4th QUARTER ASSESSMENT POINTERS

5th Grade
You should know about:
1. Quipper Exercises (REVIEWER)
a. Weathering: Soil Formation
b. Effects of Typhoon
c. Safety Measures Before, During and After a Typhoon
d. Storm Warning Signals
2. Vocabulary

weathering
erosion
glacier
deposition
meander
sediment
floodplain

insolation
troposphere
weather
air pressure
humidity
global wind
barometer

air mass
front
weather map

3. Discussion
a. Describe how soil is formed and kinds of soils.
b. Explain how weathering and erosion shape the land
i. Describe weathering
ii. Kinds of weathering (refer to notes and ppt), examples of each type/kind
iii. Describe erosion
iv. Identify agents of erosion or forces that erode soil
v. Cause and effects of soil erosion
vi. Describe deposition. Examples of how an area changes due to erosion and
deposition
vii. Describe how shorelines can be protected from erosion
c. Explain how Earths shape and tilt affect temperatures and winds
i. Know the effect of the angle of the sunlight to an area
ii. Know the layers of the atmosphere
iii. Know the factors that affect weather. (HAT)
iv. Know the concept of air pressure. What determines air pressure, what
happens to cool air or warm air..
d. Describe how global wind and local wind form
i. Know the global winds; polar easterlies, prevailing westerlies, trade winds
ii. Know Coriolis effect
iii. Know the causes of local winds
1. What is a sea breeze? When does it happen? Which direction is it
going?
2. Explain how sea breeze happen
3. What is a land breeze? When does it happen? Which direction is it
going?
4. Explain how land breeze happen
iv. Know the weather instruments and their functions
v. Know the 3 types of clouds. Their appearance, altitude, properties
vi. Know how clouds form
vii. Know how precipitation form
viii. Know the types of precipitation
ix. Know air masses and fronts
1. What is an air mass?
2. Know the difference between cold front and warm front; which one is
under /over of the other
x. Know the 2 pressure systems; low pressure and high pressure
1. Know the direction of the wind; inward or outward, clockwise or
counterclockwise
2. Know the association of low pressure and high pressure; good weather
or bad weather

4th QUARTER ASSESSMENT POINTERS

6th Grade
You should know about:
1. Quipper Exercises (REVIEWER)
a. Changes on Earths Surface
b. Living with Earthquakes
c. What to do before, during and after Earthquake and Volcanic Eruptions
d. Seasons in the Philippines
e. Activities for Philippines Seasons
f. Rotation, Revolution of the Earth
2. Vocabulary
Hydrosphere
Latitude
Longitude
Elevation
Crust
Mantle
Lithosphere
Core

Continental
drift
Plate
tectonic
Magma
Seafloor
spreading

Fault
Focus
Afterschock
Seismic wave
Epicenter
Seismograph
Magnitude
Vent

Atmosphere
Troposphere
Insolation
Air pressure
Convection
cell
Sea breeze
Land breeze
Coriolis effect

Evaporation
Condensation
Humidity
Stratus cloud
Cumulus cloud
Cirrus cloud
Tornado
Hurricane

Isobar
Air mass
Front
Cold front
Warm front
Occluded front
Climate

3. Video Lectures and Discussions

a. Know continental drift and plate tectonics; Know sea floor spreading
i. Know the types of boundaries; their movement relative to each other, the
features that will occur as results of plate movements
ii. Know the layers of the Earth
iii. Know the different types of faults
iv. Know the causes of earthquakes
v. Know the types of earthquake waves or seismic waves;
1. speed, direction,
2. effects/destruction
3. how waves are measured: intensity vs magnitude; richter vs mercalli
scale;
4. instruments that measure earthquake waves
vi. Know what to do before, during and after earthquake and volcanic eruption
b. Know what makes up weather
i. Know layers of the atmosphere
ii. Know what happens to the pressure and temperature as the altitude
increases
iii. Know the weather variables; wind, temperature, moisture/humidity, cloud
cover, precipitation
iv. Know the relationship of air pressure to wind movement; from high pressure
to low pressure
v. Know the properties of air temperature; warm air rises, cold air sinks
vi. Know the global winds; polar easterlies, prevailing westerlies, trade winds
vii. Know Coriolis effect
viii. Know the causes of local winds
1. What is a sea breeze? When does it happen? Which direction is it
going?
2. Explain how sea breeze happen
3. What is a land breeze? When does it happen? Which direction is it
going?
4. Explain how land breeze happen
ix. Know the weather instruments and their functions
x. Know the 3 types of clouds. Their appearance, altitude, properties
xi. Know how clouds form
xii. Know how precipitation form
xiii. Know the types of precipitation
xiv. Know air masses and fronts
1. What is an air mass?
2. Know the difference between cold front and warm front; which one is
under /over of the other
xv. Know the 2 pressure systems; low pressure and high pressure
1. Know the direction of the wind; inward or outward, clockwise or
counterclockwise

