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6. What is it like on the edge of the storm?

  • falling wind speeds, smaller and more compact clouds, less intense and increased temperatures
  • falling wind speeds, smaller and more scattered clouds, less intense and decreased temperatures
  • falling wind speeds, smaller and more scattered clouds, less intense and increased temperatures
  • rising wind speeds, smaller and more scattered clouds, less intense and increased temperatures

7. Where do hurricanes form?

  • South Pacific and Indian Ocean
  • North Atlantic and Northeast Pacific
  • Northwest Pacific

8. Where do typhoons form?

  • Northwest Pacific
  • South Pacific and Indian Ocean
  • North Atlantic and Northeast Pacific

9. How strong are the winds in the eyewall?

  • Around 180km per hour
  • Around 210km per hour
  • Around 160km per hour
  • Around 150km per hour

10. What is it like in the eyewall?

  • Spiralling rising air, light winds, storm clouds, light rainfall, high temperatures
  • Spiralling rising air, strong winds, storm clouds, torrential rain, low temperatures
  • Strong winds, storm clouds, torrential rain, low temperature
  • Spiralling sinking air, strong winds, storm clouds, torrential rain, low temperature

11. The sea has to be at what temperature for tropical storms to form?

  • 24 degrees C or higher
  • 27 degrees C or higher
  • 25 degrees C or higher
  • 28 degrees C or higher

12. How far north and south from the equator do tropical storms form?

  • 5 and 30 degrees
  • 2 and 20 degrees
  • 4 and 29 degrees
  • 5 and 35 degrees

13. How wide is the eye?

  • 55km
  • 40km
  • 50km
  • 60km

14. What are tropical storms?

  • Low pressure weather system with intense rain and winds
  • High pressure weather system with intense rain and winds
  • Low pressure weather system with clear skies and sunny weather
  • High pressure weather system with clear skies and sunny weather

15. What is it like in the eye?

  • High pressure, light winds, no clouds, no rain, low temperatures
  • High pressure, strong winds, clouds, rain, low temperatures
  • Low pressure, light winds, no clouds, no rain, high temperatures
  • Low pressure, light winds, clouds, rain, high temperatures

16. What is the eye surrounded by?

  • edge of storm
  • eye wall
  • clouds
  • eye

17. Where do cyclones form?

  • North Atlantic and Northeast Pacific
  • South Pacific and Indian Ocean
  • Northwest Pacific