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Water Cycle
Clouds
Weather
Vocabulary
Stormy Weather
Severe Weather
and Safety
100
Nature’s way of recycling water.
What is the water cycle?
100
Gray clouds that cover the lower part of the sky; rain or snow falls from them
What are stratus clouds?
100
The state of the air at a certain time and place
What is weather?
100
Most common type of storm
What is a thunderstorm?
100

This form of precipitation can be dangerous and destructive. You DO NOT want to be caught in a ______ storm.

What is the hail?

200
The process of water changing into an invisible gas called water vapor
What is evaporation?
200
White, puffy clouds that look like piles of cotton; they are known as fair-weather clouds
What are cumulus clouds?
200
Scientists who study weather
Who are meteorologists?
200

Spinning cloud with a funnel shape

What is a funnel cloud?

200

Where you should go during a tornado if you are in a school or public building

What is the lowest level of the building?

300
Amount of water vapor in the air
What is humidity?
300

Thin, feathery clouds that appear high in the sky; clear weather, but cold air aloft

What are cirrus clouds?

300

Instrument that measures air pressure

What is a barometer?

300
Large, powerful storm that occurs over large bodies of water
What is a hurricane?
300

More tornadoes happen in this three month time frame than at any other time of the year.

What is April-through-June

400
The process of water vapor turning into water droplets
What is condensation?
400
Cloud that forms at the earth’s surface
What is fog?
400
Measures wind speed
What is an anemometer?
400
Water overflow that is caused by a large amount of rainfall
What is a flood?
400

What is the most destructive (most damage occurs as a result) part of a hurricane?

What is flooding?

500

The process created when a cloud has reached its saturation point and can no longer hold the condensation.

What is precipitation?

500
Tall, dark clouds that mean thunderstorms with heavy rain and strong winds
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
500
The weather of a place over a long time
What is climate?
500

More tornadoes happen here than anywhere else in the world.

What is a tornado alley?

500

Scale used rate the damage and speed of tornadoes

What is the Enhanced-Fujita scale (EF-scale)?