What is a Hurricane?
What is the calm, low-pressure center of a hurricane called?
What is The Eye?
What minimum ocean temperature is needed to fuel hurricane formation (°C)?
What is 26.5°C?
What effect of Earth’s rotation causes hurricanes to spin?
What is the Coriolis Effect?
What is the wind speed range of a Category 3 hurricane?
What is 111–129 mph?
Name one essential emergency supply for hurricane preparedness.
What is Water, flashlight, food, radio, etc.?
What surrounds the eye and has the strongest winds and rain?
What is the Eyewall?
What geographic factor makes Caribbean islands vulnerable to storm surges?
What is Exposed coastlines?
What provides the heat and moisture that fuels hurricanes?
What is Warm ocean water?
Which hurricane devastated Jamaica in 1988?
What is Hurricane Gilbert?
What should you do to trees near houses before a hurricane?
What is Trim branches, remove fruits?
What natural feature can extend hundreds of miles outward from the eyewall?
What is Rainbands?
Why does high humidity in the Caribbean contribute to hurricane formation?
What is Provides moist air that fuels storms?
When winds reach 39 mph, what is the storm classified as?
What is a Tropical Storm?
Which Category 5 hurricane destroyed 90% of Grenada’s housing in 2004?
What is Hurricane Ivan?
What are the three phases of the hurricane warning system?
What is Alert, Watch, Warning?
Hurricanes are classified as such when wind speeds reach what minimum speed?
What is 74 mph?
What ocean basin is most responsible for Caribbean hurricanes?
What is Atlantic Ocean/Caribbean Sea?
What process releases heat and fuels uplift when moist air rises and cools?
What is Condensation?
Which hurricane struck Dominica and Puerto Rico in 2017?
What is Hurricane Maria?
Why should zinc be secured before a storm?
To prevent roof damage ,debris hazards or it from flying off?
Name two impacts hurricanes typically cause.
What is Flooding, storm surges, wind damage, infrastructure destruction?
Name two reasons why the Caribbean is highly vulnerable to hurricanes.
What is Warm waters, humid air, small islands, exposed coastlines?
List the 5 steps of hurricane formation.
What is Warm water → rising air → low pressure → Coriolis effect → organized storm?
Which hurricane hit The Bahamas in 2019 as a slow-moving Category 5 storm?
What is Hurricane Dorian?
Name two organizations/committees to stay in touch with during hurricanes.
What is Parish Disaster Committees, Meteorological Service, etc.?