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Activity 6: The Birth of the Typhoon

GUIDE QUESTIONS:
A. CONDITIONS IN THE FORMATION OF A TYPHOON
1. What is the minimum required temperature for the typhoon to form?
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2. Based from the diagram, what are the conditions for a tropical to develop?
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B. PROCESS OF THE FORMATION OF TYPHOON

1. What happens to the warm, moist air on the surface?
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2. What happens to the rising air that contains large amount of moisture?
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3. After the process of evaporation, what comes next?
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4. What is the role of the Coriolis Effect (the force created by the earth’s rotation on the tilted axis) to
the formation of the typhoon?
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5. What is formed if the air is continuously moving faster in spiral direction?

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6. Based from the identified process above, explain how typhoons develop.
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