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Hurricanes
  • 1. What is a hurricane?
A) a wind storm with a funnel
B) A storm with winds of 120km/h (75 mph) or more.
C) a severe thunderstorm
  • 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) July to December
B) January to June
C) June to September
  • 4. What is the name of the main scale used to rank hurricanes and measure their damage potential?
A) Richter Scale
B) Saffri-Simpson
C) Beaufort Scale
  • 5. What are Hurricanes called in the western Pacific?
A) Typhoons
B) Cyclones
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) storm surges
B) falling trees
C) strong winds
  • 9. What is the major cause of hurricane formation?
A) wind storms
B) winter blizzards
C) bad thunderstorms that form over warm water
  • 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) spiraling air which is rising and creating rain bands
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) inside the eye of the hurricane
B) around the outside edges
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 Bob
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 cyclonic centre
B) the wall
C) the eye
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