Final Grade 8 Social Studies

Flooding is an overflowing of water onto land that is normally ..................... .

• wet

• dry

• soft

Floods can have both positive and negative impacts.

• True

• False

The flash flood happens ........... .

• quickly

• slowly

• A and B

Example of natural floods :

• Dam Breakages

• Dams

• Coastal Flooding

Manu people builds a boat and save himself.

• True

• False

Mississippi Flood happened because of .......... .

• dam breakage

• wind

• heavy rain

The worst damage made by a flood since the Second World War is ............... .

• North Sea Flood

• The Great Mississippi Flood

• Manu

The ................. built a to measure the River Nile's water level.

• Greeks

• Indians

• Egyptians

London is a city quite susceptible to flooding. This is caused by the continual rise in the water level of the ........... through out the years.

• Mississippi River

• Nile River

• River Thames

Netherlands has known many flood disasters because ....................... .

• Netherlands is full of rivers

• more than half of the Netherlands lies below sea level .

• Netherlands is full of dams