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27 Cards in this Set
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Natural Disaster |
is a natural hazard that affects the environment and leads to financial, environmental, and or human loss. |
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Hurricane |
is a dangerous storm with wind speeds of a least 74 miles per hour. |
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Thunderstorms |
many bands of these make up a hurricane |
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Center |
The bands wrap around the hurricane's ____ |
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Energy |
a hurricane is a storm that has lots of ___ |
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Warm Ocean Water |
It gets energy from ____ |
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Tropical Depression |
is an area of heavy rains and winds and is the first stage in the development of a hurricae. |
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tropical storm |
is a storm with winds between 39 and 73 miles per hour. this is the stage right before a hurricane. |
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Waves |
a hurricanes winds creates large ocean _____ |
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Shape of the Coast |
a hurricane that moves over land can change the ______ __ ___ ______. |
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damage |
a hurricane that moves over land can cause much ___ |
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uproot and destroy |
a hurricane can ____ and ____ peoples houses. |
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Eye |
the spot in the middle of the hurricane is its ____ |
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gentle |
winds in the eye of a hurricane are ____ |
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Rain, Clouds |
The eye has no ____ and few if any ____ |
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Spins |
the entire hurricane ____ around its eye |
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Strongest winds, rains |
the bands of thunderstorms around the eye have the ____ _____ and constant heavy ____ |
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Opposite |
winds on one side of the eye blow in the _____ direction of the winds on the other side of the eye. |
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thunderstoms, winds |
all hurricanes have strong____ and fast swirling _____ |
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Storm Search |
when the hurricane is near land, its winds push large waves of ocean water onto shore. The rise in sea level caused by the storm's winds is called a ______ ______ |
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names |
hurricanes have _____ |
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Female, Male |
______ and _____ names follow one another in alphabetical order. |
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Weather Forcast |
Meteorologists make ____ _____ to tell people about hurricanes that are far from land |
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instruments, world |
Meteorologist use data from _____ all over the ____ to track hurricanes. |
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Knowledge, experience |
when meteorologists make a forcast these scientists also use their own _____ and _____ |
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Wind Speed, 1, 5 |
hurricanes are reated by their ____ ____. a category ____ is the weakest hurricane. a category ___ is the strongest |
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hurricane |
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