6.

If you will explore the bottom of the ocean and found chains of mountains
what plate boundary will you expect to see?
First Quarterly Examination
a. a Convergent boundary
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b. a Divergent boundary
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MULTIPLE CHOICE: Choose the letter of the correct answer. c. a Transform boundary
1. It states that the Earth’s crust was divided into small and large
d. a Chinese Territorial boundary
fragments of rocks that are continuously moving in different ways
7. He is the proponent of “Continental Drift Theory”
a. Plates Theory c. Plate tectonics
a. Rasmus Villumsen c. Alfred Wegener
b. Continental Drift Theory d. Diastrophism
b. Dmitri Mendeleev d. John Dalton
2. These are referring to forces that result to deformation of the Earth’s
8. Which of the following is NOT a Primary plate?
crust such as folding and faulting
a. Pacific plate c. Indian Plate
a. Continental Drifting c. Plate tectonics
b. Philippine plate d. African plate
b. Diastrophism d. Geological Process
9. Earth’s crust that is under bodies water is called _________.
3. These are large and small fragments of rocks on the Earth’s surface
a. Oceanic Crust c. Continental Crust
a. Faults c. Continents
b. Plane Crust ` d. Thin Crust
b. Plates d. Landforms
10. Large plates carrying continents on them are called _________.
4. Which evidence of continental Drift Theory states that continents seem to
a. Major Plates c. Primary Plates
be pieces of jigsaw puzzle?
b. Continental Crusts d. General Crusts
a. Glacial Till Deposits c. Continents Fit Shape
11. Which of the following are referring to Geological processes?
b. Paleomagnetism d. Spreading of the Sea floor
a. Ridges c. Glacial deposits
5. According to a meteorologist all the seven continents are once a single
b. Transform d. Faulting
super continent he called ________.
12. Which among the plate boundaries does not create nor destroy

a. Panjea c. Pangeya any landform?

a. Convergent boundary c. Transform boundary
b. Pangaea d. Pandyea
b. Divergent boundary d. none of those
13. What made the Geologists able to describe and identify the structure of a. Plume tectonics c. Mantle convection
the Earth? b. Surge tectonics d. Ridge push
a. by excavating deep under the Earth c. by using seismic waves
b. by observing the movements of plates d. by using rock samples 20. Which of the following is NOT a process that occur on the earth related to
14. Which type of wave is able to penetrate through solid and liquid? plate tectonics.
a. Primary wave c. Secondary wave a. Earthquakes c. Volcanisms
b. Seismic wave d. Body wave b. Climate change d. Land formations

15. A seismograph have detected a layer of the Earth’s interior where S- 21. Volcanism and earthquake are related to ________.

wave has gone. What is this layer? a. Terrorism c. Weather forecasting

b. Plate tectonics d. Earth’s gravitation
a. inner core c. outer core
22. Which process occurs in a transform boundary?
b. upper mantle d. asthenosphere a. Folding c. Spreading of sea floor
b. Faulting d. Subduction of plate
16. It is the hottest part of the Earth’s inner structure which is as hot as the
23. What process is involved in generating earthquake?
sun’s surface. a. faulting c. sea floor spreading
b. folding d. melting
a. inner core c. crust
24. It is said to be the home of many plate boundaries and volcanoes
b. asthenosphere d. Mojorovicic discontinuity situated along these boundaries.
17. It is the part of the Earth’s interior that is relatively low resistance and a. Ring of Fire c. Subduction zone
behave like plastic. b. Earthquake Belt d. Oceanic Ridge
a. Outer core c. Asthenosphere
25. It is an area where epicenters of earthquakes are located in bands along
b. Lower mantle d. Lithosphere
18. Which is primary cause of the driving force of tectonic plate motions? Interacting plates.
a. the prevailing winds on Earth c. rotation of the Earth
a. Hot Spots c. Plate boundaries
b. mantle convection d. polarity reversion
19. Which driving force is related to the existence of hot spots? b. Ring of Fire d. Earthquake Belt
26. Where are most of the volcanic and seismic activities on Earth a. Mars c. Earth

generated? b. Venus d. Neptune

a. along plate boundaries c. at the epicenters 31. Which of the following is NOT a Terrestrial planet?

