Water Cycle
Clouds
Weather
Vocabulary
Stormy Weather
Tornado
Safety and
Trivia
100
Nature’s way of recycling water.
What is the water cycle?
100

Increased methane, carbon dioxide, and other gases from both natural and human activities is causing Earth's climates to change in a process called?

What the Greenhouse Effect?

100
The state of the air at a certain time and place
What is weather?
100
Most common type of storm
What is a thunderstorm?
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
Scientists who study weather
Who are meteorologists?
200
Spinning cloud with a funnel shape
What is a tornado?
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

Amount of water vapor in the air as measured by a percentage.

What is humidity?

300
Thin, feathery clouds that appear high in the sky; they are a sign that rain or snow is on the way
What are cirrus clouds?
300

What instrument is used to measure air pressure?

What is a barometer.

300
Large, powerful storm that occurs over large bodies of water
What is a hurricane?
300
April through June
What are the months that the most tornadoes occur?
400
The process of water vapor turning into water droplets
What is condensation?
400
Cloud that forms at the earth’s surface
What is fog?
400

Double Bonus

What instrument measures wind speed

What is an anemometer?

400

Water overflow that is caused by a large amount of rainfall or heavy snow melt.

What is a flood?

400

Double Bonus

What you should do if you’re in a car during a tornado

What is pull over and get out of the vehicle?

500
Water that is found underground
What is groundwater?
500
Tall, dark clouds that mean thunderstorms with heavy rain and strong winds
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
500
The weather of a place over a long time
What is climate?
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)?
700

What percent of the Earth's water is fresh water?

What is less than 1%

700

Cloud seeding is designed to make clouds?

 Produce precipitation.

700

What instrument is designed to measure wind direction?

Wind vane

700

This state has the most deaths caused by lightning.

What is Florida.

700

What state has the most tornadoes? 

What is Texas.

1000

These seasonal winds cause tremendous amounts of rainfall in Southeast Asia and the American Southwest

What are Monsoon Rains.

1000

Air that rapidly comes spilling down from hills, mountains, or the sides of canyons are called? 

What are katabatic winds.

1000

Every few years unusually warm tropical surface waters flow into parts of the Pacific Ocean causing warmer-than-average winter temperatures in the Northern United States and Canada.  This shift in the surface waters is called?

What is El Nino

1000


This type of front causes showers and thunderstorms.

What is a cold front.

1000

A tornado over open water is called a?

What is a water spout

1500

This inland lake in the Great Basin reached its lowest level in recorded history during the summer of 2022.

What is the Great Salt Lake.

1500

Clouds can become light prisms that create this colorful natural phenomena.

What are rainbows.

1500

An area with precipitation of less than eight (8) inches annually is called a?

Desert

1500

This state has the most thunderstorms annually. 

What is Florida.

1500

Another name for a tornado that is used by people in the Great Plains.

What is a cyclone or a twister.

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