2. Know the association of low pressure and high pressure; good weather
or bad weather
xvi. Know what thunderstorm is; how it occurs
xvii. What to do before, during and after a typhoon: see video
xviii. Know the two kinds of seasons in the Philippines; dry and wet seasons
1. What months of the year these seasons occur
2. Human activities relative to the season

4th QUARTER ASSESSMENT POINTERS

7th Grade
You should know about:
1. Quipper Exercises (REVIEWER)
a. Landmasses and Bodies of Water
b. Surrounding the Philippines
c. Sustainable Use of Natural Resources
d. The atmosphere
e. Land and Sea Breezes, Monsoons and Intertropical Convergence Zone
f. Effects of Weather systems in the Philippines
g. Unequal heating of the Earths Surface
h. Seasons in the Philippines
2. Vocabulary
Natural resource
Nonrenewable
resource
Inexhaustible
resource
Geothermal
resource
Pollution
Ozone layer
Photochemical
smog
Global warming
Acid precipitation
Sustainability
Recycling

Atmosphere
Water vapor
Troposphere
Stratosphere
Ozone layer
Ionosphere
Radiation
Conduction
Convection
Stability
Temperature
inversion

Wind
Trade winds
Westerlies
Polar esterlies
Jet stream
Sea breeze
Land breeze
Air pollution
Acid precipitation
Photochemical smog
Particulate matter

Weather
Air pressure
Relative humidity
Dew point
Precipitation
Water cycle
Monsoon
High pressure system
Low pressure system
Air mass
Front
Tornado
Typhoon
Blizzard

3. Video Series and Discussions, PPT

a. Know the difference between renewable and nonrenewable resources; inexhaustible
resources
i. Descriptions and examples
b. Know the types of pollution
i. Their causes and effects
ii. Technology that will protect Earth
1. Water-saving technology, energy-saving technology etc on page 462
to 467
c. Know what weather is
i. Know layers of the atmosphere
ii. Know what happens to the pressure and temperature as the altitude
increases; see the graph/picture
iii. Know the weather variables; wind, temperature, moisture/humidity, cloud
cover, precipitation
iv. Know the relationship of air pressure to wind movement; from high pressure
to low pressure
v. Know the properties of air temperature; warm air rises, cold air sinks
vi. Know the global winds; polar easterlies, prevailing westerlies, trade winds
1. The pattern of weather from the equator to the poles (north and
south);
2. Know the wind belts
3. Know what northeast monsoon and southwest monsoon is; amihan and
habagat
vii. Know Coriolis effect
viii. Know the causes of local winds
1. What is a sea breeze? When does it happen? Which direction is it
going?
2. Explain how sea breeze happen
3. What is a land breeze? When does it happen? Which direction is it
going?
4. Explain how land breeze happen
ix. Know the weather instruments and their functions

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the 3 types of clouds. Their appearance, altitude, properties

how clouds form
how precipitation form
the types of precipitation
air masses and fronts
What is an air mass?
Know the difference between cold front and warm front; which one is
under /over of the other
3. Association of fronts to the kind of weather present
Know the 2 pressure systems; low pressure and high pressure
1. Know the direction of the wind; inward or outward, clockwise or
counterclockwise
2. Know the association of low pressure and high pressure; good weather
or bad weather
Know what thunderstorm is; how it occurs
What to do before, during and after a typhoon: see video
Know the two kinds of seasons in the Philippines; dry and wet seasons
1. What months of the year these seasons occur
2. Human activities relative to the season