Floods
What is a flood?
When water overflows its usual boundaries and moves onto land that is usually dry.
What is a drought?
When there is no rain for a long time.
The place where an organism lives is called its _________.
Habitat
What do you call a characteristic of a living thing that helps it survive?
Adaptation
What year was the deadliest flood in the world in China?
1931
What can floods be caused by?
Prolonged period of heavy rain or a natural disaster.
Without rain, rivers and lakes can ______ _____.
Dry up
What habitat does a polar bear live in?
Arctic
A way that some animals deal with the harshness of winter.
Hibernation
How many people were killed during China's 1931 flood?
2,500,000
Extreme flooding can be caused by large storms like ____________________.
Hurricanes
_________ can also dry out, so plants cannot grow.
Soil
What habitat does a monkey live in?
Rainforest
An adaptation that allows an organism to blend into its surroundings.
Camouflage
The most destructive river flood in U.S. history is known as the ___________.
Great Mississippi Flood of 1927
A series of waves triggered by an underwater earthquake or volcanic eruption is a ___________.
Tsunami
Living things need water to _____________, so droughts can harm living things.
Survive
What habitat does a lion live in?
Grassland
The close resemblance of an animal or plant to another animal or plant.
Mimicry
On ____________, 50 levees and flood walls failed in Mississippi.
August 29, 2005
A tsunami can have waves up to __________ feet high.
100
A drought is the _____________ of a flood.
Opposite
What habitat does a camel live in?
Desert
To move to another place.
Migrate
Hurricane _____________ made landfall in Mississippi on August 29th, 2005.
Katrina