What is the difference between a hurricane and a tornado?

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What is the difference between a hurricane and a
tornado?

• Turn to a double page in your books.
• Put a title at the top of each page.
• Draw a sketch of a hurricane and a tornado in the
  centre
• of each page.
• Then label your sketches with the statements on
  the
• following slides.
• Ready.

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Is this a tornado or a hurricane? Draw a simple
sketch of it on the correct page.
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Now, for each pair of statements, decide which is
a tornado, and which is a hurricane. Then write
the statements around your sketches.
They occur all over the world even in the UK.
They only occur just North and south of
the Equator.
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From space, they look like huge anti-clockwise
spirals, which might be 1000 km across.
They look like a funnel of spiralling air
extending from the bottom of the clouds to the
ground
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Its most distinguishing feature is that it
looks like a twister.
Its most distinguishing feature is the calm
eye at the centre.
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They move slowly, and nearly always from east to
west
They move very quickly
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They are very unpredictable
They are more easily predictable because
they can be tracked by satellite.
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Wind speeds are usually around 100 mph
Wind speeds can be over 300 mph
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They travel only a few miles always on land
They travel thousands of miles usually
across the oceans
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This is an acrostic for vegetables. Use the
same idea to do an acrostic for the word
hurricane and / or tornado.