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Module 1: Earth and Space

Total questions: 50

Worksheet time: 25mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Identify the part of Earth's Interior?

a)

Crust, Lithosphere and Asthenosphere

b)

Crust, Upper mantle, Lower mantle and Core

c)

Crust, Mantle and Core

d)

Crust, Mantle, Outer Core and Inner Core

2.

It is a type of fault that move in a horizontal and parallel like direction?

a)

A. Normal Fault

b)

B. Reverse Fault

c)

C. Strike-slip

d)

D. Transform fault

e)

E. Both C & D

3.

The type of wall that move either upward or downward motion in a fault line?

a)

A. Normal fault

b)

B. Hanging wall

c)

C. Foot wall

d)

D. Tension

e)

E. Both B & C

4.

It is a mapping tools used to verify the fault line?

a)

Topographic maps

b)

On site verification of fault line

c)

GPS locators

d)

None of the Above

5.

It explains the geologic fit of some continents such as South America and Africa?

a)

True

b)

False

c)

None of the Above

6.

Continental Drift Theory was proposed by the German meteorologist Alfred Wegener in 1912.

a)

True

b)

False

c)

None of the Above

7.

Identify the period in the evolution of Pangaea?

a)

Cretaceous

b)

Jurassic

c)

Permian

d)

Present Day

8.
a)

Present Day

b)

Triassic

c)

Permian

d)

Jurassic

9.

It is a type of plate boundary that move toward each other.

a)

Divergent

b)

Transform fault

c)

Convergent

d)

Strike-slip

10.

It is a type of plate boundary that slide pass each other?

a)

A. Strike-slip

b)

B. Transform fault

c)

C. Divergent

d)

D. Convergent

e)

Both A & B

11.

There are more than 1500 _______ volcanoes on earth.

a)

Active

b)

Inactive

c)

Dormant

d)

None of the above

12.

Volcanoes occur __________ in some areas and are absent from the other areas.

a)

Randomly

b)

Selectively

c)

In belts

d)

Specifically

13.

The ______________ is a string of volcanoes and sites of seismic activities or earthquakes, around the edges of the Pacific Ocean.

a)

Mountain Belt

b)

Pacific Ring of Fire

c)

Edges of the Continents

d)

Ring of Fire

14.

Roughly __________ of all earthquakes occur along this area.

a)

80%

b)

70%

c)

50%

d)

90%

15.

The ring is dotted with _____________ of all active volcanoes on earth.

a)

65%

b)

75%

c)

85%

d)

55%

16.

The rate of spreading along ___________ accounts to 2.5 cm per year.

a)

Mid-Atlantic Ridge

b)

Mid-Ridges

c)

Rift valleys

d)

Trenches

17.

A _________ develops as a rift valley increases its length and depth.

a)

Trenches

b)

Constructive

c)

Destructive

d)

Linear Sea

18.

A divergent plate boundary is also known as ___________ plate boundary.

a)

Towards

b)

Rift valleys

c)

Constructive

d)

Destructive

19.

When a spreading center develops within a continental crust, the breaking leads to the formation of ____________.

a)

Rift valley

b)

Trenches

c)

Mid-Atlantic Ridges

d)

Linear sea

20.

Earthquake epicenters mostly lie on locations near active volcanoes.

a)

True

b)

False

c)

None of the Above

21.

Most active volcanoes are located along plate boundaries?

a)

True

b)

False

c)

None of the above

22.

Earthquake epicenters mostly lie on locations near active volcanoes.

a)

True

b)

False

c)

None of the above

23.

Geologic feature form in Oceanic plate-oceanic plate?

a)

A. Trenches

b)

B. Volcanic Island Arc

c)

C. Rift Valleys

d)

D. Mountain belts

e)

E. Both A & B

24.

Geologic features of continental plate-continental plate?

a)

Mountain belts

b)

Trenches

c)

Volcanic Island Arc

d)

Mid-Ridges

25.

Plate A and C shows a divergent plate boundary?

a)

True

b)

False

c)

None of the above

26.

A transform fault boundary exists between A & C?

a)

True

b)

False

c)

Both

d)

None of the above

27.

