December 7-11, 2020

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Second Quarter – Module 2
UNDERSTANDING TYPHOONS

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Understanding Typhoons
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Overview

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 another. In recent years, the Philippines had been overwhelmed by
powerful tropical cyclones who could forget the terrible flood brought by Tropical Storm Ondoy in 2009? Or the
people swept out to sea during Tropical Storm Sendong in 2011? Or the poor community of New Bataan
buried in mud spawned by Typhoon Pablo in 2012?

Learning Objectives

After going through this module, I can:

1. identify the three main parts of a compound microscope;

Activating Prior Knowledge

Task 1: define me!

In your paper give the meaning of PAGASA.

Lesson

Philippine national institution dedicated to provide flood and typhoon warnings, public weather forecasts and
advisories, meteorological, astronomical, climatological, and other specialized information and services
primarily for the protection of life and property and in support of economic, productivity and sustainable
development.
The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Filipino: Pangasiwaan ng
Palingkurang Atmosperiko, Heopisikal at Astronomiko ng Pilipinas, abbreviated as PAGASA, which means
"hope" in the Tagalog word pag-asa).

What is a Typhoon?

We all know what a typhoon is. Or more accurately, we know what to expect when a typhoon comes. We get a
lot of rain and strong winds. Now, you may not have noticed it but the winds in a typhoon move in a certain
direction. They go around a central area.
 The English word typhoon could have originated from Persian ‫ طوف ان‬tūfān (storm), (which is
pronounced "tufoon" in the Bandari dialect of Persian, spoken on the shores of the Persian Gulf from the verb
tūfīdan (Persian: ‫ت وف یدن‬/‫ طوفیدن‬means "to roar", "to blow furiously" .
A typhoon is a mature tropical cyclone that develops in the northwestern part of the Pacific Ocean between
180° and 100°E. This region is referred to as the northwest Pacific basin.

It is a violent tropical cyclone, in meteorological term, which is a low pressure system occurring in tropical
oceans. The winds above the ground circulate around the center counterclockwise for a typhoon occurring in
the northern hemisphere and clockwise for that occurring in the southern hemisphere.

Tropical depression, tropical storm, typhoon, and supertyphoon are categories of tropical cyclones (Table 1).
In simple terms, a tropical cyclone is a system of thunderstorms that are moving around a center. As the winds
intensify or weaken, the category is upgraded or downgraded accordingly.
As the winds intensify or weaken, the category is upgraded or downgraded accordingly.
 The term typhoon is used only in the northwestern part of the Pacific Ocean. In the northeastern part of
the Pacific Ocean and in the northern part of the Atlantic Ocean, the equivalent term is hurricane. Thus, a
hurricane on one side of the Pacific Ocean will be called a typhoon if it crosses into the other side.

In the Philippines, we use the same word for all categories of tropical cyclones. We call it bagyo
whether it is a tropical depression, a tropical storm or a typhoon.

Assessment

Assessment 1. INDENTIFICATION

Direction: Here are some tropical cyclones that entered the Philippines. Classify each of them based on the classification
system. Write your answer on a separate sheet of paper. (Written works)

NAMES DATE WINDER SPEED CLASSIFICATION

(km/h)
1. DADING 26 JUNE 3 JULY 1964 185
2. PITANG SEPTEMBER 1970 260
3. URING NOVEMBER 1991 85
4. WINNIE NOVEMBER 2004 50
5. REMING 28 NOVEMBER 195
2 DECEMBER 2006
6. JUAN OCTOBER 2010 230
7. SENDONG DECEMBER 2011 75
8. AURING JANUARY 1999 55

Congratulations! You have completed this module on Earth and Life Science! – Sir Christian