Earth Science Quiz with Sir Marwen

What province ranked the highest risk because of its small land area that a volcanic eruption can affect     the whole place?

• CAMIGUIN

• BATANES

• SULU

• CAMARINES SUR

You are an oceanographer and want to map the ocean floor on the east coast of the Philippines.              

    As you do your study, you noticed that there is a portion of the ocean floor which is relatively much

    deeper than the rest. What most likely is that deeper part?

• Linear sea

• Rift valley

• Oceanic ridge

• Trench

What do we call the continuously moving part of the earth’s crust?

• fault

• fracture

• fissure

• plate

Which theory states that the entire crust is broken and is continuously moving?

• Continental Drift

• Seafloor spreading

• Plate Tectonics

• Titanic Theory

The __________ is an example of a transform fault boundary.

• East Pacific Rise

• Mid-Atlantic Ridge

• San Andreas Fault

• Himalayas

It is the process wherein the leading edge of one plate bends downward into the mantle beneath the other plate.

• Convection

• Subduction

• Transaction

• Interaction

This is the type of plate boundary that occurs between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate.

• divergent boundary

• convergent oceanic - continental plate boundary

• transform boundary

• convergent oceanic - oceanic plate boundary

What is the expected average rate of change in position between crustal plates?          

• cm per year

• dm per year

• km per year

• mm per year

A driving force for plate motion at mid-ocean ridges as a result of the rigid lithosphere sliding down.

• slab pull

• convection current

• ridge push

• seafloor spreading

In a convection current, hot materials move ______________.

• any direction

• upward

• sideward

• downward