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Summative Assessment in Science 8

I. Multiple Choice: Choose the letter of the correct answer. Write your answer on the space before the number.
___ 1. What is the basis in categorizing tropical B. rainband D. eye bands
cyclones? ____ 14. This is part of a typhoon where there are
A. amount of rainfall C. temperature clouds that spin.
B. wind speed D. direction A. eye C. eyewall
___ 2. What can you say about the temperature B. rainband D. eye bands
of the bodies of water in the vicinity of the ____15. Which of the following is NOT a category
Philippines? of tropical cyclone?
A. warm C. cold A. Typhoon C. tropical storm
B. very cold D. warm and cold B. Hurricane D. super typhoon
___ 3. What is the difference between typhoons ____ 16. If a tropical cyclone has a wind speed of
and hurricanes? 119 kph, what category it belongs?
A. amount of rainfall C. temperature A. tropical depression C. tropical storm
B. wind speed D. place of origin B. typhoon D. super typhoon
___ 4. What is the most intense part of a tropical ____ 17. How do you describe the spin of the
cyclone? storm that forms below the equator?
A. eye C. eyewall A. clockwise C. vertical
B. rainband D. eye bands B. counterclockwise D. horizontal
___ 5. What is the category of the tropical cyclone ____ 18. Where do most Philippines typhoons form?
if the wind speed is between 135 kph? A. At the equator
A. tropical depression C. tropical storm B. Sea over the Philippine Deep
B. typhoon D. super typhoon C. Caroline-Marianas area of the pacific
___ 6. Approximately, the Philippines may D. Habagat
experience how many typhoons? ____ 19. Which of the following describes a
A. 12 B. 20 C. 15 D. 24 typhoon?
___ 7. Tropical cyclone category that has a A. if the wind speed is between 119 to 200kph
maximum wind speed of 64 kph? B. if the wind speed is between 35 to 65 kph
A. tropical depression C. tropical storm C. if the wind speed is between 65 to 118 kph
B. typhoon D. super typhoon D. if the wind is greater than 200 kph
___ 8. What agency takes charge of giving ____ 20. What will happen to the tropical cyclone
information about the coming of typhoon? when it reaches the land?
A. NDRRMC C. DENR A. it will continue onwards
B. PAGASA D. PHIVOLCS B. it will form a low pressure
___ 9. What does PAGASA mean? C. it will even stronger
A. Philippine Atmospheric, Geographical, D. it will die out
and Astronomical Services Administration ____ 21. Why is the Philippines prone to typhoon?
B. Philippine Atmosphere, Geophysical, and A. because of the Philippine Area of Responsibility
Astronomical Services Administration B. because Philippines is along the Pacific Ring of
C. Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical, and Fire
Astronomical Services Administration C. because Philippines is located near the Pacific
D. Philippine Atmospheric, Gravitational, and Ocean
Astronomical Services Administration D. because Philippines has a high vulnerability
___ 10. What sea temperature is needed for ____ 22. What does PSWS mean?
tropical cyclones to form? A. Philippine Sea Warning Signal
A. 20.5°C C. 25.6°C B. Public Storm Weather Signal
B. 26.5°C D. 25.0°C C. Philippine Storm Warning Signal
___ 11. What causes damage in a D. Public Storm Warning Signal
hurricane/typhoon? ____ 23. In what direction do the tropical cyclones
A. storm surge C. wind move?
B. flooding D. all of the above A. Northwest direction
___ 12. What do we call the tropical cyclone B. Northeast direction
occurs in the Eastern North Pacific Ocean? C. East west direction
A. Typhoon C. Hurricane D. Southwest direction
B. Tropical storm D. Cyclone ____ 24. What categories if the wind speed is
___ 13. The center of a typhoon and consider as between 34-64 kph?
the most calm part. A. tropical depression C. tropical storm
A. eye C. eyewall B. typhoon D. super typhoon
____ 25. Which is NOT part of a comet? ____ 37. The solar system is composed of the sun,
A. nucleus C. coma planets, and other members. The three
B. head D. tail minor members of the solar system are
____ 26. A fragment of meteor that lands on _______________.
Earth. A. asteroids, meteoroids and Biyo
A. comet C. meteoroid B. Pluto, asteroids, and meteoroids
B. asteroid D. meteorite C. comets, meteors, and Pluto
____ 27. These are mostly composed of metals like D. comets, meteors, and asteroids
iron and nickel ____ 38. Which of the following happens during a
A. comet C. meteoroid meteor shower?
B. asteroid D. meteorite A. There is a couple getting married.
____ 28. When objects strike the surface of a B. Earth passes through an asteroid belt.
planet or moon, they leave a deep C. The head of a comet hits Earth’s
impression on the surface called a _____. atmosphere.