Plates A and B illustrates a divergent plate boundary.

a)

True

b)

False

c)

Both

d)

None of the above

28.

It is ___________ process or the bending of the crust towards the mantle.

a)

Convection

b)

Subduction

c)

Selection

d)

Conversion

29.

____________ will most likely form as the leading edge of one of the oceanic plates melts.

a)

Volcanic arc

b)

Mountain ranges

c)

Volcanic Island Arc

d)

Trenches

30.

Once two continental plates converge __________ is formed as caused by the uplift of land mass.

a)

Mountain belts

b)

Trenches

c)

Mid-atlantic ridge

d)

Volcanic Arc

31.

The British mathematician who worked out the mathematical model in 1911, which later known as love waves.

a)

Augusto William Hough

b)

Augusto Richard Hough

c)

Augusto Edward Hough

d)

Augusto Hough

32.

A type of surface waves, that will later name after the discoverer of the Rayleigh waves?

a)

John Edward Strutt

b)

John William Strutt

c)

John Richard Strutt

d)

John Strutt

33.

A type of surface wave that cause the most damage to structures during an earthquake.

a)

Rayleigh wave

b)

Love waves

c)

P wave

d)

S wave

34.

A seismic wave with a characteristic that can travel through solid, liquid and gas?

a)

S wave

b)

Rayleigh wave

c)

P wave

d)

Love wave

35.

It is also known as shear wave?

a)

Rayleigh wave

b)

S wave

c)

P wave

d)

Love wave

36.

A theory that proposed to found out that the velocity of seismic waves changes and increases at a certain distance?

a)

A. Gutenberg Discontinuity Theory

b)

B. Mohorovicic Discontinuity Theory

c)

C. Moho Theory

d)

Both B & C

37.

A zone where the P waves are detected on the other side of the Earth opposite to the focus?

a)

Gutenberg Discontinuity

b)

Mohorovicic Discontinuity

c)

Shadow Zone

d)

None of the above

38.

Gutenberg Discontinuity Theory has a different thickness in layer, what is the thickness of Outer Core?

a)

40 km

b)

1,278 km

c)

2,900 km

d)

2,200 km

39.

The thickness in kilometers of the Mantle?

a)

2,950 km

b)

2,220 km

c)

2,900 km

d)

1, 250 km

40.

It is the most important component of Nuclear weapons test that can be found in the inner core?

a)

Uradium

b)

Uranium

c)

Urinirod

d)

Uracium

41.

A theory that process that rocks are younger at the Mid-ocean ridge and older far from mid-ocean ridge?

a)

Seafloor Striding Theory

b)

Seafloor Stretching Theory

c)

Seafloor Spreading Theory

d)

Seafloor Theory

42.

It is also known as Magnetic Flip of the Earth.

a)

Magnetic Reverse

b)

Magnetic Reversal

c)

Magnetic Attachment

d)

Magnetic Polarity

43.

Describes Continental Drift Theory: A theory expanded in the book, " The Origins of Continents and Oceans".

a)

True

b)

False

c)

None of the above

d)

Not Applicable

44.

In a convergent plate boundary, plates move _______ each other.

a)

Convergent plate boundary

b)

Trenches

c)

Subduction Zone

d)

Divergent plate boundary

45.

A results of collision of moving plates boundary.

a)

Divergent plate boundary

b)

Mid-atlantic ridge

c)

Convergent plate boundary

d)

Trenches

46.

The rate of spreading along __________ accounts to 2.5 cm per year.

a)

Trenches

b)

Mid-Atlantic Ridge

c)

Linear Sea

d)

Fault line

47.

A divergent plate boundary is also known as ___________ plate boundary.

a)

Destructive

b)

Constructive

c)

Collision

d)

Diversion

48.

True or False: Plates A and B illustrates a divergent plate boundary.

a)

True

b)

False

c)

Not applicable

d)

None of the above

49.

True or False: Plate A and D exhibits a transform fault boundary?

a)

True

b)

False

c)

Not applicable

d)

None of the above

50.

Plates sliding past each other without diverging or converging form a ___________ boundary?

a)

A. Strike-slip

b)

B. Transform fault

c)

C. Divergent

d)

D Convergent

e)

E. Both A & B