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NATURAL DISASTERS

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is this natural disaster?

a)

Earthquake

b)

Flood

c)

Tsunami

d)

Hurricane

2.

A sudden shaking of the earth

a)

earthquake

b)

landslide

c)

floods

3.

a long period of dry weather and not enough water

a)

drought

b)

forest fire

c)

famine

4.

a sudden fall of a lot of earth or rocks down a hill

a)

landslide

b)

earthquake

c)

eruption

5.

An extreme storm with spinning air

a)

tornado

b)

tsunami

c)

heavy rain

6.

A large amount of snow or ice that falls or slides quickly down a mountain.

a)

tundra

b)

avalanche

c)

flood

d)

blizzard

7.

What is a damaging fast-moving wave often caused by underwater earthquake?

a)

tsunami

b)

volcano

c)

hurricane

d)

all the above

8.

Landslides are caused by...

a)

The trees deciding that they want a new home.

b)

Landslides are not real.

c)

Gravity pulling soil down a cliff or mountain that has been loosened by rain or weathering.

9.

Volcanoes are...

a)

just like ant hills

b)

created by magma formed beneath the Earths crust that gets pushed up through cracks in the Earth's surface.

c)

a figment of our imagination.

10.

What is this natural disaster?

a)

Storm

b)

Landslide

c)

Thunderstorm

d)

I have no idea