Hurricanes Vocab Practice Quiz
Hurricane Vocabulary Challenge
Test your knowledge of hurricane terminology with this engaging quiz designed for anyone interested in understanding the science behind these powerful storms. Each question will challenge you to recall definitions and facts related to hurricanes, storm surges, and more.
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- Essential terms related to hurricanes
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To leave an area for reasons of safety
Evacuate
Hurricanes
Mooring lines
A type of device that can detect precipitation (rain, hair, snow) or objects
Satellite
Radar
Hurricane-hunting planes
Cargo plane that is modified with specialized weather instruments to measure the humidity, pressure, wind and temperature of a storm
Storm surge
Satellite
Hurricane-hunting plane
A device sent up into space to travel around the earth to collect information, such as weather, and that information is sent back to earth.
Satellite
Mooring line
Radar
A sudden rise of water on the coastline created by a hurricane or other tropical cyclone
Barrier island
Storm surge
Typhoon
A line that holds an object, especially a boat, in place
Mooring line
Barrier island
Cyclone
A long narrow island that is helps to protect the shore from being worn away from the storms or waves
Storm surge
Barrier island
Typhoon
A powerful, clockwise spinning storm that contains strong winds and rain and forms in the southern hemisphere
Typhoon
Cyclone
Hurricane
A powerful, clockwise spinning storm that contains strong winds and rain and forms in the Atlantic Ocean
Typhoon
Cyclone
Hurricane
The center of the storm
Eye of the hurricane
Evacuate
Storm surge
This happens because a storm has fast winds, pushing the water on shore, causing the water level to rise.
Barrier island
Storm surge
Evacuate
The calmest part of a hurricane
Radar
Satellite
Eye of the hurricane
Fill in the blank with the missing vocabulary word: ______________ Katrina made landfall off of the coast of Louisiana on August 29, 2005 as a category 3 storm, reaching speeds of 120 miles per hour.
Typhoon
Cyclone
Hurricane
Fill in the blank with the missing vocabulary word: The ______________ can be 20 to 40 miles in diameter, although some have been recorded at 120 miles.
Eye of the hurricane
Mooring lines
Storm surge
Fill in the blank with the missing vocabulary word: A _________________ is the name for a hurricane that occurs in the Western Pacific.
Typhoon
Cyclone
Hurricane
Fill in the blank with the missing vocabulary word: ___________________ are hurricanes that form in the Southern Hemisphere and between December and April.
Typhoons
Cyclones
Hurricanes
Fill in the blank with the missing vocabulary word: Louisiana’s _________________ are eroding so quickly that according to some estimates, they will disappear by the end of this century.
Barrier islands
Storm surges
Mooring lines
Fill in the blank with the missing vocabulary word: In and around Miami, people boarded up windows, doubled _____________ on their boats, and laid in supplies of food, water, batteries, and candles.
Barrier islands
Storm surges
Mooring lines
Fill in the blank with the missing vocabulary word: Hurricane Katrina’s _____________ was 25 feet high, taller than a two story house.
Radar
Satellite
Storm surge
Fill in the blank with the missing vocabulary word: The ______________ collected images from space of the hurricane and how well formed it was.
Satellite
Radar
Evacuate
Fill in the blank with the missing vocabulary word: The _____________pushed its way into a hurricane that threatened the Gulf Coast of Louisiana to collect data.
Eye of the hurricane
Hurricane-hunting plane
Storm surge
Fill in the blank with the missing vocabulary word: Modern weather _______________ can detect the motion and intensity of rain.
Radars
Satellites
Mooring lines
Fill in the blank with the missing vocabulary word: Several families were ____________________ from their homes for fear of flooding.
Storm surge
Radars
Evacuated
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