VOCAB !
Information gathered through using senses !
What is an OBSERVATION !
June 1st to November 30 with the peak in September !
What is Hurricane Season !
This formation occurs when WARM Airt rises above the ocean and cools to form clouds, the cloud then ROTATE inward and a low pressure system develops. When pressure DECREASES winds Increate which creates this type of thing !
How a Hurricane is formed !
When they hit the wind can do this !
They can DESTROY (houses, trees, cars) !
Category 2 !
A visual representation of how science works !
What is a MODEL !
The region of mostly calm weather is the center !
What is the eye of the Hurricane !
A tropical depression is also called this and is part of how a hurricane develops !
What is a Low Pressure System !
The wind can also push water causing flooding !
What is a storm surge !
These two categories include winds !
111-130mph and 131-155 with extensive to extreme damage, houses, inland flooding can be heavy and EVACUATION might be necessary !
What are categories 3 and 4 !
What is EROSION !
This is the most destructive part of the Hurricane With the strongest winds that surround the eye !
What is the Eye Wall !
Hurricanes are rated on this scale !
1-5 wind speed !
This is the source of energy for the storm !
The Warm Ocean Water !
This category is CATASTROPHIC !
MASSIVE damage to buildings and small structures blown away !
Winds 155mph, 18FT storm surge !
What is Category 5 !
Absence of light can cause this and appear to move and get shorter when the sun gets higher !
What is a shadow !
These are long narrow bands of precipitation that spiral into the center of the hurricane !
What are rain bands !
What are Global wind belts called Planetary Wind Belts !
The Hurricane ends because of this !
What is gradually looses energy and dies out !
What hurricane hit October 2012 and is 1400 miles wide from Chicago to Maine and is also known as the Superstorm !
What is Hurricane Sandy !
Which states located on the coast of the U. S. from Texas around to the top near Penn. have been hit !
And are there planets with hurricanes besides Earth !
What is a Direct Hurricane !
YES, Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune ! They have ammonia !
These rain bands can be 300 miles long into the eye making the whole storm 500 miles or more wide with LOTS of Rain !
What are Spiral Rainbands !
Which hurricane in 1972 hit 12 states including New York, and prevented catastrophic flooding?
Hurricane Agnes !
This category has wind 74-95 mph and a Storm Surge 4-5 feet with very minimal damage some flooding !
What is category 1 !
In 1900 before storms were named a Hurricane hit this area killing 10,000 people !
Afterwards city raised above sea level and built an 18 foot wall to prevent flooding, called…. !