Natural Disasters & Engineering Quiz

The amount of money you have to spend on something

• budget
• constraint
• engineer
• flood

something that limits what you can do

• levee
• constraint
• engineer
• elevation

the height of something

• budget
• constraint
• flood
• elevation

a person who uses science to come up with solutions to problems

• engineer
• seawall
• levee
• elevation

an overflow of water

• engineer
• seawall
• flood
• levee

a type of windstorm that starts as a smaller storm over the ocean

• hurricane
• flood
• levee
• seawall

a barrier built to prevent an overflow of water from a river

• hurricane
• natural disaster
• levee
• storm surge

the harmful impacts on humans that happen after a natural hazard, such as a landslide, earthquake, hurricane, or wildfire.

• hurricane
• natural disaster
• levee
• storm surge

a barrier built to prevent an overflow of water from a large body of water, like the ocean

• natural disaster
• storm surge
• budget
• seawall

when water levels rise quickly because of a storm

• engineer
• elevation
• storm surge
• seawall