2nd Quarter Summative Test

• What is a government agency that gives information about the seasons and climates in our country?

  PAGASA
• What is the fastest type of seismic wave, that can travel through solid and liquid?

  Primary Wave
• What is a scientist who studies earthquakes and seismic waves?

  Seismologist
• What is the energy that travels through the earth and is recorded on ________?

  seismograph
• Related to Energy Release, Determined from Seismic Records

  Magnitude
• What type of seismic wave travels through a solid and liquid medium?

  primary wave
• The Pacific Ring of Fire is an earthquake zone that forms a ring around.

  Pacific Ocean
• The type of atmospheric phenomenon occurs in the West Indies Atlantic Ocean is called.

  Hurricane
• A tropical country's atmospheric phenomenon is called.

  Typhoon
• A seismograph is a device used to

  records the vibrations produced during an earthquake
• Where does the word 'typhoon' come from?

  from the Mandarin "tai feng"
• Seasonal wind that blows over the northern part Of the Indian Ocean, accompanied by rain.

  cyclone
• What classification of the Dip-slip faults on which the hanging wall moves down relative to the footwall?

  normal fault
• What do you call the fracture or break in the earth's crust where earthquakes are most likely to occur repeatedly?

  fault
• What do you call the sudden release of energy, that makes the ground shake?

  seismic energy
• This is the location on the surface above the focus?

  epicenter
• This is where location within the earth where fault rupture actually occurs.

  Focus
• What classification of fault which the hanging wall moves down relative to the footwall?

  Normal Fault
• It can be generated by an earthquake and a disturbance created by earthquake in the ocean floor.

  tsunami
• What is the slowest seismic wave?

  Surface Wave
• What classification of fault which the hanging wall move up relative to the footwall?

  Reverse Fault
• Acronym of PHIVOLCS

  PHILIPPINE INSTITUTE OF VOLCANOLOGY AND SEISMOLOGY
• Acronym of PAGASA

  PHILIPPINE ATMOSPHERIC GEOPHYSICAL ASTRONOMICAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION
• Acronym of DOST

  DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
• Acronym of PSWS

  PUBLIC STORM WARNING SIGNAL
• Acronym of PAR

  PHILIPPINE AREA OF RESPONSIBILITY
• The solar system is composed of:

  Sun, Planets, Debris, Dwarf Planets
• It is the area between Mars and Jupiter.

  asteroid
• What is the fragment or debris that resulted from the collision of asteroid and comet?

  meteoroid
• It is a ball of ice and dust

  comets
• Which Near Earth Object are found on the Kuiper belt and oort cloud?

  comet
• When objects strike the surface of a planet or moon, they leave a deep impression on the surface called:

  Crater
• What causes meteors to burn up in our atmosphere?

  Friction from the Earth's atmosphere
• What do you call this asteroid that shares the same orbit with Jupiter?

  trojan
• What are comets made of?

  dust, rock, and ice
• a subclass of a stony meteor that believe to be basalt lava that originated from mars

  achondrite
• What do you call the depression caused by a space object that hits a planet or moon?

  crater
• a subclass of stony meteor that contain an element carbon which is one of the building blocks of life on earth.

  carbonaceous chondrite
• When a meteor explodes in the earth's atmosphere it is called?

  bolide
• The meteor that hits the earth.

  Meteorite