Amamperez Agro Industrial High School

Villasis Pangasinan

Name: ____________________________ Date: ________________

Grade/Section: _________________ Score: ________________

Understanding Typhoons
Title of the Activity: TROPICAL CYCLONE WORD SEARCH

Direction: Before we fully understand how typhoons form, let us familiarize

ourselves with some words associated to its formation. Find these words hidden
in the puzzle.

TROPICAL CYCLONE WORD SEARCH

N N H I G H G T U V B S I L W E L T
A K U C N O E M M W I N D S P E E D
E I M X O A O Y I I V B A S E M O P
C T I C I A K A E A S A G A P M I P
O M D T T F S L L A W E Y E E Y U U
C C I D C C C E P X A S R S O P A R
I Y T D E S Q L C A Q A Y Y P R C E
F Y Y A V S P I O T T T T O O U A T
I L W Q N A J S R U T P E R E S H A
C Y C L O N E U R I D S P M U U K W
A E E R C B J E G G I S Y P N P U M
P R E C I P I T A T I O N D O O U R
O U N W L Y Y F U L N I E D S S R A
H U R R I C A N E E O R X L N I W W
S E S Q I P A A T O E R W I I D C A

1. HIGH HUMIDITY 6. WARM WATER 11. TEMPERATURE

2. CONVECTION 7. CLOUDS 12. PRECIPITATION
3. PAR 8. WIND SPEED 13. PACIFIC OCEAN
4. THUNDER 9. HURRICANE 14. PAGASA
5. EYE 10. CYCLONE 15. EYEWALL
 Amamperez Agro Industrial High School
Villasis Pangasinan

Name: ____________________________ Date: __________________

Grade/Section: _____________________ Score: ________________

Understanding Typhoons
Title of the Activity: TROPICAL CYCLONE WORD SEARCH

Direction: Before we fully understand how typhoons form, let us familiarize

ourselves with some words associated to its formation. Find these words hidden
in the puzzle.
Shade the Correct Letter of your answer.

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
 Amamperez Agro Industrial High School
Villasis Pangasinan

Name: ________________________ Date: ______________________

Grade/Section: _________________ Score:
_____________________

Understanding Typhoons
Direction: Shade the Correct Letter of your answer.

1. Where do most Philippines typhoons form?

a. At the equator b. Sea over the Philippine Deep
c. Caroline-Marianas area of the pacific d. Habagat
2. What is the basis in categorizing tropical cyclones?
a. Temperature b. Atmospheric Temperature
c. Amount of rainfall d. Wind speed
3. What can you say about the temperature of the bodies of water in the vicinity of the Philippines?
a. cold b. lukewarm c. warm d. warm and cold
4. Where do the tropical cyclones form?
a. on air b. in the ocean c. on land d. on mountain
5. What is the category of the tropical cyclone if the wind speed is between 65 - 118 kph?
a. Tropical Depression b. Tropical Storm c. Typhoon d. Supertyphoon
6. What causes damage in a hurricane/typhoon?
a. winds b. storm surge c. flooding d. all of the above
7. What is the difference between typhoons and hurricanes?
a. wind speed b. amount of rainfall c. strength of winds d. place of origin
8. How is the weather in the eye of a hurricane?
a. calm b. intense c. windy d. violent
9. What sea temperature is needed for tropical cyclones to form?
a. 20.5°C b. 26.5°C c. 23.5°C d. 27.5°C
10. What causes the storm surge that often accompanies a cyclone making landfall?
a. Global warming b. Low air pressure c. Intense rainfall d. Winds pushing waves onshore
11. What is the most intense part of a tropical cyclone?
a. eye b. eyewall c. eye bands d. rain bands
12. What is the largest part of a tropical cyclone?
a. eye b. the tail c. eyewall d. rain bands
13. What is the correct order for development of a typhoon?
a. supertyphoon, typhoon, tropical depression, tropical storm
b. tropical storm, tropical depression, typhoon, supertyphoon
c. tropical depression, tropical storm, typhoon, supertyphoon
d. typhoon, tropical depression, tropical storm, supertyphoon
14. What does PAGASA mean?
a. Philippine Atmospheric, Geographical, and Astronomical Services Administration
b. Philippine Atmosphere, Geophysical, and Astronomical Services Administration
c. Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical, and Astronomical Services Administration
d. Philippine Atmospheric, Gravitational, and Astronomical Services Administration
15. What are the three factors necessary for a tropical cyclone to form?
a. 100 degrees of warmer water, surface level high pressure, upper level low pressure
b. 80 degrees of warmer water, surface level low pressure, upper level high pressure
c. 80 degrees of warmer water, surface level high pressure, upper level low pressure
d. 100 degrees of warmer water, surface level low pressure, upper level high pressur
 Amamperez Agro Industrial High School
Villasis Pangasinan

Name: ________________________ Date: ______________________

Grade/Section: _________________ Score: _____________________

Understanding Typhoons
Direction: Shade the Correct Letter of your answer.

1. What does PSWS mean?

a. Philippine Sea Warning Signal b. Public Storm Weather Signal
c. Philippine Storm Warning Signal d. Public Storm Warning Signal
2. In what direction do the tropical cyclones move?
a. Northwest direction b. Northeast direction
c. East west direction d. Southwest direction
3. What will happen to the tropical cyclone when it reaches the land?
a. it will continue onwards b. it will form a low pressure
c. it will even stronger d. it will die out
4. When was the time that the tropical depression be given a name?
a. when it near the far b. when an LPA is formed
c. when it was still outside the PAR d. when it finally entered the PAR
5. Typhoon Ompong hits Luzon. The wind is 90 kph. Public Warning Storm Signal
# 2 is hoisted. What school level is/are suspended?
a. College/Universities b. High School
c. Pre-school, Elementary, High School d. Kindergarten
6. What categories if the wind speed is between 34-65 kph?
a. Tropical Depression b. Tropical Storm
c. Typhoon d. Super typhoon
7. If you happen to be outdoors when the typhoon comes, you should do the following
EXCEPT _________
a. fix your antenna during the thunderstorm b. enter the nearest safe shelter
c. stay away from electric posts and wires d. stay away from bodies of water
8. Which of the following describes a typhoon?
a. if the wind speed is between 119 to 200kph b. if the wind speed is between 35 to 65 kph
c. if the wind speed is between 65 to 118 kph d. if the wind is greater than 200 kph
9. Why is the Philippines prone to typhoon?
a. because of the Philippine Area of Responsibility b. because Philippines is along the Pacific Ring of
Fire
c. because Philippines is located near the Pacific Ocean
d. because Philippines has a high vulnerability
10. Which of the following describes a Super typhoon?
a. if the wind speed is between 119 to 200kph
b. if the wind speed is between 35 to 65 kph
c. if the wind speed is between 65 to 118 kph
d. if the wind is greater than 200 kph

Prepared by: ARGYLL C. PAGUIBITAN

JHS TEACHER II