City of Malolos Integrated School – Atlag

(Formerly Atlag Elementary School)

SECOND QUARTERLY ASSESSMENT IN SCIENCE 8
DIRECTIONS: This test will measure your level of mastery of the lessons about the relationship between faults and earthquakes, and
formation of typhoons. Read each question carefully. Choose the letter of the best answer. Shade the letter of your answer on the
answer sheet provided.

1. What is a crack or break in the lithosphere that can shift and 14. The Alpine Fault cuts through New Zealand. At this location,
cause an earthquake? two plates are sliding past each other slowly over time. What
A. Epicenter B. Eruption C. Fault D. Focus type of fault exists at Alpine Fault?
2. What do you call a fault where two blocks of crust pull apart A. Divergent B. Normal C. Reverse D. Transform
and create space? 15. What is the movement of a strike-slip fault?
A. Normal fault B. Reverse fault A. Backwards B. Downward C. Sideways D. Upward
C. Strike-slip fault D. Transform fault 16. Where is the focus located in the illustration?
3. How will you describe the movement of the walls in a strike- A. 1 B. 2
slip fault? C. 3 D. 2 and 3
A. moving sideways B. pulling the side apart
C. pushing the side together D. pushing and pulling the sides
4. How does a reverse fault form? 17. At what point along a fault does the first motion of an
A. The blocks slide past each other. earthquake occur?
B. The blocks pull apart from each other. A. Epicenter B. Focus C. Intensity D. Magnitude
C. The hanging wall moves upward relative to the footwall. 18. Where is the epicenter located?
D. The hanging wall moves downward relative to the footwall. A. directly above the focus
5. What do you call the amount of ground displacement in an B. at the center of the earth
earthquake? C. located in the seismic waves
A. Crack B. Dip C. Fold D. Slip D. located underground where the earthquake begins
6. What type of fault is illustrated in the picture? 19. Which instrument determines the amount of damage caused
A. Normal by earthquake?
B. Reverse A. spring scale B. Richter scale
C. Strike-slip C. Mercalli scale D. weighing scale
D. Transform 20. What is the highest intensity scale of an earthquake?
7. How will you describe the movement of fault in this A. VIII B. IX C. X D. XI
illustration? 21. Scientists use different ways to find out if a fault is active.
A. moving sideways Which one is NOT included?
B. pulling the sides apart A. creating a fault model
C. pushing the sides together B. observing the surroundings
D. moving in vertical direction C. tracing the country’s historical record
8. Which of the following geologic features is an example of a D. studying the past and present vibrations
reverse fault? 22. Which point is nearest to the focus?
A. Anatolian fault B. San Andreas fault A. 1 B. 2
C. Himalayas mountain D. East African rift zone C. 3 D. 4
9. What refers to a vibration of the Earth due to the rapid release
of energy? 23. Which of the following locations is directly above the focus?
A. Earthquake B. Fault C. Friction D. Stress A. Core B. Epicenter C. Fault D. Hypocenter
10. Earthquakes happen along a fault line. Which of the 24. What is the magnitude of an earthquake that can cause
following is NOT true about fault? serious damage in areas across several hundred miles?
A. It can be found on land. A. 5.0 – 5.9 B. 6.0 – 6.9
B. It is where fault cyclone starts. C. 7.0 – 7.9 D. 8.0 – 8.9
C. It can be found under the sea. 25. Which of the following is NOT considered an effect when
D. It is a break in the Earth’s crust. movement of an active fault happens?
11. In which type of fault can earthquake occur? A. ground motion B. typhoon formation
A. Normal B. Reverse C. Transform D. All of these C. surface faulting D. land deformation
12. Which type of fault would be least likely to occur along the 26. What is a seismograph?
valley? A. a shock wave released by an earthquake
A. Normal B. Reverse C. Thrust D. Transform B. a scale used to describe energy released during an
13. What type of fault is illustrated in the picture? earthquake
A. Normal C. a device used to measure ground motion during an
B. Reverse earthquake
C. Strike-slip D. the image produced that shows ground vibrations during an
D. Transform earthquake
