
Natural Disaster Vocabulary
Authored by Terry Dent
Science
7th - 8th Grade
NGSS covered
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
20 sec • 1 pt
Device used to detect and measure earthquake waves.
seismograph
polygraph
wave machine
telegraph
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
20 sec • 1 pt
land area that is submerged under water that is usually dry land
reservoir
tsunami
flood
delta
Tags
NGSS.MS-ESS3-2
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
20 sec • 1 pt
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
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
20 sec • 1 pt
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
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
20 sec • 1 pt
weather pattern that forms over tropical water and has high wind speeds and other dangerous hazards
hurricane
tornado
monsoon
blizzard
Tags
NGSS.MS-ESS3-2
NGSS.MS-ESS2-5
NGSS.MS-ESS2-6
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
20 sec • 1 pt
dangerous spinning weather pattern that forms a focused funnel over land and has exceptionally high speed winds
squall
hurricane
tornado
storm
Tags
NGSS.MS-ESS3-2
NGSS.MS-ESS2-5
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
20 sec • 1 pt
destructive far-reaching ocean wave created by underwater earthquakes
typhoon
storm surge
flood
tsunami
Tags
NGSS.MS-ESS3-2
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