Republic of the Philippines
Department of Education
Region 02
Division of the City of Ilagan
GAYONG-GAYONG SUR INTEGRATED SCHOOL
FIRST PERIODIC EXAMINATION
In SCIENCE 10
Name:__________________________________________ Date:____________ Score:______
I. MULTIPLE CHOICES: Choose the letter of the correct answer. Write your answer on the
space provided.
I. Direction: Read each item carefully. Write the letter of the best answer on your answer
sheet.
____ 1 It is the rigid sections of the lithosphere that moves as a unit.
a. Crust b. Plates c. Plate boundary d. Seafloor
____ 2 It is formed when two plates move apart.
a. convergent b. divergent c. plate boundary d. transform fault
boundary boundary
____ 3 It is the outer portion of the Earth.
a. core b. crust c. mantle d. water
____ 4 It is the theory which suggests that Earth’s crust is made up of plates that interact in various
ways, thus producing earthquakes, mountains, volcanoes and other geological features.
a. continental drift b.plate tectonic c. seafloor spreading d. supercontinental
____ 5 It is the vibration of the Earth due to the rapid release of energy.
a. earthquake b. storm surge c. subduction d. tsunami
____ 6 It is a consolidated mixture of minerals.
a. plates b. rocks c. solution d. water
____ 7 The device used to record earthquake waves.
a. barometer b. seismogram c. seismograph d. wind vain
____ 8 The science that studies Earth.
a. Anatomy b. Astronomy c. Geology d. Seismology
____ 9 When two tectonic plates collide, the oceanic crust usually subducts beneath the continental
crust because it is___.
a. denser than continental crust c. thicker than the continental crust
b. less dense than the continental crust d. thinner than the continental crust
____ 10 If you visit a place in the pacific known to be along converging plates, which should you NOT
expect to see?
a. active volcanoes b. mountain ranges c. rift valley d. volcanic island
____ 11 What do you expect to find at the mid-ocean ridge?
a. relatively young rocks c. ancient rocks
b. reverse fault d. thick accumulation of sediments
____ 12 It is present when two plates collide.
a. convergent b. divergent c. plate boundary d. transform fault
boundary boundary
____ 13 What do you expect to find parallel to a trench?
a. hot spot b. ocean ridge c. rift valley d. volcanic arc
____ 14 It is an event in which a slab of rock thrusts into the mantle.
a. fracture b. hot spot c. subduction d. trench
____ 15 It is a mass of molten formed at depth, including dissolved gases and crystals.
a. lava b. magma c. plasma d. water
____ 16 What makes up the lithosphere?
a. continental crust c. oceanic crust and continental crust
b. crust and the upper mantle d. upper mantle
____ 17 Miners dig into the Earth in search for precious rocks and minerals. In which layer is the
deepest explorations made by miners?
a. crust b. inner core c. mantle d. outer core
____ 18 He hypothesized that Earth was once made up of a single landmass.
a. Alfred Wegener c.Harry Hess
b. Robert Dietz d. Both a and b
____ 19 The proponent of seafloor spreading theory.
a. Alfred Wegener b. Harry Hess c. Robert Dietz d. Both A and B
____ 20 What is the name of the Mesozoic supercontinent that consisted of all of the present
continents?
a. Eurasia b. Pangea c. Laurasia d. Pangaea
____ 21 Which of the following theories did Wegener propose?
a. Continental Drift Theory c. Plate Tectonic
b. Continental Shift Theory d. Seafloor Spreading Theory
____ 22 If you are a cartographer, what will give you an idea that the continents were once joined?
a. ocean depth c. shape of the continents
b. position of the south pole d. size of the Atlantic ocean
____ 23 Which observation was NOT instrumental in formulating the hypothesis of seafloor
spreading?
a. depth of the ocean
b. identifying the location of glacial deposits
c. magnetization of the oceanic crust
d. thickness of seafloor sediments
____ 24 The process that describes how the oceanic crust plunges into the Earth and destroy at the
mantle.
a. Construction b. Convection c. Diversion d. Subduction
____ 25 It is the energy that radiates in all directions from the focus in the form of waves.
a. oceanic wave b. primary wave c. secondary wave d. seismic wave
____ 26 He is a British mathematician who worked out the mathematical model for a kind of wave in
1911.
a. A.H.E. Love c. A.E.H. Love
b. E.A.H. Love d. H.E.A. Love
____ 27 Which is true about Love wave?
a. It is faster than Rayleigh wave and it moves the ground in a side-to-side horizontal
motion.
b. It is faster than Rayleigh wave and it moves the ground in a side-to-side vertical
motion.
c. It is slower than Rayleigh wave and it moves the ground in a side-to-side horizontal
motion.
d. It is slower than Rayleigh wave and it moves the ground in a side-to-side vertical
motion.
