How is soil like a sponge?

It can hold only a limited amount of water

It is healthiest when it gets as much water as possible

It can only absorb fresh water, not salt water

Although it doesn't move, it's actually a living creature

Why should you avoid floodwater if at all possible?

It's usually filled with sewage and other unhealthy stuff.

It's probably moving very quickly.

It's subject to tidal forces, which can pull you under and drown you.

What is the relationship between flooding and earthquakes? Choose the best answer.

Undersea earthquakes can cause huge ocean waves, which flood shorelines

Earthquakes usually break large water pipes, flooding entire states

Earthquakes break open underground springs, which flood large areas

Floodwaters often seep into fault lines, causing earthquakes

What is floods management?

Modification measures aim to reduce flood levels

process used to convert wastewater

Strategy is to reduce water use

land use practices and water management practices

Floods

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What are floods?

Pellets of ice that fall during thunderstorms

Whirling colums of clouds, air that descend from supercell thunderstorms

None of the Above

When water overflows oceans, lakes, rivers due to too much precipitation, or even caused by explosions

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What is storm surge?

Wall of Dust

Spiraling Winds

Wall of Water from Hurricane Winds pushing ashore ocean water

None of the above

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30 sec • 1 pt

What is the part of flash floods which cause damage?

Snakes

Houses

Wood

Power of moving water

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

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What is a Flood alerted as on weather forecasts?

Pollution Alert

Flash Flood Warning

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30 sec • 1 pt

When a flood is in an area, which action should be taken?

Go to low elevation

Go to high elevation

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What supplies are needed during a flash flood?

Clean food, clean drinking water, flashlights, aid kit, working supplies

Garbage, torches, infected stuff

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30 sec • 1 pt

How can you clean up after a flash flood?

Put supplies into groups which are damaged on your lawn so your suppliences are good to use, when cleaning you house

Put supplies on road for other drivers to take care of

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Floods

What are floods?

What is storm surge?

What is the part of flash floods which cause damage?

What is a Flood alerted as on weather forecasts?

When a flood is in an area, which action should be taken?

What supplies are needed during a flash flood?

How can you clean up after a flash flood?

True/False: Donations give money to those who lost their money in natural disasters or other bad stuff?

What is a wall across a river that controls the flow of river water?

What is a prepared path for flood waters to flow over, often to prevent damage to communities?

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