First Periodical Test in Science 10

School Year 2023-2024

I. Modified true or false. Tell whether the following are:
a. Both the statement is correct
b. Both the statement is incorrect
c. If the first statement is incorrect and the second statement is correct
d. If the first statement is correct and the second statement is incorrect
1. A plate is a large rigid slab of solid rock. The plates “float” on the slowly flowing asthenosphere.
2. The Mohoriovicic discontinuity or Moho is the boundary between the mantle and the core. The Mantle is the layer surrounding
the core.
3. The upper mantle is partially molten and called the asthenosphere. Asthenosphere is the rigid outer-most layer.
4. Made mostly of silicates of magnesium and iron; moderately dense is the crust. Made of silicate rocks and oxides; slightly
dense; rigid is the mantle.
5. Tectonic plates are also called lithospheric plates because the crust and the upper-most mantle make up a sub-layer of the
earth called the lithosphere.
6. Convection current occurs due to uneven heating and different densities within the liquid. The constant movement of heat in
the mantle leads to circular conduction currents.
7. Tectonic plates, or lithospheric plates, are constantly moving, being created, and consumed simultaneously. The motion
sometimes results in earthquakes, volcanoes, and mountain ranges at the plate boundaries.
8. Continental drift theory was proposed by Alfred Wallas. In the 1960‘s, the theory of continental drift was combined with the
theory of seafloor spreading to create the theory of plate tectonics.
9. The picture states that the hot molten rock of magma flows in circular manner.
The movement happens inside the outer core.
10. The movement of the magma starts from the heating of the molten rocks and materials. This
heat transverse to the other rocks and melts it down, then after it will cool down and the
cycle continues.

For numbers 11-15, identify what plate boundaries is/are being describe in the following scenario or activity. Choose your answer
below.

a. Convergent b. Divergent c. Transform d. All the given

11. Places where crust is destroyed.
12. Places where crust is neither produced nor destroyed.
13. A new crust is created from magma pushing up from the mantle.
14. The actively splitting African Plate and the Arabian Plate meet in what geologists call a triple junction, where the Red Sea
meets the Gulf of Aden.
15. Mid-Atlantic Ridge is formed.
16. Mount Saint Helens formed in what specific boundary?
a. Oceanic-oceanic divergent c. Continental-continental divergent
b. Oceanic-oceanic convergent d. Oceanic-Continental divergent
17. Marianas’s trench is the deepest trench in the ocean, this formed from what specific boundaries? Choose your answer from
the choices from number 16.
18. Mount Everest is the highest mountain in the world which is found in Indian and Eurasian plate. What type of plate boundaries
is present?
a. Oceanic-oceanic divergent c. Continental-continental convergent
b. Oceanic-oceanic convergent d. Oceanic-Continental convergent
19. The Himalaya form the highest continental mountains in the world. It is found in what boundaries? Choose your answer from
the choices from question number 18.
20. Mount Pinatubo part of the Luzon Volcanic Arc, which is the result of what boundaries? Choose your answer in the choices
from question number 18.
For numbers 21-30 Complete the concept map below. Choose the correct term on the box below.

Mid-ocean ridges Rift Valley Volcanic Mountains Major earthquakes deep sea trenches

Volcanic islands Transforms Divergent convergent

31. The picture on the left side shows how earthquakes occur, identify the two main parts
of the earthquake and its function.
a. Focus is below the earth’s crust that is the origin of the vibration; epicenter is on
the top of the focus.
b. Epicenter is below the earth’s crust that is the origin of the vibration; focus is on
top of the epicenter.
c. Surface waves causes the vibrations; p and s-waves are below the earth’s crust.
d. P and s-waves causes the vibrations; surface waves are below the earth’s crust.

Identify the different waves that occurs when earthquake happens.

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. a. Surface waves
. b. Secondary waves
c. Primary waves
d. All the above
33
. Imagine an earthquake has happened in the UK – stations around the country are set up
to measure seismic waves. From the seismographs, the distance from the earthquake to
the recording station is calculated by the time difference between the P and S waves.
Identify the epicenter using the following data. (7 points) (1 mm = 10 km)
1 Station 1 detected seismic waves– they used the difference in time between the P and S
waves to work out that an earthquake occurred 300km away, but they do not know in
which direction.
3 2 Station 2 detected seismic waves on their seismograph too – the P and S waves they
detected were slightly closer together than those detected in Newcastle. They worked out
that an earthquake occurred 200 km away from them. We now have two cross overs, so
we have 2 possible locations for our earthquake.
Station 3 also detected seismic waves. The P and S waves they detected were even
closer together so the earthquake out of the three recorded seismic waves is closest to
station 3 which recorded it 150 km away. We now only have one spot which overlaps
each of the circles so this is where the earthquake must have happened!

41. – 44. Identify the parts of earthquake seismic waves. 45-50. Write down all the possible
evidences that the earth’s crust is
slowly moving.
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