Cyclones Story Board
1. Identify how the disaster occurs (use
technical scientific language)
Tropical cyclones start as a low pressure
system and they form over warm tropical
waters with sea temperatures above 26.5°c.
The warm, moist air begins to spiral and
becomes a strong, circling, wind storm. In the
centre of a cyclone, there is a calm area called
the 'eye'. In the eye, the sky is clear and there
is only a light wind blowing. To be classed as a
cyclone they need to have wind speeds
greater than 63km/hour and gusts at the
centre/eye in excess of 90km/hour and lasting
longer than 6 hours. Cyclones can change
direction suddenly, which makes it very
difficult for meteorologists to forecast what
will happen. Tropical cyclones bring heavy
rain, strong winds and cause high waves,
storm surges and flash flooding.
How cyclones form
eye
Formation of a cyclone
2. Describe the scales that are use by scientists
to measure the disaster.
Cyclones are categorised on their intensity of
wind it produces. A category 1 cyclone is the
weakest with the lowest wind speed and
category 5 is the strongest with the strongest
wind speed.
Categories of cyclones
3. Analyse and explain their effects on living
and non living things.
Living things
 Cyclones destroy property therefore
people lose their homes or have
damage to repair.
 Cyclones destroys crops which in turn
customers pay more for goods or can’t
get them at all.
 Cyclones ruins roads therefore roads
can be cut and people sometimes can’t
get goods.
 Cyclones bring down power lines
therefore people don’t have
refrigeration for their food or power for
lights or appliances.
 Cyclones can cause death and therefore
loved ones die.
 Cyclones can injure humans and
animals.
Non living things
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Demolished house
Storm Surge
Boats everywhere
from cyclone Yasi
Cyclone destroy houses.
Cyclones destroy property.
Cyclones ruins roads
Cyclones demolishes businesses
Cyclones Cause erosion of beaches
therefore beaches are closed.
 Cyclones cause loss of power.
Fallen power lines
4. State how scientists make early detections of
the disaster and how they communicate to
the public.
Forecasters and scientists monitor the
weather with radar images and computer
modelling programs which can detect low
pressure systems which may form into
cyclones, they inform people by TV, radio,
internet and newspapers.
Newspaper article for
cyclone Tracy
Battery operated radio
Bibliography
http://images.watoday.com.au/2011/01/27/2154019/article-cyclone-420x0.jpg
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00799/baked-beans_799777c.jpg
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http://www.bom.gov.au/
http://www.bom.gov.au/cyclone/images/tc-graph-1969-2012.png
http://www.caminodesantiago.me/wp-content/uploads/water-bottle.jpg
http://www.gmat.unsw.edu.au/currentstudents/ug/projects/Darmawan/Cyclone_files/cyclone.jpg
http://www.totalsecureme.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/First-Aid-Box.jpg
http://www.worldatlas.com/twitter/darwin/headline.jpg
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The New Jacaranda Atlas by The Jacaranda Press
5. Based on your research make predictions of
where and when are natural disaster may
likely occur.
Darwin
Weipa
Derby
Bundaberg
I predict that in our next cyclone season
which run from 1st November 2014 to 30th
April 2015 that there will be 5 cyclones based
in the categories 1-2. I think that the
cyclones will hit Darwin in the Northern
Territory and the top half of WA around
Derby and another around Port Hedland and
in Queensland around Weipa and
Bundaberg.
Port Hedland
My predicted areas for
cyclones in Australia
6. Provide scientific evidence for your
predictions.
There is scientific evidence that cyclones
occurs in warm tropical waters and my
towns/cities are all in the Northern parts of
Australia that have warm tropical water
temperatures. Cyclones occur on the coast
and all my towns/cities are on the coast. I
also have predicted that that these cyclone
will occur in November to April next year
which is scientifically proven to be cyclone
season because the water temperatures are
much warmer at that time of year because of
it being Summer and Autumn. I have
predicted that my 5 cyclones for next year
will only be categories 1-2 because I believe
that there is a cyclone pattern and a serious
cyclone hasn’t happened for a few years and
won’t happen next season either. 1 have
predicted 2 cyclones for WA because from
Cyclones that have crossed
the coast from 1970-2002
 severe
 non severe
Cyclone Trends
1970-2004 72/146 cyclones that crossed that
coast in Australia occurred between Broome
and Exmouth making this area of coast line
more prone to cyclones
7. Explain and illustrate the safety procedures
that need to be followed in the event one
encounters a disaster.
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Cut /trim down all trees near house
Clear gutters
Secure loose items
Check on neighbours
Collect water in case of loss of water
or contamination
Spare food/tin food
First aid kit in case of injury
Charge mobile phone
Portable radio and spare batteries
Have a torch and spare batteries in
case of black out
Open doors and windows on opposite
side of the house from which cyclone
is coming
Don’t go outside
Get into smallest room/get inside and
stay inside
Stay away from all glass windows and
doors
Stay away from fallen power lines
First aid kit
Spare water
Tin food/spare food
Brock Roselt
Year 6
Natural
Disasters
19th March 2014