•ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES:

THE NATURE AND ITS

EFFECT ON PEOPLE’S
HEALTH
 WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

Activity 1

Match the typhoons with the places they affected. Use arrows to
connect them. Do this on your answer sheet.

PLACES TYPHOON

Manila Ruping
Pablo
Cebu City
Ormoc City Ondoy

Tacloban City Sendong

Compostela Valley Yolanda

Cagayan de Oro Uring
City

5
Guide Questions:

Can we prevent typhoons from

happening?

How can we prepare against this

natural phenomenon?
• How can you relate the effects of these
phenomena from human activities?
• :Natural Resources and Biodiversity
explain why the Philippines is a rich
country. Putting our home into the rare
list of nations which have both a hotspot
and mega diversity area for over 6,000
plant species and also numerous animal
species inhabited this area. However,
despite—or perhaps because of— their
richness and massive importance to the
environment and humans as well, the
forests face continuing destruction and
possible extinction.
DEFORESTATION
FLASH
FLOOD
 SOIL
EROSION
 CORAL REEF
DEGRADATION