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Hurricanes
Поширений: Martin-Hawkes
  • 1. What is a hurricane?
A) a severe thunderstorm
B) a wind storm with a funnel
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 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) January to June
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) Richter Scale
C) Saffri-Simpson
  • 5. What are Hurricanes called in the western Pacific?
A) Hurricanes
B) Typhoons
C) Cyclones
  • 6. What are hurricanes called in the Indian Ocean
A) Hurricanes
B) Cyclones
C) Typhoons
  • 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) strong winds
C) storm surges
  • 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 into a hurricane to find out more about it.
B) Flies a plane and watches for a hurricane to form.
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) inside the eye of the hurricane
B) The eye-wall around 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 Katrina
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 cyclonic centre
B) the eye
C) the wall
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