Department Of Education

Region VII, Central Visayas

Division of Cebu Province
District of San Remigio II
BATAD INTEGRATED SCHOOL
ASSESSMENT in Science 10 Module 5
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A. Direction: Read each item carefully. Encircle the letter of the correct answer.
1. What evidences do scientists use to support the Continental Drift Theory?
A. rocks, fossils, air C. rocks, fossils, climate
B. rocks, water, ice D. rocks, fossils, human beings
2. The youngest crust is found _________ the mid-ocean ridge.
A. far B. near C. beside D. away
3. If you are a cartographer, what would give you an idea that the continents were once joined?
A. ocean depth C. position of the South Pole
B. shape of the continents D. size of the Atlantic Ocean
4. What discovery provided strong support for Continental Drift Theory?
A. Geology B. Fossil evidence C. Electromagnetism D. Paleomagnetism
5. Which is not evidence of seafloor spreading?
A. molten magma constantly erupting C. fossil evidence
B. drilling samples of rock D. magnetic stripes
6. The magnets point north when Earth's magnetic field has __________.
A. magnetic reversal B. reversed polarity C. mid-ocean ridge D. normal polarity
7. Why was Alfred Wegener's Continental Drift Theory not accepted immediately by the people during his time?
A. He cannot explain what causes the continents to drift.
B. He explains that South America and Africa fit together like a puzzle.
C. He described that the rocks and mountains at the edges of the continents were similar.
D. He explains that fossils of ancient plants such as "Glossopteris" can be found in almost all continents.
8. Why were magnetic patterns found on the ocean floor puzzling?
A. They did not show alternating bands of normal and reversed polarity.
B. They showed alternating bands of normal and reversed polarity.
C. No rocks were magnetic.
D. All rocks were magnetic.
9. What do you call the process that forms and moves new oceanic crust?
A. magnetic reversal B. seafloor spreading C. convection D. trenching
10. What do you call the supercontinent landmass formed million years ago?
A. Pangaea B. Panthalassa C. Asia D. Eurasia
11. Which one among the continental drift pieces of evidence mainly proves that the Cape Mountains of South
America and Africa line up perfectly before?
A. There's an equal amount of coal deposits in each continent and fossils.
B. The evidence from the rock layers in different continents exactly matched.
C. The remains of the ancient plant called Glossopteris can be found on both continents.
D. The climate of the two continents is almost the same and with the same ancient organisms.
12. What information can be derived about Antarctica having fossils of ancient plants and animals?
A. Antarctica drifted to the Southern hemisphere because of the melting of glaciers that traps the plants and
animals.
B. Antarctica has a very nice climate that caused these organisms to migrate and stay.
C. It has a tropical climate today that provides a good environment for complex life forms.
D. Antarctica had once located near the equator.
13. If Australia is moving about 2cm/ year and was drifted from the ridge by 1000km, how long ago was it when
Australia was near the ridge?
A. 50 million years C. 500 million years
B. 10 million years D. cannot be predicted
14. He is a German Scientist who hypothesized in 1912 that continents were once a giant landmass called Pangaea.
A. Harry Hammond Hess B. Robert Dietz C. Alfred Lothar Wegener D. Charles Darwin
15. What did Harry Hammond Hess realize in the 1950s when his team continued exploring the ocean floor and
discovered the Mid-Atlantic Ridge?
A. He realized that the oceanic crust is older than the continental crust.
B. He realized that Alfred Wegener's Continental Drift Theory is not true.
C. He realized that the oceanic crusts near the Mid-Atlantic Ridge are thicker and less dense.
D. He realized that the Earth's crust had been moving away on each side of oceanic ridges, down the Atlantic and
Pacific Oceans.
16. He was credited for the idea of Continental Drift Theory?
A. Alfred Lothar Wegener B. Charles Darwin C. Harry Hammond Hess D. Robert Dietz
17. All continents were once joined together forming a supercontinent called__________.
A. Panthalassa B. Laurasia C. Gondwanaland D. Pangaea
18. It is possibly the most important fossil plant evidence that continents are drifting.
A. Glossopteris B. Lystrosaurus C. Mesosaurus D. Cynognathus
19. What are the evidence gathered by Alfred Wegener to support his Continental Drift Theory?
A. continental fit, rocks, fossils, coal deposits, ancient climate, and glaciers scars
B. the ancient climate of Antarctica and Africa
C. remains of dead plants and animals
D. observing the map
20. What two specific continents fit together most noticeably?
A. Africa and North America C. South America and Europe
B. South America and Africa D. Antarctica and Africa
21. What can you say about the ages of oceanic crust near and far from the mid-oceanic ridge?
A. Oceanic crust is younger near the ridge but older far from it.
B. Oceanic crust is older near the ridge but younger far from it.
C. Oceanic crust materials have the same ages.
D. The Oceanic crust does not age.
22. During World War II, he discovered and proposed that the origin of the plate would be at the mid-oceanic ridge.
A. Alfred Wegener B. Harry Hess C. Charles Darwin D. Albert Einstein
23. Describe the thickness of sediments near and far from the mid-oceanic ridge:
A. The sediments are thinner near the ridge but thicker as you go far from it.
B. The sediments are thicker near the ridge but thinner as you go far from it.
C. The thickness of the oceanic sediments near and far from the ridge is the same.
D. The sediments are unevenly distributed.
24. What type of plate boundary is occurring in the Mid-Atlantic Ridge?
A. Convergent Plate Boundary B. Transform Fault Plate Boundary
C. Divergent Plate Boundary D. Destructive Boundary
25. Why is the Earth not getting bigger even though molten materials are gradually coming out from the mid-oceanic
ridge?
A. Because everything is being consumed in the subduction zone.
B. Because of the faster rate of movement of materials from the ridge.
C. Because older oceanic materials are pushed away and slowly consumed in the subduction zone.
D. Because the rate of coming out of new oceanic materials and destruction of older oceanic crust are the same.