Protection from Floods

What are floods?

• Pellets of ice that fall during thunderstorms
• Whirling colums of clouds, air that descend from supercell thunderstorms
• None of the Above
• When water overflows oceans, lakes, rivers due to too much precipitation, or even caused by explosions

What is a Flood alerted as on weather forecasts?

• Pollution Alert
• Flash Flood Warning 

What is a wall across a river that controls the flow of river water?

• dam
• flood
• floodway
• levee

What is an artificial lake, often formed when water collects behind a dam?

• dam
• flood
• levee
• reservoir

What is piled along the banks of a rising river to keep water out of buildings?

• sandbags
• trees
• rocks

Flash floods are the result of heavy, short rainfalls due to intense storms.

• True
• False

This agency helps monitor flooding at the UK.

• Flood Agency

• Natural Disaster Agency

• Environment Agency

• Authority of Flood