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WorksheetsModule 1: Earth and Space
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 25mins
Identify the part of Earth's Interior?
Crust, Lithosphere and Asthenosphere
Crust, Upper mantle, Lower mantle and Core
Crust, Mantle and Core
Crust, Mantle, Outer Core and Inner Core
It is a type of fault that move in a horizontal and parallel like direction?
A. Normal Fault
B. Reverse Fault
C. Strike-slip
D. Transform fault
E. Both C & D
The type of wall that move either upward or downward motion in a fault line?
A. Normal fault
B. Hanging wall
C. Foot wall
D. Tension
E. Both B & C
It is a mapping tools used to verify the fault line?
Topographic maps
On site verification of fault line
GPS locators
None of the Above
It explains the geologic fit of some continents such as South America and Africa?
True
False
None of the Above
Continental Drift Theory was proposed by the German meteorologist Alfred Wegener in 1912.
True
False
None of the Above
Identify the period in the evolution of Pangaea?
Cretaceous
Jurassic
Permian
Present Day
Present Day
Triassic
Permian
Jurassic
It is a type of plate boundary that move toward each other.
Divergent
Transform fault
Convergent
Strike-slip
It is a type of plate boundary that slide pass each other?
A. Strike-slip
B. Transform fault
C. Divergent
D. Convergent
Both A & B
There are more than 1500 _______ volcanoes on earth.
Active
Inactive
Dormant
None of the above
Volcanoes occur __________ in some areas and are absent from the other areas.
Randomly
Selectively
In belts
Specifically
The ______________ is a string of volcanoes and sites of seismic activities or earthquakes, around the edges of the Pacific Ocean.
Mountain Belt
Pacific Ring of Fire
Edges of the Continents
Ring of Fire
Roughly __________ of all earthquakes occur along this area.
80%
70%
50%
90%
The ring is dotted with _____________ of all active volcanoes on earth.
65%
75%
85%
55%
The rate of spreading along ___________ accounts to 2.5 cm per year.
Mid-Atlantic Ridge
Mid-Ridges
Rift valleys
Trenches
A _________ develops as a rift valley increases its length and depth.
Trenches
Constructive
Destructive
Linear Sea
A divergent plate boundary is also known as ___________ plate boundary.
Towards
Rift valleys
Constructive
Destructive
When a spreading center develops within a continental crust, the breaking leads to the formation of ____________.
Rift valley
Trenches
Mid-Atlantic Ridges
Linear sea
Earthquake epicenters mostly lie on locations near active volcanoes.
True
False
None of the Above
Most active volcanoes are located along plate boundaries?
True
False
None of the above
Earthquake epicenters mostly lie on locations near active volcanoes.
True
False
None of the above
Geologic feature form in Oceanic plate-oceanic plate?
A. Trenches
B. Volcanic Island Arc
C. Rift Valleys
D. Mountain belts
E. Both A & B
Geologic features of continental plate-continental plate?
Mountain belts
Trenches
Volcanic Island Arc
Mid-Ridges
Plate A and C shows a divergent plate boundary?
True
False
None of the above
A transform fault boundary exists between A & C?
True
False
Both
None of the above
Plates A and B illustrates a divergent plate boundary.
True
False
Both
None of the above
It is ___________ process or the bending of the crust towards the mantle.
Convection
Subduction
Selection
Conversion
____________ will most likely form as the leading edge of one of the oceanic plates melts.
Volcanic arc
Mountain ranges
Volcanic Island Arc
Trenches
Once two continental plates converge __________ is formed as caused by the uplift of land mass.
Mountain belts
Trenches
Mid-atlantic ridge
Volcanic Arc
The British mathematician who worked out the mathematical model in 1911, which later known as love waves.
Augusto William Hough
Augusto Richard Hough
Augusto Edward Hough
Augusto Hough
A type of surface waves, that will later name after the discoverer of the Rayleigh waves?
John Edward Strutt
John William Strutt
John Richard Strutt
John Strutt
A type of surface wave that cause the most damage to structures during an earthquake.
Rayleigh wave
Love waves
P wave
S wave
A seismic wave with a characteristic that can travel through solid, liquid and gas?
S wave
Rayleigh wave
P wave
Love wave
It is also known as shear wave?
Rayleigh wave
S wave
P wave
Love wave
A theory that proposed to found out that the velocity of seismic waves changes and increases at a certain distance?
A. Gutenberg Discontinuity Theory
B. Mohorovicic Discontinuity Theory
C. Moho Theory
Both B & C
A zone where the P waves are detected on the other side of the Earth opposite to the focus?
Gutenberg Discontinuity
Mohorovicic Discontinuity
Shadow Zone
None of the above
Gutenberg Discontinuity Theory has a different thickness in layer, what is the thickness of Outer Core?
40 km
1,278 km
2,900 km
2,200 km
The thickness in kilometers of the Mantle?
2,950 km
2,220 km
2,900 km
1, 250 km
It is the most important component of Nuclear weapons test that can be found in the inner core?
Uradium
Uranium
Urinirod
Uracium
A theory that process that rocks are younger at the Mid-ocean ridge and older far from mid-ocean ridge?
Seafloor Striding Theory
Seafloor Stretching Theory
Seafloor Spreading Theory
Seafloor Theory
It is also known as Magnetic Flip of the Earth.
Magnetic Reverse
Magnetic Reversal
Magnetic Attachment
Magnetic Polarity
Describes Continental Drift Theory: A theory expanded in the book, " The Origins of Continents and Oceans".
True
False
None of the above
Not Applicable
In a convergent plate boundary, plates move _______ each other.
Convergent plate boundary
Trenches
Subduction Zone
Divergent plate boundary
A results of collision of moving plates boundary.
Divergent plate boundary
Mid-atlantic ridge
Convergent plate boundary
Trenches
The rate of spreading along __________ accounts to 2.5 cm per year.
Trenches
Mid-Atlantic Ridge
Linear Sea
Fault line
A divergent plate boundary is also known as ___________ plate boundary.
Destructive
Constructive
Collision
Diversion
True or False: Plates A and B illustrates a divergent plate boundary.
True
False
Not applicable
None of the above
True or False: Plate A and D exhibits a transform fault boundary?
True
False
Not applicable
None of the above
Plates sliding past each other without diverging or converging form a ___________ boundary?
A. Strike-slip
B. Transform fault
C. Divergent
D Convergent
E. Both A & B
