Exam 11: Hurricanes

Instructions: Choose one answer from each pair of selections. Hurricane development is more likely when preexisting upper-level winds are STRONG | WEAK.

There is a reduction in the number of Atlantic hurricanes during a major El Niño event.

Hurricanes do not form ____.

The terms typhoon and cyclone refer to the initial weaker stages in the development of a hurricane.

Just before a storm is classified as a fully developed hurricane, it is in the ____ stage.

The vertical structure of the hurricane shows an upper-level ____ of air, and a surface ____ of air.

Instructions: Choose one answer from each pair of selections. As westward-moving Atlantic hurricanes approach the east coast of the United States, they turn toward the NORTH | SOUTH

Hurricane energy comes from the latent heat of ____.

Hurricanes cannot form along the equator because ____.

Most of the overall destruction caused by a hurricane is due to ____.

The skies in the center of a hurricane are often cloud free. This is because the air in the eye is ____.

What do forecasters use in place of isobars on ocean weather maps and why?

Instructions: Choose one answer from each pair of selections. In a hurricane moving northward along the Atlantic coast of the United States, the strongest winds will be on the EAST | WEST side.

The strongest winds in a hurricane heading westward toward Florida would most likely be found on the ____ side.

Hurricane development is more likely when the trade wind inversion is well developed.

Instructions: Choose one answer from each pair of selections. Cloud seeding has been used in attempts to INCREASE | DECREASE the diameter of the eye wall and thereby weaken hurricanes.

The three stages of a developing hurricane (from the first stage to the third) are ____.

During a hurricane in the Northern Hemisphere, surface winds increase in speed as they blow ____ and ____ the center.

Suppose the eye of a hurricane passed directly over you, and you survived the experience. If winds were from the northeast as the eyewall first approached you, from what direction did the winds blow when the eyewall reached you the second time?

Compare a hurricane's eye to its eyewall.