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Hurricanes
Поширений: Martin-Hawkes
  • 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 equator (warm oceans)
B) Areas near the north or south poles
C) areas near the Pacific Ocean
  • 3. When is the MAIN hurricane season in the North Atlantic?
A) January to June
B) July to December
C) June to September
  • 4. What is the name of the main scale used to rank hurricanes and measure their damage potential?
A) Saffri-Simpson
B) Richter Scale
C) Beaufort Scale
  • 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) Hurricanes
B) Typhoons
C) Cyclones
  • 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) falling trees
B) strong winds
C) storm surges
  • 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) Flies a plane and watches for a hurricane to form.
B) flies a plane into a hurricane to find out more about it.
C) Follows a hurricane so that everyone knows where it is.
  • 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) around the outside edges
B) The eye-wall around the eye of the hurricane
C) inside 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 Katrina
B) Hurricane Bob
C) Hurricane Sandy
  • 14. Hurricanes use ______________ names.
A) girls
B) boys
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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