Natural disasters

This is used to measure the movements in the ground

• Seismograph

• speedometer

• magnitude

• Richter scale

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How do scientists measure earthquakes?

• With the Richter scale

• with a Saffir Simpson scale

• With an equalizer

• a scale

A Richter scale measures from

• 1-100

• 1-10

• 1-5

• 1-20

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

A flood has hit your neighborhood and you have been told to evacuate. What does evacuate mean?

Magnitude is another word for

• damage

• strength

• worry

• alarm

The Saffir Simpson scale is used to measure what?

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Give an example of a natural disaster?

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