Two opposite "winds" necessary to form thunderstorms
What is an updraft and a downdraft?
Fossil fuels fuels create them, but renewable energy sources do not
What are greenhouse gases?
What is Florida?
Where you want to be if a tornado strikes while you're at home
What is the lowest part of the house?
Consuming or ingesting small amounts of this type of "pollution" gravely affects animals
What is plastic pollution?
Formed from dry, hot weather, and thunderstorms
What is a dust storm?
Organic plant life burned to create electricity
What is biomass?
Most likely to occur in the Middle East and western U.S.
Who is a drought?
It refers to the single worst day in the Dust Bowl when the storm blotted out the sun
What is Black Sunday?
They can dig up to 1,220 feet beneath the surface
What are offshore drilling rigs?
It can carry you under then out
What is an undertow?
Resulting from droughts, these two things reduce air quality
What are dry soil and wildfires?
What is the Philippines?
Movements of the moon can cause it
What is a rip tide?
Its what offshore drilling unearths
What is petroleum (or oil)?
It's what you do first to escape a rip tide
What is swim parallel to the shoreline?
Besides the air, it's two other places where plastic pollution can be found
What are soil and water?
Where the first offshore drilling took place in 1891
What is Grand Lake St. Marys?
A common severe weather phenomenon that often accompanies a tornado
What is a thunderstorm?
Both natural disasters (such as wildfires) and overexploitation (such as overfishing) can cause this
What is biodiversity loss?
They occur mainly in isolated areas and in the plains
What are tornados?
Dark and anvil-shaped, they create the conditions for thunderstorms, heavy rain, and strong winds
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
Current flowing out to the ocean
What is a rip tide?
Another name for a tornado or hurricane, characterized by a spinning pattern of air
What is a cyclone?
These non-native living things can "move in" following biodiversity loss
What are invasive species?