Hurricanes Vocabulary Practice Quiz
Hurricane Vocabulary Challenge
Test your knowledge and understanding of hurricane-related terms with this engaging vocabulary quiz! Designed for learners of all ages, it consists of 24 multiple-choice questions that will enhance your understanding of hurricane science and safety.
- 24 Informative Questions
- Multiple Choice Format
- Learn Vital Vocabulary
To leave an area for reasons of safety
Evacute
Hurricane
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
Tyhoon
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
Typhoon
Barrier island
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 Philippines or China Sea
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
Storm surge
Eye of the hurricane
Evacuate
This happens because a storm has fast winds, pushing the water on shore, causing the water level to rise
Barrier island
Evacuate
Storm surge
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
Barrier island
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
Mooring lines
Hurricanes
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.
Satellites
Evacuate
Mooring
Fill in the blank with the missing vocabulary word: Hurricane Katrina’s storm surge was 25 feet high, taller than a two story house.
Radar
Barrier island
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.
Radar
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
Radar
Hurricane-hunting plane
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
Hurricane-hunting plane
Evacuated
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