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Hazardous weather
various types of hazardous weather
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Science
6th Grade
01/03/2016

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Violent disturbance in the atmosphere.
Definition
Storm
Term
An overflowing of water in a normally dry area.
Definition
Flood
Term
Rapidly whirling, funnel shape cloud that reaches down from a thunderstorm to touch Earth’s surface.
Definition
Tornado
Term
A sudden spark, or electrical discharge that occurs as these charges jump between parts of a cloud, between nearby clouds, or between a cloud and the ground.
Definition
Lightning
Term

A tropical cyclone with winds of 119km/h or higher.

Hint: they are called typhoons in the West Pacific & cyclones in the Indian Ocean.

Definition
Hurricane
Term
A cavity in the ground, especially in limestone bedrock, caused by water erosion and providing a route for surface water to disappear underground.
Definition
Sinkhole
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Atmospheric water vapor frozen into ice crystals and falling in light white flakes or lying on the ground as a white layer.
Definition
Snow
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