Step 1: Evaporation
Step 2: Air Rises
Step 3:Condensation
Step 4: Geography
Hurricane Facts
100
During evaporation, liquid water turns into this.
water vapor
100
What two gases make up most of air?
nitrogen and oxygen
100
When condensation occurs, water vapor turns into this.
liquid water
100
This is the body of water north of Puerto Rico.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
100
What month has the most hurricanes in the Atlantic?
September
200
Evaporation is part of the water cycle, or how water moves around the Earth. What powers the water cycle?
Energy from the Sun (heat)
200
What do we call the property of air that describes how close together the molecules are in a given area of space?
density
200
What causes condensation?
loss of heat
200
This is the body of water south of Puerto Rico.
What is the Caribbean Sea?
200
What is a hurricane-like storm called in the Northwest Pacific?
typhoon
300
In order for a hurricane to form over the ocean, the surface of the ocean needs to be at about what temperature or warmer?
about 80 degrees fahrenheit
300
Which is true?
a. lower pressure air moves to high pressure air
b. high pressure air moves to low pressure air
b. high pressure air moves to low pressure air
300
There are water droplets on the outside of this glass. Where did they come from?
a. the water that is inside the glass
b. the water vapor in the air outside of the glass
c. the ice cubes inside the glass
b. the water vapor in the air outside of the glass
300
This is the line of latitude that Puerto Rico is closest to.
(Arctic Circle, Tropic of Cancer, Equator, Tropic of Capricon, Antarctic Circle)
What is the Tropic of Cancer?
300
In order to be considered a hurricane, how fast do the winds have to blow?
74 miles per hour
400
A water molecule is made up of these two elements (types of atoms).
What are hydrogen and oxygen?
400
What was added to cause this change in density?
heat
400
What is fog?
a. water vapor (gas)
b. water droplets (liquid)
b. liquid water droplets
400
This is the body of water between Florida and Mexico.
What is the Gulf of Mexico?
400
The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale rates hurricanes based on how fast the winds blow. How many categories are there?
5
500
This state of matter has no fixed volume.
What is a gas?
500
Why does high pressure air from all around the center of the hurricane rush in to the center?
Because the center is low pressure
500
When a hurricane is forming, warm moist air rises into the atmosphere and cool. What forms as a result?
clouds
500
This is the body of water west of Central America.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
500
What do we call hurricane-like storms in the South Pacific?
cyclones