Severe Weather Webquest Check

When do tornadoes occur?

• any time of year

• any time of day

• March to May

• all of these

This is a huge storm that can be up to 600 miles across.

• blizzard

• tornado

• hurricane

• thunderstorm

A thunderstorm is a storm with _______ and _________.

• lightning

• an eye

• snow

• thunder

This is a bright flash of electricity produced by a thunderstorm

• thunder

• an eye

• funnel cloud

• lightning

In lightning, protons have a _____________ charge.

• positive

• negative

• no charge

• passable

What is an updraft?

• cold column of air that rises

• air pushing down

• warm column of air that rises

• opposite charges attracting

When charges are in a cloud and going to produce lightning, where do the negative charges form?

• the bottom of the cloud

• the top of the cloud

• middle of the cloud

• there are no negative charges present

Lightning strikes things that are

• flat on the ground

• sticking up from the ground

• underground

• rubber

A severe thunderstorm watch indicates a possibility of damaging winds of _____ miles per hour or more.

Supercell thunderstorms can produce violent tornadoes with winds exceeding ___ mph.