Natural Disaster Vocabulary

Device used to detect and measure earthquake waves.

• seismograph

• polygraph

• wave machine

• telegraph

land area that is submerged under water that is usually dry land

• reservoir

• tsunami

• flood

• delta

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

violent shaking of land due to released pressure at a fault or transform boundary

• volcano

• earthquake

• continental drift

• convection currents

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

point at the Earth's surface where molten magma erupts or flows out of the mantle

• convergent boundary

• earthquake

• subduction zone

• volcano

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

weather pattern that forms over tropical water and has high wind speeds and other dangerous hazards

• hurricane

• tornado

• monsoon

• blizzard

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

dangerous spinning weather pattern that forms a focused funnel over land and has exceptionally high speed winds

• squall

• hurricane

• tornado

• storm

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

destructive far-reaching ocean wave created by underwater earthquakes

• typhoon

• storm surge

• flood

• tsunami

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

out of control fire in a natural arena

• campfire

• forest fire

• controlled burn

• avalanche

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

landslide of snow and rock

• avalanche

• mudslide

• pyroclastic flow

• brioche de la fria

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Any naturally occurring event that is destructive

• artificial disaster

• natural selection

• migration

• natural disaster

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2