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Title: If you are driving in a car and a tornado is still at some distance, you should drive ____.
Post by: fudger on Mar 6, 2018
If you are driving in a car and a tornado is still at some distance, you should drive ____.
   a. into a ditch and cover your head
   b. under a freeway overpass
   c. at a right angle to the tornados path
   d. parallel to the tornados path
   e. toward the tornado

Q. 2

Opening windows during a tornado increases the pressure on the opposite wall and ____.
   a. decreases the chances that the building will collapse
   b. increases the chances that the building will collapse
   c. does not influence whether the building will collapse
   d. increases the chances of flying debris shattering the window
   e. decreases the chances of flying debris shattering the window

Q. 3

Violent tornadoes (with winds exceeding 180 knots) that contain smaller whirls rotating within them are called ____.
   a. multi-vortex tornadoes
   b. supercell tornadoes
   c. suction tornadoes
   d. tornado families
   e. tornado outbreaks

Q. 4

When a tornado is approaching from the southwest, its strongest winds are on its ____ side.
   a. northeast
   b. southeast
   c. northwest
   d. north
   e. west

Q. 5

Even the most powerful twisters seldom have winds exceeding ____ knots.
   a. 90
   b. 125
   c. 220
   d. 300
   e. 410

Q. 6

In which of the following states has a tornado never occurred?
   a. Alaska
   b. Hawaii
   c. Maine
   d. North Dakota
   e. tornadoes have occurred in every state


Title: If you are driving in a car and a tornado is still at some distance, you should drive ____.
Post by: RNIPP on Mar 6, 2018
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