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What are some specific changes to Earths surface as a result of hurricanes and tornadoes?
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Hurricanes can cause significant coast erosion. Flooding resulting from heavy rains can alter river channels.
Tornadoes can destroy vegetation, but rarely cause significant amounts of soil erosion.
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Do earthquakes and glaciers change the earth surface?
yes they do and so do glaciers, hurricanes, tornadoes and many other things
Does the funnel of the hurricane send air from the bottom up towards the sky?
Hurricanes don't have funnels; tornadoes do. However, in both cases air moves up from the surface.
How do hurricanes affect the earths surface?
they obviously destroy things...
What factors make hurricanes and tornadoes hazardous?
90% of hurricane deaths are drownings. The most dangerous feature of a hurricane is the storm surge. This is a bulge on the surface at the ocean that can cause heavy coastal flooding. Hurricanes also produce torrential rain that can lead to landslides and more flooding. Hurricanes also produce very strong winds that can knock down trees and damage or destroy buildings. Finally, severe thunderstorms can form in the outer bands of a hurricane, wome of which can produce tornadoes.
How do events such as tornadoes hurricanes volcanic eruptions earthquakes and flooding rapidly change the surface features of the earth?
Volcanoes can build mountains fairly quickly, and destroy them even faster. They can form new lakes, and islands, and just as easily make them disappear. Flooding can change the courses of rivers and wash away terrain. Tornadoes can level forests ans strip away vegetation.
What makes up the surface?
earth quakes, volcanoes, tornadoes, tsunamis, hurricanes, etc.
Do earthquakes and glaciers change the earth surface?
yes they do and so do glaciers, hurricanes, tornadoes and many other things
Where can energy be found on Earth?
It can be found in areas where temperature changes often or where air of different temps and densities collide. These create high winds, often tornadoes and hurricanes. That is where high winds can be found but wind occurs everywhere along the surface of the earth.
What type of surface area do tornadoes and hurricanes form?
Hurricanes can form only open warm ocean water with a temperature of least 80 degrees or 26 celsius. Tornadoes can form over land or water. A tornado formed over water is called a waterspout. Tornadoes can almost anywhere in the world with the right weather conditions. Their have been tornadoes on six continents. Hurricanes form in the tropics and then follow paths that take them either over land or they or they stay over the open ocean.
Where can wind energy be found on Earth?
It can be found in areas where temperature changes often or where air of different temps and densities collide. These create high winds, often tornadoes and hurricanes. That is where high winds can be found but wind occurs everywhere along the surface of the earth.
Does the funnel of the hurricane send air from the bottom up towards the sky?
Hurricanes don't have funnels; tornadoes do. However, in both cases air moves up from the surface.
How do tornadoes shape the earths surface?
Tornadoes do not effectively shape the earth's surface, they are too fleeting.
How do hurricanes and cyclones affect the surface of the earth?
Hurricanes may move debris and water droplets causing there to be a minor change in the earths surface.
How meteorologists measure various weather patterns like tornadoes and hurricanes?
Hurricanes are measured through a combination of satellite imagery, manned flights into the storms, Doppler radar, and ground ad seas surface based observations. Tornadoes are more difficult because they are smaller, shorter lived, and overall less predictable. Measurements have been made using Doppler radar and ground and ground based probes. Even then, most tornadoes do not have any measurements taken, so strength is estimated based on the damage caused.
Do hurricanes affect submarines below the surface?
No, hurricanes do not affect submarines operating below the surface. Sea conditions do not affect submarine operations because, in general, they run deep enough to avoid the swell on and near the surface.
How do hurricanes affect the earths surface?
they obviously destroy things...
What factors make hurricanes and tornadoes hazardous?
90% of hurricane deaths are drownings. The most dangerous feature of a hurricane is the storm surge. This is a bulge on the surface at the ocean that can cause heavy coastal flooding. Hurricanes also produce torrential rain that can lead to landslides and more flooding. Hurricanes also produce very strong winds that can knock down trees and damage or destroy buildings. Finally, severe thunderstorms can form in the outer bands of a hurricane, wome of which can produce tornadoes.
