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SCIENCE 10 (FIRST QUARTER)
CHAPTER TEST NO. 2 (THE EARTH’S INTERIOR)
I. MULTIPLE CHOICE. Directions: Read each item carefully. Select the letter of the best answer and write it on your
answer sheet.
1. What makes up the lithosphere?
a. Continental crust b. Crust and the upper mantle
c. Oceanic crust and continental crust d. Upper mantle
2. How do you compare the densities of the Earth’s crust, mantle and core?
a. The mantle is less dense than both the core and the crust.
b. The mantle is denser than the core but less dense than the crust.
c. The mantle is less dense than the core but denser than the crust.
d. The mantle is denser than both the core and the crust.
3. The movement of the lithospheric plates is facilitated by a soft, weak and plastic-like layer beneath the
earth’s crust. Which of the following layers is described in this statement?
a. atmospshere b. Asthenosphere c. lithosphere d. mantle
4. Which type of waves do you think were useful to seismologists in their study of the Earth’s interior?
a. Surface waves b. Body waves c. P waves d. S waves
5. What do you expect to see near the mid-ocean ridge?

a. Relatively young rocks b. reverse fault
c. thick accumulation of sediments d. very ancient rock
6. Which of the following increases with the distance from a mid-ocean ridge?
a. The age of the rocks b. the thickness of the lithosphere
c. the depth of the seafloor d. all of these
7. Miners dig into the earth in search for precious rocks and minerals. In which layer is the deepest explorations
made by miners?
a. Crust b. mantle c. outer core d. inner core
8. If you are an oceanographer, what will give you an idea that the continents were once joined?
a. Ocean depth b. shape of the continents position of the poles
c. shape of the continents d. size of the Atlantic ocean
9. If the Atlantic ocean is widening at a rate of 3cm per year, how far in kilometres will it spread after millions of
years?
a. 30 km b. 300km c. 3,000 km d. 30,000 km
10. Who were the two scientists responsible in formulating the seafloor spreading theory?
a. Charles Darwin and James Hutton b. F. Vine and D. Matthews
c. John Butler and Arthur Smite d. Harry Hess and Robert Dietz
11. In 1912, Alfred Wegener proposed a theory that the earth is once a single landmass. What is the name of this
landmass?
a. Eurasia b. Laurasia c. Pangaea d. Gondwanaland
12. Which theory is described in item no. 11?

a. Continental Drift Theory b. Plate Tectonics Theory
c. Seafloor Spreading Theory d. Magnetic Reversal
13. Which was the main reason Wegener’s Continental Drift Theory was rejected for some time?
a. He was not liked by other scientists.
b. He could not provide a mechanism for the movement of the continents.
c. He could not provide logical explanations for the movements of the continents.
d. His evidences were incorrect.
14. Which discovery about the ocean floor is associated with seafloor spreading theory?
a. Mountains are denser than the mantle part of the earth.
b. The rotational poles of the earth have migrated.
c. The crust of the continents is denser than the crusts in the ocean.
d. The crust of the ocean is very young near the ridges relative to rocks farther from the ridges.
15. Why does the oceanic crust sink beneath the continental crust at the subduction zone?
a. The oceanic crust has a greater density
b. The oceanic crust is pulled downward by Earth’s magnetic field.
c. The oceanic crust is pushed from the ridge.
d. The continental crust has a denser composition.
16. The lithospheric plates are believed to be moving slowly. What is the driving force that facilitates this
movement?
a. gravitational force of the moon b. magnetic force at the poles
c. convection current in the mantle d. the force of the atmosphere Answer
17. Which of the following can you infer from the continuous movement of the lithospheric plates over the
asthenosphere?
a. All continents will cease to exist.
b. All volcanoes in the earth will become inactive.
c. The continents will not be located in the same place as they are now.
d. The islands of the Philippines will become scattered all over the world.
18. What could have happened to Pangaea if all the inner layers of the earth are firm solid?
a. It remained as a supercontinent.
b. It would have become as it is today.
c. It would have slowly disappear in the ocean.
d. It would have stretched and covered the whole world.
19. Which observation was NOT instrumental in formulating the hypothesis of seafloor spreading?
a. Depth of the ocean b. Identifying the location of glacial deposits
c. magnetization of the ocean crust d. Thickness of the seafloor sediments.
20. As a new seafloor is formed at the mid-ocean ridge, the old seafloor farthest from the ridge is destroyed.
Which of the stated processes describes how the oceanic crust plunges into the Earth and destroyed at the
mantle?
a. Convection b. Subduction c. Diversion d. Construction
21. Which of the following diagrams best illustrates the convection occurring in the mantle?
A B C D
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SCIENCE 10 (FIRST QUARTER)

CHAPTER TEST NO. 2 (THE EARTH’S INTERIOR)

5. What do you expect to see near the mid-ocean ridge?

12. Which theory is described in item no. 11?

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