NewsTracker Answers for week of Feb. 11, 2013

Q: A gigantic midwinter storm over the weekend buried much of the Northeast United States under snow, and Connecticut reported the most snowfall with more than three feet in some areas. Where is Connecticut on this map?

Circle the area on this map

Q: More than two feet of snow accumulated in parts of Connecticut's northern neighbor . . .

A. New Hampshire

B. Massachusetts

C. Rhode Island

D. New York

B. Connecticut is bordered by Massachusetts to the north, Rhode Island to the east and New York to the south and west.

Q: Parts of New York's Long Island also were buried under more than two feet of snow. What body of water separates Connecticut from Long Island to the south?

A. New York Harbor

B. East River

C. Long Island Sound

D. Connecticut Bay

C. A sound is defined as a narrow sea channel between two bodies of land or a big ocean inlet that is larger than a bay, deeper than a bight and wider than a fjord.

Q: Many of the people hit by the blizzard were still recovering from . . .

A. Widespread flooding

B. Wind damage

C. Uncontrollable fires

D. All of the above

D. October's Hurricane Sandy devastated portions of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast United States, leaving many people homeless from flooding, high winds and even fires spawned by the storm.

Q: What type of storm was a factor in both Hurricane Sandy and the weekend blizzard?

A. Nor'easter

B. Tornado

C. Haboob

D. Water spout

A. A nor'easter is a large storm along the East Coast of the United States and gets its name from the direction the wind is coming from as it hits land. In both Sandy and the blizzard, nor'easters collided with other storm systems to create much larger and more damaging storms.