Natural Hazards

What prevention technique for a flood is in this picture?

• Flood wall

• Levee

• Sandbagging wall

• Dam

The scale used to categorize a tornado is called...

• Richter Scale

• Enhanced Fujita Scale

• Flood Stage Scale

• Mexican Fajita Scale

What does it mean to mitigate a problem?

• Make it worse

• Make it better

• Lessen the shine

• Lessen the severity/ damage

What is this machine called that measures earthquakes?

• Doppler Radar

• EF Scale

• Seismograph

• Richter Scale

This technology helps us to predict tornadoes by looking for wind speed, rain intensity, and wind directions.

• Enhanced Fujita Scale

• Doppler Radar

• Seismograph

• Water gauge

Where do earthquakes occur?

• Middle of the U.S. (midwest)

• Florida/ coastline

• West coast (California)

• Southern U.S. (Alabama)

Where do floods happen?

• Locations near large bodies of water (rivers, coastline, lakes)

• Locations near the desert (Nevada/ New Mexico)

• Locations near the top of mountains (Utah/ Colorado)

Where do most tornadoes happen?

• Middle America (midwest, MO, KS, etc.)

• Deep South (Southern Florida)

• Northern States (UT, MN, WI)

What time of year do most tornadoes occur?

• Spring/ Early Summer

• Fall

• Winter

What time of year do most floods occur?

• Winter

• Summer

• Spring

• Fall