Geo - Floods

What type of flood that takes place suddenly and lasts for a short period of time and can be caused by heavy rainfall?

• Strong flood

• Coastal flood

• Flash flood

• River flood

What are some causes of floods?

• Storm surge, water sources, rainfall, and failure of man-made structures.

• Rainfall, snowmelt, storm surge, and failure of man-made structures.

• Water sources, snowmelt, storm surge, and failure of man-made structures.

• Rainfall, snowmelt, storm surge, and water sources

The number of times a certain amount of rain falls within a period of time is one of rainfall characteristics. What is that?

• Rainfall frequency

• Rainfall duration

• Rainfall intensity

• Rainfall height

It is a sudden rise of the sea level in which water is piled up against a coastline beyond normal high-tide conditions and strong winds push water towards the coast and create huge waves. There may be floods because of ....

• failure of man-made structures

• snowmelt

• rainfall

• strom surge

The examples of man-made structures are ...

• Lake, levees, channel

• Dams, levees, floodwalls

• River, lake, channel

• River, dams, lake

Proximity to water bodies is about the location of the cities to water bodies, If it's near, it will be more prone to floods.

• True

• False

Permeability refers to how easy water can infiltrate or seep into the ground.

• True

• False

Clarify what kind of channel capacity that a city should have to avoid floods.