Hurricanes

​ (a)   ocean water ( more than ​ (b)   degrees) provides ​ (c)   for the hurricane and causes more ​ (d)   making ​ (e)   air and clouds.

• Cool

• Cold

• Warm
• 80
• energy
• evaporation
• humid

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How warm does the water have to be to form a hurricane

• 70 degrees

• 75 degrees

• 80 degrees

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What does the energy of the warm water cause?

• Evaporation

• Condensation

• freezing droplets

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What increases the power of a hurricane?

• Water condensing

  cooling into droplets

• Water evaporating of the warm ocean water

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As the water evaporates, the winds come together , as the air is forced upward and gets to the top which way do the winds flow?

• Outward

• inward

• straight down

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What steers the hurricane and let it grow?

• Heavy winds

• Light winds

• Humid air

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What would happen to a hurricane that came against a high pressure system.

• attracted to

• repelled

• no affect

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The ​ (a)   is a force that causes hurricanes to spin in different directions depending on which ​ (b)   they are in

In the Northern hemisphere the coriolis effect causes hurricanes to spin ​ (c)   .

In the southern hemisphere it causes the hurricanes to spin ​ (d)  

• Coriolis effect
• hemisphere
• counterclockwise
• clockwise

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Looking at the tracks of different Hurricanes over the last 150 years, which direction do they travel after they reach the Gulf of Mexico

• Southwest

• Northeast

• Northwest

• Southeast

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Where is the most intense wind and rain of a hurricane

• central pressure

• eye

• eyewall

• spiral bands

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