Individual Activity #1

EARTH and SPACE

PART I. ENERGY FROM VOLCANO

1. What is the rank of our country, the Philippines in the world production of geothermal energy?
2. What is the percentage of the country’s total power generation that comes from geothermal
energy according to the Department of Energy?
3. Why is geothermal energy cheaper that electricity production?
4. What is geothermal energy?
5. What are the two ways in which geothermal energy is generated? Compare the two.
6. Name the 8 geothermal power plants in the Philippines and where are they found.
7. Draw a geothermal powerplant and identify the different systems in it.
8. Enumerate the steps on how electricity is generated from a geothermal powerplant.
9. What is the energy transformation that takes place in generating electricity in a geothermal
power plant?

PART II. VOLCANIC ERUPTION

1. How does a volcanic eruption affect the society?

POSITIVE EFFECT NEGATIVE EFFECT

2. What does PHILVOLCS stands for? What is its task?

3. Enumerate 10 commonly observed signs of an impending volcanic eruption.

PART III. FACTORS AFFECTING CLIMATE OF AN AREA

A. LATITUDE
1. How will you relate the Earth’s axis and the plane of its orbit?
2. Why does Earth have spherical shape?
3. Why do places near the equator have warm climate and those areas at the pole have cold
climate?

Study the illustration on the right, then answer the given questions.

4. How much is the tilt of the earth’s axis?

5. Which part of the earth receives most of the sun’s
rays?
6. Why does the amount of heat received by places
far from the equator become less?
7. Why are the coldest places on Earth found near
the poles?
8. Why are places with high temperature found at
the equator?
9. How does latitude affect climate?

B. ALTITUDE
1. What is the relationship between altitude and temperature of a certain place?
2. Explain why at higher elevations, there is less air?
3. What is the relationship between temperature and pressure?
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EARTH and SPACE

C. SORROUNDING BODIES OF WATER

1. Compare soil and water in terms of absorption and release of heat.
2. Why do places near the oceans have moderate climate?
3. Describe the movement of air during daytime and explain how this affects the temperature.
4. Describe the movement of air during nighttime and explain how it affects the temperature.
5. Why do places that are far from bodies of water have extreme climate