Chapter 3- Physical Features, Geological-geographical foundation and peopling og the Philippines

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Part of Pacific Lost Continent

Question 2

The Lost Pacific Lost Continent was called

Answer 2

Lemuria or Mu

Question 3

The remnants of the lost continent aside from the Philippines

Answer 3

Borneo, Celebes, Java, Sumatra, and other Islands of the Pacific

Question 4

Who proposed a theory that the Philippines was born due to the volcanic eruption

Answer 4

Dr. Bailey Willis

Question 5

The Philippines is within the seismic belt or

Answer 5

Pacific Ring of Fire

Question 6

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

Answer 6

Land Bridges

Question 7

During the ______________ about 250,000 years ago, the world’s ice sheets melted, causing the sea level to rise

Answer 7

Post-glacial age

Question 8

In Asia, _________, which is an extension of the coastal shelf of Southeast Asia, included the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, and Borneo to Palawan.

Answer 8

Sunda Shelf

Question 9

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

Answer 9

Sahul Shelf

Question 10

T/F The theory of Land bridges is supplied with four plausible reasons.

Answer 10

True

Question 11

What are the four plausible reasons of the Land Bridges Theory

Answer 11

• 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

Question 12

Prior Spanish colonial period, _____ and _______ already knew about the Philippines

Answer 12

Chinese traders and geographers

Question 13

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

Answer 13

Ma-I

Question 14

Name given to the island of Mindanao

Answer 14

Mintolang

Question 15

Name given to Manila

Answer 15

Malilu

Question 16

Name given to the island of Visayas

Answer 16

Pishoye

Question 17

In ______, Ferdinand Magellan names the Philippines as _____

Answer 17

1521, Islas De San Lazaro

Question 18

Filipinas/Filipinas were given by the Spanish navigator _______ in honor of Prince Felipe of Austria who later became King Philip II of Spain

Answer 18

Ruy Lopez Villalobos

Question 19

At first, Felipinas/Filipinas refers to ______ and ______

Answer 19

Leyte and Samar

Question 20

During the ________ _________ regime, the Spanish name was later changed to __________ ________. And was renames the ________ ___ ____ ___________ after the recognition of it’s independence in ________

Answer 20

American colonial, Philippine Islands (P.I.), Republic of the Philippines (R.P.), 1946

Question 21

A katipunan General, ________ ________proposed to name the archipelago as the ________ _________ in honor of Dr. Jose Rizal

Answer 21

Artemio Recarte, Rizaline Republic

Question 22

President ______ _______ attempted to change the name to ________ after he dreamed of making the Philippines be a great nation again

Answer 22

Ferdinand Marcos, Maharlika

Question 23

The Philipine archipelago sprawls a little above the equator in Southeast Asia between __________ N Latitude and __________ E Longitude

Answer 23

4°23-21°21 N
116°-127° E

Question 24

Philippines is an archipelago of how many islands

Answer 24

7,641 islands

Question 25

Total land area of the Philippines

Answer 25

115,707 sq. miles (22,681 sq. km)

Question 26

What is the shape of the Philippines

Answer 26

Inverted Y-shaped archipelago

Question 27

Climate of the Philippines

Answer 27

Tropical and Monsoonal

Question 28

Two distinct seasons of the Philippines

Answer 28

Dry seasons and wet seasons

Question 29

When does dry seasons happens

Answer 29

December to May

Question 30

When does wet seasons occur

Answer 30

June to November

Question 31

Temperature in the Philippines

Answer 31

Varies form 21°C to 32°C

Question 32

Coldest month in the Philippines

Answer 32

January

Question 33

Hottest Month in the Philippines

Answer 33

May

Question 34

Coast line of the archipelago is _______ and _________ for about ____________ about twice as long as the coastline of the United States excluding that of Alaska and Hawaii

Answer 34

Irregular and stretches, 26,289 km

Question 35

How many administrative divisions in the Philippines

Answer 35

17

Question 36

A look at the physical map of the Philippines shows that it is ________

Answer 36

mountainous

Question 37

The highest peak in the Philippines that stans at approximately 2,954 m high

Answer 37

Mt. Apo

Question 38

Three Large mountain ranges in Luzon

Answer 38

•Western Caraballo Mountain Range •Sierra Madre Mountain Range • Caraballo de Baler

