Water Cycle
Amount of water vapor in the air.
What is humidity?
Cloud that forms at the earth’s surface.
What is fog?
Measures wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
Most common type of storm.
What is a thunderstorm?
April through June
What are the months that the most tornadoes occur?
Nature’s way of recycling water.
What is the water cycle?
Tall, dark clouds that mean thunderstorms with heavy rain and strong winds.
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
Scientists who study weather.
Who are meteorologists?
Another name for a hurricane.
What is a typhoon?
What you should do if you’re in a car during a tornado
What is pull over and get out of the vehicle?
Water that is found underground.
What is groundwater?
Gray clouds that cover the lower part of the sky; rain or snow falls from them.
What are stratus clouds?
Instrument that shows wind direction.
What is a wind vane?
Spinning cloud with a funnel shape.
What is a tornado?
Scale used rate the damage and speed of tornadoes.
What is the Fujita scale (F-scale)?
The process of water vapor turning into water droplets.
What is condensation?
Thin, feathery clouds that appear high in the sky; they are a sign that rain or snow is on the way.
What are cirrus clouds?
The state of the air at a certain time and place.
What is weather?
Water overflow that is caused by a large amount of rainfall.
What is a flood?
Where you should go during a tornado if you are in a school or public building.
What is the lowest level of the building?
The process of water changing into an invisible gas called water vapor.
What is evaporation?
White, puffy clouds that look like piles of cotton; they are known as fair-weather clouds
What are cumulus clouds?
The weather of a place over a long time
What is climate?
Large, powerful storm that occurs over large bodies of water.
What is a hurricane?
Where you should go during a tornado if you are in a house.
What is the basement?