Water Cycle
Weather
Vocab
Stormy Weather
Tornado
Safety
100
Nature’s way of recycling water.
What is the water cycle?
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
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
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
Instrument that shows wind direction
What is a wind vane?
300

Large, powerful storm that occurs over large bodies of water

What is a hurricane?

300

April through June

What are the months that the most tornadoes occur?

400
The process of water vapor turning into water droplets
What is condensation?
400

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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
The weather of a place over a long time
What is climate?
500
Another name for a hurricane
What is a typhoon?
500

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Scale used rate the damage and speed of tornadoes

What is the Fujita scale (F-scale)?