Show:
Water Cycle
Clouds
Weather
Vocabulary
Stormy Weather
Tornado
Safety and
Trivia
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 nimbus / stratus clouds?

100

The instrument that measures cloud base height

What is a ceilometer?

100

The kind of front that produces severe storms

What is a cold front?

100
Where you should go during a tornado if you are in a house
What is the basement?
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 tornado?
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; they are a sign that rain or snow is on the way
What are cirrus clouds?
300

Instrument that shows air pressure

What is a barometer?

300

Large, powerful storm that occurs over large bodies of water

What is a hurricane?

300

April through June

What is tornado season?

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

Instrument that 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 you should do if you’re in a car during a tornado

What is pull over and get out of the vehicle?

500
Water that is found underground
What is groundwater?
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

Another name for a hurricane

What is a typhoon / cyclone?

500

Scale used to rate the damage and speed of tornadoes

What is the Fujita scale (F-scale)?