b. at the subduction zones d. in the lower mantle a. Uranus c. Mars

b. Earth d. Mercury

27. A branch of science deals with the study of celestial objects and space 32. It is the largest asteroid known which is 950 kilometers wide and have

a. Astrology c. Astronomy sphere shape like of the planets.

b. Cosmology d. Cosmetology a. Vesta c. Charon

28. It is also called visible light astronomy and the oldest form of astronomy b. Deimos d. Kahoutek

where images of observations were originally drawn by hand 33. What is called to the small fragments of rocky or metallic bodies

a. Optical astronomy c. Radio astronomy originated from space and reached the Earth's ground.

b. Gamma ray astronomy d. Ancient astronomy a. meteorites c. meteors

29. Objects formed from the solar nebula that never got large enough to turn b. meteoroids d. meatyroids

into planets are called ________. 34. Which of the following is NOT a component of a galaxy?

a. Failed planets c. Planetoids a. gravity c. gas

b. Celestial bodies d. Fallen planets b. dust d. dark matter

30. It is a planet in the Solar system that has the greatest density and largest 35. What is in the center of a galaxy that is believed to be composed of older

of the terrestrial planets; parts of this planet are favorable to support life stars?
 a. disk c. halo d. the oceanic crust is less dense than the continental crust

b. bar d. bulge 40. Which of the following best describes the “Plate Tectonics” theory?

36. In which classification of galaxy the Milky Way belong? a. the continents today are once a super continent called “Pangaea”

a. Peculiar c. Barred spiral b. the plates are continuously moving because of earthquake

b. Elliptical d. Irregular c. the earth’s crust was divided into fragments of rocks that are
37. If the Earth’s interior is rigid solid, what could have happened to continuously moving in different ways
d. the forces resulting to deformation of the Earth's crust
Pangaea? such as folding and faulting

a. it will create numerous volcanoes and mountains 41. How are the plates in a convergent boundary move?
a. plates are heading towards each other
b. it will break and create a fault and start a great earthquake b. plates are departing from each other
c. plates are sliding past to each other
c. it will dry and breaks into pieces and form continental plates d. plate are is riding on top of another
42. How the plate tectonics theory explains the land formations on Earth?
d. it will remain as a single continent
a. the different movements of plates resulted to departing of continents
38. If South America is getting far from Africa with the rate of 3 cm every year,
b. the formation of different landforms is the result of disarrangements
how far will South America to Africa will be after 500 years? of the continents
c. the movements of plates initiates geological processes that leads to
a. 1500 cm c. 15 m land formations
d. different landforms on Earth are outcomes of great earthquakes
b. 0.015 km ` d. all of the above
39. Why does the oceanic crust sink beneath the continental crust at the 43. How is the subduction zone in a convergent boundary forms?
subduction zone?
a. the rocks in convergent boundary weakens and collapse down
a. the oceanic crust is denser than the continental crust
b. as the plates collide, the thinner crust move under the thicker plate
b. the oceanic crust is pulled down by the Earth’s magnetic field
c. the accumulation of magma from a rift valley cools and hardens
c. the oceanic crust is pushed from the ridge
d. the thicker and denser plate moved down to the asthenosphere
44. What makes plate boundaries differ from each other? d. Slow in solid materials and fast in liquid materials

a. by the thickness of the plates forming them 48. In what terms the P-wave and S-wave differ to one another?

