These rotating, funnel-shaped clouds can have winds up to 299 mph!
What is a tornado, Dorothy?
100
A tropical storm with winds over 74 mph?
What is a hurricane?
100
A wind that blows steadily in predictable directions over long distances and is also called a "Trade Wind."
What are global winds?
200
This occurs from areas of high air pressure to areas of low air pressure.
What is the direction that wind travels?
200
The temperature of a lightning bolt.
What is 5 times as hot as the surface of the Sun, or around 50,000 degrees ferenheit!!!
200
The location of the most dangerous area in the world for tornados is called "Tornado Alley." Can you name 3 states in "Tornado Alley?
What are Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa?
200
This causes hurricanes to spin.
What is the Earth's rotation?
200
The collective name for a rotating storm like a hurricane or a tornado?
What is a cyclone, not a Cyclops?
300
This is caused by the air over land heating up more quickly
than air over water.
What is an ocean breeze?
300
This happens when the static electricity in a thunderhead discharges.
What is lightning - GO BOLTZ!
300
A tornado over the ocean.
What is a water spout?
300
The ocean temperature needs to be this warm in order to maintain a hurricane's energy.
What is 82+ degrees?
300
A tool used to measure air pressure?
What is a barometer?
400
This is caused both by the uneven heating of the Earth's surface by the Sun and by the Earth's rotation.
What is wind, you buffoon?
400
A cold front moves in pushing warm, humid air upward where the air expands, cools, and the water vapor condenses forming these.
What are thunderheads?
400
The name of the scale which rates the severity of a tornado.
What is the Fujita Scale?
400
This invention made hurricanes predictable weather phenomena.
What is "RADAR?"
400
This occurs when ocean water off of the coast of western South America warms and cause wind and ocean current directions to change. As a result moist, cool air moves to
the west coasts of North and South America bringing wet weather.
What is El Nino?
500
Movement of heat by the wind from one place to another.
What is convection?
500
A large region of air that has similar temperature and humidity.
What is an air mass?
500
This is how a tornado is formed.
What is warm air moving upward into a thunderhead causing the air to get sucked up faster and faster in a circulating rotation?
500
The third-strongest hurricane to hit the United States.
What is Hurricane Katrina?
500
Hurricanes and toilets rotate clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere. The Earth's rotation causes this phenomenon.