Safety in Severe Weather
Clouds
Water Cycle
Severe Weather
Weather Vocabulary
100
Where should you go during a tornado if you are in a house
What is a basement or a room without windows
100
What is the most common high cloud
What is Cirrus Clouds
100
What is another name for the water cycle
What is hydrologic cycle
100
It results from days of heavy rain and/or melting snows, when rivers rise and go over their banks.
What is a flood
100
The mixture of gases, which form the atmosphere of the Earth.
What is air
200
Where is the best place to go if you are outside while it is lightening
What is a sturdy building or a car
200
What is the height of Alto Clouds
What is 6,500ft to 18,000ft
200
What does water vapor condense into
What is clouds
200
A period when a region has a lack of rainfall
What is a drought
200
Scientist who study the weather
Who are meteorologists
300
Name three things you want to avoid during a thunderstorm
What is lightening, metal and water
300
Name two of the three Stratus cloud types
What is Stratus, Stratocumulus and Nimbostratus
300
What are the four main parts that make up the water cycle
What is evaporation, condensation, precipitation and collection
300
A mixture of liquid and frozen precipitation.
What is hail
300
An instrument that measures air pressure
What is Barometer
400
If you are swimming how long do you have to wait before getting back in the pool if you hear thunder or see lightening
What is 30 minutes
400
What do you call clouds with vertical growth
What is Cumulus Cumulonimbus
400
How do the changes in the cycle occur
What is adding or subtracting heat
400
The explosive sound of air expanding as it is heated by lightning.
What is thunder
400
A boundary between two air masses, one cold and the other warm, moving so that the colder air replaces the warmer air.
What is a cold front
500
After a tornado what is one major thing you want to watch out for
What is downed power lines
500
Name three of the four special clouds.
What is Mammatus, Lenticular, Fog and Contrails
500
List three forms that water can take on as it moves through the water cycle
What is solid (ice), liquid (water) and gas (water vapor)
500
It’s issued when conditions are favorable for the development of tornadoes.
What is a tornado watch
500
The temperature at which water starts to condense out of a particular air mass.
What is Dew Point
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