Natural Disasters

What is a natural disaster?

• All types of severe weather, which have the potential to pose a significant threat to human health and safety, & property.

• When we run out of natural resources.

• Changes to the environment.

• Event caused by human-environment interaction.

What is a hurricane?

• Giant waves caused by underwater earthquakes

• Storm created by a cold front.

• Large cycling storms with high speed winds that form over warm ocean waters.

• Columns of spinning air that forms over land.

Which of the following would NOT most likely cause a flood?

• a river overflowing

• a dam releasing large amounts of water

• heavy rain

• a drought

A disaster when there is no rain for a long time and everything is dry.

• a drought

• a flood

• a hurricane

• a tornado

A sudden shaking of the earth's surface that can cause a lot of damage.

• a volcanic eruption

• a earthquake

• a hurricane

• a tornado

A disaster when there is air that spins around very quickly in the shape of a funnel.

• a drought

• a flood

• a tornado

• a earthquake

The middle of the hurricane is called the ___.

• eye

• mouth

• foot

• hole

What is the place in the United States where the most tornadoes happen?

• Tornado States

• Tornado zone

• Tornado Alley

• Tornado America

Destruction is defined as the action or process of causing so much damage to something that it no longer exists or cannot be repaired.

• True

• False

What does a "storm surge" raise?

• Wind speed

• Ocean Level

• Homes

• The Earth