Water Cycle
Clouds
Weather
Vocabulary
Stormy Weather
Tornado
Safety and
Trivia
100
Nature’s way of recycling water.
What is the water cycle?
100
Gray clouds that cover the lower part of the sky; rain or snow falls from them
What are stratus clouds?
100

Rain, Snow, Hail, Sleet

What are the types of precipitation?

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

A dark funnel of strong wind that spiral upward.

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

Any liquid or frozen water that forms in the atmosphere and falls back to the earth

What is Precipitation?

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

The layer of the atmosphere where weather occurs

What is the Troposphere? 

300
Large, powerful storm that occurs over large bodies of water
What is a hurricane?
300

The months that the most tornadoes occur

What is April through June?

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

A tool used to measures wind speed

What is an anemometer?

400
Water overflow that is caused by a large amount of rainfall
What is a flood?
400

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 sound made when the air heated from the lightning expands quickly

What is Thunder

500

Form in winter when a warm air mass runs into colder mass

What is a Blizzard?

500

Scale used rate the damage and speed of tornadoes

What is the Fujita scale (F-scale)?

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