Severe Weather

(Check all that apply) - The system for rating tornadoes

• uses a 1-3 rating system

• is called the Enhanced Fujita (EF) scale

• considers deaths and injuries caused by a tornado

• rates tornadoes on the severity of damage they cause

A supercell differs from a normal thunderstorm because it

• is extremely rare.

• rotates.

• is more highly organized than a "normal" thunderstorm.

• is more likely to produce damaging winds and hail.

Hail would be most likely in

• Georgia

• Florida

• North Carolina

• Minnesota

Hail is produced by raindrops freezing in the highest clouds of a thunderstorm.

• True

• False

About _______ of the world's tornadoes occur in the United States.

• 1/3

• 1/2

• 3/4

• 9/10

A derecho is

• a hailstone larger than the size of a golf ball.

• a blast of wind caused by clouds falling during a thunderstorm.

• a line of thunderstorms produced during a cold front.

• a lightning strike at the end of a thunderstorm.

Hurricanes do not form at the equator; this is due to a _____________ in this area.

• weak Coriolis Effect

• high water temperature

• lack of wind

• shallow ocean

A squall line is

• a line of thunderstorms along a cold front that can stretch for hundreds of miles.

• a group of tornadoes rated at least EF3 that occur within 10 miles of each other.

• An area of thick fog at least 10 square miles.

• none of the above.

If you lived in Florida, you would not worry about hurricanes during

• April.

• June.

• August.

• October.

Lightning

• kills 90 percent of the people it strikes.

• strikes people most often in Florida.

• kills about the same number of Americans as do tornadoes each year.

• only strikes during unusually intense thunderstorm activity