Mercury
This is a heat-related illness where body temperature exceeds 40°C and can be fatal.
What is heat stroke?
This is the term for a substance that satisfies most but not all mineral criteria, such as volcanic glass or opal.
What is a mineraloid?
This type of volcanic eruption happens when lava flows out gently from a volcano in a slow and steady manner.
What is effusive eruption?
Ozone (O₃) is a greenhouse gas found in this atmospheric layer, where it also absorbs UV radiation.
What is the stratosphere?
The Philippine archipelago lies within this highly active tectonic zone.
What is the Philippine Mobile Belt?
This government authority manages reclamation projects in the Philippines.
What is the Philippine Reclamation Authority (PRA)?
This soil type has large particles, drains water quickly, and is best for root crops.
What is sandy soil?
This phenomenon occurs when soil particles lose contact with each other during earthquake vibrations, behaving like a liquid.
What is liquefaction?
Evidence from these ancient crystals shows that liquid water existed on Earth as early as 4.4 billion years ago.
What is zircon?
The Philippine Fault is an example of this type of plate boundary.
What is a transform boundary?
Risk comprises these three components.
What are hazard, exposure, and vulnerability?
What are igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks?
This type of landslide involves individual rocks or boulders breaking loose from a cliff and falling freely.
What is rockfall?
Earth's magnetic field is created by this internal planetary feature.
What is the molten iron core?
This type of landscape, shaped by the dissolution of soluble rocks like limestone, produces caves, sinkholes, and underground rivers.
What is karst topography?
This Philippine law mandates every LGU to maintain a Local DRRM Office and Plan.
What is RA 10121 (Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Act of 2010)?
These four main properties of soil are structure, pH, organic matter, and this.
What is texture?
This is the complete name of the agency responsible for naming typhoons.
What is the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical, and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA)?
This refers to the rise in Earth's average temperature due to human activities adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere.
What is global warming?
These six geological periods are key to the formation of the Philippine archipelago.
What are Carboniferous, Permian, Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous, and Cenozoic (Oligocene, Miocene, Pliocene Epochs)?
These are the four phases of the DRRM.
What are Prevention & Mitigation, Preparedness, Response, and Rehabilitation & Recovery?
The property of a mineral that refers to the tendency to break along smooth planes.
What is cleavage?
These are the three main types of floods.
What are flash flood, river flood, and coastal flood?
The Earth's atmosphere is composed of 21% and 78% these gases, respectively.
What are oxygen and nitrogen?
This is the scientific name of the Philippine Tarsier, an endemic primate.
What is Carlito syrichta?