Chapter 3- Physical Features, Geological-geographical foundation and peopling og the Philippines Flashcards
It was believed that the Philippines was a remnant of a vast continent in the Pacific that had sunk during pre-historic times like the fabled Atlantis lost somewhere in the Atlantis Ocean
Part of Pacific Lost Continent
The Lost Pacific Lost Continent was called
Lemuria or Mu
The remnants of the lost continent aside from the Philippines
Borneo, Celebes, Java, Sumatra, and other Islands of the Pacific
Who proposed a theory that the Philippines was born due to the volcanic eruption
Dr. Bailey Willis
The Philippines is within the seismic belt or
Pacific Ring of Fire
This theory suggests that the Philippines was once part of a landmass bridging China and the Asian Mainland, to Borneo, Indonesia, New Guinea, and even Australia
Land Bridges
During the ______________ about 250,000 years ago, the world’s ice sheets melted, causing the sea level to rise
Post-glacial age
In Asia, _________, which is an extension of the coastal shelf of Southeast Asia, included the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, and Borneo to Palawan.
Sunda Shelf
The continental shelf known as ________ is an extension of the coastal shelf of Australia. It covered islands of New Guinea and the Aru islands of Indonesia
Sahul Shelf
T/F The theory of Land bridges is supplied with four plausible reasons.
True
What are the four plausible reasons of the Land Bridges Theory
• The similarity of fauna and flora in Asia and the Philippines
• The similarity of rock structure
• Extension of the shallow China Sea between the Asia Mainland and the Philippines
• The presence of a fore deep at the eastern margin of the Philippines indicating the archipelago was once the edge of the Asia continental platform
Prior Spanish colonial period, _____ and _______ already knew about the Philippines
Chinese traders and geographers
From the Sung Dynasty sources in 1982, Chau-Ju-Kua, a trade official, gave details about _______, generally accept to refer to the island of Mindoro because of it’s gold and proximity in the Chinese mainland
Ma-I
Name given to the island of Mindanao
Mintolang
Name given to Manila
Malilu
Name given to the island of Visayas
Pishoye
In ______, Ferdinand Magellan names the Philippines as _____
1521, Islas De San Lazaro
Filipinas/Filipinas were given by the Spanish navigator _______ in honor of Prince Felipe of Austria who later became King Philip II of Spain
Ruy Lopez Villalobos
At first, Felipinas/Filipinas refers to ______ and ______
Leyte and Samar
During the ________ _________ regime, the Spanish name was later changed to __________ ________. And was renames the ________ ___ ____ ___________ after the recognition of it’s independence in ________
American colonial, Philippine Islands (P.I.), Republic of the Philippines (R.P.), 1946
A katipunan General, ________ ________proposed to name the archipelago as the ________ _________ in honor of Dr. Jose Rizal
Artemio Recarte, Rizaline Republic
President ______ _______ attempted to change the name to ________ after he dreamed of making the Philippines be a great nation again
Ferdinand Marcos, Maharlika
The Philipine archipelago sprawls a little above the equator in Southeast Asia between __________ N Latitude and __________ E Longitude
4°23-21°21 N
116°-127° E
Philippines is an archipelago of how many islands
7,641 islands
Total land area of the Philippines
115,707 sq. miles (22,681 sq. km)
What is the shape of the Philippines
Inverted Y-shaped archipelago
Climate of the Philippines
Tropical and Monsoonal
Two distinct seasons of the Philippines
Dry seasons and wet seasons