Tornados

What is a tornado?

• A type of large bird

• A violent rotating column of air extending from a thunderstorm to the ground

• A peaceful breeze on a sunny day

• A dance move

What do tornadoes look like?

• A giant teapot

• A traditional funnel shape or a slender rope-like form

• A cloud shaped like an animal

• A large mountain

What is a funnel cloud?

• A rotating cone-shaped column of air extending downward from the base of a thunderstorm, but not touching the ground

• A cloud that rains only on funnels

• A cloud made entirely of funnels

• A type of candy

What is a supercell thunderstorm?

• A superhero movie

• A video game

• A long-lived thunderstorm with balanced updrafts and downdrafts

• A new type of cell phone

What is a mesocyclone?

• A rotating vortex of air within a supercell thunderstorm

• A small cyclone that only occurs in the Mediterranean Sea

• A new weather app

• A type of bicycle

What is a microburst?

• A downdraft in a thunderstorm that is less than 2.5 miles in scale

• A small candy that bursts in your mouth

• A small, intense area of rain in a thunderstorm

• A tiny explosion

What is a wall cloud?

• A digital storage cloud for walls

• A cloud that forms walls

• A cloud shaped like a wall

• A lowering of a rain-free cumulonimbus base into a low-hanging cloud

What is a waterspout?

• A spout that attaches to a water hose

• A new type of water bottle

• A fountain found in a lake

• A weak tornado that forms over water

What is hail?

• A greeting

• Frozen rain

• A type of bird

• Small water droplets caught in the updraft of a thunderstorm, freezing into ice

Where are tornadoes most likely to occur?

• In the Great Plains

• On the moon

• In the Amazon Rainforest

• In the Sahara Desert