I.

Identify which do/does not belong to the group; encircle the letter/s of your
answer. It is possible to have 2 or more answers per number. It is also possible
that all of the items belong to the group if that is the case write all correct
before the number. (any form of erasures will be considered incorrect)
1. Major Tectonic Plates
a. Indo-Australian Plate
c. Europian Plate
b. Casca Plate
d. Arabian Plate
2. The plates interact with one another in three basic ways:
a. they collide
c. they cause friction
b. they slide one past another
d. they slide one
past another
3. Fault Classes
a. Deep Slip
c. Strike Slip
b. Dip Slip
d. Sunstrike Slip
4. Strongest Earthquakes around the World
a. Earthquake at Assam, Indonesia
c. Earthquake at
Kamchatka Peninsula, Tibet
b. Earthquake at Southern Chile
d. Earthquake at Rat Islands,
Alaska
5. Three Main Devices of Seismograph
a. Richter Magnitude Scale
c. Moment-Intensity
Scale
b. Modified Mercalli Intensity Scale
d. Richter
Intensity Scale
6. Earthquake Descriptors
a. Aftershock
b. Fourshock
c. Moment Magnitude
c. Seismic
Magnitude
7. Characteristics of Urban Areas
a. Populated
c. has different kinds of structure
b. Most inhabitants have non-agricultural jobs
d. Use of technology is more
widespread
8. Seismic Waves
a. Love wave
c. S wave
b. Rylai wave
d. P wave
9. Layers of the Earth
a. Crust (around 5-70km thick)
c. Core (around 2900km
thick)
b. Crust (around 60-70km thick)
d. Mantle (around
3370km thick)
10. Philippine Earthquakes
a. Earthquake at the Northern part of Luzon
c. Earthquake on the
off Coast of Bohol
b. Earthquake at Southern Visayas
d. Earthquake near
the Celebes Sea
II. Fill the blanks with the correct answer. (any form of erasures will be considered
incorrect)
1. The Pacific Ring of Fire is an area where large numbers of earthquakes and volcanic
eruptions occur in the basin of the PACIFIC OCEAN. In a 40,000 km (25,000 mi)
HORSESHOE shape, it is associated with a nearly continuous series of oceanic trenches,

volcanic arcs, and volcanic belts and/or plate movements. The Ring of Fire has 452
volcanoes and is home to over 75% of the world's active and dormant volcanoes. It is
sometimes called the circum-Pacific belt or the circum-Pacific seismic belt. The
Ring of Fire is a direct result of plate tectonics and the movement and collisions of
lithospheric plates.
2. The Philippines has a total of 65 seismic stations, 29 of which are manned, 30 are
unmanned, and 6 stations. The central operating station is located at PHIVOLCS Main Office,
Diliman, Quezon City. All information is received at the Data Receiving Center, which is
operated 24/7 by the Seismological Observation and Prediction Division (SOEPD).
3. PLATE TECTONICS theory is very young (1960-ies). It provides answers to the most
fundamental questions in seismology like the occurrence of earthquakes, depth of foci and
why are earthquakes epicenters are not distributed around the world
By definition the word "PLATE" in geologic terms means a large slab of solid rock. "

Tectonics " is a part of the Greek root for "to build" and together the terms define
how the Earth's surface is built up of moving plates. The theory of plate tectonics
itself says that the Earth's lithosphere is made up individual plates that are broken
down into over a dozen large and small pieces of solid rock.
III. Identification (any form of erasures will be considered incorrect)
Surface waves 1. waves that can only move along the surface of the planet like ripples
on water

kind of bridge between the seismological and geological views of an earthquake.

Seismic waves 2. waves of energy caused by the sudden breaking of rock within the
earth or an explosion
Earthquake _3. a sudden and violent shaking of the ground, sometimes causing great
destruction, as a result of movements within the earth's crust or volcanic action.
PALAWAN_4. The only island that has not been visited by destructive earthquake according
to the seismic map produced by PHIVOLCS
The Big One 5. a magnitude 7.2 magnitude earthquake from the West Valley Fault which
is expected to hit Metro Manila and Quezon City.
Fault 6. is a weak zone separating two geological blocks.
ACCELEROGRAPH 7. refers to an instrument used for recording acceleration of the
ground during an earthquake.
Earthquake swarms 8. are events where a local area experiences sequences of
many earthquakes striking in a relatively short period of time
Seismology 9. is a science dealing with all aspects of earthquakes
Urbanization 10. When populations of people grow, the population of a place may spill
over from city to nearby areas, what do you call this?
IV. True or False (any form of erasures will be considered incorrect)
_____F____1. The volume of the core is greater than the volume of the mantle.
____F_____2. Collision of plates leads to RIDGES of one plate under another. Mountain ranges
may also be formed (Himalayas, Alps...).
____T_____3. Plates moving past each other do so along the TRANSFORM FAULTS
____F_____4. S wave can move through solid rock and fluids, like water or the liquid layers of
the earth

____F_____5. Modified Mercalli Magnitude Scale is a seismic scale used for measuring the
intensity of an earthquake
____T_____6. Surface waves are of a lower frequency than body waves
____T_____7. Body waves arrive before the surface waves emitted by an earthquake
___T______8. An S wave is slower than a P wave and can only move through solid rock
_____T____9. Love wave is the fastest surface wave and moves the ground from side-to-side
_____B____10. Not all mainshocks have aftershocks
______T___11. Seismoscope lacks a device to calibrate time.
_____F____12. The Ring of Fire is a direct result of plate tectonics and the movement and
collisions of mesospheric plates.
_____T____13. Moment-Magnitude Scale is used by seismologists to measure the size of
earthquakes in terms of the energy released
______F___14. Most of the shaking felt from an earthquake is due to the Rylai wave
____T_____15. Plate collisions produce strong and sometimes very deep earthquakes (up to
700 km).