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Natural Disaster Vocabulary

Authored by Terry Dent

Science

7th - 8th Grade

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Natural Disaster Vocabulary
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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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