Q3 SUMMATIVE TEST #5 IN SCIENCE 8

Name: ______________________________________ Date: ___________________ Score: ___________

Directions: Choose the letter that corresponds to the correct answer. Write your answer on your answer sheet.

______1. What wave causes earthquake to occur?

A. Electromagnetic B. Radio C. Seismic D. Sound
______2. What does P in a P wave stand for?
A. Parallel B. Partial C. Perpendicular D. Primary
_____ 3. What kind of seismic wave arrives last at seismic station?
A. Love B. Primary C. Secondary D. Surface
______4. Which type of wave vibrates parallel to the direction and travels in a push-pull motion?
A. Love B. Primary C. Secondary D. Surface
______5. Which of the following statements best describes primary wave?
A. It travels through a vacuum.
B. It causes rock particles to vibrate.
C. It is the slowest, largest and causes the most destruction.
D. It travels the fastest and causes rock material to move back and forth.
______ 6. Which type of seismic wave moves rock particles up and down, or side-to- side perpendicular to the direction
the waves are traveling in?
A. Love B. Primary C. Secondary D. Surface
______7. What type of seismic wave is S wave?
A. Electromagnetic B. Longitudinal C. Transverse D. Ultrasonic
______8. Which type of seismic waves can travel through crust, mantle, and core?
A. Love B. Primary C. Secondary D. Surface
______9. In which of the following media can secondary waves travel?
A. gases only B. solids only C. liquids only D. solids, liquids and gases
_____ 10. Which of the following statements is NOT true about the secondary wave?
A. S waves travel slower that P waves.
B. S waves can travel through solid rocks.
C. S waves move rock particles up and down.
D. S waves can travel both in solid rocks and in liquid medium.
______11. What kind of waves can travel through a liquid?
A. Love B. Primary C. Secondary D. Surface
______12. Which describes the motion of Love wave?
A. circular motion B. push and pull C. side-to-side D. up and down
______ 13. Which correctly describes Rayleigh waves?
A. It can penetrate the outer and inner core.
B. It rolls along the ground like a wave rolls along the ocean.
C. It is faster than a Primary Wave.
D. It is faster than an S wave but slower than P wave.

______14. What is the device that seismologist used to measure the seismic waves?
A. Bar graph B. Stethoscope C. Thermometer D. Seismograph
______15. In what layer of the Earth can P waves pass through?
A. Mantle only
B. Inner core and Outer core
C. Inner core, outer core, and mantle
D. Outer core only
______16. What is the location of the Philippines with respect to Pacific Ocean?
A. Philippines is located at the Southeast of the Pacific Ocean
B. Philippines is located at the Northwest of the Pacific Ocean
C. Philippines is located at the center of the Pacific Ocean
D. Philippines is located at the East of the Pacific Ocean
______17. Which of the following is one of the key components needed for a typhoon?
A. Warm water with a minimum temperature of 24 oC
B. Cold water with a temperature below 24 oC
C. Warm water with a minimum temperature of 26 oC
D. Cold water with a temperature below 26 oC
______18. Where do typhoons originates?
A. Pacific Ocean B. Atlantic Ocean C. Indian Ocean D. Cannot be determined
______19. The following are the things we experience when there is a typhoon EXCEPT ________.
A. Very strong winds
B. Shaking of grounds
C. Heavy rains
D. Large ocean waves
______20. A tropical cyclone is defined as ___________.
A. global generic term for an intense circulating weather system over tropical seas and oceans Tropical storm
B. an unnatural phenomenon which are characterized with ground shaking, landslides, and large oceanic waves
C. a natural phenomenon which are characterized with ground shaking, landslides, and large oceanic waves
D. global generic term for an intense ground faulting, landslides, and large oceanic waves.

______21. Where does cyclone originates?

A. Indian Ocean B. Pacific Ocean C. South China Sea D. Atlantic Ocean
______22. It is where northeast and southeast trade winds converge. It is also where tropical depressions start.
A. Low pressure
B. Inter tropical convergence zone
C. Thunderstorm
D. Tropical depression
______23. What is the name of the strongest super typhoon that landed in the Philippines and left devastating damages
in some other portions of Southeast Asia?
A. Bagyong Reming
B. Bagyong Juan
C. Bagyong Pablo
D. Bagyong Yolanda

______24. What institute takes charge of giving forecast, advisories, and warnings about the coming of typhoon?
A. PHIVOLCS
B. Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration
C. Inter tropical convergence zone
D. Low Pressure Area
______25. What do you call a tropical cyclone that comes from Atlantic Ocean?
A. Bagyo B. Typhoon C. Hurricane D. Cyclone
______26. What is the complete meaning of the abbreviation PAG-ASA?
A. Philippines Atmospheric Geometrical and Atmospherical Services Administration
B. Philippines Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration
C. Philippines Atmospheric Geophysical and Autonomical System Administration
D. Philippines Astronomical Geophysical and Atmospheric Services Administration
______27. Which of the following best explains why typhoon gets weaker when it landfall?
A. Because landmasses are where the typhoon gets its energy to build up and become stronger
B. Because typhoon build up on warm water from the ocean and when it landfall, it will lose its source of warm water.
C. Because landmasses will not support the circular motion of the typhoon for it to build up
D. Because landmasses are will disrupt the circular motion of the typhoon until it stops
______28. What are the two key ingredients of deadly typhoon?
A. Area of low pressure in the atmosphere and warm ocean water.
B. Area of high pressure in the atmosphere and cold ocean water.
C. Area of low pressure in the atmosphere and cold ocean water.
D. Area of high pressure in the atmosphere and warm ocean water.
______29. When a tropical cyclone passes on a certain place, it is the ____ that has is relatively calm, generally clear
area of sinking air and light winds that usually do not exceed 15 mph?
A. Eye B. Eyewall C. Rainbands D. Direction
_______30. What should be the minimum temperature of an ocean water to contribute to a low-pressure area to
become a typhoon?
A. 260C B. 240C C. 220C d. 200C