Disaster Vocabulary

To make something flat.

• flood

• landslide

• flatten

• devastate

Explodes and throws out fire and rocks.

• collapse

• catastrophe

• smash

• erupts

To destroy or damage something badly.

• plunged

• havoc

• smash

• devastate

• h

To cause something that has a very dangerous effect.

• unleash

• smash

• chunk

• flood

A large piece of something.

• warning

• tidal wave

• smash

• chunk

To hit something with a lot of force.

• catastrophe

• plunged

• collapse

• smash

When rocks suddenly fall down the side of a mountain.

• flood

• landslide

• tidal wave

• erupts

To cover and fill a place with water.

• tidal wave

• collapse

• flood

• havoc

A disaster that causes a lot of damage and suffering.

• havoc

• warning

• plunged

• catastrophe

Fell quickly from a high place.

• collapse

• plunged

• devastate

• chunk