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100

This power's the water cycle

What is the sun?

100

Gray clouds that cover or "blanket" the lower part of the sky.

What are stratus clouds?

100

Scientists who study weather.

What are meteorologists?

100

The weather of a place over a long time.

What is climate?

100
Where you should go during a tornado if you are in a house
What is the basement?
200
The process of water changing into an invisible gas called water vapor
What is evaporation?
200

White, puffy clouds that look like piles of cotton; they are known as fair-weather clouds

What are cumulus clouds?

200

Measures the amount of precipitation over a certain time. 

What is a rain gauge?

200

Which of the following conditions can change daily?

A. Weather

B. Climate

C. Both climate and weather

What is Weather?

200
Where you should go during a tornado if you are in a school or public building
What is the lowest level of the building?
300

Rain, snow, sleet or hail

What is precipitation?

300

Tall, dark clouds that mean thunderstorms with heavy rain and strong winds.

What are cumulonimbus clouds?

300
Instrument that shows wind direction
What is a wind vane?
300
Large, powerful storm that occurs over large bodies of water
What is a hurricane?
300

Spring - April through June

What are the months or the season that most tornadoes occur?

400

The process of water vapor turning into water droplets

What is condensation?

400

Thin, feathery clouds that appear high in the sky; they can be made of water droplets or ice crystals.

What are cirrus clouds?

400

A weather tool used to measure air pressure.

What is a barometer?

400

Which of the following forms of clouds causes rain?

A. Alto cloud

B. Nimbus cloud

C. Stratus cloud

What is nimbus?

400

The forecast says that weather conditions for tornadoes are favorable during the next few hours. This is a...

a)weather watch

b) weather warning

What is a weather watch?

500

When water falls back to earth surface, it may _________ in oceans, lakes, or rivers or soak into the ___________.

What is collect/accumulate and ground? 

500

Middle clouds start with this 4 letter prefix.

What is alto?

500

Measures wind speed.

What is an anemometer?

500
Another name for a hurricane
What is a typhoon?
500
Scale used rate the damage and speed of tornadoes
What is the Fujita scale (F-scale)?
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