Geography assignment

1. How many tropical storms in the Caribbean become hurricanes? How many strikes the east coast of the USA

2. What is a hurricane and what are the temperature conditions it needs to develop?

3. Where is the energy of the hurricane coming from?

4. What was the first agency in predicting the path of the hurricane and how many days ahead it came

5. What is the meaning of NOAA

6. What is the name of the high pressure system that modifies hurricanes in the Caribbean

7. What is the name of the oceanic current that feeds hurricanes in the eastern coast of the USA

8. 12. What is a northeastern and what was its role in hurricane sandy development

9. 14. What was the role of hurricane Irene 2011 in the evacuation of New York on 2012?

10. 15. Explain why sandy was two storms on one

11. 16. Explain the role of the jet stream in the development of Sandy

12. Why the time in which Sandy hits New York was the worst possible

13. What was the sea level at the beginning of the storm surge

14. What is the elevation above sea level of lower Manhattan

15. What happens in Queens at mid afternoon

16. What is the name of the neighborhood where firefighters did shelter in place but was submerged by water

17. What was the accident of geography that concentrates sea waves? What was its effect

18. What was the cause of the black out in lower Manhattan

19. What was the role of tweeter during the emergency?

20. What was the cause of the fire

21. List three cities in addition to New York discussed by the video

22. How many subway tunnels where flooded, how many bus garages were under water

23. What was the climatic event that made Sandy an unusual storm?

24. What is the role of rising temperatures in the artic?

25. Do we know for sure the effect of global climate in hurricanes?

26. How much sea level average can increase in the future

Questions from the book

1. Check in the book the meaning of: hurricane eye, eye wall,

2. Check in the book the stages of a hurricane lifecycle and their characteristics

3. Check in the book what is the place where most hurricanes that hits the USA originate

4. Check in the book what are the characteristics of a hurricane

5. Check in the book what is the name of the scale used to assess hurricanes categories

6. Check in the book the role that the following hurricane features play in the damages of the hurricane, what is more dangerous, how:

a. Inland flooding

b. Storm surge

c. Wind speed

d. Rain

7. Check in the book what a barrier island is and their role when hurricane hits

8. Check in the book three strategies adopted to increase public safety

9. Study the section Basic Understanding and Enduring ideas from the book chapter 12