Earth Science Storms

A source for moisture, lifting of an air mass and unstable atmosphere must be present for what to happen?

• Thunderstorm

• Tornado

• Hurricane

• Storm surge

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

The first stage of thunderstorm development when air starts to rise vertically.

• Cumulus

• Mature

• Windy

• Dissipation

Second stage of thunderstorm development where updrafts and downdrafts exist side by side.

• Mature

• Dissipation

• Cumulus

• Hurricanes

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Third stage of thunderstorms when the warm, moist air goes away.

• Dissipation

• Mature

• Flash floods

• Storm surge

How much electricity is in a bolt of lightening?

• 100 million volts

• 100 thousand volts

• 1000 volts

• Speed

What happens when super heated air rapidly expands and contracts?

• Lightening

• Thunder

• Downpour

• Tornado

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Extremely powerful storms.

• Supercells

• Jail cells

• Human cells

• Wind shear

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Violent, whirling column of air.

• Tornado

• Supercell

• Hurricane

• Updraft

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Scale that ranks tornadoes acctoding to their destruction and estimated wind speed.

• EF

• ETA

• PDA

• YOU

Calm center of a hurricane.

• Eye

• Nose

• Wind shear

• Tropical storm

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6