NEET BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Extremely high winds tear homes and businesses apart. Winds can also destroy bridges, flip trains, send cars and trucks flying, tear the bark off trees, and suck all the water from a riverbed. High winds sometimes kill or injure people by rolling them along the ground or dropping them from dangerous heights.

Detailed explanation-2: -A rotating column of high-speed winds that appears as a dark funnel-shaped cloud reaching from the sky to the ground is called a tornado. A tornado may form within a cyclone.

Detailed explanation-3: -A tornado can create many long and short term effects to the environment. Some of the short term effects include loss of animal homes and trees and plants being uprooted. The long term effects can consist of of vegetation taking over centuries to regrow and diseases in the soil can also be spread.

Detailed explanation-4: -Some tornadoes intensify further and become strong or violent. Strong tornadoes last for twenty minutes or more and may have winds of up to 200 mph, while violent tornadoes can last for more than an hour with winds between 200 and 300 mph!