____ 28 Which is NOT true about body waves?
a. They can travel through the Earth’s inner layers
b. They are used by scientists to study the Earth’s interior
c. They are of higher frequency than the surface waves
d. It has two types: the love waves and Rayleigh waves
____ 29 It is a pulse energy that travels quickly through the earth and through liquids.
a. Primary wave b. Rayleigh wave c. Secondary wave d. Surface wave
____ 30 Waves that move as shear or transverse waves and force the ground to sway from side to
side.
a. Primary wave b. Rayleigh wave c. Secondary wave d. Surface wave
____ 31 It is the thinnest layer of the Earth.
a. crust b. inner core c. mantle d.outer core
____ 32 It makes up about 80% of the Earth’s volume and about 68% of its total mass.
a. crust b. inner core c. mantle d.outer core
____ 33 It is made up of solid iron and nickel and has a radius of 1300 kilometers.
a. crust b. inner core c. mantle d.outer core
____ 34 Which of the following is a freshwater reptile?
a. Mesosaurus b. Lystosaurus c. Glossopteris d. both a and b
____ 35 They are formed from the compaction and decomposition of swamp plants that lived million
years ago.
a. cool beds b. coal beds c. crust d. magma
____ 36 It is a system of ridges or mountains in the seafloor similar to those found in the continents.
a. front- ocean ridge c. inner-ocean ridge
b. mid- ocean ridge d. outer ocean ridge
____ 37 Which of the following findings is NOT true that support seafloor spreading theory?
a. Rocks are younger at the mid-ocean ridge
b. Sediments are thicker at the ridge
c. Rocks at the ocean floor are younger than those at the continents
d. Rocks far from the mid-ocean ridge are older
____ 38 It is the ability of solid to flow.
a. Flexibility b. Plasticity c. liquidity d. stretchability
____ 39 If the Atlantic ocean is widening at a rate of 3.5 cm per year, how far (in kilometers) will it
spread in a million years?
a. 3.5 km b. 35 km c. 350 km d. 3500 km
____ 40 Which of the following increases with distance from a mid-ocean ridge?
a. the age of oceanic lithosphere
b. the thickness of the lithosphere
c. the depth of the seafloor.
d. All of the above
II. Directions: Write A if the statement is true and B if the statement is false.
_______1. The Earth is composed of four major layers: the crust, mantle, outer core and inner core.
_______2. The crust is the innermost layer of the earth
_______3. The lithosphere is a weak layer of the mantle on which the asthenosphere floats.
_______4. The inner core is made up of molten material and accounts for the Earth’s magnetic field.
_______5. Hess and Dietz based their theory on evidences from fossils imbedded in rocks and rock
formations.
_______6. The old seafloor is destroyed at the subduction zone and melts inside the mantle.
_______7. The age of rocks in the seafloor support the seafloor spreading theory.
_______8. Scientists believe that the plates’ movement is due to convection currents in the mantle.
_______9. The lithosphere is subdivided into portions called lithospheric plates.
_______10. Continental Drift Theory states that the continents moved away from each other towards
their current locations.
“GODBLESS”
Prepared by: Checked by: Noted by:
LAIRA JOY A. SALVADOR MARIVIC C. PASCUA REGALADO R. DIONICIO
Subject Teacher Head Teacher I Principal II
GAYONG-GAYONG SUR INTEGRATED SCHOOL
Table of Specification
in Science 10
TOPICS NO. OF DAYS NO. OF WEIGHT ITEM PLACEMENT
TAUGHT ITEMS %
Plate Tectonics 3 6 12 1,6,8,9,13,49,
Plate boundaries 1.5 3 6 2,10,12
Layers of the Earth 3.5 7 14 3,16,17,31,32,33,42,
Earthquakes 1.5 3 6 5,7,24
Seismic waves 3 6 12 25, 26,27,28,29,30
Composition of the 2.5 5 10 15, 38,41, 43,44
earth Interior
Continental drift 3.5 7 14 11,18, 20,21,22,34,
theory 50
Seafloor spreading 3.5 7 14 19, 23,35,36, 37,
theory 39,47
Plate Tectonic Theory 3 6 12 4,14,40,45, 46,48
Total 25 50 100% 50
Prepared by: Checked by: Noted by:
LAIRA JOY A. SALVADOR MARIVIC C. PASCUA REGALADO R. DIONICIO
Subject Teacher Head Teacher I Principal II
