Exam 11: Hurricanes

Instructions: Choose one answer from each pair of selections. Does the temperature difference between the ocean and cloud top determine the maximum strength of a storm in the HEAT ENGINE or the ORGANIZED CONVECTION representation of a hurricane?

The main source of energy for a hurricane is the ____.

Which region of the United States will most likely experience thunderstorms, hurricanes and tornadoes during the course of one year?

Pressure at the center of a hurricane is ____ than the surroundings at the surface and ____ than the surroundings aloft.

Typhoons and hurricanes ____.

Along a coastline, most hurricane damage is caused by ____.

Hurricane Katrina was classified as a Category 5, but as it moved towards the coast its rainbands near the center of the storm converged towards the eye, the storm weakened, and Katrina made landfall as a Category 3 hurricane. This weakening was primarily due to the phenomenon called ____.

Which environmental conditions are most favorable for hurricane formation?

The main reason hurricanes don't develop over the south Atlantic Ocean adjacent to South America is because the ____.

On the Saffir-Simpson scale, a category 5 storm would indicate ____.

A hurricane warning ____.

Scientists have tried to modify hurricanes by ____.

Instructions: Choose one answer from each pair of selections. Tropical cyclone development is most likely in a region where surface winds CONVERGE | DIVERGE.

Despite there being many differences in structure, if a weakening hurricane links up with an upper-level trough, it may actually become a mid-latitude cyclone.

At the periphery of a hurricane, the air is ____.

The skies in the center of a hurricane are often cloud free and surface air pressure is very low. This area is referred to as the ____.

Hurricane Sandy lost its hurricane status about three hours before making landfall. Why, then, is it so historically significant?

During a hurricane, the heaviest rainfall occurs in the ____.

In the vertical, where are winds the strongest in a hurricane versus in mid-latitude cyclones?

Why may the ancient sailors of the sea knew what they were doing when they would dump oil into the sea during stormy weather?