SCIENCE

Questions:
1. What is floating on molten magma?
2. What causes the plates to move?
3. What do rocks store when they are stretched or squeezed?
4. What do you call it when rocks release energy in the form of vibrations?
5. What type of fault is it called when a block above the fault moves down relative to the block
below the fault?
6. Is normal fault compressed or stretched?
7. What type of fault is it called when the block above the fault moves up relative to the block below
the fault?
8. Is reverse fault compressed or stretched?
9. What type of fault is it when the movement of blocks along a fault is horizontal?
10. What do strike-slip faults form?
11. What is formed when rocks compress?
12. What is formed when rocks stretch?
13. What is a region that surrounds the Pacific Ocean and is known for its volcanoes and earthquake
activity?
14. How many volcanoes does the Pacific Ring of Fire have?
15. What is PHIVOLCS?
16. What is DOST?
17. What is PAGASA?
18. What is PAR?
19. What is the focus of an earthquake, and is the location within the Earth where the earthquake
originated?
20. The energy moving outward from the focus on an earthquake travels in the form of ________
waves.
21. What occurs when rocks in Earth’s crust break due to geological forces created by the movement
of the tectonic plates?
22. What occurs in conjunction with volcanic activity?
23. How is an earthquake’s power expressed?
24. What is the measure of the size of an earthquake, and determined from measurements in a
seismograph?
25. What is an instrument that scientists use to record the shaking of the ground?
26. What is used to express the magnitude of an earthquake?
27. Who invented the Richter scale?
28. When earthquakes happen in bodies of water, what may be the result?
29. What are tsunamis commonly called?
30. True or false: tsunamis are commonly called seismic waves, but sometimes tidal waves.
31. What is caused by undersea volcanic eruptions, underwater landslides, glacier collapse, land
slumping into the ocean, and meteorite impact?
32. From where does the word Tsunami come from?
33. What does tsu mean?
34. What does nami mean?
35. What is a graph output by a seismograph?
36. What is an indication that the ground is being vibrated by seismic waves?
37. What are propagating vibrations that carry energy from the source to outward in all directions?
38. What are the 4 types of seismic waves?
39. What are the first waves to arrive on a complete record of the ground vibration and travel fastest
in Gas, Solid, and Liquid Matter?
40. What travel slower than P-Waves and penetrate solid material so they stop at the liquid layer of
Earth?
41. What are transverse waves that vibrate the ground in a horizontal direction perpendicular to the
waves that are traveling?
42. What is the slowest of all the seismic waves and most complicated?
43. What has a geographical starting point that is usually humid and hot?
44. What is a meteorological term that refers to its cyclonic circulation where the strong winds in the
northern hemisphere circulate counter-clockwise and clockwise in the southern hemisphere?
45. What tropical cyclone is it if it’s found in the North Atlantic Ocean?
46. What tropical cyclone is it if it’s found in the Northwest Pacific Ocean (Southeast Asia, West
Philippine Sea, and mostly Japan)?
47. What tropical cyclone is it if it’s found in the Southeastern Indian and Southwest Pacific Oceans?
48. What is usually around Ecuador (not lower than 27 degrees Celsius)?
49. What type of cloud is formed in a typhoon?
50. What area can you find normal/cold air?
51. What do you call it when circulating air is deflected toward the right in the Northern Hemisphere
and toward the left in the Southern Hemisphere?
52. What should be the condition of the air during a typhoon?
53. How many stages are there in the formation and development of a typhoon?
54. What stage contains a discrete weather system of clouds, showers, and thunderstorms?
55. What stage contains thunderstorm winds that blow stronger due to greater convergence?
56. What stage receives an official name and winds here increase greatly and can take a little as half a
day to as much as a couple of days?
57. What stage is it called when the typhoon continues to strengthen and can be upgraded to super
typhoon, which means it exceeds the maximum sustained winds of 115 mph?
58. What are the two factors in typhoons?
59. What is a typhoon’s “fuel” source?
60. A typhoon will drastically deteriorate once its eye moves over the ______.
61. How many typhoons does the Philippines experience yearly?
62. What is sometimes referred to as a ‘small planet’?
63. What are small and rocky objects that orbit the sun?
64. What type of asteroid is made of silicate materials and nickel-iron?
65. What type of asteroid is made of nickel and iron?
66. What type of asteroid is made of clay and silicate rocks?
67. What is a lump of rock or iron that orbits the sun?
68. What type of meteoroid is made of iron-nickel, sulfide, and carbide?
69. What type of meteoroid is made of silicate materials?
70. What type of meteoroid is made of silicate materials and nickel-iron?
 71. What is a cosmic snowball consisting of frozen gases, rock, and dust that orbit the sun which is
very cold?
