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Vocabulary
100

It's the short definition of a tornado.

What are rapidly rotating columns of air that form inside storms?

100

This is the country with the most tornadoes based on land size occurring each year.

What is the United Kingdom?

100

The presence of these two types of air create wind.

What are high and low pressure air?

100

It's the famous movie where young Dorothy gets caught outdoors during a tornado.

What is "The Wizard of Oz?"

100

It's what the spiraling part of the tornado is called.

What is the funnel? (or spout)

200

When wet warm air, meets cold, dry air moving in these directions, a tornado may result.

What are opposite directions?

200

This country has the most number of tornadoes, and the most intense.

What is the United States?

200

This is what MOST tornadoes are, in size and duration of time.

What is small and short-lived?

200

This is what we call what happens when a spinning wall of cloud touches the ground.

What is a tornado? (or tornado touch down)

200

This is what we call a wide, tall tube of spinning air.

What is a vortex?

300

When air does this, it can be the condition in which a tornado can develop.

What is to rise?

300

All tornadoes are classified as either of these two categories.

What are supercell and non-supercell tornadoes?

300

This area (which includes Oklahoma) contains the most tornado activity in the whole USA.

What is Tornado Alley?

300

This kind of room is safest during a severe storm or  tornado conditions.

What is an interior room? (or an interior hallway)

300

The special kind of thunderstorms that can cause a tornado.

What are supercells?

400

It's the distance (in feet) of how high up a supercell can form.

What is 50,000 feet?

400

It's the exact DATE of the worst tornado activity in United States history.

What is March 18, 1925?

400

It's WHERE you should go if caught in a tornado, the first step of tornado safety.

What is the lowest level of your home if indoors, or a low area away from trees and buildings if outdoors?

400

It's what to do if you're in a car or mobile home while a tornado is touching down in your area.

What is to get OUT of it asap!?

400

This is the final ingredient needed to form a tornado.

What is an updraft?

500

It's the long, FULL definition of a tornado.

What are rapidly rotating columns of air that form inside storms that connect with the ground via a funnel of cloud?

500

The infamous "Tri-State" tornado had this tornado rating and wind speeds over this mph.

What is EF5 and >250 mph?

500

This is the explanation of how a tornado stops.

What is once the temperature difference is gone and conditions are more stable, the funnel cloud disappears within the storm clouds?

500

It's the type of air pressure that is higher up off the ground in a supercell tornado.

What is Low Pressure air?

500

It's the scale in which the rating of strength of all tornadoes is used.

What is the Enhanced Fujita scale? (EF scale)