What is the difference between ?

Question

A typhoon, a monsoon, a hurricne, and a cyclone??

Answer 1

Typhoon: A tropical cyclone occurring in the western Pacific or Indian oceans.

Monsoon: A wind system that influences large climatic regions and reverses direction seasonally. Also, A wind from the southwest or south that brings heavy rainfall to southern Asia in the summer. The rain that accompanies this wind.

Hurricane: A severe tropical cyclone originating in the equatorial regions of the Atlantic Ocean or Caribbean Sea or eastern regions of the Pacific Ocean, traveling north, northwest, or northeast from its point of origin, and usually involving heavy rains. A wind with a speed greater than 74 miles (119 kilometers) per hour, according to the Beaufort scale.
Something resembling a hurricane in force or speed.

Cyclone: An atmospheric system characterized by the rapid inward circulation of air masses about a low-pressure center, usually accompanied by stormy, often destructive weather. Cyclones circulate counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere. A violent tropical storm, especially one originating in the southwestern Pacific Ocean or Indian Ocean. A violent rotating windstorm. Any of various devices using centrifugal force to separate materials.

Answer 2

I think it's where they are geographically. Just checked the definitions:

Typhoon: A tropical cyclone occurring in the western Pacific or Indian oceans

Monsoon: A wind from the southwest or south that brings heavy rainfall to southern Asia in the summer

Hurricane: A severe tropical cyclone originating in the equatorial regions of the Atlantic Ocean or Caribbean Sea or eastern regions of the Pacific Ocean, traveling north, northwest, or northeast from its point of origin, and usually involving heavy rains.

Cyclone: a. An atmospheric system characterized by the rapid inward circulation of air masses about a low-pressure center, usually accompanied by stormy, often destructive weather. Cyclones circulate counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere.
b. A violent tropical storm, especially one originating in the southwestern Pacific Ocean or Indian Ocean.

Answer 3

Use wikipedia.com, google.com, or dictionary.com. I hate to be mean but for you to learn from homework you have to make an effort.