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The document discusses tornadoes, their formation, and the dangers they pose, highlighting their destructive power and speed. It explains how tornadoes form from warm and cold air interactions and can cause significant damage and fatalities. The text also notes the fascination people have with tornadoes despite their dangers.

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Fascinating Twisters Quick Read

The document discusses tornadoes, their formation, and the dangers they pose, highlighting their destructive power and speed. It explains how tornadoes form from warm and cold air interactions and can cause significant damage and fatalities. The text also notes the fascination people have with tornadoes despite their dangers.

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READING: INFORMATIONAL

Name _______________________________ Date ________________ RI.5.2

QUICK CHECK
SHOW WHAT YOU KNOW!
Directions: Read the passage and choose the correct answer to each question.

Fascinating Twisters
Some people are fascinated by those powerful, destructive storms known as twisters.
There's something about a tornado that captivates people. The way it can whip up debris and
destroy everything in its path is awe-inspiring and terrifying. Tornadoes might be intriguing, but
they can also be incredibly dangerous.
2 Tornadoes form when warm, moist air rises and meets cold air. This creates a spinning
vortex that causes vertical columns of rotating air, accompanied by thunderstorms. As the
thunderclouds grow, they pull in more warm air from around them, which makes the tornado
spin faster. As the tornado becomes more powerful, it can hurl debris like rocks, dirt, and trees
through the air.
3 A tornado can reach speeds of up to 300 mph and destroy
anything in its path. It can also move incredibly fast. The wind speeds
in a tornado can tear buildings apart, throw cars across a street,
and knock down power lines. If that's not scary enough, a tornado
can also produce deadly hail as big as grapefruits!
4 Tornadoes often form quickly and without warning, which
makes them difficult to predict or avoid. They can travel up to 70
miles per hour and cause destruction in a very short amount of time.
By the time you see one coming, it may be too late to escape its
path. In the United States, tornadoes kill an average of 60 people
each year. In 2011, there were 553 confirmed tornadoes, which
resulted in 55 deaths.
There is something about tornadoes that intrigues
people. Some are drawn to their power and might, while others
are simply curious about how they work. Whatever the reason,
people have been studying tornadoes and their devastating
effects for centuries.

1. What is this text mainly about?


a) the dangerous effects of tornadoes
b) how to protect yourself from the path of a tornado
c) where tornadoes usually occur in the United States
Copyright © Kim Miller
READING: INFORMATIONAL
2. What is the main idea of the text? RI.5.2
a) Tornadoes often form quickly and
without warning, which makes them 7. Which of the following best summarizes the
difficult to predict or avoid. text?
b) There is something about tornadoes a) Tornaodes occur quickly and without
that captivates people.
c) Tornadoes might be intriguing, but
they can also be incredibly your area.
dangerous. b) Scientists have been studying
tornadoes for centuries. They just
3. Which detail from paragraph 2 supports the recently found an easier way to
main idea? predict where tornadoes might
a) As the tornado becomes more occur.
powerful, it can hurl debris like rocks, c) People are drawn to tornadoes for
dirt, and trees through the air. different reasons, including their
b) Tornadoes form when warm moist, air power and curiosity. However, these
rises and meets cold air. storms are not something to take
c) Some people are fascinated by those lightly. They can be extremely
powerful, destructive storms known as dangerous and destroy everything in
twisters. their path.

4. Which detail from paragraph 3 supports the 8. If the author wanted to add the following
main idea? detail to the text, which paragraph should it
a) Tornadoes form quickly and without be added to? Most tornado victims are
warning, which makes them difficult struck by flying debris such as roofing
to predict. shingles, broken glass, doors, and metal rods.
b) The wind speeds in a tornado can a) paragraph 2
tear buildings apart, throw cars across b) paragraph 3
a street, and knock down power c) paragraph 4
lines.
c) It can move incredibly fast. 9. What do you think the author wants the
reader to know?
5. Which detail from paragraph 4 supports the a)
main idea? tornadoes but you should also know
a) In the United States, tornadoes kill an how dangerous these storms can be.
average of 60 people each year. b) Tornadoes are fascinating to watch,
b) By the time you see one coming, it
may be too late to escape its path. one in person.
c) People have been studying c) Chasing tornadoes can be a fun
tornadoes and their devastating hobby as long as you know the
effect for centuries. dangers.

6. What is another word for tornadoes that the 10. Which of the following could also be a title
Copyright © Kim Miller

author uses in this text? for this text?


a) awe-inspiring a) Where is Tornado Alley?
b) twisters b) The Devastating Effects of Tornados
c) powerful c) All About Storm Chasers

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