Vocab | Related Disasters | Technology | Locations |
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Fast wind inside the tornado
What is the vortex?
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Thunderstorm
Name a related disaster that is very common and contains rain.
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They send out notifications, updates, warnings, and ways for help.
How are radios used through out the disaster?
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The Tri-State tornado
What tornado had the most deaths?
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Descending cold air that pushed the hot air upwards.
What is the descending air?
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Hail Storm
Name a related disaster that contains large balls of ice or snow.
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Yes
Are TV's used for tornadoes?
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The Tri-State tornado
What tornado had the most injuries?
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A mobile, destructive vortex of violently rotating winds having the appearance of a funnel-shaped cloud and advancing beneath a large storm system.
What is a tornado?
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Super cell Thunderstorms
Name a related disaster that is a thunderstorm but worse.
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Tracking the tornado and its path.
What is a radar used for?
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Plantations, stores, steamboats, farms, and forests.
What is one thing that was destroyed in the Natchez tornado?
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Tronada
What is the Spanish word that means tornado?
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Hurricanes
Name a related disaster that is given names.
(Katrina, Sandy) |
Yes
Is construction also a piece of technology?
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Murphysboro, Griffin, Gorham and DeSoto
What is one town that was completely destroyed in the Tri-State tornado?
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The before the tornado. It is a rotating column of wind that once touches the ground becomes a tornado.
What is a funnel cloud?
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Mesocylcones
Name the last related disaster that was not answered.
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Cranes, drills, diggers, etc.
How is construction used? Give a specific use.
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Missouri, Illinois and Indiana
What is one state that was affected by the Tri-State tornado?
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