What does cyclone mean?
Word: Cyclone
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Cyclone means a very strong storm with winds that spin round a calm centre. Cyclones form over warm seas such as the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea.
Synonyms: storm, typhoon, tempest
Word origin: Comes from Greek kyklos, a circle or wheel.
How do you spell cyclone?
Syllables: cy - clone
Tricky part: The first vowel sound, like the i in bike, is written y. Students write sy or ci at the start.
Watch out for: syclone, ciclone
Memory tip: A cyclone's winds go round like the wheels of a cycle, so it begins with the same cyc.
Cyclone in a sentence
Example 1: Families in Odisha moved to safe shelters before the cyclone reached the coast.
Example 2: The cyclone uprooted coconut trees all along the beach road.
Example 3: Fishermen were told not to go out to sea until the cyclone had passed.
Fun Fact
The word cyclone was coined in 1848 by Henry Piddington, a British official in Calcutta who spent years studying storms in the Bay of Bengal.
Practise the CREST Way
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
lyccone
a) cyclone
b) cylinder
c) cyclist
d) cycling
Show answer
a) cyclone. Cyclist and cycling need an i, and cylinder needs an i, a d and an r.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the correctly spelt word:
a) cyclone
b) tsunammi
c) earthquak
d) drout
Show answer
a) cyclone. Tsunami has one m, earthquake ends in e, and drought has ough in the middle.
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
The cyclon brought heavy rain to the fishing villages along the shore.
a) villages
b) fishing
c) cyclon
d) brought
Show answer
c) cyclon. The word ends with an e after the n, just like alone.
Word Connection
Choose the synonym of the word: cyclone
a) landslide
b) hurricane
c) drizzle
d) heatwave
Show answer
b) hurricane. Over the Atlantic Ocean, the same kind of storm is called a hurricane.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Where does a cyclone get most of its energy?
a) from the moon's pull
b) from active volcanoes
c) from melting snow
d) from warm sea water
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d) from warm sea water
2. The calm centre of a cyclone is called its ____.
a) eye
b) root
c) tail
d) head
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a) eye
