Severe Weather

What is severe weather?

• weather that can cause property damage, injury, or even death

• weather that occurs daily

• weather that stays in an area after a sunny day

• weather that produces normalainfall

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What is a tornado?

• the boundary that forms between two different air masses

• sound that results from the rapid expansion of air

• a small rotating column of air that has high wind speeds and touches the ground

• type of cold drink that produces "brain freeze"

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What is the nickname given to the place that has the most tornadoes in the United States?

• Windy city

• Destruction zone

• tornado alley

• Area of doom

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Which type of severe weather do we have the most of in Ohio?

• tornado

• hurricane

• thuderstorm

• cyclone

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Which of the following is NOT correct?

• lightning kills or injures hundreds of people each year in the united States

• Lightning is a large electrical discharge between two opposite charged surfaces

• Lightning can cause sap in a tree to vaporize and cause a tree to explode

• Lightning comes from the sun

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Tornadoes in the northern hemisphere spin in a counterclockwise direction because of what?

• Coriolis effect

• Boyles law

• Gravity

• Newton's law

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When we see a thunderstorm getting near, what happens first?

• You hear the thunder

• You see the lightning

• You notice white wispy clouds

• It starts to hail

Where do hurricanes form?

• over land

• over cold water

• over warm water

• on top of mountains

What is the center of a hurricane called?

• the nose

• the eye

• the epicenter

• the circle

What causes the most damage by a hurricane?

• Flooding

• High winds

• Flying debris

• Power outages

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