Season

• the Philippines is near the equator
• the Philippines receives vertical rays of sunlight
• Prevailing winds influence the season of the Philippines
• Monsoon - the wind that blows mostly from a single direction
• amihan or northeast monsoon - dry season
• habagat or southwest monsoon - heavy rains
• Temperature - measure of the degree of hotness or coldness
• Weather - condition of a place in a short period of time
• Tsunami - huge underwater wave wave produced when an earthquake occurs under the sea
• Cyclone - area of closed, circular fluid motion rotating in the same direction as earth