Natural Disaster Vocabulary

Natural Disaster Vocabulary

Students who demonstrate understanding can:

• K-ESS3-2. Ask questions to obtain information about the purpose of weather forecasting to prepare for, and respond to, severe weather.

Let's go over with vocabulary

Disaster

* a sudden event that causes great damage

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Copy the complete sentence that would fit the word disaster.

1. When the fire alarm went off, our teacher told us to ______________ the room.

2.The flood that washed over our playground was a huge ______________.

Evacuate:

* to move away from a place of danger

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Copy the complete sentence that would fit the word evacuate.

1. The flood that washed over our playground was a huge ______________.

2. When the fire alarm went off, our teacher told us to ______________ the room.

Spew

to eject large amounts of something

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Copy the complete sentence that would fit the word spew.

1) June laughed so hard I saw milk ______________ from his nose!

2) I am very responsible. It is very ______________ that I forget my homework.

Violent

• using harmful force to damage something

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Copy the complete sentence that would fit the word violent.

1. The wind was so _____ that it ripped my kite off its string.

2. Paullaughed so hard I saw milk ______________ from his nose!

Rare

not happening often

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Copy the complete sentence that would fit the word rare.

1. I am very responsible. It is very ______________ that I forget my homework.

2. The flood that washed over our playground was a huge ______________.