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Hurricanes - Examen
Contribuido por: Martin-Hawkes
  • 1. What is a hurricane?
A) a wind storm with a funnel
B) a severe thunderstorm
C) A storm with winds of 120km/h (75 mph) or more.
  • 2. What areas of the world have the most hurricanes?
A) Areas near the north or south poles
B) areas near the equator (warm oceans)
C) areas near the Pacific Ocean
  • 3. When is the MAIN hurricane season in the North Atlantic?
A) June to September
B) July to December
C) January to June
  • 4. What is the name of the main scale used to rank hurricanes and measure their damage potential?
A) Beaufort Scale
B) Richter Scale
C) Saffri-Simpson
  • 5. What are Hurricanes called in the western Pacific?
A) Cyclones
B) Typhoons
C) Hurricanes
  • 6. What are hurricanes called in the Indian Ocean
A) Cyclones
B) Typhoons
C) Hurricanes
  • 7. Technically a cyclone means ________ but it now refers specifically to a hurricane in the Indian Ocean.
A) any spinning wind
B) a vacuum cleaner
C) Twister
  • 8. What causes the most deaths from a hurricane?
A) falling trees
B) storm surges
C) strong winds
  • 9. What is the major cause of hurricane formation?
A) bad thunderstorms that form over warm water
B) wind storms
C) winter blizzards
  • 10. What does a hurricane hunter do?
A) Flies a plane and watches for a hurricane to form.
B) Follows a hurricane so that everyone knows where it is.
C) flies a plane into a hurricane to find out more about it.
  • 11. What is a storm surge?
A) spiraling air which is rising and creating rain bands
B) the combination of strong winds and heavy rain
C) severe flooding caused by higher than normal tides created by the storm pushing the ocean water toward the coast.
  • 12. Where are the worst winds in a hurricane found?
A) The eye-wall around the eye of the hurricane
B) inside the eye of the hurricane
C) around the outside edges
  • 13. What was the name of the hurricane that hit New York and New Jersey in October, 2012?
A) Hurricane Bob
B) Hurricane Sandy
C) Hurricane Katrina
  • 14. Hurricanes use ______________ names.
A) girls
B) both girls and boys
C) boys
  • 15. The centre of this swirling hurricane is called _____________.
A) the wall
B) the eye
C) the cyclonic centre
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