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Hurricanes
  • 1. What is a hurricane?
A) a severe thunderstorm
B) A storm with winds of 120km/h (75 mph) or more.
C) a wind storm with a funnel
  • 2. What areas of the world have the most hurricanes?
A) areas near the equator (warm oceans)
B) areas near the Pacific Ocean
C) Areas near the north or south poles
  • 3. When is the MAIN hurricane season in the North Atlantic?
A) January to June
B) June to September
C) July to December
  • 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) Cyclones
B) Hurricanes
C) Typhoons
  • 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) a vacuum cleaner
B) any spinning wind
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) wind storms
B) bad thunderstorms that form over warm water
C) winter blizzards
  • 10. What does a hurricane hunter do?
A) Follows a hurricane so that everyone knows where it is.
B) flies a plane into a hurricane to find out more about it.
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 Bob
B) Hurricane Katrina
C) Hurricane Sandy
  • 14. Hurricanes use ______________ names.
A) boys
B) girls
C) both girls and boys
  • 15. The centre of this swirling hurricane is called _____________.
A) the eye
B) the cyclonic centre
C) the wall
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