Hurricanes

What is a hurricane?

• A snow storm

• A big powerful storm that has strong winds and lots of rain

Hurricane winds are as a fast as a car zooming down the highway.

• True

• False

Hurricanes are huge swirling storms.

• True

• False

What is the center of a hurricane called?

• the eye

• the elbow

How is a hurricane formed?

• when the ocean water is warm and the air is humid and rises into the sky to form clouds and mixes with calm winds, the clouds mix with moisture over the ocean

• when thunder and lightning strike the ocean and form a big cloud