Earthquakes
Tsunamis
Cyclones
Floods
Mystery Question
100

The largest earthquake ever recorded happened here!

What is Valdivia, Chile, 22 May 1960 (9.5)?

100

The main trigger that causes tsunamis.


What are earthquakes?  


100

Center of the hurricane, typhoon or cyclone.  

What is the "EYE?" 

100

Where can flooding occur?  

Where is everywhere?  

100

The most deadly natural disaster ever!

What is flooding?

200

A wave that is caused by an earthquake off the coast of a country.

What is a tsunami?

200

The meaning of the word "Tsunami."

What is harbor wave (Japanese)?

200

Hurricanes happen here.

What are the Americas?  

200

Safety steps for floods.

What is "Turn Around Don't Drown?"

What is higher ground?  


200

The opposite of global warming.

What is an ice age?

300

The machine that measures earthquakes.

What is a seismograph?

300

A tsunami exerts this kind of force.

What is a push?

300

Typhoons happen there.

What is Asia?

300

Causes of floods.

What is heavy rain?  
What is a tsunami?
What is a hurricane, typhoon, cyclone?  
What are melting snowfalls & glaciers?  
What is a broken dam?


300

Balls of ice falling from the sky.

What is hail?

400

A person who studies earthquakes.

What is a seismologist?

400

In 2004, 200,000 people died because of the tsunami HERE.

What is the Indian Ocean? What is Indonesia?  What are Java, Sumatra?  What is Banda Aceh?  

400

Where and when the worst hurricane in the United States occurred.

What is Galveston, TX in 1900?


400

EFFECTS of floods.  

What is loss of life?
What is destruction of crops?
What is loss of property?
What are waterborne diseases?   

400

Less than the usual amount of precipitation over a period of time.

What is a drought?

500

The "scale" used to measure earthquakes.

What is a Richter Scale?

500

Effect caused by the top of a tsunami wave moving faster than the bottom of the wave.  

What are large size change & the rising up of a tsunami wave at the shore?
What is shoaling?  
What is compressed energy?  

500

Hurricanes, Typhoons, and Cyclones happen here.

What are the oceans?

500

Recent flooding locations.  

What is Nebraska?
What is Mozambique?  
What are locations along the Missouri & Mississippi Rivers?  
What is southern Missouri during storms Tuesday (last night)?  

500

Snow falling down the side of a mountain.

What is an avalanche?

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