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Directions: Read and understand the questions carefully. Choose the letter of the correct
answer and blacken the circle that corresponds to the letter of the correct answer on the answer
sheet.
While on your way to school, you have noticed a crack on the ground. Your teacher
1.
explained that the crack is caused by the movement of the ground due to a sudden
release of energy when rocks along a fault move.
3. The Philippine plate and the Eurasian plate are example of two plates that move
towards each other.
5. What geologic feature is formed on top of the mantle plume in a hot spot?
A. earthquake C. mountain formation
6. Which geologic feature is the effect of the separation of the two plates?
A. oceanic ridge B. volcano C. island arc D. trench
7. Which statement is NOT a characteristic of P-wave?
A. It is the fastest wave.
B. It is a kind of transverse wave.
C. It can travel through solid, liquid and gas.
D. It vibrates parallel to the direction of wave motion.
9. What is the theory which suggest that the Earth’s crust is made up of plates that
interact in various ways, thus producing Earthquakes, mountains,
volcanoes and other geologic features?
A. Convection current theory C. Plate tectonics theory
B. Continental drift theory D. Seafloor spreading
theory
11. Who suggested an explanation of seafloor spreading theory in the early 1960’s ?
A. Robert Dietz & John Butler C. James Hutton & Robert
Dietz
B. Harry Hess & Robert Dietz D. Alfred Wegener & Harry Hess
12. Which evidence DOES NOT support the theory of continental drift?
A. sinking of lithospheric plate C. continental jigsaw
puzzle
B. changes in climate patterns D. evidences from fossils
Alfred Wegener is a German scientist who hypothesized that the Earth was
13. once made up of a single large landmass.
14. Which show data is needed to determine the distance of the epicenter as
registered in the seismogram?
A. the arrival time of the surface waves
B. the difference in the arrival times of the P and S-waves
C. the ratio of the amplitude of the largest P and S-waves
D. the speed of the surface waves.
15. Which describes the plate boundaries of the two plates that move apart?
A. North American and Eurasian plates at the mid-atlantic ridge.
B.South American and Nazca plates at the Chilean trench.
C. North American and Pacific plates at San Adreas Fault.
D. Philippine and Eurasian plates that move towards each other.
For questions number 16-18, write the letter of the correct answer and base your
answers on the diagram below.
19. Right in the middle of an island, you can find a rift valley.
20. What are the indications that the crust is spreading or splitting in a divergent
plate boundary?
A. volcanoes and volcanic eruptions C. rift valleys and ocean
ridges
B. deep and shallow earthquake D. mountain buildings and
trenches
21. You visited a place in the Pacific known to be along converging plates.
23. An S-wave shadow zone is formed as seismic waves travel through the Earth’s
body.
24. The Small Scale Miners in Sibutad, dig into the Earth in search for precious
rocks and minerals.
26. Which is the correct explanation of the possible cause of plate movement?
A. new materials is being added to the asthenosphere.
B. earthquakes break apart the ocean floor.
C. sediments accumulate at the area of spreading.
D. molten material beneath Earth’s crust rises to the surface.
27. The following are lines of evidence that supports plate movement:
1. The shape of the continents 3. Ages of Rocks
2. Rock formation 4. Magnetic Reversal
What possible geologic feature could result out of this plate boundary?
A. volcano B. rift valley C. ocean ridges D.
fault
C D
. .
30. Philippine plate and Eurasian shows a convergent boundary. The plate C is
adjacent to both plates and does not show any relative motion.
31. What is the rate of spreading in centimeter per year if the Atlantic Ocean
spreads at a distance of 5, 500, 000 cm in 2.5 million years?
A. 2.0 cm/year B. 2.1 cm/year C. 2.2 cm/year
D. 2.3 cm/year
32. Which diagram best illustrates the convection occurring in the mantle?
A. B. b. C. c. D.
33. Which is NOT the bases of the scientist in dividing the Earth’s lithospheric
plates?
A. location and distribution of volcanoes
B. location and distribution of bodies of water
C. location and distribution of mountain ranges
D. location and distribution of earthquake epicenter
34. Which statement best describes how convection brings material to the surface at
divergent plate boundary?
A. Material expands and rises when heated because the density of
material decreases.
B. Material contracts and rises when heated because the density of
material increases.
C. Material expands and rises when cooled because the density of
material decreases.
D. Material contracts and rises when cooled because the density of
material increases.
35. The Philippines has trenches in the western and eastern seas.
36. In a Hotspot, Mayon Volcano is on top of the mantle plume, Taal Volcano is
located in between Kanlaon Volcano and Mayon Volcano and Kanlaon Volcano
is the farthest.
What can you infer about the ages of the volcanoes?
A. Mayon Volcano is older than Kanlaon. C. Kanlaon Volcano is the
youngest
B. Mayon Volcano is the oldest. D. Taal Volcano is younger than
Kanlaon.
38. Which statement DOES NOT tell us that the inner and outer core of the Earth is
made up of iron and nickel?
A. Iron and nickel are both dense and magnetic.
B. The overall density of the Earth is much higher than the density of the rocks
in the crust.
C. The Earth and the meteorite have the same density, thus the Earth’s
mantle has the same density as the meteorite without its iron.
D. Iron and nickel cannot be found in the Earth surface.
40. What usually happens to magma after it was formed at the Earth’s crust?
A. becomes new seafloor.
B. spreads equally in all directions.
C. increases in density and sinks to the core.
D. rises through the cracks in the crust.
41. Which observation was NOT instrumental in formulating the hypothesis of
seafloor spreading?
A. Rocks near the ridge are younger than those farther from the ridge
B. Rocks at the continents are older than those at the ocean floor
C. Magnetic rocks near the ridge follow a pattern similar to the needle of
magnetic compass
D. Identifying the location of glacial deposits in the rocks in the seafloor.
42. When plates drift away from each other, is the Earth getting larger and wider?
Why?
A. Yes, because the continents continue to move away from each other so
there’s an expansion
B. Yes, because for them to continue drifting, they need a wider space for
them to move
C. No, because the mass and the volume of the earth remains constant.
D. No, because if there is production of new seafloor, there’s also a
destruction of an old seafloor
43. What do the fossils tell us about the early positions of the continents?
A. continents were once connected
B. animals were big enough to walk across deep oceans
C. plant seed were scattered by the birds all over the continents
D. there are bridges between the continents for the animals to pass by
44. If the earthquake took place at a far greater distance, seismologists use the
distance-time graph in determining the location of the epicenter.
46. What are the pros and cons to Pangaea if all the inner layers of the Earth are
firm solid,?
A. Probably might have stretched and covered the whole world
B. Probably it will slowly disappeared in the ocean
C. It would have become as it is today and the future is affected
D. It remained as a supercontinent and cannot be disintegrated
47. How do you compare the densities of the Earth’s crust, mantle, and core? The
mantle is
A. less dense than the core but denser than the crust
B. less dense than both crust and the core
C. denser than the core but less dense than the crust
D. denser than both the core and the crust
48. A recent earthquake occurs in Zamboanga Sibugay and your teacher assigned
you to locate the epicenter.
49. Which is the correct sequence of events happen in the seafloor spreading?
A. Molten material flows sideways carrying the seafloor away from the
ridge creates a crack.
B. The magma flows out of the crack, cools down and creates new
seafloor.
C. Hot, less dense material from the mantle rises to the surface of the
crust.
50. Which explains the geologic process that will occur in the plate movement shown in
the diagram above?
A. Volcanoes will form at the surface of plate B.
B. Plate B undergoes subduction process.
C. Earthquake will not occur between the two plates.
D. Oceanic ridges will form at the surface of plate A.