Natural Disasters Vocabulary

What does expository mean?

• to expose someone to trouble

• of the nature of exposition;exposition; serving to expound, set forth, or explain

• to do an experiment in Science

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CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

What does natural mean?

• existing by man made means

• is made from rock

• existing in or formed by nature (opposed to artificial)

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CCSS.L.3.4B

CCSS.L.3.4C

CCSS.RF.3.3A

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

Is this sentence a correct usage of the word tornado?

A tornado was found on my Uncle's boat?

• Correct

• Not correct

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CCSS.L.5.5C

A hurricane is

• the same thing as a tornado

• a violent movement inside the Earth

• a violent, tropical, cyclonic storm of the western North Atlantic, having wind speeds of or in excess of 72 miles per hour (32 m/sec)

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CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Tsunamis are

• violent storms that happen in the Midwest

• an unusually large sea wave produced by a sea; quake or undersea volcanic eruption

• caused by really high wind speeds (80 mph)

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CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Is this word used correctly in the sentence.

Catastrophic events can change the surface of the Earth.

• Correct

• not correct

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CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

A calamitous event, especially one occurring suddenly and causing great loss of life, damage,or hardship, as a flood, airplane crash, or business failure is

• prediction

• catastrophic

• disaster

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CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Extreme geological events or weather events that occur naturally and might negatively impact humans is

• natural hazard

• prediction

• destruction

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CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

A prediction is

• the state of being dictated to

• the act of predicting something to happen

• the act of creating a natural hazard

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CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Is this word used correctly in the sentence? Hurricane Sandy destruction on the beach?

• correct

• not correct

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CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4