CH4 TWISTERS & OTHER TERRIBLE STORMS

Ice chunks that fall from storm clouds

• electricity

• expand

• force

• hail

• humid

Strength or energy used to move water droplets in clouds

• electricity

• expand

• force

• hail

• humid

Energy created from the action inside a storm cloud

• electricity

• expand

• force

• hail

• humid

Warm and high levels of water vapor

• electricity

• expand

• force

• hail

• humid

Spread out in all directions

• electricity

• expand

• force

• hail

• humid

Lightning stays in the same place inside a cloud.

• True

• False

Storm clouds look dark because they are (a)   and thick. The water droplets inside ​ (b)   out light from the sun.

• tall
• block
• short
• thin
• absorb

Meteorologists think a bolt of lightning can be 500 times as hot as the surface of the sun.

• True

• False

In the United States, thunderstorms happen most often in spring and summer.

• True

• False

A hailstone forms when an updraft carries a water droplet high inside a tall cloud.

• True

• False