Katrina Video

A  The ultimate key is to restore the wetlands.

B  Both A and B

C  The ultimate key is to build a massive coastal wall.

D  The ultimate key is to build more levees.

E  The ultimate key is to drain the Mississippi River.

A  A ½ degree of temperature equals one million atomic bombs.

B  A ½ degree of temperature equals one hundred atomic bombs.

C  A ½ degree of temperature equals one atomic bomb.

D  A ½ degree of temperature equals one billion atomic bombs.

E  A ½ degree of temperature equals one thousand atomic bombs.

A  They have doubled

B  They have tripled

C  They have remained the same

D  They have declined

A  The Indonesian alphabet

B  The Persian alphabet

C  The Russian alphabet

D  The Aztec alphabet

E  The Greek alphabet

A  The London and 17th Street canal failed because it had a pressure burst and the whole canal just pushed back.

B  The levee dissolved when sewer water hit it.

C  The water flowed over the top of the levee wall.

D  The levee was blown up in an effort to spare other parts of the city.

A  It took days to drain the city.

B  It took over a week to drain the city.

C  It took four months to drain the city.

D  It took over a month to drain the city.

A  Yes

B  No

A  Yes

B  No

A  19 feet tall

B  46 feet tall

C  12 feet tall

D  52 feet tall

E  28 feet tall

F  4 feet tall

A  The projected track of Hurricane Katrina was correct, only about 70 miles off.

B  The projected track of Hurricane Katrina was correct, only about 20 miles off.

C  The projected track of Hurricane Katrina was exact, less than ½ mile off.

D  The projected track of Hurricane Katrina was incorrect.

E  The projected track of Hurricane Katrina was correct, only about 120 miles off.

A  Louisiana loses an area the size of a posted note every hour.

B  Louisiana loses an area the size of a football field every hour.

C  Louisiana loses an area the size of a kitchen table every hour.

D  Louisiana loses an area the size of a city bus every hour.

E  Louisiana loses 10 square miles every hour.

A  Starved of new soils because of the levees that were put in, the defense disappeared with the wetlands.

B  The defense was expanded when the wetlands were expanded.

C  The defense was an illusion that never worked to begin with.

A  New Orleans held its first hurricane drill

B  Six hurricanes hit the Louisiana shoreline

C  The Great Flood happened on the Mississippi River

D  The first bridge was built across the Mississippi River

A  An ability to measure wind speed

B  Pumps and drainage canals to drain the city

C  An accurate way to forecast storms like hurricanes

D  Levees to stop  all floods

A  New Orleans continues to sink, dropping the city further below sea level.

B  When they drained the water out they lost nutrients, which caused soils to compact or to shrink.

C  New Orleans is below sea level in somewhat of a bowl shape.

D  None of the above

E  All of the above

A  Drowning

B  Car accidents

C  Injuries from flying debris

D  Heart attacks

E  Lightning strikes

A  Bulges of water called the storm surge

B  Lightning

C  Funnels of static air

D  Lowering of sea level

A  145 MPH

B  95 MPH

C  130 MPH

D  155 MPH

E  110 MPH

A  1/10 of the population evacuated

B  99% of the population evacuated

C  3/4 of the population evacuated

D  1/5 of the population evacuated

E  1/3 of the population evacuated

A  The amount of sunlight that hits the clouds

B  The amount of moisture in the storm

C  Wind speed

D  The Earth’s rotation

A  Hurricane Pam was a hurricane that hit Texas. It showed the damage a storm like this would do to New Orleans.

B  Hurricane Pam was a hurricane simulator that showed what would happen to New Orleans in case a huge hurricane coming through the town. It showed devastation for New Orleans with 61000 people dead, half a million homeless, and multiple injured people as well.

C  Hurricane Pam was a hurricane simulator that showed what would happen to New Orleans in case a huge hurricane coming through the town. It showed that the city was well prepared for a storm like this.

D  Hurricane Pam was a hurricane that hit Miami. It showed the damage a storm like this would do to New Orleans.

A  No one

B  Meteorologists monitor hurricanes

C  Hurricanologists monitor hurricanes

D  The ATF monitors hurricanes