Weather Vocabulary
Clouds
Water Cycle
Stormy Weather
Tornado Safety
100
Scientists who study weather.
Who are meteorologists?
100
White, puffy clouds that look like piles of cotton; they are known as fair-weather clouds.
What are cumulus clouds?
100
Amount of water vapor in the air.
What is humidity?
100
Large, powerful storm that occurs over large bodies of water.
What is a hurricane?
100
What are the months that the most tornadoes occur?
What is April through June
200
The state of the air at a certain time and place.
What is weather?
200
Cloud that forms at the earth’s surface.
What is fog?
200
The process of water vapor turning into water droplets.
What is condensation?
200
Most common type of storm.
What is a thunderstorm?
200
Where you should go during a tornado if you are in a school or public building?
What is the lowest level of the building?
300
Instrument that shows wind direction
What is a wind sock?
300
Gray clouds that cover the lower part of the sky; rain or snow falls from them.
What are stratus clouds?
300
The process of water changing into an invisible gas called water vapor.
What is evaporation?
300
Another name for a hurricane
What is a typhoon?
300
Scale used rate the damage and speed of tornadoes.
What is the Fujita scale (F-scale)?
400
Measures wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
400
Tall, dark clouds that mean thunderstorms with heavy rain and strong winds.
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
400
Nature’s way of recycling water.
What is the water cycle?
400
Spinning cloud with a funnel shape.
What is a tornado?
400
What you should do if you’re in a car during a tornado.
What is pull over and get out of the vehicle?
500
The weather of a place over a long time.
What is climate?
500
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?
500
Water that is found underground.
What is groundwater?
500
Water overflow that is caused by a large amount of rainfall.
What is a flood?
500
Where you should go during a tornado if you are in a house
What is the basement?
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