Question 39

Small mountain ranges of _________ and _________ ________

Answer 39

Zambales and Tagaytay ridge

Question 40

Small mountain ranges

Answer 40

Mindoro, Panay, and Negros

Question 41

Not as mountainous places in the Philippines

Answer 41

Leyte and Samar

Question 42

______ has four distinct mountain ranges

Answer 42

Mindanao

Question 43

Mountain range that begins at Surigao and follows the pacific coast

Answer 43

Eastern mountain Range

Question 44

Mountain Range that begins at Butuan and extends south to Agusan on the east and Dalangui in the West

Answer 44

Central-Eastern Mountain Range

Question 45

A mountain range that begins at Mt. App, follows the boundary of Cotabato and ends at the Zamboanga Peninsula

Answer 45

Central-Western Range

Question 46

A coastal range that begins west of Iligan Bay and ends on the shores of Basilan Strait

Answer 46

Western Range

Question 47

Nature has given the Philippines _______ _____ and potently of _____ ________

Answer 47

Fertile soil and natural resources

Question 48

A country has enough _______ ______ for electricity and foods. There is an abundant supply of ____________. Also ______________ like salt, coal, sulfur, asbestos, etc.

Answer 48

water resources, minerals, non-metallic materials

Question 49

Can be obtained from the country's vast forest

Answer 49

Gym resins and lumber

Question 50

Philippines also has oil called __ ____ discovered at Malampaya, Palawan

Answer 50

Black Gold

Question 51

Three main sources about the peopling of the Philippines

Answer 51

1. The Story of Go's Creation in the Bible 2. Legends and myths made by imaginative people 3. The Story of Evolution made by human scientists

Question 52

Spanish theologians during their colonization related that Filipinos was part of ______ _______.

Answer 52

God's creation

Question 53

A Jesuit historian wrote that the first settler of our country was Tharsis, son of Javan (Son of Noah) together with their descendants

Answer 53

Fr. Francisco Colin

Question 54

In Filipino mythology, creation stories were popularized by the various tribal groups of the islands

Answer 54

Legends and myths made by imaginative people

Question 55

It is believe that man came from _______ _____ who lived thousand of years ago in caves and have very crude tools

Answer 55

Apelike creature

Question 56

In _______ __________ ______ was thought of as the first man in the Philippines who lived in faces at Tabon, Southwest Palawan province about 25,000 years ago

Answer 56

1965, Tabon Man

Question 57

In 2007, a team of archeologists headed by _____ _____ ____ discovered a fossilized remain I'm Callao Caves in Pengblanca, Cagayan

Answer 57

Armand Salvador Mijares

Question 58

The fossilized remain was _______ mm- foot (metatarsal) with the genus of ______

Answer 58

61, Homo

Question 59

2019, after the discovery of an additional 12 new specimens, they reassigned the remains to a new species, ______ _______ deriving from the name of the island

Answer 59

Homo Luzonensis

Question 60

Three Models of Migration

Answer 60

1. Bell wood's Austronesian Diffusion Theory/Out-of-Taiwan Theory 2. The Nusantao Maritime Trading Network 3. Core Population Theory

Question 61

Common Characteristics Among Austronesians

Answer 61

• Practice of Tattooing • Outrigger canoes • Prehistoric art Styles (present in jars, potteries and jewelries) •social characters (sea as basic tenant of life)

Question 62

Alternative model based in the maritime movement or people over different directions and routes

Answer 62

Solheim

Question 63

An official term derives from Austronesian root word nusa "south" and tao "people"

Answer 63

Nusantao

Question 64

Core Population Theory was proposed by

Answer 64

F.L. Locano, a UP professor and anthropologists

Question 65

Three important characteristics of the core population theory. 1. They stand ________ as ethic group without anyone being the dominant group, racially, or culturally 2. The difference are sue to the _______ in their response to their environment 3. ________ are due to the adjustment to their environment

Answer 65

1. Co-equal 2. Differences 3. Similarities

Question 66

A phase referred to the technological development and cultural adaptation that took place during the Pleistocene.

Answer 66

Formative Phase

Question 67

A phase that is characterized by the development of metal tools and pottery

Answer 67

Incipient Phase

Question 68

A phase which was the beginning of trade by local inhabitants to other parts of Asia and the Middle East

Answer 68

Emergent Phase

Question 69

What are the three Models of Migration

Answer 69

1. Bell wood's Austronesian Diffusion Theory/Out-of-Taiwan 2. The Nusantao Maritime Trading Network 3. Core Population Theory

Question 70

What are the three theory of the creation of the Philippine archipelago

Answer 70

1. Part of Pacific Lost Continent 2. Volcanic Origin 3. Land Bridges