C. They are all tropical storms with maximum sustained winds of 74 mph or more. But, they are known by different names in different locations. In the North Atlantic Ocean and Northeast Pacific, they are called hurricanes. In the Northwest Pacific Ocean they are typhoons, and they are called cyclones in the South Pacific and Indian Oceans.

Q: The worst places for storm surges tend to be shallow, concave bodies of warm water where strong winds of a tropical storm get concentrated or funneled as it pushes water toward landfall. Where is this most common in North America?

A. Chesapeake Bay

B. Gulf of Mexico

C. Gulf of Saint Lawrence

D. Long Island Sound

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B. The Gulf Coast of the United States is vulnerable to destructive surges from storms like Hurricane Katrina, but the "north coast of the Bay of Bengal is more prone to catastrophic surges than anywhere on Earth," said Bob Henson, meteorologist with Weather Underground.

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Q: Before hitting India and Bangladesh, Cyclone Amphan battered the Sunderbans - a series of mangrove islands at the confluence of the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna Rivers in the Bay of Bengal. What are islands formed by deposits of sediments at the mouth of a river called?

A. Archipelago

B. Atolls

C. Cays

D. Delta

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D. The Sunderbans are spread over a delta area of nearly 4,000 square miles and are home to more than 4 million of some of the world’s poorest people. They work agricultural land among forests of mangroves, salt-tolerant trees adapted to life in harsh coastal conditions.

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Q: Cyclone Amphan caused an estimated $13 billion in damage to India’s state of West Bengal and its capital city Kolkata. What is the capital of the nation of Bangladesh?

A. Dhaka

B. Kathmandu

C. New Delhi

D. Yangon

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A. Dhaka is the capital and largest city in Bangladesh, with a metropolitan population of 21 million people. It sits only 13 feet above sea level and like much of the country is vulnerable to storm surges and rising sea levels.

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