Nature’s Fury
How can we deal with natural disasters?
Directions: Use the links listed to answer the following
questions IN COMPLETE SENTENCES.
Careers in Meteorology
1. What is a meteorologist? What do they specifically
study?
2. Why would listening to a meteorologist be helpful?
3. What does NWS stand for?
4. How do scientists make their predictions (what do
they use)?
Hurricanes and Typhoons
1. What is a hurricane?
2. How does it form?
3. Where do tropical cyclones form? Where do they
occur?
4. What is the difference between a hurricane and a
typhoon?
5. How are they similar?
6. What is the most violent storm on earth?
7. Describe the eye of a hurricane?
8. When are they most likely to occur? What month
and what is the water temperatures?
9. What is the only month a hurricane has never been
recorded?
10.
How do the wind speeds classify it as a
tropical depression, tropical storm, and a
hurricane?
Tsunamis
1. What is a tsunami?
2. What other natural disaster do they compare it to?
3. How large can the waves get?
4. What does Tsunami mean? Why is it called that?
5. What country has been hit by the most Tsunamis?
How many have hit that nation?
6. How are Tsunamis created?
7. Where are they most likely to occur?
8. Describe the Tsunami’s wave pattern.
9. Describe the damage of a Tsunami.