A cyclone is known by different names in different parts of the worl D. In Philippines it is called as _______.

The correct answer is a typhoon.
🔑Key Points: 
-A cyclone is known by different names in different parts of the world.
-It is called a 'typhoon’ in Japan and the Philippines.
-While they are called ‘cyclones’ in the Indian and South Pacific oceans.
-In the Atlantic Ocean, they are called ‘hurricanes’.

🔴Additional Information:
-Cyclone: 
-A cyclone is a large air mass that rotates around a strong centre of low atmospheric pressure.
-Cyclones rotate clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere and anti-clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere.
-Cyclones are rapid inward air circulation around a low-pressure area.
-Factors like wind speed, wind direction, temperature and humidity contribute to the development of cyclones. 
-Cyclone/Strom is termed by different names in different continents –

🛑Important Points:
-Cyclone is a chain of events that ends with the formation of a very low-pressure system with very high-speed winds revolving around it.
-The centre of a cyclone is a calm area.
-It is called the eye of the storm.
-A large cyclone is a violently rotating mass of air in the atmosphere, 10 to 15 km high. 
-A cyclone is known by different names in different parts of the world.
-It is called a ‘hurricane’ on the American continent.
-In the Philippines and Japan, it is called a ‘typhoon’.
-In Australia it is known as willy – willy.