Hurricanes by Seymour Simon

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Book: Hurricanes
Author: Seymour Simon
ISBN-13: 978-0-06-117072-0

1. What are hurricanes?
2. Where do hurricanes develop?
3. Do hurricanes bring tornadoes?
4. When is hurricane season?
5. When is the peak of hurricane season?
6. How many hurricanes does the East Coast average?
7. What did the ancient Mayan people call hurricanes?
8. Who came up with the word “Huracan”?
9. What does “Huracan” mean?
10. What are tropical storms?
11. What are cyclones?
12. Cyclones spin _____________________________________ in the Northern Hemisphere and _________________________ in the Southern Hemisphere.
13. What do you call cyclones of clouds and thunderstorms that spin around a central area?
14. How fast are the winds in tropical depressions?
15. What do you call cyclones of heavy clouds and strong thunderstorms?
16. How fast are the winds of tropical storms?
17. What are the wind speeds of hurricanes?
18. Hurricanes develop in the ______________________________, ___________________________, ___________________________, or ____________________________________.
19. Where are typhoons developed?
20. Where are cyclones developed?
21. What is the weather like in the eye of a hurricane?
22. What is a storm surge?
23. How big is a storm surge?
24. What is a storm tide?
25. How many people died when the hurricane hit Galveston, Texas?
26. Tornado winds can reach more than _______________________________________.
27. How many days can hurricanes last?
28. Hurricanes can cause more damage than any other single weather event.  True or False
29. What amount of energy can a hurricane release?
30. What system is used to measure hurricanes?
31. What is a Category 1 Hurricane?
32. What damages does a hurricane 1 cause?
33. What is a Category 2 Hurricane?
34. What damages does a hurricane 2 cause?
35. What is a Category 3 Hurricane?
36. What damages does a hurricane 3 cause?
37. What is a Category 4 Hurricane?
38. What damages does a hurricane 4 cause?
39. What is a Category 5 Hurricane?
40. What damages does a hurricane 5 cause?
41. What was the most costliest hurricane in the U.S.?
42. How many hours in advance does the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) give before a hurricane hits?

Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs Martin

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Book: Snowflake Bentley
Author: Jacqueline Briggs Martin
ISBN-13: 978-0-547-24829-5

1. When does the story take place?
2. When was Wilson Bentley born?
3. Where was Wilson Bentley born?
4. Where is the “Snowbelt” located?
5. What is the annual snowfall in the “snowbelt”?
6. Which days were Bentley’s happiest?
7. Bentley said snow was ____________________________________________________________.
8. What is Bentley’s brother’s name?
9. Who was Bentley’s teacher until he was 14 years old?
10. What did Bentley use to study snowflakes?
11. Bentley studied all forms of moisture.  True or False
12. Bentley didn’t keep records of the weather.  True or False
13. Bentley did many experiments with raindrops.  True or False
14. How many branches do most crystals have?
15. Some crystals have ___________________ branches.
16. What did Bentley try to draw for 3 winters?
17. At what age did Bentley start drawing crystals?
18. At what age did Bentley get a camera from his parents?
19. How many times could Bentley’s microscope magnify a crystal?
20. How big was the camera that Bentley received?
21. How much did the camera cost?
22. How many winters did it take Bentley to figure out how to photograph snowflakes?
23. Were people receptive in those days to Bentley’s photographs?
24. How does each Snowflake begin?
25. What attaches to the speck? (A)
26. After A attaches to the speck, what does it form?
27. When the crystal grows, the branches come together.  What do the branches trap?
28. Why aren’t two snowflakes alike?
29. What year did Bentley experienced his best snowstorm?
30. How many photographs did he make during the two-day storm?
31. What did Bentley call the storm?
32. What did Bentley become known as?
33. Bentley was the world’s expert on _________________________.
34. In what did Bentley spent his money on?
35. At what age was Bentley when his book was published?
36. How much did Bentley spend on his work by 1926?
37. How much did Bentley receive from his work by 1926?
38. How did Bentley die?