Reading the Sky: teacher key

Hurricanes and Tornadoes, grade 5 edition, written for 5th grade. How are a hurricane and a tornado alike, and how are they not? Look at how each one forms, how big it is, what it is called and how people watch the sky for it.

Read the book. Print this page for the key.

Questions and answers

1. Which kind of storm is rated by the damage it causes?
   • A hurricane
   • A tornado (answer)
   • A typhoon
2. What is the ring of thunderstorms around a hurricane's eye called?
   • The funnel
   • The alley
   • The eyewall (answer)
3. A storm has an eye, and its winds are rated from 1 to 5. Which storm is it?
   • A tornado
   • A funnel cloud
   • A hurricane (answer)
4. What do the probes dropped from Hurricane Hunter planes send back?
   • Names of storms
   • Pressure, humidity, temperature and wind readings (answer)
   • The Saffir-Simpson rating
5. How often do the Atlantic storm-name lists start over?
   • Every year
   • Every six years (answer)
   • Every ten years

Words

• funnel: spinning cone
• eyewall: storm ring
• typhoons: Pacific hurricanes
• probes: small tools
• radar: storm-seeing tool