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Water Cycle
Clouds
Weather
Vocabulary
Stormy Weather
Tornado
Safety and
Trivia
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Amount of water vapor in the air.

What's Humidity?

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Thin, feathery clouds that appear high in the sky; they are a sign that rain or snow is on the way
What are cirrus clouds?
1000
Instrument that shows wind direction
What is a wind vane?
1000
Large, powerful storm that occurs over large bodies of water
What is a hurricane?
1000
April through June
What are the months that the most tornadoes occur?
2000
Water that is found underground
What is groundwater?
2000
Tall, dark clouds that mean thunderstorms with heavy rain and strong winds
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
2000
The weather of a place over a long time
What is climate?
2000
Another name for a hurricane
What is a typhoon?
2000
Scale used rate the damage and speed of tornadoes
What is the Fujita scale (F-scale)?
3000
Nature’s way of recycling water.
What is the water cycle?
3000

Daily Double

Gray clouds that cover the lower part of the sky; rain or snow falls from them

What are stratus clouds?

3000
The state of the air at a certain time and place
What is weather?
3000
Most common type of storm
What is a thunderstorm?
3000
Where you should go during a tornado if you are in a house
What is the basement?
4000
The process of water vapor turning into water droplets
What is condensation?
4000
Cloud that forms at the earth’s surface
What is fog?
4000
Measures wind speed
What is an anemometer?
4000

DAILY DOUBLE

Water overflow that is caused by a large amount of rainfall

What is a flood?

4000
What you should do if you’re in a car during a tornado
What is pull over and get out of the vehicle?
5000
The process of water changing into an invisible gas called water vapor
What is evaporation?
5000
White, puffy clouds that look like piles of cotton; they are known as fair-weather clouds
What are cumulus clouds?
5000
Scientists who study weather
Who are meteorologists?
5000
Spinning cloud with a funnel shape
What is a tornado?
5000
Where you should go during a tornado if you are in a school or public building
What is the lowest level of the building?