Vocabulary
Setting
Details
Details
100
crackling with intense heat
What is sizzling?
100
the subject this story is about
What are tornadoes?
100
the job of Warren Faidley
What is photographer/storm chaser?
100
the most difficult thing about photographing lightning, thunderstorms, or tornadoes.
What is being in the right place at the right time? Storms are always shifting and changing.
200
the flash of light in the sky when electricity passes between clouds or between a cloud and the ground
What is lightning?
200
the time period this story takes place. (1970's, 1990's, 2010's)
What is 1990's?
200
the cause of Warren Faidley's attraction to tornadoes as a young boy
What is a whirlwind---he went into the middle of it?
200
the name of Tom and Warren's storm chasing vehicle
What is Shadow Chaser?
300
having a sharp, pointed edge or outline
What is jagged?
300
the area/region this story takes place (not looking for a particular state---but a region where tornadoes frequently occur)
What is Tornado Alley?
300
the event that changed his life forever---black widow spiders, blood covered hands...
What is his first picture of lightning?
300
the state that Warren writes his about his tornado chasing adventure in his diary
What is Texas?
400
tornado cloud that is wide at the top and narrow where it touches the ground
What is funnel cloud?
400
the geographical landscape found in Tornado Alley
What are prairies?
400
true or false: Warren sells his pictures of lightning.
What is true. He made enough money to make storm chasing his full time job.
400
True or False: The Shadow Chaser was severely damaged by a multivortex tornado
What is False? While they saw a multivortex tornado---they were able to stay safely away from it.
500
rotating columns of air accompanied by whirling funnel-shaped downspouts
What are tornadoes?
500
the description of weather that the author discusses in this story (name three things)
What tornadoes, high winds, thunderstorms, lightning, high winds, hail...?
500
the time of the year when tornadoes occur the most often (April- June, June-September, or September-October)
What is (April-June_
500
the amount of tornadoes that Tom and Warren saw on May 5th 1993
What is 7? WOW!!!
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