Hydrometeorological Hazards

What is the difference between a typhoon, a hurricane and a cyclone?

• Typhoon, hurricane and cyclone are storms which are of different intensities.

• Typhoons are tidal waves, hurricanes spin clockwise and cyclones spin counter clockwise.

• Typhoons are found near the equator, hurricanes are found in the midlatitudes and typhoons in the Arctic and Antarctic.

• All describe storms, the name used in the Western Pacific , North America and near the Indian Ocean, respectively

A flash flood is ____?_____

• caused by a heavy rain

• occurs only in urban areas

• an upward vertical motion

• a strong vertical wind shear

The increase in the risk of flooding in the future may be due to ___?___

• climate change

• rapid urbanization

• uncontrolled population growth

• all of the above

Which of the following is not a hydrometeorological hazard?

• drought

• tornado

• landslide

• thunderstorm

It is associated with having no rain, dried up fields and low water level dams.

• El Niño

• La Niña

• Forest Fire

• Tornado

The onset of precipitation is the beginning of which stage in the formation of a thunderstorm?

• cumulus

• dissipating

• mature

• tornadic

A localized windstorm characterized by a visible funnel-shaped, rapidly whirling cloud extending downward from the base of a dark cumulonimbus cloud.

• Thunderstorm

• Whirlpool

• Tornado

• Cyclone

The are in a tropical storm where the the wind is calm and there is no rain

• eye

• eye wall

A process or phenomenon of atmospheric, hydrological and oceanographic nature that may cause life of life, injury , property damage.

• hydrometeorological hazard

• geological hazard

• fire hazard

• elecctric hazard

Phenomenon that is associated with heavy rainfalls.

• El Niño

• La NIña