Impacts
These impacts are related to people and their everyday lives. [6,6]
What is social impact?
There is catastrophic damage with winds over 250km/hr.
What is Category 5?
The minimum temperature of water needed to form cyclones.
[6,3,5,4,7,7]
What is 26.5 degrees Celsius?
The amount of 300-400mm was recorded. [8]
What is rainfall?
The collapse of a mass of rock or earth from a mountain or cliff. [10]
What are landslides?
These impacts are related to money, jobs, companies & the economies of countries. [8,6]
What is economic impact?
There is very dangerous winds and some damage.
What is Category 1?
It forms when the cool air descends creating an area of calm. [3,3]
The sea where Cyclone Gabrielle formed. [3,5,3]
What is the Coral Sea?
The timber that choked and blocked rivers, causing more flooding. [6]
What is debris?
The impacts that could force political systems to address them and lead to a re-prioritization of agendas and potential legislative changes. [9,6]
What is political impacts?
The winds reach between 154-177km/hour.
What is Category 2?
Creates the energy to drive the storm. [6,4,11]
What is Energy from Evaporation?
Where 132km/hr wind gusts was recorded. [8,7,6]
What is the Auckland Harbour Bridge?
The native species that was found in ditches hundreds of metres away from the rivers after Cyclone Gabrielle. [4]
What are eels?
These impacts are related to effects on the natural environment. [13,6]
What is Environmental impact?
There is devastating damage.
What is Category 3?
The surrounding rushing air that rushes in to fill space. [6,5]
What is strong winds?
The part of NZ that was affected on the 13th and 14th February 2023 by Cyclone Gabrielle.
What is the North Island?
The fine sands or clay that is transported by rivers and then deposited on the ground. [4]
What is silt?
The short term or long term effects of an extreme natural or cultural event. [7]
What are impacts?
The ___________ [4,8] is measured to put cyclones into categories between 1 to 5.
What is wind strength?
The spin of the earth. [3,8,5]
What is the Coriolis Effect?
NZ is vulnerable to cyclones because its sits on this edge of the tropical zone where cyclones are formed. [8,4]
What is the southern edge?
Leftover timber from logging. [5]
What is slash?