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Test Description: Hurricane practice test

Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.

1) What is the most intense part of a hurricane?

Aeye Beye wall Crain bands Deye bands

2) What is the fuel or the engine that keeps a hurricane alive?

Awind Bwarm water Cland Dcold water

3) What is the name of the scale used to rank hurricanes?

AHurricane Scale BRichter Scale CSaffir Simpson Scale DTropical Scale

4) What are the 3 ingredients necessary for a hurricane to form?

A80 degrees or warmer water, surface level low pressure, upper level high pressure B100 degrees or warmer water, surface level low pressure, upper level high pressure C80 degrees or warmer water, surface level high pressure, upper level low pressure D100 degrees or warmer water, surface level high pressure, upper level low pressure

5) What is the calmest part of a hurricane?

Aeye Bstorm surge Ceye wall Drain bands

6) What is the correct order for development of a hurricane?

Atropical depression, tropical wave, tropical storm, hurricane Btropical wave, tropical storm, tropical depressions, hurricane Ctropical wave, tropical depression, tropical storm, hurricane Dtropical storm, tropical wave, tropical depression, hurricane

7) What is a storm spinning counter clockwise with winds between 39 and 73 mph?

Atropical wave Btropical storm Churricane Dtropical depression

8) What is the largest part of a hurricane?

Athe tail Brain bands Ceye wall Deye

9) Which one of these hurricanes was a category 5 hurricane when it hit the United States?

AHurricane Ivan BHurricane Hugo CHurricane Camille DHurricane Ike

10) What is a storm spinning counter clockwise with winds > 74 mph?

Atropical depression Btropical wave Ctropical storm Dcategory 1 hurricane

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