Spinning Thunderstorms

What is another name for a tornado?

• A tsunami

• A flood

• A hurricane

• A spinning thunderstorm

What is the most powerful tornado category?

• EF6

• EF5

• A super tornado

• An avalanche

A tornado often comes with winds of what?

• 1,000 miles an hour.

• Destroyed towns.

• More than 200 miles an hour.

• Crying people trapped inside

According to the article, after a tornado, it's not uncommon to see...

• People celebrating the win.

• Children returning to school.

• Nothing left.

• People returning to normal.

How do tornadoes form?

• when wet air collides with hot air

• when spinning air collides with wet air

• when cool, dry air collides with warm, wet air

• when a thunderstorm gets struck by lightening

What is "Tornado Alley"?

• An area on the Mainland that is shaped much like a funnel cloud.

• An area in Kansas where tornadoes often occur.

• An area in the Central U.S. of 8 states where tornadoes commonly occur.

• A street in Kansas named after the spinning thunderstorms.

In the sentence "These conditions spawn more than 600 tornadoes, on average, in 'Tornado Alley' every year."

What does spawned mean?

• effect

• are worse

• look like

• create

What is this article mostly about?

• How the town of Greensburg was rebuilt.

• The damage that tornadoes can cause AND how and where they form.

• How people who live in Kansas are use to storms.

• That cars and trucks get thrown around during a tornado.

Why do thunderstorms form undisturbed in the Great Plains?

• Because they are surrounded by mountains.

• Because they are close to the Gulf of Mexico.

• Because they just do.

• Because the Great Plains are flat and far from mountains and coastal weather.

Read this sentence from the article: "Kansans are used to tornadoes".

What evidence in the article supports this statement?

• The tornado that destroyed Greensburg was a mile wide and had winds that were moving faster than 200 miles an hour.

• A tornado came through Greensburg and destroyed the town 20 minutes after the tornado sirens went off.

• People in Kansas live in an area of the United States where a lot of tornadoes happen.

• "Tornado Alley" has cool, dry air from the Arctic that mixes with warm, wet air from the Gulf of Mexico.