Clouds
Name one thing that water drops wrap around when a cloud is forming?
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What is dust, salt, or smoke?
These are 2 places precipitation can go after it reaches the ground.
What is groundwater and bodies of water?
If you are in your car and there is lightning, this is the safest thing you could do.
What is - stay in your car?
This means a tornado has been sighted.
a. What is a tornado warning?
b. What is a tornado watch?
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What is tornado warning?
Where do hurricanes form?
a. What is over oceans?
b. What is over land?
What is over oceans?
This type of cloud brings storms.
a. cirrus
b. cumulus
c. cumulonimbus
d.stratus
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
This type of precipitation occurs when the cloud and the air under the cloud is not freezing.
a. hail
b. rain
c. sleet
d. snow
What is rain?
If you are outside and hear thunder, this is the safest thing to do.
What is - go inside?
The safest place to go in a tornado.
What is basement?
Winds push ocean water to land. Can be 20 feet high!
a. What is a tsunami?
b. What is a storm surge?
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What is a storm surge?
These clouds are gray and low to the ground. These could mean a rainy day.
a. cirrus
b. cumulus
c. cumulonimbus
d. stratus
What are stratus clouds?
The type of precipitation that forms when a cloud is freezing.
a. hail
b. rain
c. sleet
d. snow
What is snow?
This is the cause of thunder.
a. What is lightning colliding?
b. What is heat from lighting?
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What is heat from lightning?
This is how long most tornadoes last.
a. What is minutes?
b. What is days?
c. What is weeks?
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What is minutes?
This is how long hurricanes typically last.
a. What is days?
b. What is weeks?
c. What is months?
What is days?
Puffy, white clouds that mean nice weather
a. cirrus
b. cumulus
c. cumulonimbus
d.stratus
What are cumulus clouds?
When water is warmed and turns into water vapor.
a. Condensation
b. Evaporation
c. Precipitation
What is evaporation?
This is the temperature of lightning.
a. What is 500 degrees Fahrenheit?
b. What is 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit?
c. What is 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit?
What is 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit?
The wind speeds of a tornado can reach...
a. What is 180mph?
b. What is 300mph?
300 mph
Winds speeds of a hurricane can get up to this.
a. What is 300mph?
b. What is 180mph?
180mph
Thin, wispy clouds that mean it will be a nice day, but a change is on its way...
a. cirrus
b. cumulus
c. cumulonimbus
d.stratus
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What are cirrus clouds?
When water vapor cools and turns back into liquid water.
a. Condensation
b. Evaporation
c. Precipitation
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What is condensation?
This is the amount of volts in lightning.
a. What is 110 volts?
b. What is hundreds of millions?
What is hundreds of millions?
This is the width of most tornadoes.
a. What is less than a mile?
b. What is hundreds of miles wide?
What is less than a mile?
This is how wide hurricanes can be.
a. What is less than 1 mile wide?
b. What is hundreds of miles wide?
What is hundreds of miles?