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FORMATIVE TEST IN SCIENCE 10

QUARTER 1
(SEISMIC WAVES)
I. Choose the letter of the correct answer:
1. Which of the following statement is true?
a. Surface waves travel only on Earth surface.
b. Body waves travel through Earth’s body(interior)
c. Surface waves arrive last at seismic recording stations compared to the body
waves.
d. All of the above.
Answer: d
2. Which type of waves were useful to seismologists in their study of the Earth’s
interior?
a. Surface waves
b. Body waves
c. A and b
d. None of the above.
3. After an earthquake, this wave reaches a detector first.
a. Love waves
b. Rayleigh waves
c. Primary waves
d. Secondary waves
4. What do you call the boundary between crust and mantle that was discovered by
a Yugoslavian seismologist Andrija?
a. Gutenberg Discontinuity
b. Mohorivicic Discontinuity
c. Asthenosphere
d. All of the above.
5. How does the size of each layer of the earth determine by scientist?
a. Through mechanical probes
b. Through actual explorations
c. Trough echoes from seismic waves
d. None of the above.
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Activity
QUARTER 1
(SEISMIC WAVES)
I. Match column A with column B.
Column A-Types of Waves
______ 1. Seismic waves
______ 2. Love waves
______ 3. Rayleigh waves
______ 4. Primary waves
______ 5. Secondary waves
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Column B-Description
a. Travel along the surface of
the earth from the point
above directly the epicenter
b. Transverse waves/can travel
through solids only
c. Compressional waves/can
travel through solids,
liquids, gas
d. Mechanical vibrations that
occur inside the earth (along
fault lines) which is caused
by the breakage of rocks
e. Travel along the free surface
of an elastic solid such as the
earth.
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Activity
QUARTER 1
(SEISMIC WAVES)
Fill up the diagram to complete the idea.

Seismic Waves
waves

Surface Waves 1._________

3. ________
Love Waves 2. __________ Primary Waves

Travel along Transverse

the free Waves
Slower than
surface of
4. _______ 5. ________ P waves
an elastic Travel
solids such through
as the Earth solids only