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What is a hurricanes.
An Atlanic (or eastern pacific) tropical cyclone in which winds sustain speeds greater than 119 kmh (74 mph).
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What is a flood.
An overflow of water.
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What is a tornado
Violent windstorms with a rapidly rotating column of air
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What is two causes of wildfires
Humanity and lighting are...
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What is a heatwave
A period of unusually hot weather that typically lasts two or more days
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What is the fuel of a hurricane.
Warm sea waters
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What is the number of type of floods.
Four. Flash floods, urban floods, river floods, and coastal floods
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What is Tornado Ally
The Midwest of the United States is called...
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What is the percentage of wildfires caused by humanity?
85%
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What is 2015
The year that broke the 66-year-record for highest number of extremely warm days
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What is the scale of hurricanes.
Ranked by the Saffir-Simpson scale: Category 1,2,3,4, and 5.
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What is the causes of floods.
Heavy rain, storm surge, and high tide
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What is a vacuum
A tornados acts like a big...
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What is 6x the land area
Wildfires occurred nearly 4x as often, lasted about 5x as long and burned more than...
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What is C02 levels
Risen 40% since 1790
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What is components making hurricanes increase.
Warm sea surface temperatures, atmospheric temperatures, sea levels rising (flooding)
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What is heavy rainfall and floods increase
As temperature rise, creating more warm air (which holds moisture better than cooler air) the risk of...
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What is three things that increase tornados
High surface temperatures, strong winds, and increase in vertical wind shear are
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What is the affect climate change has on wildfires
High surface temperatures, dry air, dead vegetation, and earlier spring and summer mean
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What is greenhouse gases
Heatwaves have increased due to...
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