A. canyon C. pothole D. Earth passes through a crowd of dust
B. crater D. plateau particles in space.
____ 29. The most famous comet of the 20th ____ 39. Which of the following is a good
century. description of a meteorite?
A. Hale Bopp C. Comet Wild 2 A. Rock particles from space that strike
B. Comet Borrelly D. Halley’s Comet the ground.
____ 30. Which of the following chemical B. Rock particles from space that pass
composition DOES NOT belong to a through Earth’s atmosphere.
comet? C. A streak of light caused by the impact
A. frozen water C. frozen gasses of rock particles from space with our
B. iron D. organic compound atmosphere.
____ 31. What gives Comet Hale-Bopp a bright D. All the above.
appearance as seen in the sky in 1997? ____ 40. Why is a comet compared to a dirty
A. argon C. boron snowball?
B. sodium D. silicon A. It is surrounded with smog.
____ 32. The origin of a short period comet. B. It is made up of soil and rocks.
A. Asteroid Belt C. Kuiper Belt C. It appears to be brown when observed
B. Oort cloud D. Mars and Jupiter in space.
____ 33. Most of the asteroids orbit the sun in a D. It is made up of frozen gases and small
belt between the orbits of ___________. particles of rocky and metallic
A. Mars and Earth materials.
B. Mars and Jupiter
C. Venus and Earth II. TRUE OR FALSE: Write True if the statement is
D. Jupiter and Saturn correct and write False if the statement is not correct.
____ 34. Your friends ask you about the streak of ______ 1. A tropical cyclone is a system of
light that was observed in the sky and thunderstorms which are moving around a
seemed to have fallen on Earth’s surface. center.
What will you tell your friend? ______ 2. There are four category of a tropical cyclone.
A. It is a comet. ______ 3. The Philippines is prone to tropical cyclones
B. It is a meteor. due to its geographical location which
C. It is a meteorite. generally produce heavy rains and flooding
D. It is a star that fell from heaven of large areas.
____ 35. The bright streak of light we see when a ______ 4. PAR means Philippine Area of Responsibility.
meteoroid enters our atmosphere is ______ 5. Low pressure started out in the Pacific area.
caused by ______ 6. The name of the Storms depends on the
A. Light reflected from the solid body of year when it was formed.
the meteoroid. ______ 7. Comets are icy objects while asteroids are
B. Radioactive material from the rocky fragments.
meteoroid. ______ 8. Comets has highly elliptical orbit while
C. A process like the aurora borealis asteroids has rounded orbit.
D. Friction heating as the meteoroids ______ 9. Comets and asteroids both orbit the Sun and
speeds through the gases of move relatively slow when viewed from
our atmosphere. Earth.
____ 36. What type of comets originate from the ______ 10. The chemical composition of an asteroid is
Oort cloud? important in providing clues for scientists to
A. Short-period comets discover more about the chemical
B. Sharp-period comets composition of Earth and the other planets
C. Long-period comets in the Solar System
D. Slightly short-period comets
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QUARTER 2:
SECOND SUMMATIVE TEST IN SCIENCE 8
MODULE 4, 5 and 6

I. MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. B 38. C
2. A 39. D
3. D 40. D
4. C 41. TRUE
5. B 42. TRUE
6. B 43. TRUE
7. A 44. TRUE
8. B 45. TRUE
9. C 46. TRUE
10. B 47. TRUE
11. D 48. TRUE
12. C 49. TRUE
13. A 50. TRUE
14. B
15. B
16. A
17. A
18. A
19. A
20. D
21. C
22. D
23. A
24. A
25. B
26. D
27. B
28. B
29. D
30. B
31. A
32. C
33. B
34. B
35. D
36. C
37. C