Hurricane

Use the following websites to help you to answer the "General Information" questions on your handout.

1. What is a hurricane?

• http://www.weatherwizkids.com/hurricane1.htm (Basic Reading)
• http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/wwatch/hurricanes/index.htm (Advanced Reading)

2. Where and when can hurricanes form?

• http://eo.ucar.edu/webweather/hurricane2.html (Scroll down to the section titled "Where and When Do They Form?")

Use the following websites to help you answer the "Formation" questions on your handout.

3. How do hurricanes form?

• http://www.weatherwizkids.com/hurricane1.htm (Scroll down to the section titled "How do Hurricanes form?)
• http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/wwatch/hurricanes/indepth.htm (Scroll down to the section titled "What makes a hurricane?")
• http://scifiles.larc.nasa.gov/kids/Problem_Board/problems/weather/hurricanebasics.swf (Very cool animation!)

Use the following websites to help you to answer the "Damage" questions on your handout.

4. List at least 4 damages that can result from hurricanes.

• http://eo.ucar.edu/webweather/hurricane.html
• http://www.fema.gov/kids/intense.htm (Hurricane categories)

5. Name a previous hurricane that had a devastating impact?  When and where did it occur?

• http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/HAW2/english/history.shtml 

Use the following websites to help you answer the "Safety" questions on your handout.

6. How do meteorologists (weather scientists) predict its formation? 

• http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6955364.stm

7. How can people keep safe from a hurricane?

• http://www.weatherwizkids.com/hurricane1.htm (Scroll down to the section titled "Hurricane Safety Tips")