The San Andreas Fault in California is formed by two large plates moving side to side at opposite direction. What plates formed the San Andreas fault?

b.Eurasian Plate & North America Plate

a. Eurasian Plate & Pacific Plate

c.North American Plate & Pacific Plate

d.Indo Australian Plate & South American Plate

Where do most of the active volcanoes located?

Eastern coastline of the Continents

How are most of the earthquake distributed?

concentrated on the middle of the continents

The data from seismogram show the arrival time of the P and S waves, which of these can you possibly determine?

The distance to the earthquake.

The intensity of the earthquake.

Which of the following can be used to determine the distance from the epicenter?

The difference in the arrival time of the P and S waves.

The speed of the surface waves.

The ratio of the amplitude of the largest P and S waves,

During the 1960s scientist were already equipped with gadgets needed to explore the deep ocean. What discovery about the ocean floor is associated with the seafloor spreading?

The crust of the ocean is very young relative to the age of the crust of the continents.

Mountains are denser than the mantle.

The rotational poles of the Earth have migrated.

The crust of the continents is more dense than the crust of the ocean.

Who were the two scientists who proposed seafloor spreading in the early 1960s?

Charles Darwin and James Hutton

How is the concept of seafloor spreading being stated?

Seafloor is created at the mid-ocean ridges and destroyed at deep ocean trenches.

If all of the inner layers of the earth are firm and solid, what could have happened to Pangaea?

It would have become as it is today.

It would have slowly disappeared in the ocean.

It would have stretched and covered the entire world.

The lithospheric plates are believed to be moving slowly. What is the driving force that facilitates this movement?

Convection current in the mantle.

Gravitational force of the moon.

Which of the following can you infer from the continuous movement of the lithospheric plates over the asthenosphere?

The continents will not be located in the same place as they are now.

All the volcanoes in the Philippines will become inactive

The island of the Philippines will become scattered all over the world.

Earth Science Grade X

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MS-ESS2-2, MS-ESS2-3, MS-ESS2-1

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What land form can be produced by the collision of two continental plates?

a.oceanic ridge

b.oceanic trench

c. mountain ranges

d.mountain volcanoes

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Plate boundaries are the cracks or the gaps found in between crustal plates.These boundaries are classified based on how two plates move with one another.If two tectonic plates move away from each other what kind of plate boundary do they have?

a.convergent boundary

b. divergent boundary

c.seismic boundary

d. transform boundary

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which of the following will form if two oceanic plates collide in their boundary?

a.oceanic ridge

b. oceanic trench

c. mountain ranges

d. volcanoes

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

These are areas of the Earth where plumes of magma rise from the outer core and seeps through the crust resulting to volcanic eruption. What do you call these areas?

a. crustal plates

b.hot spots

c.plate boundaries

d.tectonic plates

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What converging tectonic plates has no formation of trench, volcano instead just a large group of tall mountains?

a. continental plate & continental plate

b. continental plate & oceanic plate

c.oceanic plate & oceanic plate

d. none of the above

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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What geologic structures or features are formed in the diverging of tectonic plates

a. formation of rift valleys & oceanic ridges

b.. mountain ranges

c. Volcano

d. volcanic arc

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What do you call the deepest part of the ocean? These are also called sub marine valleys formed from the collision of continental and oceanic plates?

a.ocean trenches

b.volcanic island

c. volcanic arc

d.mountain ranges

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

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Earth Science Grade X

25 questions

What land form can be produced by the collision of two continental plates?

Plate boundaries are the cracks or the gaps found in between crustal plates.These boundaries are classified based on how two plates move with one another.If two tectonic plates move away from each other what kind of plate boundary do they have?

Which of the following will form if two oceanic plates collide in their boundary?

These are areas of the Earth where plumes of magma rise from the outer core and seeps through the crust resulting to volcanic eruption. What do you call these areas?

What converging tectonic plates has no formation of trench, volcano instead just a large group of tall mountains?

What geologic structures or features are formed in the diverging of tectonic plates

What do you call the deepest part of the ocean? These are also called sub marine valleys formed from the collision of continental and oceanic plates?

The San Andreas Fault in California is formed by two large plates moving side to side at opposite direction. What plates formed the San Andreas fault?

Fault lines are large cracks on the Earth's crust. These are formed when two tectonic plates rub ( moved side by side) against each other. What plate boundary formed these fault lines?

Which among the continents will unlikely to experience volcanic eruptions?

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