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 that can change daily
What is weather?
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?
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?
Instrument that shows wind direction
What is a wind vane?
Large, powerful storm that occurs over large bodies of water
What is a hurricane?
April through June
What are the months that the most tornadoes occur?
The process of water vapor/gas turning into water droplets
What is condensation?
What you should do if you’re in a car during a tornado
What is pull over and get out of the vehicle?
The weather of a place over a long time
What is climate?
Another name for a hurricane
What is a typhoon/cyclone?
Scale used rate the damage and speed of tornadoes
What is the Fujita scale (F-scale)?