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What major water bodies form the coastline of Africa?
The Indian ocean to the east, southern ocean to the south, and the Atlantic ocean to the west of Africa.
What ocean borders Africa to the east?
The Indian ocean lies to the east of Africa,
What is the warmest ocean?
The Indian ocean is the warmest ocean
This is the third largest ocean.?
Indian Ocean. It has an area of 26,469,900 square miles and is near the Southern Ocean, Asia, Australia and Africa. The largest ocean is the Pacific, followed by the Atlantic, the Indian, the Southern and then the Arctic Ocean.
What ocean is connected to the Indian Ocean?
the ocean which borders India to the south is called as the Indian ocean
Do typhoons occur in the Indian Ocean?
They do. But they are not called typhoons there. They are called intense tropical cyclones.
Where do most of the typhoons that hit the Philippines come from?
typhoons came from Pacific Ocean. Hurricanes came from Atlantic Ocean.And Tornadoes came from Indian Ocean.
Do typhoons form at cold continents?
No. Typhoons are tropical cyclones, and as such can only form over warm ocean water.
Where is the busiest place for typhoons?
The tropics of the Pacific Ocean is the busiest place for typhoons to form and they normally do most damage in the Western Pacific Ocean.
What is a cyclone in the Indian Ocean known as in the Pacific ocean?
Cyclones in both the Indian ocean and the Pacific Ocean are called cyclones.They are known as hurricanes in the Caribbean and the Americas, and typhoons in Asia.
What are hurricanes called in the Indian ocean what are hurricanes called in western northern pacific and Philippines?
They are called cyclones in the Indian Ocean and typhoons in the western Pacific and Philippines region.
Are they tornadoes or hurricanes in Madagascar?
There have been tornadoes in Madagascar that have caused serious damage. A tropical storm that originates over the Indian Ocean and winds get to 74 miles per hour are called cyclones. Hurricanes form over the Atlantic Ocean. Typhoons form over the Pacific Ocean.
What is a cyclone called in Asia?
In the Far East, a hurricane is called a typhoon. Hurricanes and typhoons are types of tropical cyclones. In other regions of the world, such as the Caribbean area or parts of the North Atlantic Ocean, these storms are called hurricanes.
Do Tropical cyclones ever leave the tropics?
Typhoons, cyclones, and hurricanes are the same thing. Typhoons occur in the western Pacific Ocean Hurricanes occur in the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, and the Gulf of Mexico; intense form of tropical storm Cyclones occur near the Indian Ocean and Australia. They need very warm ocean water and an air disturbance to keep warm air rising to last.
Other names for hurricanes are typhoons and?
Another name would be cyclone, tropical cyclone or severe tropical cyclone these names apply to the storms that form in the southern pacific below the equator and the Indian ocean.
How do mountains affects the formation of typhoons?
Typhoons cannot form over land and therefore cannot form over mountains; they can only form over warm ocean water. A typhoon that moves over a mountainous area will lose strength very quickly as the high terrain will force it to drop most of its moisture as rain.
What ocean does not form a boundary with the US?
the indian ocean
