Surviving Hurricanes Vocabulary Test

weight of air pressing down on Earth. A change in this indicates a change in the weather.

• debris

• air pressure

• equator

remains of things broken or destroyed; liter; garbage

• dyke

• jute

• debris

protected area to sit out a natural disaster

• tide

• disaster center

• air pressure

bank built to control or hold back the water of a sea or a river

• seawall

• radar

• dyke

person who constructs or manages building projects

• engineer

• evacuee

• wetlands

imaginary circle around Earth that is equally distant from the North Pole and South Pole

• moisture

• sea level

• equator

leave an area for reasons of safety

• jute

• debris

• evacuate

person who leaves an area for reasons of safety

• engineer

• evacuee

• tropical cyclone

give off moisture

• evaporate

• storm surge

• wetlands

strong, coarse fiber from a plant that grows in Asia

• debris

• dyke

• jute