Natural Hazards Quiz

What is a potentially damaging physical event, phenomenon or human activity that may cause the loss of life or injury, property damage, social and economic disruption or environmental degradation?

• Eutrophication

• geologic hazard

• Landslide

• poisonous gases

Which of the following describes the vibration of the ground during an earthquake?

• ground shaking

• Landslides

• Liquefaction

• Tsunami

What do you call the hazard where giant waves move at speeds of up to 500miles an hour and reach heights of hundreds of feet?

• ground shaking

• Landslide

• Liquefaction

• Tsunami

What is the process during earthquake shaking where sand and silt grains in wet soil are rearranged and the water in the spaces between the grains are squeezed?

• ground shaking

• Landslides

• Liquefaction

• Tsunami

What refers to the sliding down of a mass of earth or rock from a mountain or cliff?

• ground shaking

• Landslides

• Liquefaction

• Tsunami

What natural hazard is involved when rock underground suddenly breaks along a fault causing tectonic movement?

• Cyclone

• Earthquake

• Hurricane

• volcanic eruption

What natural hazard has the effects of reshaping new land, debris avalanche, destroyed forests, and death to many animals?

• earthquake

• hurricane

• tsunami

• volcanic eruption

What occurs when large amount of water quickly overflows a boundary?

• flash flood

• regular flood

• landslide

• Tsunami

What causes an earthquake?

• glacier

• landslide

• very large storm

• a movement along fault

Which of the following is NOT a natural hazard?

• earthquake

• house fire

• hurricane

• Tsunami