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Worksheets1ST SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT SCIENCE 10
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 53mins
1. What is the outermost layer of the Earth?
a. crust
b. inner core
c. mantle
d. outer core
2. The crust and upper mantle make up Earth’s __________.
a. asthenosphere
b. continents
c. core
d. lithosphere
3. Which statement about the Earth’s crusts is CORRECT?
a. Continental and oceanic crusts have the same weight.
b. Continental crust is heavier than oceanic crust.
c. Continental crust is thicker than oceanic crust.
d. Oceanic crust is thicker than continental crust.
4. What do we call the continuously moving part of the earth’s crust?
a. fault
b. fissure
c. fracture
d. plate
5. It is the location on the Earth's surface directly above the focus of an earthquake.
a. center
b. direct center
c. epic center
d. epicentre
6. Which statement BEST describes the location of majority of earthquake epicenters relative to the location of volcanoes around the world?
a. They are far adjacent.
b. They are always 3 kilometers away from each other.
c. They are situated at the same location.
d. They are not necessarily relevant.
7. How will you relate the distributions of mountain ranges, earthquake epicenters, and volcanoes?
a. Mountain ranges are found in places between where volcanoes and earthquake epicenters are also situated.
b. Mountain ranges are found in places where volcanoes and/or earthquake epicenters are also situated.
c. Mountain ranges are found only in places where earthquake epicenters are situated.
d. Mountain ranges are found only in places where volcanoes are situated.
8. When you see that the ocean water is receding (disappearing) away from the beach, you MUST
a. call the police
b. run to the nearest hill or mountain
c. stay at the middle of the beach
d. take the time to pick up sea shells
9. What do you think is the basis of scientists in dividing Earth’s lithosphere into several plates?
a. brightness of stars and formation of constellations in the sky
b. cycle of high and low tides during full moon
c. occurrence of earthquake, volcanism and mountain formation
d. the uneven distribution of heat in the globe
10. Seafloor spreading is located at _________________________.
a. transform plate boundary
b. convergent plate boundary
c. divergent plate boundary
d. Indian plate
11. The East African Rift is an example of a _____________.
a. mid-ocean ridge
b. convergent boundary
c. rift valley
d. transform boundary
12. The Himalayan mountain range of India was formed at the __________.
a. divergent boundary
b. convergent boundary
c. hot spot
d. transform boundary
13. This is the type of plate boundary that occurs between the African Plate and the Arabian Plate.
a. divergent boundary
b. transform boundary
c. convergent oceanic-continental plate boundary
d. convergent oceanic-oceanic plate boundary
14. Features found at divergent plate boundaries include ____________.
a. mid-ocean ridges
b. deep-sea trenches
c. crumpled mountains
d. island arc volcanoes
15. What are the three types of convergent boundary?
I. Oceanic-Continental III. Oceanic-Oceanic
II. Lithosphere-Crust IV. Continental-Continental
a. I,II, III
b. II, III, IV
c. I, III, IV,
d. I, II, IV
16. Convection current causes the lithospheric plate to ________________.
a. move slowly but constantly
b. move in any direction
c. move faster
d. create another plate
17. Victims of disasters are provided with their needs by the government at
a. evacuation centers
b. event centers
c. orphanages
d. tall buildings
18. In the convergence between a continental and an oceanic plate, there is subduction. Which of the following statements does not support this fact?
a. One plate carries water along with it.
b. One plate is denser.
c. The temperature in the mantle is higher than in the crust.
d. One plate overrides the other.
19. Which of the following is formed in the convergence of two oceanic or oceanic and continental plates?
a. Volcanic island arcs
b. mountain range
c. rift valley
d. Oceanic ridge
20. A crack on the ground underwater is produced when oceanic crust interacts with another crust. What do we call this?
a. fault
b. trench
c. ridge
d. crack
21. It is a phenomenon which takes place due to movement of plates during convergence.
a. earthquake
b. magma formation
c. subduction
d. tsunami
22. Subduction is illustrated in which of the following?
a. convergent plate boundary
b. transform fault boundary
c. divergent plate boundary
d. subducting plates
23. Earthquake, as an effect of plate movement results in boundaries where plates are
I. converging II. sliding past III. diverging IV. subducting
a. I only
b. II only
c. I and II
d. I, II, and III
24. Why are volcanoes mostly found at places where continents meet the seas?
a. It is where water meets land.
b. It is where the oceanic plates subduct under the continental plate.
c. Underneath it is a subduction zone.
d. More magma is produced under the ground because of the muddy seafloor.
