Natural Disasters: Floods

What is a natural disaster?

• Disasters caused by natural events that humans can stop from happening

• Disasters caused by natural events that humans cannot stop from happening

• Disasters that are caused by people

• Something found in nature that can be used by people

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

What are floods?

• When there is a lot of snow

• Rises in water that has nowhere else to go

• Huge waves that occur after an earthquake

• An opening in the surface of the earth

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

To reduce the impact of floods, humans can do all of the following EXCEPT...

• listen to the warning system

• drive through a flooded area to evacuate

• get to higher ground

• create an evacuation plan

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NGSS.MS-ETS1-2

What is the most common natural disaster in the United States?

• Floods

• Volcanic Eruptions

• Earthquakes

• Tsunamis

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

What can floods be caused by?

• A volcanic eruption

• Heavy rain

• Snow flurries

• Light rain

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Dams are designed to reduce flooding by...

• Sounding the warning system

• Teaching people evacuation plans

• Preventing rain

• Providing storage for water

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NGSS.MS-ETS1-1

NGSS.MS-ETS1-2

What is a low area by a river that often experiences flooding?

• Flash flood

• Floodway

• Floodplain

• Flood crest

What is the highest point that the water rises to during a flood?

• Flood crest

• Floodplain

• Flash flood

• Floodway

What is a flash flood?

• A path for floods to flow over to limit their damage

• A sudden flood caused by heavy rain

• Land that experiences many floods

• A flood with flashes of lightning

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

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