Republic of the Philippines

Nueva Ecija University of Science and Technology

Fort Magsaysay Campus, Palayan City

2nd QUARTER TEST IN GRADE 8 SCIENCE

Name:________________________ Score:____________
Year/ Section:__________________ Date:_____________
Proctor: _______________________ Room #: __________

TEST I – Choose the letter that bests answer the question or completes the statements. Any
forms of erasures are considered incorrect. Encircle only.

1. How would you describe an air mass over the Pacific Ocean on a hot summer day?
a. Hot and salty c. lukewarm and dry
b. Warm and moist d. cold and humid
2. The properties of an air mass depends on ___________.
a. The climate of the region.
b. The speed and direction of the wind.
c. The temperature and humidity of the land or water over which it is moving
d. Its distance from the equator
3. Weather disturbances usually occur along the boundary between __________.
a. Two low-pressure areas c. two cold fronts
b. Two warm fronts d. two air masses of different properties
4. Where are most Philippine typhoons formed?
a. Caroline-Marianas area of the Pacific c. sea over the Philippine deep
b. Southwest Monsoon, or Habagat d. at the equator
5. What two factors cause the winds of a tropical cyclone to spin?
a. Warm ocean water and Coriolis effect
b. Cold air rushing toward the eye of the cyclone
c. Rising warm air and condensation of its moisture
d. Earth’s rotation and opposing directions of the NE and SE tradewinds
6. Following is a list of instruments and tools for weather forecasting, which should be OMITTED?
a. Isobar c. thermograph
b. Aneroid barometer d. hygrograph
7. Which of the following is a good effect of typhoons?
a. Erosion of steep mountain slopes c. reduction of air pollution
b. Siltation of rivers d. pollution of water supply.
8. The point within the Earth where seismic waves originate is:
a. epicenter c. the origin
b. the fault scarp d. the focus
9. The Richter scale is used to determine
a. Intensity of earthquakes c. the damage from earthquakes
b. The magnitude of earthquakes d. the number of casualties
10. Among the secondary effects of large earthquakes are:
a. Tsunamis c. landslides
b. Fires d. all of these

TEST II - Read the list of words in the box, and choose the word that best answers each
statement given below. All answers must be written on the blanks provided before each number.

seismograph epicenter fault meteor asteroid

seismic waves comet earthquake magnitude meteorite

Oort cloud Kuiper belt objects focus astenosphere

Cyclone relative humidity weather front airmass

_______________1. is an extended shell of icy objects that exist in the outermost reaches of the
solar system.
_______________2. , instrument that makes a record of seismic waves caused by an earthquake,
explosion, or other Earth-shaking phenomenon.
_________________3. the point on the earth's surface vertically above the focus of an earthquake.
_______________4. is a large scale air mass that rotates around a strong center of low
atmospheric pressure. They are usually characterized by inward spiralling winds that rotate
counter clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere.
_______________5. are small, airless rocky worlds revolving around the sun that are too small
to be called planets. 
_______________6. is a solid piece of debris from an object, that originates in outer space and
survives its passage through the Earth's atmosphere and impact with the Earth's surface.
_______________7. a break in the rocks that make up the Earth's crust, along which rocks on
either side have moved past each other.
_______________8. a region of the solar system beyond the orbit of Neptune, believed to
contain many comets, asteroids, and other small bodies made largely of ice.
_______________9. an elastic wave in the earth produced by an earthquake or other means.
_______________10. the amount of water vapor present in air expressed as a percentage of the
amount needed for saturation at the same temperature.
_______________11. an icy body that releases gas or dust. 
_______________12. is a number that characterizes the relative size of an earthquake.
_______________13. he upper layer of the earth's mantle, below the lithosphere, in which there
is relatively low resistance to plastic flow and convection is thought to occur.
_______________14. The location where the earthquake begins.
_______________15. a body of air with horizontally uniform temperature, humidity, and
pressure.

TEST III – answer the following briefly.

1. How can changes in the weather affect employment opportunities of people?
2. What could be the reason for proposals to search for Earth-like planets that Earth people
can colonize?

Prepared by:

Mr. Gerald A. Quijano, MAT- Science

Instructor

Noted by:

Dr. Angelita N. Masa

Campus Director