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Water Cycle
Weather Misc.
Weather
Vocabulary
Stormy Weather
Tornado
Safety and
Trivia
100
Nature’s way of recycling water.
What is the water cycle?
100
A boundary between two different air masses where air mixes
What are fronts?
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
The percent of the total amount of water the air can hold
What is relative humidity?
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
A large body of air that has similar temperature and moisture throughout
What is an air mass?
300
Instrument that shows wind direction
What is a wind vane or a wind sock?
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
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 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
Two air masses that affect our (washington state) weather.
What are maritime polar and maritime tropical.
500
The weather of a place over a long time
What is climate?
500
Another name for a hurricane
What is a typhoon?
500
Scale used rate the damage and speed of tornadoes
What is the Fujita scale (F-scale)?