Check Your Understanding (CYU)


Storms Day 5 - CYU_2

Caution: For some CYU questions, more than one of the listed answer options might be correct. For other CYU questions, none of the listed answer options might be correct.  We do this to encourage you to think about the topic. 
Feel free to debate the answers with your peers (i.e., classmates) on the Canvas Discussion board, which is monitored by the TAs.

Question:

For a hurricane to fuel itself, it needs to ...


Answer Options:

  (A)  add heat to the ocean.

  (B)  remove heat from the ocean.

  (C)  create strong winds that form high waves.

  (D)  move over a waveless ocean to avoid the extra friction (drag) caused by high waves.

  (E)  (none of the above)



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Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences Dept.
Univ. of British Columbia