Unit 3 - Natural Hazards Vocabulary Assignment 24-25

Natural Hazard

• to use available information to draw a conclusion about what may occur in the future
• The removal of trees faster than forests can replace themselves.
• A natural occurrence caused by extreme weather or geologic events
• unaffected by fire

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Avalanche

• a small device placed on a volcano to detect small changes in the earth of the volcano to predict eruption events
• a slide of large masses of snow and ice and mud down a mountain
• a large, destructive fire that spreads quickly over woodland or brush.
• A natural occurrence caused by extreme weather or geologic events

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Seismograph

• a mobile, destructive vortex of violently rotating winds having the appearance of a funnel-shaped cloud and advancing beneath a large storm system.
• the Federal Emergency Management Agency; an agency focused on responding to natural and other disasters
• to stop an event from occurring before it begins
• a device that measures the size (magnitude) of earthquakes (NOTE: These do NOT predict)

Thunderstorm

• to use available information to draw a conclusion about what may occur in the future
• a transient storm of lightning and thunder, usually with rain and gusty winds, sometimes with hail or snow, produced by cumulonimbus clouds.
• to stop an event from occurring before it begins
• a building above ground; posts, poles

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

debris flow

• A huge destructive wave (especially one caused by an earthquake)
• A downslope movement of mud mixed with larger rock fragments.
• National Weather Service
• a flood caused by heavy or excessive rainfall in a short period of time(less than 6 hours)

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Weathering

• Barriers composed of sediments made on either side of a river due to flooding.
• to use available information to draw a conclusion about what may occur in the future
• The breaking down of rocks and other materials on the Earth's surface.
• A set of posts supporting

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Erosion

• The process by which wind, water, ice, or gravity transports soil and sediment from one location to another
• to stop an event from occurring before it begins
• A severe storm that develops over tropical (warm) oceans and whose strong winds of more than 120 km/h spiral in toward the intensely low-pressure storm center
• the Federal Emergency Management Agency; an agency focused on responding to natural and other disasters

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

asteriod

• A severe storm that develops over tropical (warm) oceans and whose strong winds of more than 120 km/h spiral in toward the intensely low-pressure storm center
• the Federal Emergency Management Agency; an agency focused on responding to natural and other disasters
• a building above ground; posts, poles
• a solid, rocky and/or metallic body that independently orbits the sun.

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

landslide

• The process by which wind, water, ice, or gravity transports soil and sediment from one location to another
• a mountain or hill, typically conical, having a crater or vent through which lava, rock fragments, hot vapor, and gas are being or have been erupted from the earth's crust.
• the sudden movement of rock and soil down a slope
• a sudden and violent shaking of the ground, sometimes causing great destruction, as a result of movements within the earth's crust or volcanic action.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

evacuation

• A set of posts supporting
• to stop an event from occurring before it begins
• mass departure or retreat from an area
• a sudden and violent shaking of the ground, sometimes causing great destruction, as a result of movements within the earth's crust or volcanic action.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2