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