Severe Weather

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How do you define severe weather?

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dangerous weather conditions that can cause damage and/or a loss of human life

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How are raindrops formed?

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Condensation causes water vapor to clump together.

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When frozen raindrops bump into each other in a cloud an electric charge is created causing..

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Lightning

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Does lightning heat up air?

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True

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The sound created by the rapid expansion of air due to lightning is called..

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Thunder

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How are hurricanes put into categories?

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how fast the wind speed is

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A rotating storm with wind speeds over 119 km/h (74 mph) is...

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Hurricane

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Why do hurricanes rotate?

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the coriolis effect

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A huge mass of ocean water that floods land by the coast is called

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Storm surge

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Which one describes a tornado?

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a rotating column of air with very high wind speed