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Tornadoes
Lightening and Hail
Floods
Forms of Severe Weather
Severe Weather Terms
100
Name some movies that depict tornadoes
What is Twister, Wizard of Oz?
100
This is the chance you could be struck by lighting?
What is 1 in 600,000?
100
This amount of standing water and rain can cause a car to lose control and possibly stall.
What is 6 inches?
100
This occurs when we have a shortage of rain fall causing ground to crack in extreme cases and water levels start to fall.
What is Drought?
100
Prolonged period of excessive heat, often combined with excessive humidity
What is heat wave?
200
Describe the safest place in your house or apartment to go during a tornado
What is the basement, lowest floor of the building, staying away from windows?
200
This is the distance that lighting strike away from the storm cell.
What is 10 miles?
200
The amount of water it can take to float a vehicle.
What is one foot?
200
This is the sudden, rapid shaking of the earth, caused by the breaking and shifting of subterranean rock as it releases strain that has accumulated over a long time.
What is Earthquake?
200
Winter weather conditions are expected to cause significant inconveniences and may be hazardous. When caution is used, these situations should not be life threatening
What is winter weather advisory?
300
This time of the year is the most common for tornadoes
What is late Spring/early Summer?
300
This is the time of year when thunderstorms happen and are most severe.
What is summer?
300
Identify some causes of flooding
What is hurricanes, heavy rain, snow melt, levees & dams breaking?
300
Type of tropical cyclone or severe tropical storm that forms in the southern Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and in the eastern Pacific Ocean with high winds and tall waves of water.
What is a Hurricane?
300
The amount of energy released during an earthquake, which is computed from the amplitude of the seismic waves
What is Magnitude?
400
This is the name of a tornado which is formed over water
What is a waterspout?
400
This is usually happened during a thunderstorm
What is heavy rain, thunder, lightening, and sometimes hail?
400
Would it be safe for you to walk or drive through a flood roadway?
What is No?
400
A mountain that opens downward to a reservoir of molten rock below the surface of the earth and sometimes has eruptions.
What is a volcano?
400
the term used by the National Weather to inform you that a storm system is likely to occur and you should be preparing accordingly
What is a Watch?
500
This is the characteristic shape of a Tornado
What is funnel?
500
How you should react if you're outside during a thunderstorm and your hair starts standing up
What is crouch to the ground, put your head between your knees, covering your ears. Make yourself the smallest possible and minimize contact with the ground. DO NOT LIE FLAT ON THE GROUND.
500
Which is mostly likely to flood: stream, river, lake, or ocean?
What is all of them can cause flooding.
500
A storm caused by strong rising air currents and characterized by thunder and lightning and usually heavy rain or hail
What is thunderstorm?
500
The term used by the National Weather Service that a storm system is present and happening so precautions should already be taken.
What is a Warning?