Water Cycle
Clouds
Weather
Vocabulary
Stormy Weather
Tornado
Safety and
Trivia
100
This causes all weather to occur.
What is the unequal heating of the Earth's surface?
100
Gray clouds that cover the lower part of the sky; rain or snow falls from them
What are stratus clouds?
100
A large area in the atmosphere where all the air has similar properties.
What is an air mass?
100
Most common type of storm
What is a thunderstorm?
100
Where you should go during a tornado if you are in a house
What is the basement, closet or room with no windows?
200
The process of water changing into an invisible gas called water vapor
What is evaporation?
200
White, puffy clouds that look like piles of cotton; they are known as fair-weather clouds
What are cumulus clouds?
200
Scientists who study weather
Who are meteorologists?
200
Spinning cloud with a funnel shape
What is a tornado?
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
The boundary between two air masses.
What is a front?
300
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?
300
Instrument that shows wind direction
What is a wind vane?
300
Large, powerful storm, with low pressure in the center,several miles wide, that occurs over large bodies of water
What is a hurricane?
300
Tornado Alley
What is an area in the central United States where most tornadoes occur?
400
The process of water vapor turning into water droplets
What is condensation?
400
A word that is added to a cloud's name that means "rain".
What is nimbus?
400
Measures wind speed
What is an anemometer?
400
Used to determine the strength of a tornado based on the damage.
What is the Fujita Scale?
400
What you should do if you’re in a car during a tornado
What is pull over, get out of the vehicle and head to a low spot?
500
A front that brings long-lasting, gentle rainstorms.
What is a warm front?
500
A tall, dark cloud with an anvil top, that means thunderstorms with heavy rain, possible hail and strong winds
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
500
A system for measuring wind speeds using a chart of numbers from 0 - 12.
What is the Beaufort Scale?
500
This occurs when electrical charges build up in a cloud
What is lightning?
500
The troposphere.
In which level of the atmosphere does most weather occur?
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