Natural Hazards

A naturally occurring event that may have a negative effect on people or the environment is called a _.

• natural disaster

• experience

• severe weather warning

• natural hazard

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This image is the result of which natural hazard?

• Volcanic Eruption

• Earthquake

• Landslide

• Wild Fires

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It is caused by lightning and volcanic eruptions in dry areas

• Landslides

• Floods

• Wild Fires

• Earthquakes

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Which of the following is not a natural hazard?

• Earthquake

• Car accident

• Flood

• Landslide

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It causes large pieces of Earth's surface to move, collide, and shake

• Earthquakes

• Volcanic Eruptions

• Wild Fires

• Floods

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True or False. Natural hazards become natural disasters when people's lives and livelihoods are destroyed.

• False

• True

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A period of rapid rain fall causing a river to rise and overflow their banks

• Landslides

• Earthquakes

• Wild Fires

• Flooding

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This image is an example of which natural hazard?

• Landslide

• Volcanic Eruption

• Flooding

• Earthquake

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These natural hazards can negatively impact the air quality and cause breathing problems for humans.

• Flooding

• Volcanic Eruption

• Landslide

• Wild Fires

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True or False. A natural hazards have a natural cause that can be prevented.

• True

• False

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