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Science
Quarter 2 –
Module 3:
Understanding
Typhoon

Science- Grade 8
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Quarter 2 – Module 3: Understanding Typhoon
First Edition, 2020

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Division Superintendent: Jesnar Dems S. Torres, PhD, CESO VI

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Lesson
1 How do Typhoons Develop?

What I Need to Know?

Objective: After doing all the activities, the students must be able to
explain how typhoon develops.

What’s New
Activity 1 – Picture Analysis
Direction: The following pictures below are the correct sequence on typhoon formation. To
give you an idea of how it happened, all you have to do is to describe the 3 pictures below.

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Activity 2 – Sequencing of Events
Direction: Number the following events of typhoon formation as to your own understanding.

__3___All the heat and air flow toward the eye creating the typhoon.
__2____The thunderstorms convert the moisture into heat. The heat causes more air to
flow to the center of the storm causing evaporation.
__1____Typhoons start from tropical thunderstorms. The strong winds pull in the
moisture from the oceans.

What Is It
HOW TYPHOONS ARE FORMED?

1. Typhoons start as a tropical thunderstorm. The strong winds pull in moisture from the
oceans.

2. Thunderstorms will convert the moisture into heat. Such heat causes more air to flow to
the center of the storm, causing evaporation.

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 3. All the heat and air flow toward the eye creating the typhoon.

Pre-Conditions for Typhoons

There are several atmospheric components to consider in the formation of a typhoon.
Typhoon or simply called hurricane, has the same identical conditions. There are seven
atmospheric conditions that cause a typhoon to create such as pre-existing disturbance,
warm ocean water, low atmospheric stability, sufficient Coriolis force, moist mid-atmosphere,
and upper atmosphere divergence. These are important factors in the formation of a
typhoon. Such factors are essentials in generating tremendous amount of warmth energy
which are transported from the tropics northward to the upper latitudes. The typhoon can be
compared to a large engine where great amounts of warmth energy are being produced
through the heat of condensation. This happens when vapors are being evaporated from the
ocean surface and condensed into cloud droplets.

Mechanisms to Cause Typhoon Formation

Typhoon will develop when all the pre-conditions cited are met. There are several
types of atmospheric disturbances that will cause a typhoon to develop. The foremost
common mechanism to cause a typhoon to develop is the monsoon trough. This could be an
extension of the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) where a cyclonic spin has
developed. The Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone is a zone of wind convergence of the
northeast and southeast trade winds. This "trade winds" trough doesn't contain the spin to
initiate typhoon development. Typhoon as sometimes called hurricanes are caused by the
monsoon trough in six of the seven hurricane /typhoon formation basins of the world. If
favored with little wind shear, showers and storms it could become more numerous and
cause a typhoon to form.

Another reason for typhoon formation is from the Tropical Upper Tropospheric Trough
(TUTT). The upper air is cold in nature as compared to its surrounding environment. A typical
air mass center that forms a typhoon starts at the lower levels and is warm compared to its
environment. If a Tropical Upper Tropospheric Trough is low which remains over the nice and
cozy ocean waters for several days, it gradually warms and takes on tropical characteristics.
At this time the low "reaches" right down to the surface from the upper atmosphere where the
event process transforms.

What I Have Learned

Activity 3 – TRUE or FALSE
Directions: Read each statement below carefully. Write T on the line if you think a statement
is TRUE. Place an F on the line if you think the statement is FALSE.
___1. Typhoons are more violent than hurricanes.
___2. Typhoons come from warm waters in the ocean.
___3. High atmospheric stability could also be one of the factors in the typhoon formation.
___4. When all of the heat and air from the ocean flow toward the eye, it creates typhoon.
___5. Tropical Upper Tropospheric Trough (TUTT) could also be a cause of typhoon
formation.

Task for the Week:

Activity 4 – TyPOEM!
Task for the Week:

Activity 4 – TyPOEM!

Lesson 2 and Bodies of Water

How do Landmasses Affect Typhoons?

What I Need to Know?

Objective: After doing all the activities, the students must be able to explain
how land masses and bodies of water affect typhoons.

What’s New?

Activity 1 – Picture Analysis (Landmass)

Direction: The picture below shows how a landmass affects typhoon. In your
own analysis on the picture, give a very concise explanation on how does
landmass affects typhoon.

3. Enumerate and
describe the different parts of a typhoon.
Explanation:______________________________________________________________
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Activity 2 – Picture Analysis (Body of water)
Direction: The picture below shows how a body of water affects typhoon. In your own
analysis on the picture, give a very concise explanation on how a body of water affects

typhoon.

4. Enumerate and describe the different parts of a typhoon.

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Explanation:_______________________________________________________________

What Is It

If the typhoon makes landfall on a mountainous landmass (e.g. Taiwan), the

forced vertical ascent of air due to the mountains can result in a huge amounts of rain,
maybe several feet in one or two days.
 In a very general sense, typhoons gain power as they move over warm bodies of
water and start losing energy once they get over to cold water. There are other factors in
play (temperature of water and air, moisture, air currents, the temperature of the
landmass etc.).

What I Have Learned

Activity 3 – My Understanding
Direction: Answer the question below.
1. Based on your learning, how do landmasses and bodies of water affect
typhoons?

Typhoons are influenced by landforms and bodies of water based on how

much energy they emit or the type of energy source they provide.

