Movie Worksheet Killer Hurricanes

1 What are hurricanes called in the Pacific?

2.How many people per year are killed by hurricanes in an average year?

3What year did Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria occur?

4.Which island did the Great Hurricane of 1780 hit first, and what was the death toll?

5.How many people were killed immediately throughout the rest of the Caribbean region?

6.How many days before striking the Caribbean did Irma form as a storm off the African coast?

7.At what mile per hour (mph) wind speed did Storm Irma become a named hurricane?

8.What source did climate historians consult to gage the strength of the 1780 hurricane?

9.What two features made the 1780 hurricane so destructive?

10.What are three key ingredients for the “perfect storm.”

11.What was the deadliest storm to ever hit the United States, and what was the death toll?

12.How much more destructive is a category 5 hurricane compared to a category 1?

13.What killed the most people during 2013 Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines?

14.How high was the estimated storm surge that decimated Barbados in 1780?

15.In their quest for past hurricane data in the Caribbean, where in Jamaica are researchers focusing their search

16.What do researchers examine to determine the frequency and strength of past hurricanes?

17.How can the age of sediment layers be determined?

18.How can researchers be confident their technique for establishing the date and severity of hurricanes that occurred long before any written records?

19.How many years have they been able to go back?

20.What patterns did they see?

21.What do researchers examine to determine sea surface temperatures reaching back thousands of years?

22.What trend do they see over the last 2000 years.

23.How do current/modern sea surface temperatures compare to those 1000 years ago?

24.What is the growing concern among climate scientists regarding hurricanes?

25.Where is one scientist finding evidence that the path of Atlantic hurricanes is shifting towards the US east coast?

26.How is hurricane rain different than rain from ordinary storms?

27.What corroborated their findings?

28.What is the name of the ribbon of warm water along the US east coast that keeps hurricanes alive, even as they move north into colder regions?

29.Why did Hurricane Sandy cause so much damage in New York and New Jersey, even if it was only a category 1 storm?

30. What is the less well known danger of global warming as it related to hurricanes?