Water Everywhere
Watch Out for Weather
Stop the Droughts
Dust Bowl Disaster
Vocabulary
100

Since we are learning about something, this genre is similar to Informative Text, but we get more details.

What is Explanatory Text

100

Tornadoes form when air clashes, pushes each other, and form this Y-shaped cylinder.

What is a funnel

100

When the earth is dry, there is no rain, and when this is high, a drought is in effect.

What is temperature

100

When Jack says, "I'm an elderly man now, but I'll never forget my childhood during the Dust Bowl," he will tell us a story that fits with this genre.

What is a personal narratie

100

Very serious, very unpleasant, or very bad.

What is severe

200

Floods are caused by heavy rain, and snow melt.  However, the third cause means trouble for trees and plants.

What is fire

200

Hurricanes normally start as this near the Equator.

What are tropical storms

200

In order to save water, a good idea is to not fill these up to waddle around.

What are swimming pools

200

Jack and his family moved to this area to farm on their own land.

What is Texas Panhandle

200

We know that South Korea is a part of Asia.  Asia is one of these seven large areas of land called this.

What is a continent

300

During a five-month rainfall, Missouri and Mississippi River overflowed and caused flooding in nine states.  This event was called this.

What is "The Great Flood of 1993"

300

Hurricane hunters fly into this part of a hurricane to check for wind speed and temperature.

What is the eye

300

When droughts kill crops, this goes up by a lot.

What is the price of food

300

This storm caused itchy hair, stung eyes, and difficulty breathing.

What are "Dusters"

300

Tornadoes can definitely damage something badly, but we can also use this word.

What is destroy

400

These ridges on the side of rivers tend to prevent flooding.

What are levees

400

In order to be considered a blizzard, this must be 35 mph or higher.

What is the wind

400

The author mention these two places due to the fact that they are strongly effected by droughts.

What is East Africa and the Amazon Rainforest

400

All animals suffered, except for this one that came and ate everything.

What is the jackrabbit

400

Forming, or moving, like a circle.

What is circular

500

Most places are in danger of flooding when under this.

What is sea level

500

Being in blizzards can cause this injury to body tissues due to being outside in extreme cold 

What is frostbite

500

Saving water can also be referred to by this vocabulary word.

What is conserve

500

Many also died due to this, which was caused by the amount of dust that enters the body through breathing.

What is lung disease

500

When gas changes to a liquid

What is condense

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