Natural Disasters

--- happens during heavy rains, when rivers overflow or when snow melts.

• natural disaster

• hurricane

• tornado

• flash floods

___ are severe tropical storms that form in the southern Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and in the Eastern Pacific Ocean.

• Tornados

• Flash floods

• Thunderstorms

• Hurricanes

____ ______ come in many shapes and sizes. Most are related to the weather.

• Flash Floods

• Counter-clockwise

• Five

• Natural Disasters

Tornadoes come from powerful thunderstorms and appear as rotating ___ clouds

• counter-clockwise

• funnel

• fault

• five

Earthquakes happen along___ in the Earth's crust.

• wildfires

• faults

• hurricanes

• five

___ are the shaking, rolling or sudden shock of the Earth's surface.

• Hurricanes

• Tornadoes

• Earthquakes

• Flash Floods

True or False: Hurricanes, cyclones and typhoons are the same kind of topical storms just named differently on where the storm takes places.

• True

• False

Hurricanes form above cold ocean waters

• True

• False

Which of the following is an opening in the surface of the Earth through which molten rock and hot gases erupt.

• Hurricanes

• Tornadoes

• Blizzards

• Volcanoes

Volcanic eruptions can trigger tsunamis, earthquake, flash floods, and landslides.

• True

• False