Natural Disasters

1. An instrument used to record data about earthquakes.

• ruler

• odometer

• protractor

• seismograph

A sudden, violent shaking of the ground caused by movement of giant plates in the earth's crust.

• hurricane

• volcano

• earthquake

• tsunami

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

1.  Natural events that can cause great damage.

• natural disaster

• magma

• earth's plates

• earth's crust

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

A huge ocean wave caused by a disturbance in the ocean floor.

• earthquake

• aftershock

• volcano

• tsunami

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

1. An opening on Earth's surface that allows molten rock, called magma, to escape from inside the Earth.

• earthquake

• flood

• volcano

• hurricane

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Molten rock inside the earth.

• volcano

• magma

• tsunami

• earthquake

1. Large, moving slabs of rock that make up the planet's outer layer.

• volcano

• magma

• earth's plates

• earth's landforms

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

1. The outermost layer of the planet.

• earthquake

• earth's crust

• earth's plates

• seismograph

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4