Tormentas Eléctricas

A ________________ is an intense storm with strong winds, heavy rain, lightning, and thunder.

Electricity may flow within the cloud also flow between the cloud and the ground. These electrical currents are _________________.

When lightning moves through the air, the air gets very hot. The hot air expands rapidly. As it expands, it makes the air vibrate. These vibrations release energy in the form of sound waves called ______________.

A _________ can from when a rapidly spinning column of low pressure air, called a funnel cloud touches the ground.

A tornado begins as a ___________ cloud that pokes through the bottom of a cumulonimbus cloud.

Winds are generated when air flows from a high pressure area into a ____.

Thunderstorms form along a cold front

Thunderstorm clouds are known as _____.

These storms produce the Earth's most powerful winds

About 75% of the world's tornadoes happen in the United States during Springs and early Summer when cold, dry from Canada meets warm, moist air from the Gulf of Mexico. This relatively flat part of the country is known as ________________.

A funnel cloud and a tornado are the same.