Vania Dereck García Darby

7th Grade.

Unit 3 The environment.

Lesson 4 Disasters
Weather and Climate knowledge Quiz
 What is the difference between  If it is winter in the Northern
climate and weather? Hemisphere, what season is it in
the Southern Hemisphere?
A) There is no difference.
B) Climate refers to weather conditions A) spring
for a region over a period of time. B) summer
C) Weather refers to climatic conditions C) fall
for a region over a period of time. D) winter
D) Climate is the location of the weather
conditions at a particular time.  Why is it common to see snow
on very high mountains in the
 Earth is not the only planet that tropics?
exhibits weather conditions.
A) The circulation of the air blows
What is required for a planet to the cold upward.
support weather systems? B) It occasionally snows in the
tropics.
A) a surface C) The higher the altitude, the colder
B) a moon the temperature.
C) an atmosphere D) It is colder on the shady side of
D) existing life the mountains.

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 How does atmospheric  What happens to the water
circulation influence climate? vapor in the air when the air
temperature cools?

A) by producing winds that distribute

A) It evaporates.
heat and moisture B) Water droplets form.
B) by producing ocean currents that C) It dissipates into the air.
cause tornadoes D) It turns into a gas.
C) by producing tornadoes that cause
 Forecasters use clouds to help
ocean currents
D) by distributing air that causes wind predict the weather. Which of
the following may be a reason
 From what do clouds form? for this?

A) moisture released from wind

A) Certain cloud types appear after storms.
B) air pollution B) There is no other way to predict
C) water that has evaporated from the weather.
Earth C) Certain cloud types often appear before
D) moisture released from rivers storms.
D) Certain storms come from certain
clouds.
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 What powerful storm can kill more people and destroy
more property than any other natural disaster?

A) thunderstorm
B) earthquake
C) lightning
D) hurricane

 What do scientists call the circulation of water

through the Earth's crust, oceans, and atmosphere?

A) condensation
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 by Thomas Grazulis

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 It had been a busy Tuesday in Thurston County, Nebraska, for
young Dale Larson. It was obvious to all farmers and their children
that the day would be stormy. The harvest was under way, and
prewinter projects were still competing with daily chores on the
Larson farm three miles east of Pender.

A mile from the Larson farm sat the James School. Miss Dorothy
Smith was only slightly uneasy about the threat of bad weather.
The storm cave was only a few feet from the school, and
September was not tornado season. Seven miles to the north-
northeast was the Lamere School, where 22-year-old Phyliss
Stewart was conducting class for her pupils. She also was not
especially concerned about the weather. Another 10 miles to the
northeast, 19-year-old Helen Rooney, teacher at the O'Connor
School, was nervous in the stormy weather, as she always was. Her
school was situated on an exposed hilltop, and she frequently
dispersed the children to their homes on neighboring farms on
those occasions when the weather turned severe.

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Thunderstorms grew in the southwest and passed over the
county on that balmy fall afternoon. After a heavy rain,
the storm seemed to be over. The students at the James
School were about to be dismissed. At the O'Connor
School, heeding the advice of a neighboring farmer, Miss
Rooney had already dismissed her students early, but she
stayed to work on the lessons for the next day.
At 3:50 p.m., 17-year-old Dale Larson and his father looked
out from their hilltop farm and saw the rain drifting off to
the northeast. They also glanced to the southwest and
noticed a black low-hanging cloud near the ground. They
knew in an instant what it could be and what had to be
done. The James School was on the northeast side of a
hill, and the approaching tornado would not be seen by
either the students or the teacher. The massive funnel was
moving steadily and directly toward the little building.
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 Without hesitation, Dale leaped into the family Ford and
began racing toward the school, heading directly into the
path of the oncoming twister. Losing a tire as he spun out
of the driveway, the race to the school seemed endless,
although it lasted only two minutes. He arrived seconds
before the school began to disintegrate. Until the moment
that Dale burst into the classroom, Dorothy Smith and
her 29 students were unaware that they were in any
danger. Dale hurled himself into the building and shouted
"Get into the cave! Cyclone!" In just a few seconds, the 31
people, ages six to 24, packed themselves into the tiny
storm cave.

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As the children were passing through the cloakroom, Dale
almost instinctively grabbed a skipping rope. He tied it to
the storm cave door and, with the help of two older boys,
was able to keep the door closed while a deafening noise
rose and fell outside. Ten minutes after the noise subsided
they emerged into sunshine and found nothing left but
fragments of a foundation, the posts from the swing, and
the pump at the well, set in concrete. Pieces of the Larson
family car, Miss Smith's car, and the teacher's hand bell
were found more than two miles away. No one at the James
School was even scratched. Fragments of schoolbooks were
found in Iowa, 50 miles away. Whether they were from this
or other schools in the tornado's path is not known.

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The tornado that struck
the James School may
have looked something
like this—a twister
photographed about
1930 near Gothenberg,
Nebraska.
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This is likely the kind of
damage that the Lamere Dale Larson and the
School suffered. Here, a schoolchildren he saved
schoolroom in
Murphysboro, IL, in which pose before the storm-
60 children were caught shelter door that he
during the Great Tri-State
Tornado of March 25, 1925. held down with a jump
rope.
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