b. by the way the upper mantle behave a. magnitude of force and depth of penetration

c. by the way they formed through movements of plates b. direction ,source, and strength of wave
c. use, effects and medium disturbance
d. by the rigidity and density of interacting plates
d. speed, penetrability in liquid and movement of medium
45. In what aspect the convergent and divergent boundaries are similar?
49. How the seismic wave gives information about the Earth’s inner structure?
a. they are both capable of creating landforms
a. through measuring the damage caused by a wave
b. they are both usually cause earthquake
b. through analyzing the behavior of wave in different medium
c. they are both formed from collision of plates
c. through mapping epicenters of earthquakes and volcanic activities
d. they are both formed from departing plates
d. through releasing manmade wave and analyzing its magnitude
46. What is the significance of the evidences of plate tectonics?

a. these make the theory presentable to teach

50. If the P-wave and S-wave travels in the Earth’s interior and shows a
b. these make the theory more interesting to geologists
straight line pattern, what does it implies?
c. these makes the theory easy to understand
a. the Earth’s interior is empty
d. these make the theory reliable and acceptable
b. the Earth’s interior has a uniform structure
47. Which of the following best describe the Primary wave? c. the Earth’s interior is in liquid state

a. fastest and able to penetrate solid and liquid materials d. the Earth’s interior is uncertain
51. The occurrence of high-heat flows at the ridge center provides evidence of
b. weakest type of wave that is able to penetrate solid matter only
the ___________.
c. slowest type of wave that creates side to side movement
 a. destruction of continental crust a. earthquake may occur when there is a volcano but earthquake does
b. destruction of oceanic crust not trigger volcanic eruption.

c. existence of rising mantle convection currents b. earthquake initiates volcanic eruption and volcanic eruption may
d. existence of ancestral mountains create earthquake
52. Which of the following explains why there is no land formation nor c. volcanic eruption does not create earthquake and same as
earthquake does not initiate volcanic eruption
destruction in a transform boundary?
d. volcanism and earthquake are not related
a. there is no process that initiates destruction or formation of
landforms in a transform boundary
55. How movements of plates are related to land formation?
b. there is no motion of plates occur in a transform boundary
a. formation of lands is due to earthquakes and volcanic eruptions
c. the earthquake that occur in the transform boundary prohibits any which are caused by movements of plates
land formation or destruction
b. movements of plates make rocks elastic which makes it easy to
d. it is not true that there is no land formation or destruction in a deform to create landforms
transform boundary
c. the movements of plates initiates volcanic eruptions that leads to
53. Why most earthquakes are along the edges of tectonic plates where most land formation

d. land formation is a result of geological process that takes place

volcanoes are located also?
from to movements of plates
a. because earthquakes are result of volcanic eruption and volcanoes
are formed through movement of plates 56. Which of the following presents a correct analogy?

b. because volcanic eruptions are caused by earthquakes which are a. convergent boundary : subduction ; divergent boundary : ridges
results of movement of plates
b. folding : volcanic island ; faulting : volcanic mountains
c. because volcanoes and earthquakes are both result of the
movement of tectonic plates c. transform boundary : faulting ; convergent boundary : uplifting

d. because the movements of plates caused by earthquake initiates d. seafloor spreading : new oceanic crust ; subduction : rift valley
formation of volcanoes
54. Which is true about volcanism and earthquake?
57. Astronomers have discovered a body that is more than 2000 kms wide, a. studying the space gives excitement to many in discovering new
things
has a sphere shape and revolving around the sun with an intersection with
b. for us to know if aliens really exists giving us information on how
Neptune’s orbit at one point. What will be its classification? they live
a. a full-fledged planet c. an asteroid c. for us to know our past that would give us idea for what will be our
future
b. a dwarf planet d. a terrestrial planet
d. studying the space gives new information that could be taught to
58. A group of astronomers discovered groups of stars which they suspect as students in school

galaxies. These groups of stars have different sizes and shapes, some

have greater numbers of stars in it and some have certain colors. How

will they classify these groups of stars?

a. according to the gravitational pull that bound them together

b. according to their shape and image

c. according to their colors and streak

d. according to number of stars they have

59. You wanted to observe supernova, pulsars and quasars that are very

distant which instrument you will use?

a. Optical telescope c. Infrared survey

b. Atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes d. Radio telescope

60. What is the relevance of studying the space and its components to

mankind?