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  Exploring Hurricanes

Use the underlined sites to find the answers to the questions.


1. Hurricanes begin as what?

2. Where do hurricanes begin?

3. What are the two parts of a hurricane?


 (In this section, you need to follow the directions, and just slide your cursor over each number and watch how it changes the picture and the words to the right.)

4. When you put your cursor over the number one you can read about air
down the center of the hurricane.
When you put your cursor over the number two, you can see the wind going counterclockwise in the 
When you put your cursor over the number three, you can see the wind coming out of the eye and going clockwise  or down.

 ( In this section you will be moving your cursor over all 4 pictures.
Read what is says to the right when you are over each picture.)

5. Describe the difference between the way the tree looks in picture 1 and picture 2.

6. Tell what happens to the water in picture 3.

7. List three things to do to prepare for a hurricane.



Then read about what needs to be in your hurricane kit.

8. Meet the Benitez family.  You can click on each person in the family and read about their thoughts.  Then click back.
 

9. You can look at the Benitez house before and after the storm.  Click on the doors and windows to see other areas of the house, before and after.  Then click back.
 

10. Read these instructions about how to track a hurricane.  Then track one of the following hurricanes:(you will need to click on the map at the spot where the two coordinates meet.)
AndrewCamille   Hugo

11. Now take a ride into the eye of a hurricane.  Just click on each arrow that points to the right and wait for the picture  to load.  Write about what you learned on your cyber ride.  The previous site from Hurricane Hunters.com was out of service during Hurricane Ivan in Sept. 2004.  This site also has a great photo album of flying in and out of the eye of a hurricane...

12. Read about Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Look at actual photos.  Click forward to see each one.

Created by: Kathy Beck, Technology Specialist, Lake Norman Elementary School updated 3/2006
Special thanks to USA Today Weather Basics, Hurricane Hunters, and the Miami Museum of Science

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