1. 2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt 2pt 3 pt 4pt 5 pt 1pt 2pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4pt 5 pt 1pt Water Cycle Clouds Weather Vocabulary Stormy Weather Tornado Safety and Trivia

2. Nature’s way of recycling water

3. What is the water cycle?

4. The process of water changing into an invisible gas called water vapor

5. What is evaporation?

6. Amount of water vapor in the air

7. What is humidity?

8. The process of water vapor turning into water droplets

9. What is condensation?

10. Precipitation that falls to the ground and returns to lakes and oceans

11. What is runoff?

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

13. What are stratus clouds?

14. White, puffy clouds that look like piles of cotton; they are known as fair- weather clouds

15. What are cumulus clouds?

16. Thin, feathery clouds that appear high in the sky; they are a sign that rain or snow is on the way

17. What are cirrus clouds?

18. Cloud that forms at the earth’s surface

19. What is fog?

20. Tall, dark clouds that mean thunderstorms with heavy rain and strong winds

21. What are cumulonimbus clouds?

22. The state of the air at a certain time and place

23. What is weather?

24. Scientists who study weather

25. Who are meteorologists?

26. Instrument that shows wind direction

27. What is a wind vane?

28. Measures wind speed

29. What is an anemometer?

30. Instrument that measures the amount of rain

31. What is a rain gauge?

32. Most common type of storm

33. What is a thunderstorm?

34. Spinning cloud with a funnel shape

35. What is a tornado?

36. Large, powerful storm that occurs over large bodies of water

37. What is a hurricane?

38. Water overflow that is caused by a large amount of rainfall

39. What is a flood?

40. Another name for a hurricane

41. What is a typhoon?

42. Where you should go during a tornado if you are in a house

43. What is the basement?

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

45. What is the lowest level of the building?

46. April through June

47. What are the months that the most tornadoes occur?

48. What you should do if you’re in a car during a tornado

49. What is pull over and get out of the vehicle?

50. Scale used rate the damage and speed of tornadoes

51. What is the Fujita scale (F-scale)?