Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Unit: 5B


Wednesday, April 15, 2015
Reading Explorer 2 | Exam Study Guide
Unit: 5B
Created by: Yahya Taleb

A. The main idea of this unit’s reading (topic, problem, and solution):

There are differences types of storms, and the storms are damage many buildings and kill a lot of people. Rising sea levels are increasing storm damage. The common storm is tropical cyclones.
B. An important sequence of events from the reading (first, second, and third):

First, the meteorologists predicted about the tropical cyclones would come.
Second, the tropical cyclone rotated around the center, and being stronger and bigger, because it being over water that is warmer than 27 degrees Celsius, and it speed up winds reach until 118 kilometers per hours.
Third, the scientists said that it is difficult to predict about tropical cyclones, even with computers. And they said that the storm are often energized to become tropical cyclone.
Fourth, many buildings damaged and many people died by storm surge. Storm surge is a rise in sea level, sometimes seven meters or more.


J. A description of categories from the reading (classification):

1-      Hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones is almost same, but the differences is the location. Hurricanes happen in the Caribbean Sea, and typhoons happen in the Pacific Ocean, and cyclones happen in h Indian Ocean.

2-      Tropical cyclone is a type of storms, and it is very strong. It being over water that is warmer than 27 degrees Celsius, and it speed up winds reach until 118 kilometers per hours. Storm surge is a rise in sea level, sometimes seven meters or more.



D. Four of the most difficult vocabulary words from the unit with definitions:

Qualify: to give (someone) the necessary skill or knowledge to do a particular job or activity.
Humid: having a lot of moisture in the air
Rotate: having the parts flat and spreading or radiating like the spokes of a wheel.
Forecasts: to say that (something) will happen in the future: to predict (something, such as weather) after looking at the information that is available


H. A Predicted related topic that may be on the exam, described using some of the unit’s vocabulary (underline vocabulary):


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