YE1 - Vocabulary 2 - Unit 3 - Disaster

• Landslide

• Famine

• Drought

Answer explanation

A drought is a period of drier-than-normal conditions that results in water-related problems.

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Burning, in which substances combine chemically with oxygen from the air and typically give out bright light, heat, and smoke.

• Fire

• Volcanic Eruption

• Tornado

Answer explanation

• Landslide

• Floods

• Tsunami

Answer explanation

A long high sea wave caused by an earthquake, submarine landslide, or other disturbance.

Violently rotating winds having the appearance of a funnel-shaped cloud and advancing beneath a large storm system.

• Hurricane

• Tornado

• Floods

Answer explanation

An extreme scarcity of food

• Drought

• Catastrophic

• Lava

• Famine

• Seismology

Answer explanation

• Seismology

• Earthquake

• Architect

• Tsunami

Answer explanation

A sudden and violent shaking of the ground, sometimes causing great destruction, as a result of movements within the earth's crust

Molten rock that issues from a volcano or from a fissure in the surface of a planet (such as earth) or moon

• Lava

• Fire

• Volcanic Exploration

• Volcanic Eruption

Answer explanation

The study of earthquakes and seismic waves that move through and around the Earth

• Methodology

• Botany

• Psychology

• Anatomy

• Seismology

Answer explanation

I ___ writing articles on different topics

We _______ (shop) in this market last week