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