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Vicious Vocabulary
Terrible Tornadoes
Horrible Hurricanes
Hurricanes, Typhoons, or Cyclones
Katrina
100
A violent windstorm that spirals around a rotating column of air.
What is a tornado?
100
The scale used to rate tornadoes.
What is the Fujita Scale?
100
This is the scale used to categorize hurricanes.
What is the Saffir-Simpson Scale?
100
Indian Ocean
What is a Cyclone?
100
This is a problem associated with Hurricane Katrina.
What is flooding?
200
An area in the central plains of the U.S. where tornadoes are abundant.
What is Tornado Alley?
200
This is issued when the conditions are right for a tornado to occur.
What is a Tornado Watch?
200
This is the speed of winds to be considered a hurricane.
What is 74mph?
200
Atlantic Ocean
What is a hurricane?
200
This is how flooding affected the people of New Orleans.
Homes were destroyed, therefore people became homeless.
300
The movement of a liquid or gas in a spiral around a central axis.
What is a vortex?
300
A rapidly rotating cloud that becomes a visible funnel at the base of a cloud.
What is a funnel cloud?
300
These are the 3 stages leading up to a hurricane?
What are Tropical Wave, Tropical Depression, and Tropical Storm?
300
Western Pacific Ocean
What is a typhoon?
300
This is a problem associated with hurricane Katrina.
What is no full evacuation of the city
400
A massive wall of water that builds up at sea and blows in to land.
What is a storm surge?
400
This is issued when a tornado has been spotted.
What is a tornado warning?
400
This is hurricane season.
What is June 1-November 30?
400
Coast of Austrailia
What is a Cyclone?
400
This is how no evacuation affected the people of New Orleans.
What is deaths, disappearances, and injuries?
500
A disturbance in the earth's atmosphere involving lightening and thunder.
What is a thunderstorm?
500
These are the 4 things needed to form a tornado.
What are increasing wind speed, change in wind direction, warm moist air, and cool dry air?
500
These are the 3 things needed for a hurricane to form.
What are warm ocean water, winds, and humidity?
500
Eastern Pacific Ocean
What is a hurricane?
500
This is the A in SCAMPER.
What is Adapt?