Natural Hazards Vocabulary

an event caused by nature that is a THREAT jobs, money, and people’s lives

• Natural Disaster

• Natural Hazard

• Tornado

• Hurricane

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

an event that completely disrupts the normal ways of a community

• tornado

• geological hazard

• tsunami

• natural disaster

sometimes used to refer to an event that has more destructive, severe and long lasting effects than a disaster

• catastrophe

• natural disaster

• avalanche

• natural hazard

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

a hazard created by the weather or climate

• geological hazard

• natural disaster

• weather hazard

• tornado

a hazard created by land and tectonic processes

• catastrophe

• weather hazard

• tsunami

• geological hazard

a moving, destructive vortex of violently rotating winds shaped like a funnel

• tornado

• avalanche

• hurricane

• earthquake

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

A severe storm with extremely strong winds that develops over tropical oceans

• tsunami

• tornado

• hurricane

• volcano

a long period of extremely dry weather

• flooding

• drought

• hurricane

• landslide

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

the covering of normally dry land with a large amount of water

• drought

• hurricane

• landslide

• flooding

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

a period of unusually hot weather

• drought

• wildfire

• earthquake

• heatwave

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.K.5A