Use the following websites to help you to answer the "General Information" questions on your handout.
1. What is a tornado?
2. Where and when can tornadoes form?
- http://www.weatherwizkids.com/tornado.htm (Scroll down to the sections titled "When are Tornadoes Most Likely to Occur" and "Where are Tornadoes Most Likely to Occur?")
Use the following websites to help you answer the "Formation" questions on your handout.
3. How do tornadoes form?
- http://www.weatherwizkids.com/tornado.htm (Scroll down to the section titled "How do Tornadoes Form?")
- http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/natural-disasters/forces-of-nature.html (Click 2 for "What Causes Tornadoes?")
Use the following websites to help you to answer the "Damage" questions on your handout.
4. What kind of damage can tornadoes create?
5. Name a previous tornado that had a devastating impact? When and where did it occur?
- http://www.weather.com/encyclopedia/tornado/history.html (Click on one of the links under "Historical Tornadoes" to read about a previous tornado)
Use the following websites to help you answer the "Safety" questions on your handout.
6. How do meteorologists (weather scientists) predict its formation?
- http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/natural-disasters/forces-of-nature.html (Click 5 for "How are tornadoes forecasted (predicted)?)
7. How can people keep safe from a tornado?