Question 1
Part A: Tornado Alley
Florida has a very disproportionate number of tornadoes because
A. it has a relatively high frequency of tornadoes that occur in the late spring and again in the early fall.
B. it has numerous daily thunderstorms, and several tropical storms and hurricanes that impact its inlands.
C. strong to violent tornadoes occur frequently and typically during Florida’s very lengthy hurricane season.
D. Florida is a peninsula surrounded by water that constantly stirs up violent winds that evolve into tornadoes.
Part B:
Select the sentence from the article that most strongly supports the answer you chose in part A.
A. Tornadoes in this region typically happen in late spring and occasionally the early fall.
B. When these tropical systems move ashore, the embedded convective storms in the rain bands often produce tornadoes.
C. Despite the violent nature of a tropical storm or hurricane, the tornadoes they spawn (some as water spouts) tend to be weaker than those produced by non-tropical thunderstorms.
D. In the United States, there are two regions with a disproportionately high frequency of tornadoes. Florida is one and "Tornado Alley" in the south-central United States is the other.