72. What are the four things a comet consists of?
73. What are leftovers from the formation of the solar system?
74. What is formed from the collisions of asteroids?
75. What is formed from the dust from the dusty tails of comets?
76. What is formed when asteroids or meteoroids collide with the moon or Mars?
77. What may be seen in the Main Asteroid Belt?
78. Where is the Main Asteroid Belt located?
79. What do you call asteroids in Jupiter’s orbit?
80. What are positions in space where objects sent there tend to stay put?
81. What is scattered in the whole solar system and may even be seen in the Kuiper Belt and Oort
Cloud?
82. What is found far from the sun particularly in the Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud explaining why it’s
very cold?
83. What is 253 Mathilde?
84. What is Hoba?
85. What is Hartley 2?
86. What do you call meteoroids that have entered our atmosphere?
87. What do you call meteoroids that survived the impact and have reached the surface?
88. What do you call it when meteors heat up the air due to its fast speed and so the meteor along
with it also heats up, causing it to fire up?
89. Where do meteor streaks happen?
90. What do you call the tail of comets?
91. What do you call the comet when it approaches the sun and starts to vaporize?
92. What are the two types of Coma/Tail?
93. What are the two reasons why comets have tails?
94. Is it common, uncommon, or impossible for asteroids to have tails?
95. Give an example of an asteroid with a tail.
96. What are the five aspects that are needed to identify or classify asteroids, meteoroids, and
comets?

Questions w/ Answers:
1. What is floating on molten magma? Plates
2. What causes the plates to move? Molten Magma
3. What do rocks store when they are stretched or squeezed? Energy
4. What do you call it when rocks release energy in the form of vibrations? Earthquakes
5. What type of fault is it called when a block above the fault moves down relative to the block
below the fault? Normal Earthquake
6. Is normal fault compressed or stretched? Compressed
7. What type of fault is it called when the block above the fault moves up relative to the block below
the fault? Reverse Fault
8. Is reverse fault compressed or stretched? Stretched
9. What type of fault is it when the movement of blocks along a fault is horizontal? Strike-Slip Fault
10. What do strike-slip faults form? Trenches
11. What is formed when rocks compress? Mountains
12. What is formed when rocks stretch? Valleys
13. What is a region that surrounds the Pacific Ocean and is known for its volcanoes and earthquake
activity? Pacific Ring of Fire
14. How many volcanoes does the Pacific Ring of Fire have? 452
15. What is PHIVOLCS? Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology
16. What is DOST? Department of Science and Technology
17. What is PAGASA? Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical, and Astronomical Services
Administration
18. What is PAR? Philippine Area of Responsibility
19. What is the focus of an earthquake, and is the location within the Earth where the earthquake
originated? Hypocenter
20. The energy moving outward from the focus on an earthquake travels in the form of ________
waves. Seismic
21. What occurs when rocks in Earth’s crust break due to geological forces created by the movement
of the tectonic plates? Tectonic Earthquake
22. What occurs in conjunction with volcanic activity? Volcanic Earthquake
23. How is an earthquake’s power expressed? Intensity and Magnitude
24. What is the measure of the size of an earthquake, and determined from measurements in a
seismograph? Magnitude
25. What is an instrument that scientists use to record the shaking of the ground? Seismograph
26. What is used to express the magnitude of an earthquake? Richter Scale
27. Who invented the Richter scale? Charles F. Richter
28. When earthquakes happen in bodies of water, what may be the result? Tsunamis
29. What are tsunamis commonly called? Seismic Waves
30. True or false: tsunamis are commonly called seismic waves, but sometimes tidal waves. False
31. What is caused by undersea volcanic eruptions, underwater landslides, glacier collapse, land
slumping into the ocean, and meteorite impact? Tsunami
32. From where does the word Tsunami come from? Japan
33. What does tsu mean? Harbor
34. What does nami mean? Waves
35. What is a graph output by a seismograph? Seismogram
36. What is an indication that the ground is being vibrated by seismic waves? Seismogram
37. What are propagating vibrations that carry energy from the source to outward in all directions?
Seismic Waves
38. What are the 4 types of seismic waves? Compressional (P-Waves), Transverse (S-Waves), Love
Waves, Rayleigh Waves
39. What are the first waves to arrive on a complete record of the ground vibration and travel fastest
in Gas, Solid, and Liquid Matter? Compressional Waves (P-Waves)
40. What travel slower than P-Waves and penetrate solid material so they stop at the liquid layer of
Earth? Transverse Waves (S-Waves)
41. What are transverse waves that vibrate the ground in a horizontal direction perpendicular to the
waves that are traveling? (Love Waves)
42. What is the slowest of all the seismic waves and most complicated? (Rayleigh Waves)
43. What has a geographical starting point that is usually humid and hot? Tropical
44. What is a meteorological term that refers to its cyclonic circulation where the strong winds in the
northern hemisphere circulate counter-clockwise and clockwise in the southern hemisphere?
