Natural Disasters

Which sentence from paragraph 3 best supports the tornado photograph?

• A tornado is a spinning column of air that stretches from a thunderstorm to the ground.

• Scientists don't fully understand how a thunderstorm becomes a tornado.

• The cold air traps the warm air underneath it, causing the warm air to spin.

• None of the above

Which paragraph is best supported by the hurricane photograph?

• Paragraph 1

• Paragraph 2

• Paragraph 3

• None of the above

How does the author support the idea that hurricanes and tornadoes are caused by similar weather conditions?

• By describing how heavy winds help create both types of storms

• By explaining what scientists have learned about predicting both types of storms

• By stating that both types of storms occur in the same parts of the world

• None of the above

Which paragraph best supports the author's idea that hurricanes and tornadoes are strong and destructive storms?

• Paragraph 1

• Paragraph 2

• Paragraph 3

• None of the above

How does the author support the idea that volcanoes are destructive?

• The lava destroys everything it touches, including houses and roads.

• Volcanoes erupt in two different ways.

• After many eruptions at the same location, the layers of rock create a volcano.

• None of the above

Which paragraph best supports the idea that volcanoes only form in certain areas of the Earth?

• Paragraph 1

• Paragraph 2

• Paragraph 3

• None of the above

What does the diagram teach you that the text does not?

• The parts of a volcano

• Cone of the volcano

• Lava flow

• None of the above

With which statement would the authors of BOTH passages agree?

• Scientists can save lives by predicting when volcanoes will erupt

• Magma erupts out of a volcano and forms a crater

• Most natural disasters can only happen in one part of the world

• None of the above

How are volcanoes similar to hurricanes and tornadoes?

• They all need high winds to form.

• They all put people in danger.

• They all form near the edge of Earth's plates.

• None of the above

Which topic do the passages have in common?

• What confuses scientists about natural disasters

• What causes different natural disasters to form

• The number of natural disasters that happen in the United States

• None of the above