ZAMBOANGA DEL NORTE NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE
GRADE 8
SUMMATIVE TEST 4
NAME: __________________________________________________________________ SCORE: ________________
SIGNATURE OF PARENT: ____________________________________________________ SECTION: ______________
Direction: Choose the best answer among the options. Write the letter on the space before the number.
___1. What do you call the spot directly above the focus on the surface of the Earth?
A. Focus B. Epicenter C. Fault Plane D. Fault Line
___2. What do you call the flat surface between the two pieces? This is where fault slips or fault movement happens.
A. Focus B. Epicenter C. Fault Plane D. Fault Line
___3. What do you call the place where the fault begins to slip? It is where the first movement occurs.
Thus, it is the origin of the earthquake.
A. Focus B. Epicenter C. Fault Plane D. Fault Line
___4. What do you call the trace of the fault on the surface of the Earth?
A. Focus B. Epicenter C. Fault Plane D. Fault Line
___5. In a tropical cyclone, this area is characterized with the strongest winds, the tallest clouds and the heaviest
rain.
A. eye B. eyewall C. body D. tail
___6. The wind at the center of a tropical cyclone causes moving air to go ____________ in northern hemisphere.
A. counterclockwise B. clockwise C. low pressure D. high pressure
___7. Where did the tropical cyclones form?
A. It usually forms where there is warm water and the temperature should be 26.5 degree Celsius or more
B. It usually forms where there is warm water and the temperature should be 26.5 degree Celsius or less
C. It usually forms when the warm ocean water heats up the air below it. The warm air then rises and air in
the surroundings move towards it
D. It usually forms when the warm ocean water heats up the air below it. The warm air then rises and air in
the surroundings move away from it
___ 8. Which describes a comet?
A. A comet is a rocky fragment C. A comet can stay for up to a year in the night sky
B. The orbit is more rounded D. It originates from the Main Asteroid Belt between
Mars and Jupiter
___ 9. Which describes an asteroid?
A. An asteroid is an icy object
B. It comes from the Oort Cloud beyond our solar system and from Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune’s orbit
C. It originates from the Main Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter
D. The orbit is elliptical
___ 10. What causes a meteor?
A. When a fragment from the meteoroid survives and makes it to the ground
B. When a meteoroid passes through Earth’s atmosphere and burns up in the process
C. When it moves slow and very difficult to view with an unaided eye
D. When Earth passes through the orbit of a comet?
