes weathering and cementation?
a. It will turn into igneous rock
b. It will turn into sedimentary rock
c. It will turn into metamorphic rock
d. Nothing happens
33. 1. In 1912, Alfred Wegener proposed a theory that the Earth is once a single landmass. What is
the name of the Mesozoic Supercontinent that consisted of all of the present continents?
a. Eurasia
b. Laurasia
c. Pangaea
d. Gondwanaland
 34. Who were the two scientists who proposed the theory of seafloor spreading in the early 1960s?
a. Charles Darwin and James Hutton
b. Harry Hess and Robert Dietz
c. John Butler and Arthur Smite
d. F. Vine and D. Mathews
35. During the 1960s, scientists were already equipped with gadgets needed to explore the deep
ocean. What discovery about the ocean floor is associated with the seafloor spreading?
a. Mountains are denser than the mantle.
b. The rotational poles of the Earth have migrated.
c. The crust of the continents is denser than the crust of the ocean.
d. The crust of the ocean is very young relative to the age of the crust of the continents
36. If the Atlantic Ocean is widening at a rate of 3 cm per year, how far (in kilometers) will it spread in a
million years?
a. 3 kilometers
b. 30 kilometers
c. 300 kilometers
d. 3000 kilometers
37. Which of the following increases with distance from a mid-ocean ridge?
a. the age of oceanic lithosphere
b. the thickness of the lithosphere
c. the depth to the sea floor
d. all of the above
38. Which of the following can you infer from the continuous movement of the lithospheric plates over
the asthenosphere?
a. All the continents will cease to exist.
b. All the volcanoes in the Philippines will become inactive.
c. The continents will not be located in the same place as they are now.
d. The islands of the Philippines will become scattered all over the world.
39. If all the inner layers of the Earth are firm solid, what could have happened to Pangaea?
a. It remained as a supercontinent.
b. It would have become as it is today.
c. It would have slowly disappeared in the ocean.
d. It would have stretched and covered the whole world.
40. Why does the oceanic crust sink beneath the continental crust at the subduction zone?
a. The oceanic crust has a greater density.
b. The oceanic crust is pulled downward by Earth’s magnetic field.
c. The oceanic crust is pushed from the ridge.
d. The continental crust has a denser composition.
41. The lithospheric plates are believed to be moving slowly. What is the driving force that facilitates this
movement?
a. gravitational force of the moon
b. magnetic force at the poles
c. convection current in the mantle
d. the force of the athmosphere
42.When two tectonic plates collide, the oceanic crust usually subducts beneath the continental crust
because it is
a. denser than continental crust
b. less dense than continental crust
c. thinner than continental crust
d. thicker than continental crust
43. If you will visit a place in the Pacific known to be alongconverging plates, which of these should you
not expect to see?
a. active volcanoes
b. rift valleys
c. mountain ranges
d. volcanic island
44. You are an oceanographer and want to map the ocean floor on the east coast of the Philippines. As
you do your study, you noticed that there is a portion of the ocean floor which is relatively much deeper
than therest. What most likely is that deeper part?
a. linear sea c. rift valley
b. oceanic ridge d. trench
45. What do you expect to find at a mid-ocean ridge?
a. relatively young rocks c. thick accumulation of sediments
b. reverse fault d. very ancient rocks
46. Crustal Plate A is moving away from Crustal Plate B. What is the expected average rate of change in
position between A and B?
a. a few centimeters per year c. a few millimeters per century
b. a few meters per month d. a few millimeters per day
47. Which plate boundary is formed between the Philippine Plate and the Eurasian Plate?
a. convergent c. reverse fault
b. divergent d. transform fault
48. Which of these is FALSE true about crustal plates:
a. have the same thickness everywhere
b. include the crust and upper mantle
c. thickest in the mountain region
d. vary in thickness
49. Which of these is not TRUE about the Philippine Islands?
a. Most are part of the Philippine Mobile Belt except for Palawan, Mindoro, and Zamboanga
b. formed because of the convergence of the Philippine Plate and the Pacific Plate
c. Originated geologically in an oceanic-oceanic convergence
d. Some are products of subduction proces
50.What do you expect to find parallel to a trench.
a. hot spot
b. ocean ridge
c.rift valley
d. volcanic arc

“Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do” – Benjamin
Spock

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PREPARED BY:
LANI BERNARDO CUADRA
TEACHER II

NOTED BY:
MARIA MERLISSA V. MANUEL Ph.D
TEACHER-IN-CHARGE