Vocabulary
Tornados
Hurricanes
Thunderstorms
100

The body of gases surrounding the Earth

What is Atmosphere?

100

The weather advisory issued when conditions are favorable for a Tornado to form

What is a Tornado Watch

100

Typhoon and Cyclone are also names for this weather phenomenon

What is a Hurricane?

100

These are the small hard snow and ice pellets that fall in severe thunderstorms

What is hail?

200

Falling moisture in the form of rain, sleet, snow, hail, or drizzle

What is precipitation?

200

Term used to describe the area of the US most prone to Tornados

What is Tornado Alley

200

The center of the hurricane is called this.

What is the eye?

200

The chaotic winds that can form in Thunderstorms and are especially dangerous to airplanes

What is a microburst?

300

Clouds that form on the surface of the ground

What is fog?

300

The scale used to classify the strength of a tornado

What is the Fujita Scale

300

The continent from where winds blow warm air over the ocean.

What is Africa

300
Which moves faster, light or sound?

What is light?

400

A person who interprets scientific data and forecasts the weather

What is a meteorologist?

400

This shows wind speed, direction, and precipitation and can be helpful in identifying tornados in thunderstorms

What is Doppler Radar

400

The group of people who study hurricanes.

Who are the Hurricane Hunters?

400

Lightening is....

What is Electricity, where regions of excess positive and negative charge develop within the cloud and are then DISCHARGED?

500

An upward current of air

What is an updraft?

500

This special name for a type of thunderstorm most often forms Tornados

What is a Supercell?

500

The area on the globe where hurricanes usually travel.

What is along the equator from Africa to the United States

500

A quick rising of water due to heavy rainfall isolated to one area

What is Flash Flooding?