Extreme Weather
Fill in the blanks Weather words
Properties of air
Clouds
The Water Cycle
100
a tornado that occurs in water.
What is a waterspout.
100
Hurricanes start off as _______________
What is a Tropical Storm
100
Air exerts these two things.
What are Pressure and force.
100
A large anvil shaped cloud is called this
What is cumulonimbus.
100
When the water stored in the clouds falls in rain, snow or hail.
What is precipitation?
200
When tectonic plates shift, this occurs.
What is an earthquake
200
(Stereotypically) white and fluffy things in the sky are __________
What are clouds?
200
if you climb a mountain, you will feel different because of this property.
What is air exerts pressure.
200
Big, fluffy, white, and tall.
What are Cumulus clouds.
200
When the precipitation falls back to where it began and the cycle restarts.
What is collection?
300
Tornados, Earthquakes, Tsunamis, Hurricanes are these.
What is Extreme weather conditions
300
When __________ touches the ground, they turn into tornados.
What are Funnel clouds.
300
When you feel like you are going to be blown all the way to Timbuktu, you learn about this property.
What is air exerts force.
300
These clouds cover the whole sky and mean a storm is coming.
What are Nimbostratus clouds.
300
When you put water in a jar and put it outside the next day it will be gone because it has _______.
What is evaporation.
400
How much money did the Moore Oklahoma tornado cost people in damages?
What is an estimate 2 billion dollars in damage.
400
Air exerts ________ and ________
What is Pressure and force.
400
This property causes a balloon full of air to weigh more than a deflated balloon.
What is mass?
400
Covers not all of the sky but a lot and can mean light rain
What are Stratus clouds?
400
When the water is floating around in the air.
What is condensation?
500
Where in Oklahoma did the EF5 tornado strike and when?
What is Moore Oklahoma, 1999.
500
This sometimes occurs after an earthquake near the ocean. They are a HUGE wave that crashes onto the ground and pulls things back with them. they are called __________.
What are Tsunamis.
500
When you fill a balloon with air and put it beside a balloon that is deflated, it shows you this property.
What is air takes up space.
500
This cloud means there is a big storm going on and there is probably a tornado warning.
What is a funnel cloud.
500
this is when the sun heats water on the earth, which evaporates. water vapor condenses into a cloud. rain or snow falls, replenishing streams and lakes, and wetting the soil. then the process repeats.
What is the water cycle?
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