Vocabulary
Moving away from an area about to be affected by severe weather.
What is evacuate
What is the name for the variable in an experiment that you, the scientist, change?
What is an independent variable
Use your journal page 15 chart to answer this question: Which is bigger, a hurricane or a tornado?
What is a hurricane
Use book pages 33-36 This F-scale tornado can break tree branches and damage roofs. It can not uproot trees. Which scale tornado is this?
What is an F-0, Gale Tornado
Which heats faster, land or water?
What is land
A violent destructive whirling wind accompanied by funnel shaped clouds that move in a narrow path over land.
What is tornado
What is the name of the variables in an experiment that you keep the same? They are not changed.
What is the control variables
Use your journal page 15 chart to answer this question: Which moves faster, a hurricane or a tornado?
What is a tornado
*Use your book pages 33,35 Which tornado would cause more damage? a devastating or incredible?
What is Incredible
A massive rotating storm that forms north of the equator in the Atlantic, Eastern Pacific, or Caribbean Sea when warm air rises over tropical waters.
What is a hurricane
A scientist who studies the atmosphere and who monitors, studies, and forecast the weather.
What is a meteorologist
What do you call the variable that you observe happening in the experiment? It is the effect of the experiment.
What is the dependent variable
Use your journal page 15 chart to answer this question: Which has the fastest winds, a hurricane or a tornado?
What is a tornado
*Use your book pages 33,35 Which has stronger winds? A Extreme Hurricane, or a Devastating Tornado?
What is Devastating Tornado
Finish this statement: warm air ________(rises or falls) and cool air ________ (rises or falls)
What is warm air rises and cool air falls
The movement of liquids or gases around a center axis.
What is a vortex
Two students fill empty coke bottles with water. They want to see which can empty their bottle faster. One student will swirl their bottle, while the other student will shake their bottle. What measurement tool will be needed to complete this experiment?
What is a timer or stopwatch
Use your journal page 15 chart to answer this question: Where are tornadoes likely to form?- over warm tropical waters or in North America?
What is in North America (tornadoes do not form over water...)
*Use your book pages 33,35 A tornado that can overturn cars, but can't destroy large sections of school buildings would be what F-scale?
What is F3, Severe Tornado
What is it called when water vapor cools and forms clouds (what part of the water cycle is this)?
What is condensation
The amount of water vapor in a volume of air.
What is humidity
Two students fill empty coke bottles with water. They want to see which can empty their bottle faster. One student will swirl their bottle, while the other student will shake their bottle. What is the independent variable?
swirling one bottle and shaking the other.
Journal page 15-Which can do more damage? A tornado or hurricane- what evidence does your chart give for your answer?
What is a hurricane, because according to the chart, they are bigger and move much slower. This would cause more destruction.
Use your book pages 33-36. What hurricane does not cause significant damage to buildings?
What is Category 1
Which holds heat longer? Soil or Water?
What is water