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Thanks Mrs. Nordstrom for sharing. http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/mrsnordstrom-514979-eye-of-the-storm-vocabulary/
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Eye of the Storm
I can determine the meaning of and use
key vocabulary words correctly.
Collide
Collide
• The tornado and car about to collide on the road.
Collide
– To bump into another mass with force.
Funnel Cloud
Funnel Cloud
• The funnel cloud is wide at the top and has touched the ground.
Funnel Cloud
• Tornado cloud that is wide at the top and narrow where it touches the ground.
Jagged
Jagged
• The jagged shape of the lightning lit up the night sky.
Jagged• Having a sharp, pointed edge or outline.
Lightning
Lightning• The sky filled with lightning during the
major storm.
Lightning• The flash of light in the sky when electricity
passes between clouds or between a cloud and the ground.
Prairies
Prairies
• The grassland of the prairies stretches for miles.
Prairies
• Flat, open grasslands.
Rotate
Rotate• The tornado began to rotate violently.
Rotate• To swirl in a circular motion.
Severe
Severe
• The severe tornado greatly damaged this Ohio town in 1974.
Severe
• Serious or extreme in nature.
Sizzling
Sizzling
• The bystanders could hear the sizzle from the lightning as it struck.
Sizzling
• Crackling with intense heat.
Tornadoes
Tornadoes
• The tornado, with its rotating column of air, was rapidly approaching the town.
Tornadoes
• Rotating columns of air accompanied by whirling funnel-shaped downspouts.
Sounds of a tornado
• http://www.stormsounds.com/home/index.html
• (super cell tornado)