Definitions
Tornadoes & Hurricanes
Thunder and Lightning
Blizzards
Floods
100
when water overflows onto land that is usually dry.
What is a flood?
100
The middle of a storm.
What is the eye?
100
Lightning that stays inside the cloud and lights it up.
What is Sheet lightning?
100
When all you see is white.
What is a whiteout?
100
Name two ways people can help after a flood.
What is send food and water or clothing to families in need?
200
A very big snowstorm.
What is a Blizzard?
200
A shape that is wide at the top and narrow at the bottom?
What is Funnel
200
Lightning that shoots out of a cloud in a fork-like shape.
What is Fork lightning?
200
A big heap of snow.
What is snowdrift?
200
A flood causes by an overflowing river.
What is River flood?
300
A flash of electricity in the sky.
What is lightning?
300
Tornadoes are also called by two other names.
What is twister and whirlwinds?
300
A loud rumble in the sky.
What is thunder?
300
It has to be this degree Fahrenheit for snow to fall.
What is 32 degree?
300
This is a way to prepare for a flood.
What is make sandbag walls and try to keep their house safe?
400
A wild, whirling column of air.
What is a tornado?
400
This extreme weather winds can move faster than a speeding train and sounds like a train.
What is a hurricane?
400
A bolt of lightning is as big as this.
What is a quarter?
400
Most blizzards happen in these three months.
What is December, January, and February?
400
A lot of water, damage to homes and buildings, and evacuate.
What is the description of a flood?
500
A spinning storm with stron winds and rain.
What is a hurricane?
500
Tornadoes come in two sizes. Name the two sizes.
What is wedge or fat and rope or skinny?
500
Lightning comes in many colors. This color is the hottest.
What is purple?
500
A mix of strong winds and heavy snow.
What is a blizzard?
500
A wall built along a river to stop flooding.
What is a levee?