Complete an interactive exercise regarding Hurricane Sandy.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/labs/lab/cloud/research/intro/ (use USA VPN for it)
In this exercise, you need to click on “Inside a Megastorm”. In this segment, there are notes, maps, and short videos. Study the maps, watch the videos, and read each note and answer the following questions.
Follow each segment systematically
1. Where do Tropical Depressions form? ( Example the name of a country, a state or Latitude)
2. Do these Depressions occur in high or low pressure areas?
3. After watching this video, what other name is given to this storm?
4. What was the height of this storm?
5. After six hours a new name was assigned to this storm. what was the name?
6. What was the temperature at the top of the cloud? Celcius? Fahrenheit
7. After watching the video Explain why rotations common characteristics of many types of large storms.
8. On October 2, what was the wind speed of Sandy?
9. Explain why northern hemisphere cyclones rotate in opposite direction from southern cyclone?
10. What was the main source of energy for the storm?
11. Why did the media call this storm ” Frankenstorm’?
12. Is Global Warming responsible for Sandy?
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