Catastrophic Events

How might animals living on the sea floor be smothered during a hurricane?

• They cannot adapt to low salinity water.

• They cannot adapt to high salinity water.

• Eroded sediments get deposited on them.

• The are deposited onto eroded sediment.

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Why would suppressing (stopping) fires in a longleaf pine forest lead to a decline in the number of longleaf pines?

• The plants would not be able to produce cones.

• Absorbing nutrients from the soil would be difficult.

• The cones would not open to release seeds.

• The animals in the forest would destroy all longleaf pines.

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Most wildfires are started by

• animals.

• lightning.

• people.

• meteors.

Fires are considered wildfires if they are

• hot.

• uncontrolled.

• destructive.

• outside.

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

The outer part of the hurricane is the

• rain belt.

• eye.

• hail.

• snow.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Hurricanes form over

• the poles.

• water.

• continents.

• islands.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Earthquakes are caused by movements of the crust or

• tsunamis.

• wildfires.

• hurricanes.

• volcanoes.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Category 5 would describe a very powerful

• tsunami.

• hurricane.

• earthquake.

• flood.

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Which of the following does not come out of a volcano?

• ash.

• magma.

• rock.

• gases.

A volcano can cause all of the following except

• tsunami.

• flood.

• earthquake.

• hurricane.

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2