Name: __________________________________________ Grade 10 - _________ Date: ____________

Group Mates: ______________________________________________________ Score: ___________

SCIENCE 10 – Quarter 1
Activity 9: Two World Collides
Objectives:
1. Determine the consequences of two colliding continental plates.
What you need: Paper and pen
What to do:
1. Read and analyze each statement.
2. Write T, if the statement is true and F, if it is false.

_____1. Mountain ranges is form by constant dipping movement of slabs that induces
frequent, moderate to strong earthquake.
_____2. Plate is a break in a rock along where movement has occurred.
_____3. Mountain ranges are formed during Continental-Continental convergent plate
boundary.
_____4. When the earth is pushed up in both plates, converging activity took place in
Continental-Continental plate boundary.
_____5. When two continental plates converge, they smash together and create mountains.

Activity 10: Going Separate Ways! Date: ________ Score: _________

Objective/s:
1. Explain the processes that occur along divergent boundaries.
2. Determine the results of plates that are moving apart.

What you need: Pen and paper

What to do:
1. Study the Figure 5 below showing an illustration of the separation of the lithospheric plates, and
answer the following questions briefly on a separate sheet of paper.

Figure 5. Divergence of Plates

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Guide Questions:
1. As indicated by the arrows, how do the two plates move relative to each other?
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2. What are the geologic processes/events that will occur because of this plate movement?
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3. Where does divergence of plates usually happen?
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4. As plates move apart, a tension zone is formed. Which between magma and water, rises to
the tension zone?
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5. If the divergence continues, what could probably happen to the size of the space between the
splitting crusts?
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 Activity 11. Hot spots and Plate Motions Date: ________ Score: _________

Objective: Relate hot spot with plate tectonics.

What you need: Pen and paper
What to do:
1. Study the picture and read the descriptions below. Then, answer the following questions.

Figure 6. Volcano Island of Taal Aerial Satellite Photograph

Source: https://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/85000/85670/taal_oli_2014038.jpg

The figure above shows an aerial picture of the Taal Volcano which is part of a chain of volcanoes lining the
western edge of the island of Luzon. They were formed by the subduction of the Eurasian Plate underneath the
Philippine Mobile Belt. The island of Taal is composed of multiple stratovolcanoes, conical hills, and craters of
all shapes and sizes. Volcanoes can form when one plate sinks under another plate. They can also form when
magma rises to the surface where a mantle plume, or hot spot, reaches the surface of a plate. Hotspots are
plumes of magma that originate in the earth’s mantle and move outward through the crust. As crustal tectonic
plates move over hot spots, mantle material upwells and erupts on the surface of the plate to form a volcano,
seamount or volcanic island. The hot spot itself never changes position, but the tectonic plates are constantly
moving, so the volcano formed will move along with the tectonic plate to the direction where ever the tectonic
plate is heading, but at the same time the hot spot doesn't stop producing magma.
Guide questions:
1. What is a hot spot?
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2. How are hot spots related to plate tectonics?
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3. What do hot spot tell us about plate movements?
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Scoring Rubric
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clearly explained explained consistent to the to the
consistent to the concepts, concepts, but has minimal concepts, but with
and has no misconceptions misconceptions misconceptions.
 PROCESSES THAT OCCUR ALONG THE PLATE BOUNDARIES
Most Essential Learning Competency:
Explain the different processes that occur along the plate boundaries (SS10ES–Ia-j-36.3)
Key Concepts
• Two Continental Plates Collision
Converging continental crusts or plates result in a
collision zone, which could cause shallow earthquakes.
At that place, a crack called fault is formed. This type of
convergence will cause no subduction since the two plates
have the same densities. There would be no volcanoes
formed, no tsunamis. The convergence will result in a group
of high landforms that we call mountain ranges.
Figure 1. Formation of mountain range
Source: http://whybecausescience.com/category/vulcanism/
• Processes and Landforms along Divergent Boundary
Divergent plate boundaries mostly happen under the oceans. As plates pull away from each other, a vertical
space that may extend deep down into the lowest layer of the crust is created. It is a rift valley. The force of
separation creates a tension zone. A shallow earthquake
may happen with this plate movement.
Plate divergence is believed to be a slow continuous
process. As the plates move away, the gap between them
increases. While this happens, materials from the mantle
may rise, filling up space. These materials pile up near
the tension zone forming mountain-like structures called
oceanic ridges. But new materials from the mantle may
push the old ones. The filled-up space between the plates
becomes a new seafloor. This process is known as
seafloor spreading.
Figure 2. Divergence of Plates
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• Three types of plate boundary
The three types of plate boundaries are convergent, divergent and transform. Convergent boundary is a
boundary in which two plates move toward each other, causing one of the slabs of the lithosphere to subduct
beneath an overriding plate. Divergent boundary is a region where the crustal plates are moving apart.
Transform fault boundary is a boundary produced when two plates slide past each other.

Figure 3. Three types of plate boundary

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• Hot Spot

A “hot spot” is an area in the mantle from which hot materials rise as a thermal plume. High heat and lower
pressure at the base of the lithosphere (tectonic plate) facilitates melting of the rock. This melt, called magma,
rises through cracks and erupts to form volcanoes. As the tectonic plate moves over the stationary hot spot,
the volcanoes are rafted away and new ones form in their place. This results in chains of volcanoes, such as
the Hawaiian Islands.

Figure 4. Hot spot forming a chain

of volcanoes
Source: http://www.geo.hunter.cuny.edu/
Ocean