What I Can Do

Activity 4 – Handa na ba ako?

Direction: List down at least three tips to consider before, during and after a typhoon
hits your place. Fill in the table below for your answer.

Before During After

Stay informed. It's nearly Keep an eye on the Tune in to the radio,
impossible to stay typhoon's progress via television, or the internet
informed about the television, radio, or the to keep up with the
alleged typhoon's internet. typhoon's development
progress thanks to (should this be
multiple media channels. accessible).

Keep plenty of If no evacuation order If your home was

ready-to-eat foods and has been issued, you severely damaged, make
 water on hand. Make should remain inside your sure you follow the
sure the food and water home. authorities'
you stockpile are plenty recommendations for its
for you and your family safety and stability. Do
and will last for a few not go if they are unsure
days. about the state of your
home.

Always keep your Turn off the primary Take care of the mess.
emergency supplies on sources of electricity if Dispose of anything that
hand. First-aid items, you observe signs of could serve as a breeding
candles, flashlights, life water rising. Keep your place for mosquitoes.
vests, and a electric-powered items in Tires, cans, and pots are
battery-operated radio higher places and don't examples of such items.
may all be included in use them during the
your emergency pack. flood.

Summary
A typhoon develops when winds blow into areas of the ocean where the water is
warm. During this stage winds gather moisture and rise, while colder air moves in below.
This creates pressure, which causes the winds to maneuver very quickly. The winds rotate,
or spin, around a center called a watch fixed. The warmer air and moisture there's, the more
intense the winds. Landforms and bodies of water on and round the Philippines affect the
strength or weakness of weather phenomenon like typhoons. Remarkably, landforms reduce
the strength of typhoons whenever the winds impact them. Additionally, oceans, wherein the
typhoons originate, provide advanced rainfall and strength. Large bodies of water, like
oceans, seas and large lakes, can affect the climate of a section. Water heats and cools
more gradually than landmasses. Therefore, the coastal regions will stay cooler in summer
and warmer in winter, thus producing a more moderate climate with a narrower temperature
range.

Assessment (Post Test)

Direction: For each item, encircle the letter of the correct answer.
1. All of the following will occur when wind blows over a warm ocean water
except a. wind collects moisture b. warm air rises
c. pressure not affected d. cold air moves down

2. Typhoons ______ power as they move over warm bodies of water.

a. lose b. equate
c. gain d. drop

3. Severe weather occurs, fiercest rains and most intense winds are happening in what part
of the typhoon?
a. Eye b. Inner Rain bands
c. Eye Wall d. Outer Rain bands

4. Where do typhoon forms?

a. in a river or stream b. under the earth
c. over the ocean d. at plate boundaries
 5. All of the following are conditions needed for a typhoon to form
except a. a pre-existing disturbance b. warm ocean water
c. low atmospheric stability d. insufficient Coriolis force

6. When pressure is being created during the formation of typhoon, winds do

a. move very quickly b. move slightly quick
c. move very slowly d. move slightly quick

7. Where are hurricanes/typhoons most likely do the most damage?

a. in a desert b. in a forest
c. on the North pole d. near the seaboards

8. All of the following are the same type of typhoon that differs only on strength, location,
speed and direction except one
a. Tropical Depression c. Typhoon & Hurricane
b. Tropical Storm d. Tropical Cyclone

9. What part of a typhoon known to us as “buntot ng bagyo?

a. Eye b. Rain bands
c. Eye Wall d. Rain Tail
10. The usual pattern of cold air movement is
a. rise up b. move down
c. move horizontally d. move diagonally

Key to Answers

. Handa na ba ako? (Answer will vary) Activity 4

Activity 3. My Understanding (Answers will vary)

general rule.
water and air, moisture, air currents, the temperature of the
landmass etc.), but that is the rm bodies of water,
and stat losing Typhoons gain power as they move
over wa
Picture Analysis (Body of Water) . 2 Activity

supply of warm ocean is cut off, and the typhoon dissipates.

ocean water to sustain the convection and wind speeds. If a
typhoon moves over land., this d so require warm Typhoons are
sustained by deep convection and release of latent heat, an Land
masses weaken typhoons, causing them to dissipate if the land
mass is large. Activity 1. Picture Analysis (Landmass)
How do Landmasses and Bodies of Water Affect Typhoons?
on 2: Less

Answers will be evaluated using rubrics

Poem - Activity 4. Ty
 T 5.
T 4.
It needs low atmospheric stability - F 3.
T 2.
they are just the same, only that they form from a different place - F 1.
Activity 3. True or
False

1 3.
2 2.
3 1.
Activity 2. Sequencing of Events

typhoon. All the nearest heat and air flow toward the eye creating the 3.
flow to the center of the storm causing evaporation.
The thunderstorms convert the moisture into heat. The heat causes more air to 2.
from the oceans.
e strong winds pull in moisture Typhoons starts off as tropical thunderstorms. Th
1. Activity 1. Picture
Analysis

10. A 5. D 10.D C 5. 9. B 4. C 9. B D 4. 8. D 3. C 8. D B 3. 7. D 2. C 7. B C 2. 6. A 1. D
6. A C 1. : test - Post Pretest:
Lesson 1: How do Typhoons Develop?

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References

Cockburn, Carrie. “Explainer: How are Typhoons Formed.” November 11, 2019 p.1.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com.

Shiel, Willem. Typhoons. https://slideserve.com

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