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Question 1

The region of the upper kantle which lies beneath the lithosphere and it is believed to be involved in the movement of plate tectonics.

Answer 1

Asthenosphere

Question 2

Plates have edges called

Answer 2

Plate Boundaries

Question 3

It has a pH level below 7

Answer 3

Acid

Question 4

It has pH level above 7

Answer 4

Base

Question 5

Combination of acid and base

Answer 5

Salt

Question 6

Sudden shaking of the ground that we feel when rock layers slip past one another to a new position

Answer 6

Earthquake

Question 7

The fracture in the surface of the crust where the two blocks of rocks slip is called the ? Which shows indication of relative movement

Answer 7

Fault

Question 8

Areas along which all shallow earthquakes occur. These zones are believed to have exhibited evidence of strong and frequent earthquakes in the past thousand of years and are likely to exhibit movements sometimes in the future.

Answer 8

Active faults

Question 9

Are areas which had not displayed any seismic activity for more than thousands of years

Answer 9

Inactive faults

Question 10

Study of rocks

Answer 10

Petrology

Question 11

Process where action of force forms, the large scale deformation of Earth’s surface through the mechanisms of rock movements within the crust. A fault is one of the efffects of it

Answer 11

Diastrophism

Question 12

Meaning of PHIVOLCS

Answer 12

Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology

Question 13

Meaning of NASA

Answer 13

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Question 14

Invented the Richter magnitude scale

Answer 14

Charles Richter

Question 15

Invented the Modified Mercalli Scale

Answer 15

Giuseppe Mercalli

Question 16

Fastest seismic waves because they are the first waves detected by the seismograph, and they can travel at greatest velocity penetrating the gases, fluid and solid rocks

Answer 16

Primary waves

Question 17

Transverse waves that are also known as shear waves that follow the P waves and the second to arrive at seismic recording station and travel half the speed of P waves

Answer 17

Secondary waves

Question 18

Last waves that arrive due to their lower frequency

Answer 18

Surface waves

Question 19

Waves that move the ground horizontally only

Answer 19

Love waves

Question 20

Shake the ground horizonatally and vertically

Answer 20

Rayleigh waves

Question 21

Process of development of a tropical cyclone

Answer 21

Tropical clycogenesis

Question 22

The process of mountain formation, especially by folding and faulting of the earth’s crust

Answer 22

Orogeny

Question 23

Layer of the atmosphere where clouds are formed

Answer 23

Troposphere

Question 24

Trough of low pressure and is the most common mechanism that causes typhoons

Answer 24

Monsoon trough

Question 25

Commonly known as western hemisphere. It enhances convection in th tropics and occasionally can promote intensification of tropicsl cyclone into typhoon.

Answer 25

Tropical Upper Tropospheric Trough

Question 26

Inverted trough of low pressure moving generally westward in the tropical easterlies

Answer 26

Easterly waves

Question 27

Line of convection that develops along or ahead of a cold front and move faster that tropical waves

Answer 27

West African Disturbance line

Question 28

Fragments of a polar front can become lines of convection wne sometimes generate a tropical cyclone

Answer 28

Old frontal boundary

Question 29

Large particles are brought into the cell

Answer 29

Endocytosis

Question 30

Large particles leave the cell

Answer 30

Exocytosis

Question 31

Water moves is, cell bursts

Answer 31

Hypotonic

Question 32

Water moves out, cell shrivels

Answer 32

Hypertonic

Question 33

No net movement, cell maintains equilibrium

Answer 33

Isotonic

Question 34

Food molecules are converted to energy,.

Answer 34

Cellular respiration

Question 35

Special proteins that regulate nearly every biochemical reaction in the cell

Answer 35

Enzymes