Cyclones

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Where does the air move in a CYCLONE?

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Upwards

Front

Where does the air move in an ANTICYCLONE?

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Downwards

Front

Does a CYCLONE have low or high pressure?

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Low

Front

Would CYCLONES be more likely to occur with warm or cold weather?

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Warm

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A dark funnel shaped cloud that reaches from the sky to the ground is

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Tornado

Front

Which part of the earth gets the maximum amount of sunlight? Options: North Pole, South Pole, Equator, Tropics

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Equator

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The instrument that measures the wind speed in a cyclone is

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Anemometer

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A tropical cyclone looks like a huge disk of clouds. The disk can be 200 miles (.....kilometers) across.

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320

Front

Within the storm, high-speed winds move in a ............... around a calm center, called the ...........

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spiral, eye