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Homework:
Tonight read 20 minutes (RC quiz #2 is due Friday)
Spelling worksheet
Start reviewing your spelling and vocabulary from this theme for the theme test on Friday.
1. collide - to come together with forceful impact.
2. funnel cloud - a storm that is wide at the top and narrow at the bottom.
3. jagged - having a ragged or pointed edge or outline.
4. lightning - the flash of light when electricity builds up in storm clouds.
5. prairies - large areas of flat or open grasslands.
6. rotate - to turn around on a center or axis.
7. severe - serious or extreme in nature.
8. sizzling - crackling or hissing with intense heat.
9. tornadoes - violent, whirling winds in funnel-shaped clouds that can cause great
destruction.
10. occupation - a means of making a living, profession, or job.
11. updraft - current of air that flows upward.
12. conditions - situations that affect or influence an activity, event, etc.

1. cinders - partly burned pieces of coal or wood.
2. crater - a bowl-shaped area at the mouth of a volcano.
3. crust - the hard outer layer of earth.
4. eruption - a volcanic explosion or large flow of lava.
5. lava - hot melted rock that flows from a volcano.
6. magma - molten rock underneath the earth’s surface.
7. molten - made liquid by heat.
8. summit - the top of the mountain.
9. century - period of 100 years.
10. billowy - surging or swelling like a great wave.
11. composite - made up of distinctly different parts.
12. weathered - to change through or as through exposure to the elements, as by
roughening, warping, fading, or darkening.

1. debris-the remains of something broken or destroyed.
2. devastation-destruction or ruin.
3. fault-a break in a rock mass caused by a shifting of the earth's surface.
4. impact-the striking of one object against another.
5. jolt-sudden jerk or bump.
6. shuddered-to suddenly shake, vibrate, or quiver.
7. susceptible-easily influenced or impressed.
8. undulating-moving in waves or with a smooth, wavy motion.
9. upheaval-lifting or upward movement of the earth's crust.
10. isolated-separated from a group or whole and set apart.
11. stifling-to feel discomfort from a lack of fresh air or oxygen.
12. ominous-seeming to foretell or be a sign of trouble, danger, or disaster