25. Most of the Philippine Islands were once part of island arcs. This means that along with this boundary, there once existed two.
a. converging continental plates
b. diverging plates
c. converging oceanic plates
d. plates sliding past each other
26. An event which may take place on the water surface when a great force pushes a big amount of water upwards.
a. ocean wave
b. typhoon
c. tsunami
d. ocean tide
27. A rift valley is formed simultaneously with which of the following type of plate boundary?
a. Convergent plate boundary
b. Transform fault plate boundary
c. Divergent plate boundary
d. Both convergent and divergent plate
28. Which of the following is NOT a method of heat transfer?
a. condensation
b. convection
c. conduction
d. radiation
29. The plastic-like upper portion of the mantle is called ______________.
a. the magma
b. the core
c. the lithosphere
d. the asthenosphere
30. It is a measure of how much mass there is in a volume of a substance.
a. volume
b. temperature
c. density
d. mass
31. Which of the following is NOT a driving force of tectonic plates?
a. ridge push
b. slab push
c. drag force
d. mantle convection
32. Where is the source of heat in a mantle convection current?
a. the Sun
b. the crust
c. the core
d. the moon
33. The motion of gas or liquid caused by differences in temperature is a _________.
a. tectonic movement
b. plate tectonic
c. convection current
d. magma chamber
34. Which of the following has a faster movement of molecules?
a. hot materials
b. warm materials
c. cold materials
d. room temperature materials
35. Which of the following DOES NOT describe a convection process?
a. the handle of a metal pot is hot while cooking
b. boiling of macaroni pasta
c. a sea breeze
d. ocean water in the surface is warmer
36. What evidences do scientists use to support the Continental Drift Theory?
a. rocks, fossils, air
b. rocks, water, ice
c. rocks, fossils, climate
d. rocks, fossils, human beings
37. The youngest crust is found _________ the mid-ocean ridge.
a. far
b. near
c. beside
d. away
38. If you are a cartographer, what would give you an idea that the continents were once joined?
a. ocean depth
b. shape of the continents
c. position of the South Pole
d. size of the Atlantic Ocean
39. Which is not evidence of seafloor spreading?
a. molten magma constantly erupting
b. drilling samples of rock
c. fossil evidence
d. magnetic stripes
40. Why was Alfred Wegener's Continental Drift Theory not accepted immediately by the people during his time?
a. He cannot explain what causes the continents to drift.
b. He explains that South America and Africa fit together like a puzzle.
c. He described that the rocks and mountains at the edges of the continents were similar.
d. He explains that fossils of ancient plants such as "Glossopteris" can be found in almost all continents.
41. Why were magnetic patterns found on the ocean floor puzzling?
a. They did not show alternating bands of normal and reversed polarity.
b. They showed alternating bands of normal and reversed polarity.
c. No rocks were magnetic.
d. All rocks were magnetic.
42. If Australia is moving about 2cm/ year and was drifted from the ridge by 1000km, how long ago was it when Australia was near the ridge?
a. 50 million years
b. 10 million years
c. 500 million years
d. cannot be predicted
43. Which one among the continental drift pieces of evidence mainly proves that the Cape Mountains of South America and Africa line up perfectly before?
a. There's an equal amount of coal deposits in each continent and fossils.
b. The evidence from the rock layers in different continents exactly matched.
c. The remains of the ancient plant called Glossopteris can be found on both continents.
d. The climate of the two continents is almost the same and with the same ancient organisms.
44. What information can be derived about Antarctica having fossils of ancient plants and animals?
a. Antarctica drifted to the Southern hemisphere because of the melting of glaciers that traps the plants and animals.
b. Antarctica has a very nice climate that caused these organisms to migrate and stay.
c. It has a tropical climate today that provides a good environment for complex life forms.
d. Antarctica had once located near the equator.
45. What information can be derived about Antarctica having fossils of ancient plants and animals?
a. Antarctica drifted to the Southern hemisphere because of the melting of glaciers that traps the plants and animals.
b. Antarctica has a very nice climate that caused these organisms to migrate and stay
c. It has a tropical climate today that provides a good environment for complex life forms.
d. Antarctica had once located near the equator.
46. He was credited for the idea of Continental Drift Theory?
a. Alfred Lothar Wegener
b. Charles Darwin
c. Harry Hammond Hess
d . Robert Dietz
47. All continents were once joined together forming a supercontinent called__________.
a. Panthalassa
b. Laurasia
c. Gondwanaland
d. Pangaea
48. It is possibly the most important fossil plant evidence that continents are drifting.
a. Glossopteris
b. Lystrosaurus
c. Mesosaurus
d. Cynognathus
49. What two specific continents fit together most noticeably?
a. Africa and North America
b. South America and Africa
c. South America and Europe
d. Antarctica and Africa
50. Describe the thickness of sediments near and far from the mid-oceanic ridge:
a. The sediments are thinner near the ridge but thicker as you go far from it.
b. The sediments are thicker near the ridge but thinner as you go far from it.
c. The thickness of the oceanic sediments near and far from the ridge is the same.
c. The sediments are unevenly distributed.
