8. Weather hazards CGP: Tropical Storms

What is a tropical storm?

• An intense high pressure weather system

• An intense low pressure weather system

What are the properties of a tropical storm?

• Flooding

  High Seas

• High temperatures

  Gale force winds

• Heavy rain

  Strong spiralling winds

What latitudes do most tropical storms develop between?

• Between 5 and 30 degrees north and south of the equator

• Between 0 and 5 degrees north and south of the equator

• Between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn

Tropical storms occur in different areas at different times of the year, depending when the sea temperatures are at their highest.

• True

• False

At what temperature must the sea reach before a tropical storm forms?

• 25 degrees C or higher

• 27 degrees C or higher

• 29 degrees C or higher

Wind ........ is the change in speed or direction of wind over a relatively short distance or time period.

For a tropical storm to develop, wind shear between higher and lower parts of the atmosphere must be .......

As the warm surface water evaporates, rises and condenses into clouds, large amounts of ............ is released producing powerful storms.

Easterly winds near the equator cause tropical storms to move towards the ..........

What is the name of the effect that cause the storms to spin as the Earth's rotation deflects the paths of the winds?

• The Coraline effect

• The Coriolis effect

• The Coriolanus effect