True (A)/False (B) Questions - CHAPTER 13 31. In order for a hurricane to form,

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True (A)/False (B) Questions - CHAPTER 13

31. In order for a hurricane to form, the layer of warm water must extend from the ocean surface to a depth of about 400 feet.

32. During a storm surge, water levels along the coast typically rise only about 2 feet.

33. Polar hurricanes have the same physical structure and wind speed as tropical hurricanes.

34. The clouds that form the hurricane develop best when there is strong vertical wind shear over the tropics.

35. The typhoons of the tropical Pacific are stronger and are twice the number of the Atlantic hurricanes.

36. The hurricane with a central pressure of 990 mb is more powerful than another hurricane with acentral pressure of 870 mb.

37. It would be correct to call the fifth tropical storm of the hurricane season Faculae.

38. Consistently negative values of the SOI indicate the presence of El Nino.

Explanation / Answer

31. False

No such criteria is required for the formation of hurricane.Hurricanes are formed when mositure evaporates and it rises untill enormous amountt of heated moist air are twisted high in the atmosphere.

32.False

The limit is not 2 feet, the rise can be upto several metres.

33) False

physcial structure and wind speed of polar and tropical hurricanes are different.

34) False

35) True

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