Topic 5 Lesson 2 Vocabulary

an overflowing of water in a normally dry area

• hurricane

• avalanche

• drought

• flood

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

a danger to humans resulting from an event

• prediction

• hazard

• outcome

• cause

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

a long period of dry weather, without rain

• drought

• blizzard

• flood

• landslide

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

a local rise in sea level near the shore that is caused by strong winds from a storm

• tornado

• rain storm

• storm surge

• landslide

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

a slide of large masses of snow and ice and mud down a mountain

• hurricane

• landslide

• avalanche

• blizzard

a funnel-shaped windstorm that reach from the clouds all the way down to the ground

• flood

• hurricane

• blizzard

• tornado

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

the sliding of rock and soil down a slope

• avalanche

• landslide

• hurricane

• drought

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

a severe storm that develops over warm oceans and has strong winds of more than 74 mph

• tornado

• hurricane

• landslide

• storm surge

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

a result or consequence

• outlier

• outcome

• outhouse

• outpost

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

a heavy snowstorm with strong winds

• tornado

• avalanche

• blizzard

• hurricane

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5