MATI SCHOOL OF ARTS AND TRADES

FIRST PERIODICAL EXAMINATION

Name: ___________________________________________ Date: ______________

I. Multiple choice: Write the letter of your best answer.

1. Which theory states that the entire crust is broken and is continuously moving?
A. Continental Drift C. Seafloor Spreading
B. Plate Tectonics D. Titanic Theory
2. What do we call the continuously moving part of the earth’s crust?
A. fault B. fissure C. fracture D. plate
3. Which of these phrases is FALSE about lithospheric plates?
A. have the same thickness everywhere C. thickest in the mountain regions
B. include the crust and upper mantle D. vary in thickness
4. A landmass that projects well above its surroundings is a mountain. What do you call a chain of mountains?
A. mountain arc C. mountain range
B. mountain chain D. mountainous
5. Plates float on the surface of the mantle. Which plate pushes the Philippine Plate toward the Eurasian Plate?
A. Cocos Plate C. Nazca Plate
B. Indo-Australian Plate D. Pacific Plate
6. What should you NOT DO during an earthquake?
A. cover your head C. park your car
B. duck under the table D. run to a tall tree
7. Which is NOT TRUE about the location of the epicenter of earthquakes?
A. Some are located along the edges of the continents.
B. Some are located in mid-continents.
C. Some are located in North Asia.
D. Some are located in oceans
8. Why is it important to be aware of places prone to earthquakes?
A. to identify what crop must be stored C. to locate where to stay best
B. to identify when to evacuate D. to perform necessary precautions
9. Where are most volcanoes situated?
A. along fault lines C. near mountain ranges
B. concentrated on continental edges D. under the oceanic crust
10. How do you describe the locations of earthquake epicenters, mountain rangers, and moving plates
in the Pacific Ring of Fire? They are _____.
A. all over the place C. located in the same location
B. concentrated in one area D. strategically plotted in clusters
11. When you see that the ocean water is receding (disappearing) away from the beach, you MUST
A. call the police C. stay in the middle of the beach
B. run to the nearest hill or mountain D. take the time to pick up seashells
12. 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. a cycle of high and low tides during full moon
C. the occurrence of earthquake, volcanism and mountain formation
D. the uneven distribution of heat in the globe
13. 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.
14. It is soft and weak upper portion of the mantle where the lithospheric plates float and move around.
A. Subduction C. Lithospheric ridge
B. Lithosphere D. Lithospheric plates
15. What is the process by which new ocean floor is formed near the mid-ocean ridge and moves outward?
A. Divergence of Plates C. Seafloor Spreading
B. Convergence of Plates D. Seismic Waves

II. Matching Type: Match Column A to Column B to give the correct answer that states in Column A.
Write the letter of your best answer.

COLUMN A COLUMN B

16. The Continental Drift Theory A. John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh
17. Love wave B. Inge Lehmann
18. mantle-core boundary C. Alfred Wegener
19. a device used to record earthquake waves D. A. E. H. Love, a British mathematician
20. Rayleigh wave E. Tectonics
21. The innermost layer of the earth (1936) F. formed when plates moved apart
22. Divergent boundary G. present when two plates collide
23. The velocity of Seismic waves changes H. Beno Gutenberg
24. Convergent boundary I. Seismograph
25. A branch of geology that deals with the J. Andrija Mohrovicic
movements that shape the Earth’s crust

III. Write TRUE if the statement is correct, but if the statement is wrong change the statement and make it
right.

26. The outer core id made up of molten material and accounts for the Earth’s magnetic field.
27. The crust is the middle layer of the Earth. It makes most of the Earth’s volume and mass.
28. Mid-ocean ridge is the area where new ocean floor from the center was formed.
29. Fossils of freshwater reptiles were discovered if different continents, such as in South America and Indonesia.
30. Underwater earthquakes, especially the stronger ones, can generate tidal wave.
31. Beneath the crust is the mantle, which extends to about 3900 kilometers from the Earth’s surface.
32. If the outer core is a liquid molten metallic iron, the inner core is a solid iron.
33. The Theory of Plate Tectonics help explain the formation and destruction of the earth’s crust and its
movement over time.
34. When a spreading center develops within a continent, the crust may break into several segments. These
breaking leads to the formation of down faulted valleys called mid-oceanic ridge.
35. According to the plate tectonics model, the entire lithosphere of the earth is broken into numerous
segments called plates.

IV. Differentiate the Three (3) types of Plate Boundaries by showing figures with explanation.

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