3.7 DBQ Hurricanes

What conclusion can you base on evidence found in both sources?

• Hurricanes reach category 5 are in Miami

• Hurricanes are powerful and can cause lots of destruction

• Hurricanes only develop when there is warm water

• Hurricanes need the rotation of the earth to get the winds spinning

• Hurricanes are the strongest when they are category 3

Choose one detail from Document A to support the answer in Part A that Hurricanes are powerful and can cause lots of destruction.

• Andrew crushed mobile homes and threw boats and vehicles across distances of hundred feet. 54 people died in the hurricane ( Document A)

• The photo below shows a view of parts of Dade County.(Document A)

• The category had reached Category 5 status, with 142 mile-per hour sustained winds and gusts up tp 169 miles per hour when it made land fall in Homestead". ( Document A)

• The hurricane happened in St. Lucie County.

Choose one detail from Why are Hurricanes so Dangerous? to support the answer in Part A that Hurricanes are powerful and can cause lots of destruction.

• "A hurricane is a tropical storm that forms over the ocean." (Why Are Hurricanes so Dangerous?")

• "Hurricanes can can knock over houses, throw vehicles through the air, or flatten entire forest with the power of their winds." (Why Are Hurricanes so Dangerous?")

• "Hurricane needs special conditions in order to develop." (Why Are Hurricanes so Dangerous?")

• "It spins like a whirlpool, but it is actually made of water vapor". (Why Are Hurricanes so Dangerous?")

What inference is best supported by the passage Why Are Hurricanes so Dangerous"?

• Hurricanes are dangerous because they are dangerous.

• A hurricanes can sometimes be ferocious.

• The hurricane can lose its power while in the water.

• A hurricane's most calm area is in the center of the storm.

Which two sentences from the text best illustrate the inference in Part A that the hurricane's most settled area is in the the middle of the storm.

• "It is a surprisingly calm area in the center of the storm."

• "The eye usually is 20 to 40 miles across and has no clouds overhead."

• Beyond the eyewall are rainbands that make a giant spiral pattern several hundred miles across...)

• A hurricane has three main parts.