27. Which does not describe the intensity of an earthquake? 39. Which of the following statements best describes the outer
A. minor B. moderate C. strong D. weak core?
28. Which is measured by a seismograph? A. The outer core is thought to be liquid.
A. distance B. force C. intensity D. magnitude B. P waves do not travel through the outer core.
29. What point on Earth's surface is directly above the focus? C. P waves and S waves can travel through the outer core.
A. Epicenter B. Fault C. Focus D. Magnitude D. P waves travel through the outer core at a higher velocity
30. What is focus? than S waves.
A. center of the earth 40. Where do typhoons form?
B. end of the seismic waves A. Lakes B. Oceans C. Rivers D. Streams
C. surface of the earth where the wave starts 41. Which weather disturbance develops in the northwest Pacific
D. location where an earthquake’s waves begin Ocean?
31. Which of the following describes an active fault? A. Blizzard B. Tornado
A. no earthquake occurs C. Tropical Cyclone D. Tsunami
B. no record of earthquake 42. What is the other term for tropical cyclone?
C. expected to generate earthquake A. Earthquake B. Tsunami C. Typhoon D. Wildfire
D. generates earthquake once in a million of years 43. What Public Storm Warning Signal (PSWS) has a wind
32. Which point is closest to the epicenter? speed of 160 kph?
A. Point A B. Point B A. 1 B. 2 C. 3 D. 4
C. Points A and B D. Points B and C 44. Where do typhoons that hit the Philippines mostly originate?
A. Indian Ocean B. Pacific Ocean
33. What scale measures the magnitude or size of an C. South China Sea D. West Philippine Sea
earthquake? 45. Which tropical cyclone has a wind speed greater than 200
A. Mercalli scale B. Richter scale kph?
C. Spring scale D. Weighing scale A. Super typhoon B. Typhoon
34. What is referred to as a measure of the amount of energy C. Tropical storm D. Tropical depression
released in an earthquake? 46. How would you describe the condition within the typhoon’s
A. Intensity B. Magnitude eye?
C. Stress D. Tension A. Calm B. Intense C. Sunny D. Violent
35. Which of the following statements refers to the magnitude 47. What will you do if a typhoon will hit your place?
scale? A. store bread and milk
A. It measures the effect of an earthquake on a given area. B. hide in a room without windows
B. It is a negative impact of the earthquake on surrounding C. watch TV and share on Facebook
areas. D. leave the area and proceed to the evacuation center
C. It is the devastation caused by an earthquake varies with 48. What causes tropical cyclone to spin?
location. A. rotation of the earth
D. It is the quantified value of seismic energy produced during B. revolution of the earth
an earthquake. C. gravitational pull of the sun
36. What is the description of a 5.0 – 5.9 magnitude in a Richter D. gravitational pull of the moon
scale? 49. What is the cyclonic circulation of tropical cyclone if it is in
A. light B. major C. moderate D. strong the southern hemisphere?
37. What is the main cause of seismic waves? A. Clockwise B. Upward rotation
A. Earthquake B. Thunder C. Counterclockwise D. Downward rotation
C. Traffic D. Volcano 50. Which item should NOT be included in an emergency kit?
38. Why is there an abrupt change in the speed of seismic A. cellphone B. pocketknife
waves as they travel inside the Earth? It is because seismic C. beauty product D. transistor radio
waves are ___________.
A. colliding
B. overtaking the compressional waves
C. passing through a material with the same density
D. going into a material with different properties and densities

Prepared by: Checked: Noted:

MRS. JESSICA P. PINGOL MRS. BELINDA S. ROQUE JOEY R. CABIGAO, PhD

Teacher III Teacher III/OIC-Department Head School Principal IV
 City of Malolos Integrated School – Atlag
(Formerly Atlag Elementary School)
SECOND QUARTERLY ASSESSMENT IN SCIENCE 8
ANSWER KEY

1 C 11 D 21 A 31 C 41 C

2 A 12 B 22 C 32 B 42 C

3 A 13 B 23 B 33 B 43 C

4 C 14 D 24 D 34 B 44 B

5 D 15 C 25 B 35 D 45 A

6 A 16 C 26 C 36 B 46 A

7 A 17 B 27 A 37 A 47 D

8 C 18 A 28 D 38 D 48 A

9 A 19 C 29 A 39 A 49 C

10 B 20 C 30 D 40 B 50 C

Prepared by:

MRS. JESSICA P. PINGOL

Teacher III

Checked: Noted:

MRS. BELINDA S. ROQUE JOEY R. CABIGAO, PhD

Teacher III/OIC-Department Head School Principal IV