Water Cycle
Clouds
Weather
Vocabulary
Stormy Weather
Tornado
Safety and
Trivia
200
Nature’s way of recycling water.
What is the water cycle?
200
Gray clouds that cover the lower part of the sky; rain or snow falls from them
What are stratus clouds?
200
The state of the air at a certain time and place
What is weather?
200
Most common type of storm
What is a thunderstorm?
200
Where you should go during a tornado if you are in a house
What is the basement?
400
The process of water changing into an invisible gas called water vapor
What is evaporation?
400
White, puffy clouds that look like piles of cotton; they are known as fair-weather clouds
What are cumulus clouds?
400
Scientists who study weather
Who are meteorologists?
400
Spinning cloud with a funnel shape
What is a tornado?
400
Where you should go during a tornado if you are in a school or public building
What is the lowest level of the building?
600
Amount of water vapor in the air
What is humidity?
600
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?
600
Instrument that shows wind direction
What is a wind vane?
600
Large, powerful storm that occurs over large bodies of water
What is a hurricane?
600
April through June
What are the months that the most tornadoes occur?
800
The process of water vapor turning into water droplets
What is condensation?
800
Cloud that forms at the earth’s surface
What is fog?
800
Measures wind speed
What is an anemometer?
800
Water overflow that is caused by a large amount of rainfall
What is a flood?
800
What you should do if you’re in a car during a tornado
What is pull over and get out of the vehicle?
1000
Water that is found underground
What is groundwater?
1000
Tall, dark clouds that mean thunderstorms with heavy rain and strong winds
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
1000
The weather of a place over a long time
What is climate?
1000
Another name for a hurricane
What is a typhoon?
1000
Scale used rate the damage and speed of tornadoes
What is the Fujita scale (F-scale)?
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