1st Midterm Quiz Bee

Grade 10
Q1. He suggested that there
may have been land bridges
that connect southern
continents
Answer: Eduard Suess/ Edward
Suess
Q2.What is the Southern
part of the Pangaea?

Answer: Laurasia
Q3. It is a device that is
used to make the magnetic
map of the Earth.

Answer: Magnetometer
Q4. This is the repeated
heatig and cooling results in
circulating current that may
be enough for the continents
to move.
Answer: Mantle Convection
Q5. His idea was based on the
on the fact that fossils of
Mesosaurus were found in
South America and South
Africa.
Answer: Alexander Du Toit
Q6. It is the repeated
process of opening and
closing of the ocean basin.

Answer: Wilson's Cycle

Q7. In this type of plate
boundary older crust was
destroyed.

Answer: Convergent Boundary

Q8. These are volcano
mountain chains grow and
rise above the oceans.

Answer: Island Arcs

Q9. These hot regions lie on
top of the mantle plumes that
generate large amount of
magma.
Answer: Hot spots
Q10. What is the largest
active volcano on Earth?

Answer: Mauna Loa

Q11. A trench formed when
the Nazca Plate subducted
beneath the South American
Plate.
Answer: Atacama Trench/ Peru-
Chile Trench
Q12. This is young ocean
basin to be formed when the
Arabian Plate diverge with
African Plate.
Answer: Red Sea
Q13. Which is denser:
Oceanic Crust or
Contitnental Crust?

Answer: Oceanic Crust

Q14. He proposed the theory
wherein earth's crust is broken
down into small and large
fragments and they are moving
relative to one another.
Answer: John Wilson
Q15. It is an island in Greece
formed because of the
convergent boundary between
African Plate and Eurasian Plate.
Answer: Cyprus
Q16. What is the title of
Harry Hess Hypothesis?

Answer: Seafloor Spreading

Q17. He believed that the
earth is expanding that is
why the continents are
drifting.
Answer: Roberto Mantovani
Q18. It is a force brought by
earth's rotation caused the
continents to break apart and
moved toward the center.
Answer: Centrifugal Force
Q19. This geologic feature
formed 55 million years ago
when the Eurasian Plate
collide with the Indian Plate.
Answer: Himalayas
Q20. This is the geologic
feature formed when oceanic
plate collide with another
oceanic plate.
Answer: Island Arc
Q21. It is a process
happened when two plates
collide, one of the plates will
submerge beneath the other.
Answer: Subduction
Q22. According to this theory,
our earth's crust is fragmented
and they are moving relative
to one another.
Answer: Plate Tectonic Theory
Q23. It is a geological theory
suggest that the continents
and ocean basins have always
been on the same location.
Answer: Theory of Permanentism
Q24. This term refers to the
formation of the mountain
ranges.

Answer: Orogeny
Q25. What geologic feature
can be formed in transform
bodary?

Answer: Fault
Q26. It is the type of rock
that makes up the Oceanic
crust.

Answer: Basalt Rock

Q27. This process is used to
measure the depth of the
ocean.

Answer: Echo sounding

Q28. These huge extensive
masses of ice that coered
much of the earth's surface
during the ice age.
Answer: Fossils
Q29. What do you call to all
the Earth's water?

Answer: Panthalassa
Q30. In this type of convergent
boundary, subduction happens
because of the difference in
temperature
Answer: Oceanic-Oceanic Collision
Q31. What are the four
evidences that supports the
idea of Arthur Holmes?
Answer: Age of the Rock
Discovery of the Magnetic Stripes
Discovery of trenches and Ridges
Magnetic Reversals
Q32. Enumerate the three
geologic features that can be
formed in Divergent
Boundary.
Answer: Ridges, Ocean Basins, Rift
Valley
Q33. Enumerate the present
4 continents included in the
Gondwanaland before.
Answer: South America
Africa
Antartica
Australia
Q34. Give three examples of
hot spots region of the Earth
Answer: Galapagos Island
Island of Hawaii
Yellowstone National Park