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Tornado in a Bottle Lesson

Word Bank

What is a tornado?

1,000 direction warm column spinning effect 300 destruction

storm speed unstable 6 height thunderstorm cool

What is a tornado?
A tornado is a type of _______ .
A ________ of air that reaches from a __________________ to the ground.
A tornado can cause extreme ______________.
A tornado can have wind speeds of up to ______ miles per hour.
______ tornadoes happen in the U.S. every year.

How does a tornado happen?
_______ air from the south mixes with ______ air from the north.
When warm and cool air meet, the atmosphere becomes __________ .
When the ___________ of the wind changes and the ________ and _________ of
the wind increases, an invisible horizontal spinning effect happens in the
atmosphere.
The tornado is caused by this ________ _______ which creates an area of
rotation up to __ miles wide.

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Reflection
Did your tornado in a bottle experiment work? Why or why not?


How was your tornado in a bottle similar to a real tornado?


How was your tornado in a bottle different than a real tornado?