Water Cycle
Clouds
Weather
Vocabulary
Stormy Weather
Tornado
Safety and
Trivia
1
Nature’s way of recycling water.
What is the water cycle?
1
Gray clouds that cover the lower part of the sky; rain or snow falls from them
What are stratus clouds?
1
The state of the air at a certain time and place
What is weather?
1
Most common type of storm
What is a thunderstorm?
1
Where you should go during a tornado if you are in a house
What is the basement?
2
The process of water changing into an invisible gas called water vapor
What is evaporation?
2
White, puffy clouds that look like piles of cotton; they are known as fair-weather clouds
What are cumulus clouds?
2
Scientists who study weather
Who are meteorologists?
2
Spinning cloud with a funnel shape
What is a tornado?
2
Where you should go during a tornado if you are in a school or public building
What is the lowest level of the building?
3
Amount of water vapor in the air
What is humidity?
3
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?
3
Instrument that shows wind direction
What is a wind vane?
3
Large, powerful storm that occurs over large bodies of water
What is a hurricane?
3
April through June
What are the months that the most tornadoes occur?
6
The process of water vapor turning into water droplets
What is condensation?
6
Cloud that forms at the earth’s surface
What is fog?
6
Measures wind speed
What is an anemometer?
6
Water overflow that is caused by a large amount of rainfall
What is a flood?
6
What you should do if you’re in a car during a tornado
What is pull over and get out of the vehicle?
7
Water that is found underground
What is groundwater?
7
Tall, dark clouds that mean thunderstorms with heavy rain and strong winds
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
7
The weather of a place over a long time
What is climate?
7
Another name for a hurricane
What is a typhoon?
7
Scale used rate the damage and speed of tornadoes
What is the Fujita scale (F-scale)?
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