Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Region v
SCHOOLS DIVISION OF SORSOGON
SORSOGON

SCIENCE 7 (Quarter 2)

LEARNING ACTIVITY SHEET (LAS) No. 3

Name of the Student:__________________________ Date: _____________

Grade Level & Section: ________________________

I. INTRODUCTION:

This lesson will help you to understand the concept of typhoon formation. After going through this
lesson, you are expected to explain how typhoon develops and how it is affected by landmasses and
bodies of water. Typhoons can hit the Philippines any time of year, with the months of June to
September being most active, and May the least active. No part of the country is spared. All provinces
have been visited by a typhoon specially part of Eastern Visayas, Bicol region and northern Luzon.
Recently, on December 2019 super typhoon Tisoy hits the Philippines and many people need to
evacuates to prevent deaths. According to Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical, and Astronomical
Services Administration (PAGASA), an average of 20 tropical cyclones enter the Philippine Area of
Responsibility (PAR) every year. We have to be knowledgeable and always ready about tropical
cyclones to prevent loss and damages.

II. MOST ESSENTIAL LEARNING COMPETENCY (MELC):

Explain how typhoon develops and how it is affected by the landmasses and bodies of water.

III. OBJECTIVES:

• Determine the conditions that contribute to the formation of a typhoon.

• Explain how typhoons develop.

IV. ACTIVITIES:

A. ELICIT/ ENGAGE:
 B. EXPLORE:

GUIDE QUESTIONS:

A. CONDITIONS IN THE FORMATION OF A TYPHOON

1. What is the minimum required temperature for the typhoon to form?

2. Based from the diagram, what are the conditions for a tropical to develop?

B. PROCESS OF THE FORMATION OF TYPHOON

1. What happens to the warm, moist air on the surface?
2. What happens to the rising air that contains large amount of moisture?
3. After the process of evaporation, what comes next?
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?
5. What is formed if the air is continuously moving faster in spiral direction?
6. Based from the identified process above, explain how typhoons develop?
 C. EXPLAIN/ ELABORATE:

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. When PAGASA monitors the tropical cyclones enter the PAR and it is constantly in
motion, generally toward the Philippines then it is time to issue warning signals.
Typhoons are like engines that require warm, moist air as fuel. So the first ingredient needed for a
typhoon is warm ocean water where the Low Pressure Area is being formed. The second ingredient is
wind. Wind is formed if there is a temperature difference. The temperature difference is caused as the
air from a high pressure area rushes towards the low pressure area. As the wind passes over the
ocean's surface, water evaporates (turns into water vapor) and rises. As it rises, the water vapor cools,
and condenses back into large water droplets, forming large clouds. These clouds are just the
beginning. The movement of the air is spiral as it rises due to Coriolis Effect. As the air rotates faster,
the Low Pressure Area (LPA) becomes a typhoon.
TROPICAL CYCLONE is a system of thunderstorms that are moving around a center. As the winds
intensify of weakens, the category is upgraded or downgraded accordingly. Tropical depression,
tropical storm, typhoon, and super-typhoon are categories of tropical cyclones.

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.
STRUCTURE OF A TROPICAL CYCLONE

• Eye
- It is a roughly circular area found at the center of a severe tropical cyclone.
- There is little or no precipitation and sometimes blue sky or stars can be seen.
- It is the region of lowest surface pressure and the warmest temperature aloft (upper levels)
- Eyes range in size from 8km to over 200km across, but most are approximately 30-60 km in
diameter.

• Eye Wall
- Surrounds the eye of the tropical cyclone.
- The area of highest surface wind.
- Eye wall region also sees the maximum sustained winds i.e. fastest winds in a cyclone occur along
the eye wall region.

• Spiral bands
- Convection in the cyclone is organized into long, narrow rain bands which are oriented in the same
direction as the horizontal wind.
- Because these bands seem to spiral into the center of a tropical cyclone, they are called “spiral
bands”

A. EVALUATE

I. Identification. Identify the things being referred to in each item. ANSWER ONLY.

1. It is a tropical cyclone that is formed in Northwest Pacific Ocean affecting Southeast Asia,
West Philippine Sea and mostly Japan.
2. This is where the Northeasterly and Southeasterly trade winds converge.
3. It is a discrete weather system of clouds, showers, and thunderstorms with apparent circulation
that originates in the ocean in the tropical region and remains intact for 24 hours.
4. It is a meteorological term which refers to the cyclonic circulation of winds.
5. It is an upper atmospheric trough that enhances convection in the tropics and can occasionally
promote intensification of tropical cyclone into typhoon

II. Modified True or False. Write “TRUE” if the statement is correct and if false, write the word
or phrase that makes it wrong and change it to make the statement true. ANSWER ONLY.
1. Typhoons are easily monitored by weather satellites because of their huge radius and
accumulated cloud system.
2. In super typhoon, the wind speed is greater than 200 kph.
3. A typhoon is cyclonic when it originates over cool seas.
4. There will be no classes from pre-school to high school if it is signal number 1.
5. Signal number 3 typhoon has a wind speed greater than 185kph.

E. REFERENCE:

Learning Module Science 8. Regional Office 5 Department of Education, Rawis , Legazpi City
Grade 8 Science, PIVOT 4A Learner’s Material Quarter 2 First Edition, 2020.

Prepared by: MELVIN G. FAILAGAO

T-I JPLHS