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Worksheets3.15 tornadoes Quiz
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 6mins
An area where air or liquid spins in a circle is called a
vortex
spin cycle
cool front
What scale is used for tornadoes?
Category Scale
EF Scale
Saffir-Simpson Scale
Metric Scale
What is Tornado Alley?
a popular restaurant
a ride at Disney
where most of America's tornadoes occur
a valley where most of America's tornadoes occur
A strong, severe thunderstorm is called a...
Mega Storm
Super Storm
Super cell
What is a tornado that forms over water called?
Super Cell tornadoes
Non - super cell tornadoes
Waterspout
Tornadoes can be caused by:
Hot air bumping into warm air
a lightning strike
Children running fast in the hall at school
A mass of warm air colliding with a mass of cold air
One way to tell if a tornado is coming:
you see lightning
you see a funnel cloud
you see a rainbow
A tornado's winds can reach
5 kilometers per hour
50 kilometers per hour
480 kilometers per hour
Which is NOT a way to stay safe in a tornado?
Listen to weather reports.
Find shelter in a basement.
Stay in your car.
What are the people called that follow big storms?
Cloud surveyors
Radar watchers
Storm Chasers
Meteorologists
Collide means:
bump into, or hit
work together secretly
blow away
What is a small rotating wind that becomes visible when it collects dust and debris?
blizzard
dust devil
drought
dust storm
