Hazards Pt. 1 Vocab

indicates that severe weather already is occurring or will develop in a short amount of time

• Doppler radar

• severe weather warning

• severe weather watch

• satellite systems

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

tectonic plate boundary type where the plates slide horizontally past one another

• convergent

• divergent

• transform

• reverse

a tracking system that tells the location and speed of storms, clouds, and precipitation

• severe weather watch

• seismograph

• satellite systems

• Doppler radar

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

a heavy flow of water that is greater than the normal amount

• flood

• hurricane

• tsunami

• severe weather warning

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

a severe storm that develops over tropical oceans and whose strong winds of more than 120 km/h spiral in toward the intensely low-pressure storm center

• flood

• hurricane

• tsunami

• seismic activity

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

crack in the Earth's crust

• transform

• epicenter

• focus

• fault

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

the rocks on either side of the fault are moving horizontally in opposite directions (aka: transform fault)

• strike-slip fault

• reverse fault

• normal fault

• convergent fault

tectonic plate boundary type where the plates slowly collide

• divergent

• transform

• convergent

• strike-slip

tectonic plate boundary type where the plates slowly move away from each other

• divergent

• convergent

• transform

• strike-slip

the natural features of the Earth's surface

• landforms

• seismic waves

• focus

• magnitude

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2