Clouds
Severe Weather
Front Facts
RANDOM
100

This is how clouds form.

What is condensation?

100

This is a violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground.

What is a tornado?

100

The symbol for a cold front is a curved line with this shape on it.

What is a triangle?

100

These are the four types of precipitation.

What are snow, rain, hail, and sleet?

200

Name the 4 main types of clouds.

What are cumulus, stratus, cumulonimbus, cirrus?

200
These types of tornadoes are the most common and least dangerous.

What are EF0 and EF1 tornadoes?

200

A curved red line with circles on it is the symbol for this.

What is a warm front?

200

This season is when tornadoes form.

What is spring / April-May?

300

What type of cloud is wispy and feathery

What is cirrus

300

This has rain, thunder, and lightning.

What is a thunderstorm?

300

Air always moves from high pressure areas to areas with:

What is low pressure?

300

These are the four stages of the water cycle.

What are evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and collection / runoff?

400

This type of cloud is like a blanket over the sky and lets you know that rain is coming.

What is a stratus cloud?

400

This is where you should be during a tornado.

Where is the strongest room at the lowest point of a building / basement?

400

Tornadoes form when these two fronts connect.

What are continental polar and continental tropical?

400

This is the name of the person who studies weather.

What is a meteorologist? 

500

This type of cloud often forms at an occluded front and can lead to extreme weather.

What are cumulonimbus clouds?

500

An EF5 tornado has a wind speed above:

What is 200mph?

500

This type of front has cold air pushing warm air high into the troposphere.

What is an occluded front?

500

The percentage of deaths that EF4 and EF5 tornadoes cause.

What is ~50%?

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