This document provides a list of key words related to weather including types of rain, snow, wind, clouds, temperature, and the sun. It encourages adding more descriptive words to create a mind map around these weather terms. The reader is also prompted to try creating a mind map using the word "storm" as the key term and including related words like thunder, lightning, and storm-specific wind descriptions.

1. Weather Words

2. WEATHER rain snow wind cloud sun temperature Add lists of words – nouns, adjectives and verbs – to the mind map. They must be related to the ones given below.

3. Key

4. rain fall drip drizzle spit sleet hail dew downpour cloudburst shower bucket down pelt pour cats and dogs WEATHER

5. WEATHER snow frost icicle ice blizzard drift

6. WEATHER wind gale hurricane storm tempest cyclone typhoon tornado / twister gust (of) blast breath (of) breeze

7. temperature boiling hot warm mild cool crisp chilly freezing WEATHER

8. sun sunrise sunset sundown dry arid parched baked clear fine WEATHER sunshine sunlight

9. cloud smog fog mist cloudless haze WEATHER

10. WEATHER rain snow wind cloud sun temperature fall drip drizzle spit sleet hail dew frost icicle ice blizzard drift gale hurricane storm tempest cyclone typhoon tornado gust blast breath breeze smog fog mist cloudless haze downpour cloudburst shower bucket down pelt pour cats and dogs boiling hot warm mild cool crisp chilly freezing sunrise sunset sundown dry arid parched baked clear fine sunshine sunlight

11. STORM If you use storm as the key word, your mind-map will look different. Try it out! rain wind

12. thunder lightning STORM wind clap crash peal roar rumble flash rain Answer key