ENRICHED /THEMATIC MELC

SCIENCE GRADE 10 – QUARTER 1

MODULE 4 FOURTH WEEK

ANSWER KEY

ACTIVITY 1:
Q1. What features of the newspaper helped you to connect the pieces perfectly?
Check all that apply:
ü Pictures
ü Texts
ü Words
ü shapes
Q2. Show proofs that the newspaper is perfectly reassembled. Check all that apply:
ü The pictures in the newspaper are completed.
ü The broken words were completed/connected
ACTIVITY 2:
Q3. The stripes in the paper represents the rocks with normal and reverse polarities.
Answer: Yes
Q4. The middle slit represents the mid-ocean ridge.
Answer: Yes
Q5. The mid-ocean ridge serves as the origin of lithospheric movement. It is the place where
the force that pushes the lithosphere originates.
Answer: Yes

ACTIVITY 3.
Q6. The food color rises and moves to the sides of the beaker then sinks. It
demonstrates a cyclic motion.
Answer: Fact
Q7. The cyclic motion is a behavior of convection current.
Answer: Fact
Q8. The blocks are pushed up to the middle of the boiling water and then
swayed towards the sides of the beaker.
Answer: Fact

ANALYSIS:
From activity 1:
1. How do the lines of prints or texts in the newspaper help you to confirm that you have
reassembled the newspaper/magazine page? Shade all smileys that apply.
The lines of prints make sure that the newspaper is fitted well.
The words written serve as clues in connecting the pieces of newspaper together.
The completed/connected words confirm that the newspaper has been reassembled.
From activity 2:
2. Is the earth getting larger and wider when plates drift away from each other? Shade the
smiley for your answer.
The Earth is not getting larger or smaller. If there is the production of a new seafloor in
the mid-ocean ridge, there is a destruction of an old seafloor at subduction zones.
The earth is getting larger because of the production of a new seafloor in the mid-ocean
ridge.
3. How does the new seafloor form at the mid-ocean ridge? (2pts)
 Hot less dense material below the Earth’s crust rises towards the mid-ocean ridge. As
this material flows sideways it creates a crack in the crust where magma will flow. This
magma cools down and becomes the new seafloor.

From activity 3:
4. What happens to the blocks of wood when you put it in the center of the heated near
boiling water? (2pts)
The blocks are pushed up to the middle of the boiling water and then swayed towards
the sides of the beaker.
The blocks are pushed to the side of the beaker and swayed towards the center of the
boiling water.
5. What does the wooden blocks resemble? (2pts)
The small, light wood blocks resemble the lithospheric/tectonic plates that moved about
slowly along the tectonic boundaries, pushing, sliding, past and drifting away from each
other because of convection current.

APPLICATION:
1. The Scouts help the evacuees after the volcanic eruption.
2. The Scouts donated clothing, toiletries, and food to the affected communities.
3. (answers may vary)
4. Yes
5. Yes
6. Yes
7. Yes
8. (answers may vary)

EVALUATION:
1. A
2. B
3. B
4. B
5. C
6. C
7. A
8. D
9. D
10. B
11. (answers my vary)
Note : After conducting the first round in pilot testing of the module, the writer
recommends to change the question into this:
11. 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
Answer: A. It remained as a supercontinent.
12. Yes
13. Yes
14. Yes
15. Yes

ASSIGNMENT:
For the picture, refer to the given rubrics for the points.
For the suggestions on how to prevent a disaster/calamity, answers may vary.
ACTIVITY SHEET 1:

Rocks Fossils Coal Rocks

Deposits
s

Plate Tectonic Theory

ACTIVITY SHEET 2:

Stock up food, water, and all important stuff

Make sure everything re-chargeable is charged

Don’t forget to secure your expensive dresses

Prepare your evacuation plan

Keep pets outside

Turn off the main power switch

Don’t be deceived by the eye of the storm

If you have a car, get an inverter

Update emergency contact numbers

Never mind your neighbors

Put important documents in the cabinet

Join emergency drills

Ignore instruction from government officials

Be updated with the latest weather reports.

Do a quality check of your house