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Water Cycle
Clouds
Terms
Safety
Miscellaneous
100
Water that can be found in the ground
What is ground water?
100
Clouds that are described as "big and puffy"
What are cumulus clouds?
100
Move away temporarily
What is evacuate?
100
The safest place to be during a tornado
What is a basement or storm shelter?
100
True or False: The only hazard during a flood is high, fast-moving water.
False
200
The process of a gas changing to a liquid
What is Condensation?
200
Low level clouds that are spread out and cover the sky
What are stratus clouds?
200
A rapidly whirling, funnel shaped cloud that reaches down from a storm cloud to touch Earth's surface
What is a tornado?
200
The number of hours in advance that a hurricane watch is issued
What is 36 hours?
200
A sudden, violent flood that occurs within a few hours (or even minutes) of a storm
What is a flash flood?
300
The process of a liquid changing to a gas
What is Evaporation?
300
High level clouds made of ice crystals
What are cirrus clouds?
300
A tropical storm that has winds of 119 km/hr
What is a hurricane?
300
The number of hours in advance that a hurricane warning is issued
What is 24 hours?
300
A hurricane begins over warm water as a low pressure area also called this
What is a tropical disturbance?
400
Term used for water that falls to Earth from the atmosphere
What is Precipitation?
400
Clouds that bring thunderstorms
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
400
A "dome" of water that sweeps across the coast where a hurricane lands
What is storm surge?
400
The first rule of flood safety
What is stay away from flood waters?
400
The "quiet" center of a hurricane
What is the eye?
500
The repeated movement of water between Earth's surface and the atmosphere
What is the water cycle?
500
Cumulus clouds often indicate what kind of weather
What is fair weather (sunny, nice, etc.)?
500
A sudden spark or energy discharge between parts of a cloud or clouds and the ground
What is lightning?
500
An announcement that a tornado has been seen in the sky or on weather radar
What is a tornado warning?
500
Tornadoes form in these low, heavy clouds
What are cumulonimbus clouds?