Processes and Impacts of Natural Hazards

Processes and Impacts of Natural Hazards

Overview

Open Ended

What do you think natural hazards are?

Natural Hazards

is a naturally occurring event that may have negative effects on people or the environment.

Natural Disasters

• Can change the land within minutes

• Can be weather related

• Some regions are more likely to experience certain natural hazards than other regions.

Multiple Select

What do you think are some examples of natural hazards? (Check all that may apply...)

• Earthquakes

• Tsunamis

• Volcanic Eruptions

• Hurricanes

• Tornados

More Types of Natural Hazards

• Thunderstorms

• Floods

• Droughts

• and much more...

What are some causes and effects of Natural Disasters?

• Tornados caused when warm, moist air meets cold dry air -> can create 300mph winds that damage and destroy

• Hurricanes caused by warm air over tropical oceans rising, condensing, and warming the air even more -> damage property and threaten lives

• Thunderstorms: sudden, powerful events caused by convection in the atmosphere -> makes outside dangerous

• Droughts caused by lack of precipitation in an area over an extended period of time -> water restrictions, economic losses, etc.

Ways humans help

• Humans have improved the construction of buildings and structures that can withstand extreme temperatures, large amounts of rain, high winds, and electrical current from lightning.

Picture Vocabulary

Processes and Impacts of Natural Hazards

Design Solution

An answer to a problem that is the result of a thought-out plan

Impact

To directly affect or change

Open Ended

What is one way humans impact the earth?

Merit

Value or goodness

Natural Hazards

Events in nature that may have a negative effect

Multiple Select

What is an example of a natural hazard?

• Taking a bath

• Running down a mountain

• Tornado

• Swimming through a wave

Natural Processes

A series or group of events that occur naturally

Weather-Related Hazards

Dangerous events caused by weather

Poll

Would you go outside if there was a weather-related hazard?

• YES!

• Ehhhh.. maybe

• NO WAY! Miss Brown you are crazy!