Weather and Climatic Hazards

is a naturally occurring event that can have a negative effect on humans or the environment.

• A natural disaster

• Mountain

• A natural hazard

• River

as a severe snow storm characterized by strong winds causing blowing snow that results in low visibilities.

• Volcano

• Blizzard

• Flood

• Drought

an overflow of a large amount of water beyond its normal limits, especially over what is normally dry land.

• Flood

• Hurricane

• Drought

• Blizzard

a prolonged period of abnormally low rainfall, leading to a shortage of water

• Wild fire

• Drought

• Blizzard

• Sink hole

causes widespread injury, death, or property damage.

• a natural hazard

• plate boundary

• plate tectonics

• a natural disaster

January 27-28, 1922

The Knickerbocker Storm battered the upper South and middle Atlantic United States for two days, dumping a record-breaking 28 inches of snow on Washington, D.C.

• Example of drought

• Example of flood

• Example of blizzard

• example of volcanic eruption

Between July 2011 and mid-2012, a severe ____ affected the entire East Africa region causing a severe food crisis across Somalia, Djibouti, Ethiopia and Kenya that threatened the livelihood of 9.5 million people.

• flood

• drought

• blizzard

• none of these

Heat and dust storms plagued the United Arab Emirates at the end of February 2009. This is an example of

• weather and climatic hazard

• volcano

• tornado

• sink hole