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; dull overcast days, maybe rain or snow

What are stratus clouds?

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

Describe 2 features of a house or city used to prevent damage from hurricanes 

What is bracing, flood walls, storm proof windows, etc.

300
Amount of water vapor in the air
What is humidity?
300

Thin, feathery clouds that appear high in the sky; very wispy

What are cirrus clouds?

300

Occur over the ocean, driven by wind

What are surface currents?

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

The tornado rating scale currently ranges between these numbers

What is EF0-EF5

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

Occurs in the ocean, driven by waters of different salinities or temperatures.

What are deep ocean currents.

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

The hurricane rating scale currently ranges between these numbers

What is 1-5

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 or cyclone

500
Name 2 hurricanes that occurred in the U.S. 

What are Katrina and Irene

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