ALIMODIAN NATIONAL COMPREHENSIVE HIGH SCHOOL

Alibango St., Alimodian, Iloilo

SUMMATIVE TEST IN EARTH AND SPACE

Week 5-6

Name: _______________________________ Grade&Cluster: _______ Date: _______ Score: _______

Direction: MULTIPLE CHOICES. Read each item carefully. Choose the letter of the correct answer
and write it on the space provided before each number.

_____1. What is the name of a Super typhoon which is considered as one of the most powerful
typhoons ever recorded in the history of the Philippines and hit the country on November 8,
2013?
a. Yolanda b. Ondoy c. Vinta d. Sendong

_____2. Which of the following should be considered in accurately tracking a typhoon?

a. position of the typhoon and strength of the high and low pressure areas
b. when low pressure areas are not yet developed
c. if the weather in a certain area is fine
d. all of the above

_____3. Tracking the movement of a typhoon the moment it is formed, is very essential because if the
track forecast is incorrect, the following will be also incorrect except ________.
a. wind speed b. rainfall c. storm surge d. eyewall

_____4. What agency is responsible for the tracking of the movement and strength of a typhoon once
it enters PAR?
a. DENR b. PAGASA c. PHILVOCS d. NDRRMC

_____5. The scientists who study outer space, planets, and other members of the solar system are
called ________________.
a. navy b. astronomers c. astronauts d. meteorologists

_____6. Which of the following best describes the composition of a comet?

a. dust, rock, metals, ice, frozen gases, ammonia, methane, carbon dioxide, and other organic
compounds
b. iron, stone, stony-iron, and chondrites
c. fragments of asteroids and comets
d. dust, rock, and metals like silicate, iron, and nickel including olive and pyroxene

_____7. What is the name of the comet which is the most well-known short-period comet of the 20th
century since it takes 75 to 76 years for this comet to orbit the Sun?
a. Bailey b. Railey c. Hailey d. Keily

_____8. What is the “dirty snowball” made of ice for a nucleus which if it gets closer to the Sun, the
ice melts and evaporates together with dust particles which makes a shining “head” called a
coma?
a. meteor b. comet c. asteroid d. none of the above

_____9. What happens when the comets go near the sun?

a. the comets become smaller c. the comets disappear
b. the tail of the comets is developed d. the comets are burned
_____10. Which of the following is not true about meteors?
a. the meteors do not reach the ground of the earth
b. the meteors may come in group
c. the scientists can collect so many samples of meteors
d. some portions of the meteors are burned up in the atmosphere

_____11. What part of the typhoon really is the one that bring lots of strong winds thus creating a lot
of destructions?
a. eye b. eyewall c. both a and c d. none of the two

_____12. For a typhoon to be developed, it should be most likely to form

a. over a cool ocean c. a place that has lower temperature
b. humid area d. from differential pressure center

_____13. The following weather signs in a specific location show that there is an approaching typhoon
except ___________.
a. increase in wave height and frequency c. clear skies
b. cloudiness and heavy rainfall d. falling air pressure

_____14. Considering the overall earth’s atmosphere, you would expect more rainfall to occur in a
zone
a. high atmospheric pressure c. prevailing westerly winds
b. low atmospheric pressure d. prevailing trade winds

_____15. What is the importance of learning asteroids, meteors and comets in research?
a. provides clues on how liquid water was formed on Earth
b. provides information on star formation and evolution
c. provides information on the composition of the Earth’s interior
d. all of the above

_____16. What is the compound that makes celestial bodies to reflect light?
a. chondrites b. silicate c. carbon dioxide d. ammonia

_____17. Identify the boundaries where most of the asteroids are found.
a. Sun-Mercury b. Earth-Mars c. Earth-Venus d. Mars-Jupiter

_____18. An asteroid with about ten kilometers in diameter made an impact on Earth. This
phenomenon caused the blocking of sunlight in the air, bringing a period of long winter that
caused the mass extinction of plants and animals including the dinosaurs. Based on what
hypothesis is this?
a. Kuiper Hypothesis c. Alvarez Hypothesis
b. Oort Hypothesis d. Hailey’s Hypothesis

_____19. These are remnants or fragments of asteroids and comets located outside the Earth's
atmosphere which originated from the collision of asteroids.
a. meteor b. meteoroid c. meteorite d. all of the above

_____20. Which layer of the atmosphere affects the meteors?

a. mesosphere b. ionosphere c. troposphere d. stratosphere

_____21. A small body from space that falls on the surface of the earth is called ________.
a. Meteoroid b. meteor c. meteor shower d. meteorite
_____22. An object that begins as a meteoroid skimming through space creates a streak of light as a
meteor as it enters Earth’s atmosphere is commonly known as __________________.
a. star b. shooting star c. planet d. meteor shower

_____23. The asteroids, comets, and meteors differ in orbits, orbital periods, origins, and chemical
compositions. This statement is __________.
a. True b. false c. partly true d. partly false

_____24. _____ of the tropical cyclone: Wind speed is low

_____ of the tropical cyclone: Wind speed is high
a. eye : eyewall b. eyewall: eye c. center : eye d. center : eyewall

_____25. What weakens a tropical cyclone?

a. when it is still at the body of water where it was originated
b. when it reaches land
c. when the humidity in a body of water is high
d. when it reaches low pressure areas

_____26. Ancient civilizations thought comets, asteroids, and comets as bad omens such as the
following except
a. great change or challenge c. wars
b. ushering disasters d. remnants of other planets

_____27. The recent theory states that the Asteroid Belt was heavily populated with asteroids, but the
gravitational pull of a certain planet has made these asteroids thrown. It was also theorized
that this planet’s gravitational pull prevented these asteroids from forming into a new planet.
What planet is this?
a. Mars b. Jupiter c. Saturn d. Neptune

_____28. The orbit of an asteroid is more circular compared to that of the comet. An asteroid’s orbit
lies between Mars and Jupiter. The region between these two planets is called
a. Asteroid Belt b. Kuiper Belt c. Oort Cloud d. None of the above

_____29. Which of the statements is correct?

a. only asteroids collide with Earth.
b. comets are ball of ice, dust, and metal
c. meteoroids are streak of light produced when comet enters Earth’s atmosphere.
d. only asteroids can be found in the solar system

_____30. Which best explains why the air in the surroundings moves towards the eye during the
formation of typhoon?
a. typhoons have no air pressure in the middle thus, pulling the air towards it.
b. typhoons have normal air pressure in the middle thus, pulling the air towards it.
c. typhoons have lower air pressure in the middle thus, pulling the air towards it.
d. typhoons have higher air pressure in the middle thus, pulling the air towards it.