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EXAM REVIEW FOR GRADE 10

Total questions: 45

Worksheet time: 47mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What does the word "converging" mean?
a)
to separate
b)
to come together
c)
parallel 
d)
perpendicular
2.
What does the word "diverging" mean?
a)
to spread apart
b)
to come together
c)
parallel
d)
perpendicular
3.

Where do most of the active volcanoes located?

a)

Mid-continents

b)

Eastern coastline of the Continents

c)

Equatorial Ocean Floor

d)

Edges of the Tectonic Plates

4.

Divergent Plate boundaries forms from the pulling away of plates from each other. When this process happens on land, where is the volcano form?

a)

Rift Valley

b)

Hotspot

c)

Mid -Ocean Ridge

d)

Parallel to the trench

5.

Which of the following theories was proposed by Alfred Wegener?

a)

Continental Drift Theory

b)

Theory of Evolution

c)

Seafloor Spreading

d)

Magnetic Reversals

6.

How is the concept of seafloor spreading being stated?

a)

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

b)

Sea level is rising.

c)

The earth is expanding.

d)

Earthquakes occur underwater.

7.

Which type of wave arrives first during an earthquake?

a)

Primary (p-wave) waves

b)

Secondary (s-wave) waves

c)

Rayleigh Waves

d)

Love Waves

8.

Main type of seismic waves that can only travel through the surface of the Earth.

a)

seismic waves

b)

surface waves

c)

body waves

d)

primary waves

9.

This is considered as the fastest kind of seismic waves.

a)

Love waves

b)

Body waves

c)

Primary waves

d)

Secondary waves

10.

It can travel through solids only

a)

Love waves

b)

Rayleigh waves

c)

Primary waves

d)

Secondary waves

11.
What kind of plate boundary is shown here?
a)
divergent
b)
convergent
c)
transform
d)
submergent
12.
What kind of plate boundary is shown here?
a)
divergent
b)
convergent
c)
transform
d)
subducting
13.
What kind of plate boundary is shown here?
a)
divergent
b)
convergent
c)
transform
d)
strike slip
14.
What geologic feature/event you be most likely to find at a transform boundary?
a)
Earthquakes
b)
Volcanoes
c)
Mountains
d)
Rift Valleys
15.
What geologic feature/event would you most likely to find at a convergent boundary between two pieces of continental crust?
a)
Volcano
b)
Mountain
c)
Rift
d)
Island Arc
16.
A subduction zone is formed...
a)
when one tectonic plate sinks below another
b)
at every type of convergent plate boundary
c)
at every type of divergent plate boundary
d)
at transform boundaries
17.
Name the boundary
a)
convergent boundary
b)
divergent boundary
c)
transform boundary
d)
sergent boundary
18.
Name the boundary
a)
convergent boundary
b)
divergent boundary
c)
transform boundary
d)
sergent boundary
19.
The area where two or more plates meet is called a __________________.
a)
fault
b)
plate boundary
c)
plate edge
d)
ring of fire
20.
Plates move towards one another at ______________ boundaries.
a)
divergent
b)
convergent
c)
transform
d)
detergent
21.

Electromagnetic waves vary in

a)

the speed they travel in a vacuum.

b)

wavelength and frequency.

c)

the way they reflect.

d)

the orientation of their electric and magnetic fields.

22.

To calculate the frequency of an electromagnetic wave, you need to know the speed of the wave and its

a)

wavelength.

b)

intensity.

c)

refraction.

d)

amplitude.

23.

Light acts like

a)

a wave.

b)

a particle.

c)

Both a wave and a particle

d)

neither a wave nor a particle.

24.

Infrared rays have a shorter wavelength than

a)

Ultraviolet ray.

b)

X-rays.

c)

radar waves.

d)

gamma rays

25.

The full range of frequencies of electromagnetic radiation is called

a)

visible light.

b)

radio waves.

c)

the electromagnetic spectrum.

d)

invisible radiation.

26.

The waves with the longest wavelengths in the electromagnetic spectrum are

a)

Infrared rays.

b)

radio waves

c)

gamma rays

d)

X-rays

27.

The visible light spectrum ranges between

a)

radar waves and X-rays.

b)

television waves and infrared rays.

c)

infrared rays and ultraviolet rays.

d)

ultraviolet rays and gamma rays.

28.

Newton’s prism experiments showed that white sunlight is made up of

a)

the full electromagnetic spectrum.

b)

only blue light.

c)

all the colors of the visible spectrum.

d)

only the longest wavelengths.

29.
True or false: as you move along the spectrum, radio to gamma waves, the wavelengths decrease in size (get smaller)
a)
true
b)
false
30.
A wave with a large wavelength will have a ______ frequency and _____ energy
a)
high, low
b)
high, high
c)
low, high
d)
low, low
31.
What are electromagnetic waves?
a)
sound waves
b)
electric & magnetic fields (energy) that travel through empty space very quickly
c)
Someone's name
d)
things like longitudinal waves
32.
This type of EM wave shows a break in bones.
a)
gamma ray
b)
x-ray
c)
brokenometer
d)
radio wave
33.
________ is an EM wave that has the LEAST energy.
a)
radio
b)
gamma rays
c)
microwaves
d)
visible light
34.

It is a type of wave which can transfer energy through a vacuum.

a)

Electromagnetic

b)

Mechanical

c)

Sound

d)

Water

35.

Which of the following shows increasing energy of electromagnetic waves?

a)

Gamma Rays, X-rays, Ultraviolet, Visible Light, Infrared, Microwave and Radio wave.

b)

Gamma rays, Ultraviolet, X-rays, Visible light, Infrared, Microwave and Radio wave

c)

Radio wave, Microwave, Infrared, Visible light, Ultraviolet, X-rays and Gamma rays.

d)

Radio wave, Microwave, Infrared, Visible light, X-rays, Ultraviolet and Gamma rays

36.

How are the types of waves arranged on the Electromagnetic Spectrum?

a)

Alphabetically arranged

b)

Increasing frequency

c)

Decreasing frequency

d)

Number of atoms

37.

In the visible spectrum, which color has the longest wavelength?

a)

Blue

b)

Green

c)

Red

d)

Violet

38.
Which section of the spectrum is the ONLY one we can see?
a)
X-rays
b)
Visible Light
c)
Gamma Rays
d)
Ultraviolet Rays
39.
Which has the SHORTEST wavelength and, therefore, the highest frequency/most energy
a)
Radio waves
b)
Ultraviolet Rays
c)
Gamma Rays
d)
X-rays
40.

The place where an earthquake originates inside the Earth's surface is called...

a)

Epicenter

b)

Focus

c)

Underground

d)

Crust

41.

The place on the Earth's surface, above the origin of the earthquake.

a)

Epicenter

b)

Focus

c)

Surface

d)

Crust

42.

Which wave is the most destructive and travels on the surface?

a)

Secondary Wave

b)

Primary Wave

c)

Long Wave

43.

5. Which type of wave travels the fastest?

a)

Primary Wave

b)

Secondary Wave

c)

Long Wave

44.

This is created by earthquakes that occur on the ocean floor.

a)

longshore current

b)

gulf stream

c)

tsunamis

d)

high tide

45.

How do scientists know that the outer core is a liquid?

a)

P waves do not travel through the outer core but S waves do.

b)

S waves do not travel through the outer core but P waves do.

c)

P waves and S waves do not travel through the outer core.

d)

P waves and S waves travel through the outer core.