Cyclone
45. What tropical cyclone is it if it’s found in the North Atlantic Ocean? Hurricane
46. What tropical cyclone is it if it’s found in the Northwest Pacific Ocean (Southeast Asia, West
Philippine Sea, and mostly Japan)? Typhoon
47. What tropical cyclone is it if it’s found in the Southeastern Indian and Southwest Pacific Oceans?
Severe Tropical Cyclone
48. What is usually around Ecuador (not lower than 27 degrees Celsius)? Typhoon
49. What type of cloud is formed in a typhoon? Cumulonimbus
50. What area can you find normal/cold air? High-Pressure Area
51. What do you call it when circulating air is deflected toward the right in the Northern Hemisphere
and toward the left in the Southern Hemisphere? Coriolis Effect
52. What should be the condition of the air during a typhoon? Warm and Moist
53. How many stages are there in the formation and development of a typhoon? 4
54. What stage contains a discrete weather system of clouds, showers, and thunderstorms? Tropical
Disturbance
55. What stage contains thunderstorm winds that blow stronger due to greater convergence? Tropical
Depression
56. What stage receives an official name and winds here increase greatly and can take a little as half a
day to as much as a couple of days? Tropical Storm
57. What stage is it called when the typhoon continues to strengthen and can be upgraded to super
typhoon, which means it exceeds the maximum sustained winds of 115 mph? Typhoon,
Hurricane, Cyclone
58. What are the two factors in typhoons? Cold Water and No Water
59. What is a typhoon’s “fuel” source? Warm Water
60. A typhoon will drastically deteriorate once its eye moves over the ______. Land
61. How many typhoons does the Philippines experience yearly? 20
62. What is formed when asteroids or meteoroids collide with the moon or Mars? Meteoroids
63. What is scattered in the whole solar system and may even be seen in the Kuiper Belt and Oort
Cloud? Meteoroids (other acceptable answer ata: comet)
64. What do you call asteroids in Jupiter’s orbit? Jupiter Trojans
65. What are the two reasons why comets have tails? Solar Radiation Pressure & Solar Wind
66. What is a cosmic snowball consisting of frozen gases, rock, and dust that orbit the sun which is
very cold? Comet
67. What may be seen in the Main Asteroid Belt? Asteroids
68. What is 253 Mathilde? Asteroid
69. What type of meteoroid is made of iron-nickel, sulfide, and carbide? Iron Meteoroid
70. What is found far from the sun particularly in the Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud explaining why it’s
very cold? Comet
71. Where do meteor streaks happen? Mesosphere
72. What do you call it when meteors heat up the air due to its fast speed and so the meteor along
with it also heats up, causing it to fire up? Meteor Streak
73. What do you call the comet when it approaches the sun and starts to vaporize? Nucleus
74. What is sometimes referred to as a ‘small planet’? Asteroid
75. What are the two types of Coma/Tail? Ion & Dust
76. What are the four things a comet consists of? Dust, Ice, Rocks, Frozen Substances (ex. Carbon
dioxide, carbon monoxide, methane)
77. What is formed from the dust from the dusty tails of comets? Meteoroids
78. Give an example of an asteroid with a tail. Asteroid Phaethon
79. What do you call meteoroids that survived the impact and have reached the surface? Meteorite
80. What are positions in space where objects sent there tend to stay put? Lagrange Points
81. Where is the Main Asteroid Belt located? Between Mars and Jupiter
82. What is Hartley 2? Comet
83. What are the five aspects that are needed to identify or classify asteroids, meteoroids, and
comets? Composition, Origin, Location, Size, Shape
84. What do you call the tail of comets? Coma
85. What type of asteroid is made of nickel and iron? Metallic Asteroid
86. What type of meteoroid is made of silicate materials? Stony Meteoroid
87. Is it common, uncommon, or impossible for asteroids to have tails? Uncommon
88. What is Hoba? Meteoroid
89. What type of asteroid is made of clay and silicate rocks? Chondrite Asteroid
90. What is formed from the collisions of asteroids? Meteoroid
91. What is a lump of rock or iron that orbits the sun? Meteoroid
92. What are small and rocky objects that orbit the sun? Asteroid
93. What type of asteroid is made of silicate materials and nickel-iron? Stony Asteroid
94. What do you call meteoroids that have entered our atmosphere? Meteor
95. What type of meteoroid is made of silicate materials and nickel-iron? Stony-Iron Meteoroid
96. What are leftovers from the formation of the solar system? Asteroid & Comet