Dangerous Weather
Precipitation
Freaky Weather
Water Cycle
Clouds
100
This is a rotating funnel of air over land.
What is a tornado?
100
Formed when ice crystals in high, cold clouds get heavy and fall.
What is rain?
100
Curtains of colored light in the night sky.
What is the Northern/Southern clouds?
100
When water turns into a vapor and rises from the body of water or ground.
What is evaporation?
100
The two things clouds are made of.
What is dirt/dust and water?
200
This is a VERY LARGE rotating storm over water.
What is a Hurricane?
200
The air has to be cold enough all the way down for the crystals to stay frozen. Each one is a different shape.
What is snow?
200
Sticky loose snow gets curled when the wind blows across it.
What is a snow roller?
200
When the water vapor cools in the air and begins changinf back into a liquid form.
What is condensation?
200
These are fluffy and friendly and change shape a lot.
What is a Cumulus?
300
This happens when large amounts of rain fall quickly or for a long time and water comes out of it's normal flow.
What is a flood?
300
These sound like little ice pellets hitting surfaces and happen when it's cold.
What is sleet?
300
Sunlight bends through ice crystals in high cirrus clouds. They look like flames flickering through the clouds.
What is a fire rainbow?
300
After many droplets gather in a cloud and become too heavy and begin to fall.
What is precipitation?
300
These are thin, stretch for miles and stay close to the ground and may bring slow, steady rain.
What is a Stratus cloud?
400
Storms with blowing snow, high winds and very cold temperatures.
What is a blizzard?
400
Falls in the winter when rain freezes as it is hitting a surface.
What is freezing rain?
400
A small glowing globe that can be red, orange, blue, or yellow. It is uncommon and happens quickly.
What is ball lightning?
400
When the water that has fallen to the earth comes together in puddles and other larger bodies of water.
What is collection?
400
These clouds can grow to giant sizes and begin creating their own weather. They can produce some big thunderstorms.
What is a Cumulonimbus cloud?
500
An area does not get enough seasonal rainfall or snowmelt and the ground dries up killing plants and limiting water to drink.
What is a drought?
500
Formed during thunderstorms inside the big cumulonimbus clouds.
What is hail?
500
Sometimes a water spout will pick up things in the water and then drop them over land. It could rain............
What is fish and frogs?
500
God separated water on this day of creation.
What is the 2nd day?
500
This large storm clouds keeps churning and growing and may create a tornado.
What is a Supercell?
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