Name: ___________________________Teacher: ___________________

Hurricane Georges Assignment

Directions:Using internet websites (accessed with Netscape) and GME98, answer all these

questions with paper and pencil. After your teacher checks your answers, put your answers in

a ClarisWorks drawing document. Number your answers and respond in complete sentences.

2. What day did hurricane Georges hit Puerto Rico? Write at least three sentences describing

the effect ofhurricane Georges on the people of Puerto Rico. Include at least two

photographs showing the damage caused by hurricane Georges.

3. What are the characteristics of a category 5 hurricane? (refer to the "Saffir Simpson

Page")

4. What is GMT (Greenwich Mean Time)? Refer to http://www.goes.noaa.gov/pr1.htmlfor a

live infrared sattelite image of Puerto Rico, with current GMT time. If it is 1915Z, what time

is it here?

5. What months of the year do the most hurricanes form in the Atlantic Ocean? (refer to the

"FEMA - Atlantic Tropical Storm Formation 1885 - 1996" page)

6. What is a hurricane?