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First Quarter Grade 10 Science Reviewer

Direction: Choose the letter of the best answer. Write the letter before each number.

Grade 10 Science

1ST QUARTER EXAMINATION

1. The idea proposed by Alfred Wegener to explain the continental shapes and positions is known as

C.Plate Tectonics

A.Pangaea

D.Continental Drif

B.Elastic Rebound

2.According to the Continental Drif Theory, the Earth was one big supercontinent called:

A.Gondwana

C.Laurasua

D.Panthalassa

B.Pangaea

3.When Earth’s crust bends, forces act towards each other, this phenomenon may result to:

A.earthquake

C.tsunami

D.faulting

B.folding

4.Tsunamis are big waves that are caused by:

C. earthquake or volcano eruption on

A.Strong winds

Land

B.Cyclones

D. underwater earthquake or volcanic

Eruption

5. These are push and pull waves that expand in the direction the waves travel; has the greatest velocity
of all earthquake waves.

A.P waves

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B.S waves

C.Love waves

D.Rayleigh waves

6.This wave moves up and down and side-to-side. The second wave you feel in an earthquake.

A.P waves

B.S waves

C.Love waves

D.Rayleigh waves

7. Earthquake epicentres are identified through

A.Richter Scaling

B.Seismographic Method

C.Triangulation Method

D.Scaling Method

8.Which clue is used to show that the continents used to fit together in a super continent millions of
years ago?

A.GPS data

B.gravitational changes

C.fossils and rocks record

D. magnetic poles shifing

9.When two continental plates collide, edges of the continents are pushed upward to form:

C.trench

A.rif valley

B. continental mountain range

D.volcano

10. Which of the following best describes how heat travels through the Earth’s layers?

A. heat from radiation in the core passes through convection currents in the mantle

B. heat from convection currents in the core passes through radiation in the mantle

C. heat from the core passes through conduction to the mantle

D.heat from the mantle passes to the core and to the lithosphere

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11To locate the epicenter of an earthquake, a seismologist must determine all of the following EXCEPT:

A.the velocity of both P waves and S waves

B.the types of fault from which it originated

C.the difference in travel times between P waves and S waves

D. the distance from the epicenter to at least three different seismological stations

12.The point on Earth’s surface directly above the focus of an earthquake is the

A.focus

B.epicenter

C.fault

D.inner core

13. What does a seismograph record?

A. the Mercalli scale rating for an earthquake

B.the speed of seismic waves

C.the ground movements caused by seismic waves

D.the location of the epicenter

14. The higher the waves on a seismogram the

A.stronger the earthquake

B.weaker the earthquake

C.closer the earthquake

D.None of these

15.Scientists think that convection currents flow in Earth’s

C.asthenosphere

A.continents

B.inner core

D.lithosphere

16.A boundary where plates move away from each other is called:

A.divergent

C.transform

B.convergent

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D.shear

17. A deep crack in the earth’s surface is called a :

A.ridge

B.plate

C.fold

D.fault

18.How does the plates move at a transform boundary?

A.they move toward each other

B. they move away from each other

C.they move past each other

D.they do not move

19. A boundary where plates move away from each other is called:

A.divergent boundary

B.shear boundary

C.transform boundary

D.convergent boundary

20. What kind of plate boundary results to the formation of most volcanoes?

A. divergent boundary

B. shear boundary

C.transform boundary

D.convergent boundary

21. What kind of plate boundary results to the formation of San Andreas fault?

A. divergent boundary

B.shear boundary

C.transform boundary

D.convergent boundary

22.The outer core is made up of:

A.solid iron and nickel

B. liquid iron and nickel

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C. solid iron and aluminum

D. liquid iron and aluminum

23. Scientists believed that this layer is responsible for Earth’s magnetic field.

A.asthenosphere

B.crust

C.mantle

D.core

24.These are processes that come from forces on or above the Earth’s surface.

A earthquake

B erosion

C.endogenic

D.exogenic

25.the most abundant element in the earth’s crust is:

A.carbon

C.iron

D.silicon

B.oxygen

26. The inside of the Earth consists of four major layers. Which is the hottest layer?

A. inner core

B.crust

C.mantle

D.outer core

27.The order of the layers from the inside of the Earth outward is:

A. inner core, outer core, mantle, crust

B.Mantle inner core, outer core, crust,

C. Outer core inner core mantle crust

D crust mantle inner core outer core

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28,29,30. Identify the parts of the seismogram

30.

28

29

31.An area of on the surface of the earth where certain types of seismic waves cannot be measured at
this location.

32. Type of wave that can only travel through solid

33. What instrument indicated that the Outer Core is Liquid.

34. A disaster wherein the tectonic plates move past each other causing stress resulting ground shaking
and radiated seismic energy caused by slip.

35.Type of volcano that are independent from tectonic boundaries.

36. A map that shows the margins of the specific tectonic plates.

37-39. Volcanoes are formed by:

40. A type of Plate that form a very deep depression in Ocean floor called Trench.

41. When earthquake occurs the plate is moving at what direction

A. North east

B. south west

C. South east

D. North West

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42. A mechanical vibrations that occur inside the earth which is cause by breakage of rocks

A. Earthquake

B. Subduction

C. seismic wave

D. Seismogram

43. All is correct about Rayleigh wave except.

A. Spread out most of time

B. Producing long wave duration on seismograph

C. Travel along the surface of the earth point.

D.Travel.alonh surface of an elastic solid

44. Part of the earth that is 1512 miles deep that is solid and contains both iron and nickel

A. Other core

B. Mantle

C. Inner core

D. Asthenosphere

45. here lies the sof weak layer made of hot molten material.

a. Core

b. Mantle

C. Asthenosphere

D. Lithosphere

46. At what part of the earth did scientist only get to visit?

A.core

B. Crust

C. Mantle

D. Lithosphere

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