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1. NAME:________________________________________________ SECTION: _____________________
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. 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
6. 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
7. 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
8. 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
9. Where do the tropical cyclones form?
a. on air b. in the ocean c. on land d. on mountain
10. 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°C11. What is the most intense part of a tropical cyclone?
11. What is the largest part of a tropical cyclone?
a. eye b. the tail c. eyewall d. rain bands
12. 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
13.. 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
14. What causes damage in a hurricane/typhoon?
a. winds b. storm surge c. flooding d. all of the above
Activity 1-B True or False.
______15. The lowest air pressure is at the eyewall of a tropical cyclone.
______16. At the eye of a tropical cyclone, wind speed is higher.
______17. When tropical cyclone reach land, they intensify because warm ocean water keeps them going.
______18. The location of the eye is the location of the tropical cyclone.
______19. Weather forecasting is a prediction on the general weather conditions of the atmosphere in the next 20
hours