Science8 q2 Mod4 Understanding Typhoons
Science8 q2 Mod4 Understanding Typhoons
Science 8
Quarter 2 – Module : 4
UNDERSTANDING TYPHOON
Activity 1 – A. Choose the letter of the best answer. Write your answer on a
separate sheet of paper.
1. What agency takes charge of giving information about the coming of typhoon?
a. DOST b. PAGASA c. PHIVOLCS d. NDRRMC
2. What is necessary to form a typhoon?
a. warm air b. moist air c. heated air d. cool air
3. For at least how many hours can we expect a PSWS #3 tropical cyclone before it
affects the locality?
a. 36 hours b. 24 hours c. 18 hours d. 12 hours
4. When a tropical cyclone passes over a certain place, it is the that has
greater wind speed?
a. eye b. eyewall c. rainbands d. directions
5. In which layer of the atmosphere, do all weather disturbances happen?
a. Thermosphere b. Mesosphere
c. Stratosphere d. Troposphere
6. In which category of a typhoon do rain clouds build over a warm ocean?
a. Tropical depression b. Tropical storm
c. Typhoon d. Super typhoon
7. What is the global generic term for an intense circulating weather system over
tropical seas and oceans?
a. Tropical depression b. Tropical cyclone
c. Tropical storm d. Typhoon
8. What do we call the tropical cyclone occurs in the Northwest Pacific Ocean?
a. Hurricane b. Tropical storm
c. Typhoon d. None of the above
9. What happens when sea level rises and strong winds blow from offshore to the
coastline area?
a. Tsunami b. Thunderstorms
c. Tropical storm d. Storm surge
10. Which of the following will we NOT experience during a typhoon?
a. Very strong winds b. Heavy rains
c. Large ocean waves d. shaking of ground
Activity 1-B Modified True or False. Analyze each statement. Write TRUE if the
statement is correct. If the statement is NOT TRUE, change the underlined word to
come up with the correct statement.
11. The lowest air pressure is at the eyewall of a tropical cyclone.
12. At the eye of a tropical cyclone, wind speed is higher.
13. When tropical cyclone reach land, they intensify because warm ocean
water keeps them going.
14. The location of the eye is the location of the tropical cyclone.
15. Weather forecasting is a prediction on the general weather conditions of
the atmosphere in the next 20 hours.
Lesson
Understanding Typhoons
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Every year the Philippines is hit by typhoons. No part of the country is spared. All
provinces have been visited by a typhoon at one time or the other. In recent years, the
Philippines had been overwhelmed by powerful tropical cyclones.
The energy of the tropical cyclone is thus derived from the massive liberation of the
underlying heat of condensation.
In other parts of the world, these are referred to as hurricanes, typhoons or simply
tropical cyclones depending on the region. In the North Atlantic, Eastern North Pacific and
South Pacific Ocean, they are called "hurricanes". In the Bay of Bengal, Arabian Sea and
Western South Indian Ocean, the name is "cyclonic". In the eastern part of the Southern
Indian Ocean, it is "willy-willy", and in the Western North Pacific Ocean, they are called
"typhoons".
PARTS OF A TYPHOON
EYE -The center. The calm part of the storm.
EYE WALL – The Part around the eye. It has the strongest winds and rains. Winds may blow 200 mil
RAIN BANDS – These are clouds that spin.
Activity 4
Instructions: Check the Philippine map. What have you noticed? Familiarize
yourself with the different bodies of water and landforms surrounding the
Philippines.
Up in the air, the water vapor cools down and condenses, and the heat is
released back to the air; this heat makes the air lighter, making it move further up.
It then triggers air from outside the system to go inward, then upward,
towards the system. This air flow helps more water to evaporate, joining the
clouds and precipitation already massing up in the air.
If the process continues, energy and precipitation accumulate further, and
the winds speed up. Once the winds reach a certain speed, it then becomes a
tropical cyclone.
How a tropical cyclone is called differs based on where it was formed. In the
Northwest Pacific – the area that includes the Philippines – it is called a typhoon; in
the Southwest Pacific and in the Indian Ocean, it is a cyclone; and in the Eastern
Pacific and in the Atlantic, it is a hurricane.
The location of the storm also determines how it spins. Those that form
below the equator spin clockwise, while those that form north of the equator,
counterclockwise.
In recent years, with seas and oceans getting warmer, the planet has seen
these already extreme weather systems become stronger and fiercer.
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