NAME:_________________________________________
YEAR & SECTION: __________________
GENERAL DIRECTIONS: Write your answers in capital
letters. No erasure. Erasing in any form means wrong
answer.
Test A. Multiple Choice. Read the questions carefully. Write
the letter of the correct answer in your activity notebook.
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. Which theory states that the entire crust is broken and is
continuously moving?
a. Continental Drift
b. Plate Tectonics
c. Seafloor Spreading
d. Titanic Theory
6. Which of the following is NOT a result of Plate Tectonics?
a. earthquake
b. fault lines
c. landslides
d. mountains
7. How are tsunamis created?
a. A submarine earthquake causes a huge amount of
water to be displaced.
b. Differences in temperature cause hot seawater to rise.
c. The gravitational pull of the moon causes the ocean
water to rise.
d. Topography underwater causes disturbances in the
oceans’ current.
8. A landmass that projects well above its surroundings is a
mountain. What do you call a chain of mountains?
a.
b.
c.
d.
mountain area
mountain chain
mountain range
mountainous
9. 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. epicenter
10. Plates float on the surface of the mantle. Which plate
pushes the Philippine Plate toward the Eurasian Plate?
a. Cocos Plate
b. Indo-Australian Plate
c. Nazca Plate
d. Pacific Plate
11. If an earthquake begins while you are in a building, the
safest thing for you to do is _____.
a. call home
b. duck near a wall
c. get under the strongest table, chair, or other pieces of
furniture.
d. lie flat on the floor and cover your head with your
hands.
12. Why is it important to be aware of places prone to
earthquakes?
a. to identify what crop must be stored
b. to identify when to evacuate
c. to locate where to stay best
d. to perform necessary precautions
13. Which statement does best describe the location of most
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.
14. 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.
15. Plates move apart at __________ boundaries.
a. convergent
b. stable
c. divergent
d. transform
16.
a.
b.
c.
d.
Plates slide past each other at ________________.
subduction zone
divergent boundary
convection current
transform-fault boundary
17. The boundary between two plates moving toward each
other is called a _________.
a. divergent boundary
b. transform boundary
c. lithosphere
d. convergent boundary
18. Seafloor spreading is located at _____________.
a. transform plate boundary
b. convergent plate boundary
c. divergent plate boundary
d. Indian plate
19. Plate Tectonic Theory states that continents have moved
________ to their current location.
a. vertically
b. horizontally
c. quickly
d. slowly
20. The East African Rift is an example of a ______.
a. mid-ocean ridge
b. convergent boundary
c. rift valley
d. transform boundary
21. The Himalayan mountain range of India was formed at
the __________.
a. divergent boundary
b. convergent boundary
c. hot spot
d. transform boundary
22. The __________ is an example of a transform fault
boundary.
a. Appalachian Mountains
b. Mid-Atlantic Ridge
c. San Andreas Fault
d. Himalayas
23. When magma in the earth’s mantle develops a great
pressure, the ground above it is pushed upward. If this
happens in the middle of an ocean, what landform is
produced?
a. mountain
b. volcanic island
c. volcano
d. continent
24. The tall landform created when two continental plates
converge is called_______.
a. mountain range
b. volcanic arc
c. rift valley
d. Oceanic ridge
25. It is a plate that dives down under a less dense plate
during subduction.
a. subducting plate
b. continental plate
c. mantle
d. overriding plate
26. Materials in the mantle flow up and down. Which of the
following best describes the mantle?
a. a solid layer
b. partially liquid
c. a metallic layer
d. very hot layer
27. Which of the following happens when plates diverge or
move away from each other?
a. The crust is destroyed.
b. New crust is produced because magma rises, then
cools off and turns into solid.
c. Earth’s size changes because mountains are added on
the earth’s surface.
d. The mantle rises.
28. A rift valley is formed simultaneously with which of the
following type of plate boundary?
a. Convergent
b. Divergent
c. Transform fault
d. Both convergent and divergent
29. How do the plates move when we feel that the ground is
shaking?
a. toward each other
b. away from each other
c. slide past each other
d. all of the above
30. It is otherwise known as an underwater mountain.
a. oceanic ridge
b. trench
c. hill
d. volcanic island
1. stress
31. It is a chain of volcanoes developed parallel to a trench
or a crack under the ocean.
a. mountain range
b. volcanoes
c. volcanic island arc
d. mountainous
32. It is formed when ocean water flips upward, sometimes
up to certain meters high, due to the great push caused by
convergence of plates.
a. wave
b. tsunami
c. tides
d. storm
33. It is the point where two plates meet or collide while
converging.
a. collision zone
b. sinking point
c. subduction zone
d. meeting point
34. The place where a subducting plate reaches the mantle
during convergence.
a. collision zone
b. subduction zone
c. mantle plume
d. magma
35. The word used to refer to the shaking of the ground due
to any activity in the lithosphere.
a. intensity
b. earthquake
c. Volcanism
d. Wave
Test B. Matching Type. Match the following words in Set A
with the corresponding definition is Set B.
SET A
SET B
2. fault
3. normal fault
4. subduction
5. trench
6. reverse fault
7. compressional stress
8. primary wave
9. tensional stress
10. love wave
a. a depression on the
ground caused by subduction
b. pulls hanging wall down
relative to the footwall
c. this wave causes the rocks
they pass through to change
in shape
d. hanging wall moves
upwards, relative to the
footwall
e. force leads to a smaller
volume
f. one plate dives under
another plate
g. fastest seismic wave
h. rocks are pulled apart or
stretched
i. has horizontal motion that
is transverse
j. force applied to a rock and
may cause deformation
k. zone of fractures between
two blocks of rock
Test C. Fill in the blank. Choose the answer inside the box.
continental
theory
geologic
divergent
lithosphere
plates
subduction
convection current
slowly
denser
toward
two continental plates
two oceanic plates
oceanic plate-continental plate
transform fault
(1) _____________ is made of earth’s crust and upper
mantle. It is subdivided into portions called (2) ___________
that move above the mantle. The two kinds of crust are (3)
______________ crust, which is thicker but less dense, and
oceanic crust, which is thinner but (4___________.
A (5) ___________ that the Earth’s crust is made up of
plates moving (6) __________ and interact in various ways
is Plate Tectonics. The interaction of the plates produces
earthquakes, mountains, volcanoes, and other (7) ________
features. (8) _________________ from the Earth’s interior
makes the plates move above the mantle. This movement
causes the formation of three types of plate boundaries
which are (9) _____________ boundary, two plates sliding
each other; (10) ________________ boundary, two plates
moving away from each other and convergent boundary
which plates are moving (11) ________ each other. Three
types of convergent boundaries are (12) ______________
convergent boundary which forms volcanic island arc,
(13______________convergent boundary forming a
continental volcanic arc, and (14) _________________
convergent boundary wherein there is no (15) ___________.