Harrison WorldLAB Symposium

 
Topic: Tornadoes
 
Group Members: Ian and Kara
 
Question or Hypothesis guiding the project: How do tornadoes form and occur?
 
Overview of the three required learning activities:
1. Kara has visited Fernbank in the Atlanta area.
2. Ian is making a web site with 25 different links.
3. Our third learning activity is watching a information video on how tornadoes form and occur.
 
Findings:
1.Vortexes are caused by vigorous updrafts in a thundercloud.
2.They also are caused from falling hail.
3.Tornadoes could also be caused from very intense electrical activity in a storm.
4.Radios and telivision static may proviide the tornadoes energy.
5.Fifty to seventy percent of most tornadoes warnings are false because they are as unpredicable as sharks.
6.Besides the every day tornado, they're two main kind of tornadoes: Dust Devils and Waterspouts
7. Nobody truly knows how tornadoes form or occur, but scientists have a very good idea because of further work in the field.
 
Conclusion: They form from two or more very different temperatures collide to form an updraft of air and is seen because of the dust and water particles at the core of the vortex.
 
Questions raised for further study:
1.Where's Tornado Alley?
2.What state has the most tornadoes?
3.How often do they occur?
4.What other instruments could be used to help detect things that we don't know?
5.What are the different kinds of tornadoes?