Question

Where do hurricanes affect the United States? Along the Gulf Coast and the Atlantic Coast

In Florida during contested presidential elections

Along the Gulf Coast only

Along the Pacific Coast.

QUESTION 2

How does an “eye” form? After all, it is pretty strange to get an area of clear skies in the middle of one of Earth’s most violent storm systems!

There is so much convergence towards the center of a hurricane that so much air spirals up to the top of the troposphere that some of it is forced to descend in the middle of the storm. 

Divergence throughout the hurricane always leads to an eye in the middle of a storm

The eye forms because “gaia” is trying to look out into the universe.

The eye is like a giant tornado, only in reverse.

QUESTION 3

What generates the storm surge of a hurricane?

The hurricanes eye has the effect of “sucking up” the level of the sea.

The combination of lower pressure raising sea level and wind-driven waves.

The intense rainfall associated with hurricanes causes the surge.

Winds driven by storm towers drive up the surf and surge the storm towards the coast.

QUESTION 4

What “kills” a hurricane?

A weak trade-wind inversion.

Cold sea temperatures or land

Lots of moisture at low levels of the atmosphere

Little wind shear (few changes in wind speed or direction with height)

QUESTION 5

What is needed for hurricanes to form?

All of the other answers are correct, and thus this is the best answer.

Little wind sheer (few changes in wind speed or direction with altitude)

A strong Coriolis effect, and thus they must form away from the Equator

Very warm temperatures in the ocean (26 degrees C) through a depth of 60 meters, producing lots of water

 

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