Biology Essay

In my wonderful biology class, one of the options for our term projects is to write four essays on scientific magazine articles. This option sounded better to me than finding science comics and writing a paragraph about each. It also sounded more enjoyable than reading a book about a disease that made people have giant sores and gaping holes everywhere on their bodies. This sounded like the best option to me, so this is one of my fantastic science essays that I have written. It may not be perfect, but then again my biology teacher will take one glance at it and if it looks like it has five paragraphs, I will probably get a perfect score.

October 2010                  

Amber Angelle

Hurricane News

            Can you believe that the wind can travel over 150 miles per hour? All over the world, places get completely destroyed from these winds that come from the sea called hurricanes. Hurricanes can be extremely dangerous and can demolish hundreds of miles of our earth's surface. Scientists have been studying the ways that hurricanes start, what happens while they are happening, and possibly some of the factors that cause hurricanes to start.

            The scientists that have been researching this topic of hurricanes have found many different things. They have learned about the eye, which is the center of the hurricane and is in the middle of everything that's happening. The next part outside of the eye is called the eyewall. The eyewall is actually much more powerful than the eye itself because the eye is in the middle and does not carry much force. The eyewall is full of heavy rains and extremely fast winds. Scientists have also been studying whether the temperatures of the earth have any affect on how frequently hurricanes occur. They have found that heat will not cause more hurricanes, but when they come they will be much more powerful than normal.

            I believe that it is very important that we have recorded some of these facts that will help us to learn more about the danger of hurricanes and how serious they are. This information could help us with safety in the future when hurricanes are going on around us. If we learn more and more about them, then it will be easier to protect ourselves and fight against them. There are some very interesting things that have been found in this research, and some of the stuff is things that we should know.

            There are things called Cyclone Cylinders that are found in the eyewall and they stir the hurricane up to be bigger and more powerful. It gives the winds an energy-boost and when Cyclone Cylinders are helping the hurricane, the storm can be intensified to become a category 5. It is very interesting that the eye of the hurricane isn't the strongest point, but that the eyewall is much more powerful and can do more damage to the area that it is destroying. I hope that we can use this information and learn even more in the future.

             This new information from scientist's research can help us immensely with our knowledge about hurricanes. We can't stop these terrors from coming, but now we know how they work and what their plan is.