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1st PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION
Science - 10

Name: ___________________________________________ Score:

Teacher: Mr. Christopher Jan S. Fajardo Date: ____________
General Direction:
Read every item carefully and follow instruction strictly. Write your answers legibly. Avoid erasures.
You may start now. Good luck!

I. MULTIPLE CHOICE (15pts)

Instruction: Select the best answer that suits to the given statement. Write the word of the correct
answer on the blank.

1. The only liquid layer of Earth is the _____________.

a. Crust
b. Inner core
c. Mantle
d. Outer core

2. The thickest layer of the Earth is a ____________.

a. Core
b. Crust
c. Mantle
d. Lithosphere

3. _____________ is the scientist credited for establishing the foundation for the theory of plate
tectonics.
a. Alfred Wegener
b. Andriija Mohorovičić
c. Augustus Edward Love
d. John William Strutt

4. The interface between the mantle and the outer core is called ________________.
a. Asthenosphere
b. Gutenburg discontinuity
c. Lithosphere
d. Mohorovičić discontinuity

5. The supercontinent from when present came from is called ________________.

a. Gondwan
b. Laurasia
c. Pangea
d. Pangaea Proxima

6. The outermost layer of Earth where life exists is called the ____________.
a. Crust
b. Mantle
c. Outer core
d. Inner core

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 7. The seismic waves are detected by highly sensitive instrument called ________________
a. Seismograph
b. Seismology
c. Seismometer
d. Seismic waves

8. The superocean which means “all seas” is called ________________.

a. Phanthassa
b. Panthassa
c. Phanthalassa
d. Panthalassa.

9. _______________________ is the interface between the crust and the upper mantle.
a. Asthenosphere
b. Mohorovičić discontinuity
c. Lehmann discontinuity
d. Lithosphere

10. One of the earliest theories on changing geography and surface topography of Earth was the
_______________.
a. Contraction theory
b. Plate tectonics theory
c. Continental drift theory
d. Bigbang theory

11. The second period of Phanerozoic Eon is _________________.

a. Mesozoic era
b. Cenozoic era
c. Paleozoic era
d. Cambrian era

12. ____________, one of Paleozoic period was a time in Earth’s history in which many species
still prevalent today evolved, such as primitive fish, cephalopods, and coral.
a. Silurian Period
b. Devonian Period
c. Ordovician Period
d. Permian Period

13. _______________ has tropical swamps dominated on Earth, and large amounts of trees
created much of the carbon that became coal deposits.
a. Permian Period
b. Carboniferous Period
c. Devonian Period
d. Silurian Period

14. The ______________________ featured the rise of mammals as the dominant class of
animals, as the end of the age of the dinosaurs left significant evolution vacuums.
a. Mesozoic era
b. Paleozoic era
c. Cenozoic era
d. Phanerozoic era

15. The Neogene Period features two epochs: the __________________________.

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 a. Pleistocene and Holocene
b. Miocene and Pliocene
c. Paleocene and Eocene
d. Paleogene and Quaternary

II. IDENTIFICATION (20pts)

Identify the following.
1. The era of Phanerozoic eon that features the rise of fish, amphibians, and reptiles. _____________

2. It is also known as the “all of Earth”. _____________

3. It occurs when the lithosphere is pushed by the asthenosphere because of _____________

convection currents from mantle.

4. It takes place when a subducting slab sinks into the hot mantle because of a _____________
difference in temperature.

5. It is caused by the rising of heat from the core toward the mantle. _____________

6. It occurs between two colliding plates, one subducting underneath the other, _____________
whereby convection currents in the upper mantle sucks both plates down.

7. The measurement that plates in Earth's crust continually move per year. _____________

8. It is the period that saw mass evolution of fish, as jaw-less fish became numerous _____________
jawed fish evolved, and the first fresh water evolved.

9. It is the period of Paleozoic era that there were just four continents: Gondwana, _____________
Laurentia, Baltica, and Siberia.

10. It is the period known as the “age of mammals”. _____________

11. Philippines is composed of how many islands? _____________

12. It is the longest period of Mesozoic era _____________

13. Known as “all seas” _____________

14. The theory that Alfred Wegener proposed in 1912. _____________

15. The two smaller supercontinents that divides after the Pangaea. _____________

16. It is the liquid type of outer core. _____________

17. It is type of resisting force that two continental plates collide but resist the force by
overlapping each other.

18. A type of resisting force when two continental plates slides to different direction. _____________

19. It is a driving force that caused by rising the heat from the core toward the mantle. _____________

20. A Croatian geophysicist who discovers Morovičić discontinuity. _____________

III. ENUMERATION (20pts)

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 Enumerate the following.
1. Four(4) layers of earth.

2. Three(3) eras that Phanerozoic eon is divided.

3. Six(6) periods Paleozoic era.

4. Three(3) divisions of Cenozoic era.

5. Two(epochs) of Quaternary period.

6. Give at least two(2) theories of that change the geography and surface topography of Earth.

IV. ESSAY
Answer the following.

1. Explain how Pangaea broke up from one massive supercontinent into the seven continents known
today.

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