Types of Natural Disasters
This shaking of the ground is caused by tectonic plate movement.
What is an earthquake?
Earthquakes are caused by the movement of these huge plates under the Earth.
What are tectonic plates?
This is what people often have to do when a big storm is coming.
What is evacuate?
This U.S. city was heavily flooded after Hurricane Katrina.
This type of kit helps people survive after a disaster.
What is an emergency kit?
This spinning storm forms over warm ocean water.
What is a hurricane?
Volcanoes form at these weak points in Earth's crust.
What are faults or plate boundaries?
Natural disasters can damage these, like roads and bridges.
What is infrastructure?
This 2010 earthquake devastated a Caribbean nation.
What is Haiti?
This plan tells people where to go in case of danger.
What is an evacuation plan?
This disaster happens when rivers overflow or too much rain falls.
Tornadoes usually form when cold, dry air meets this.
Forest fires can destroy this part of the environment.
What is wildlife habitat or forests?
A tsunami badly affected this ocean's surrounding countries.
What is the Indian Ocean?
Sirens or alerts help give this to people before disaster strikes.
What is a warning?
A giant ocean wave caused by an undersea eathquake.
What is a tsunami?
This factor must be present in the ocean for a hurricane to form.
What is warm water?
These are two health risks after a flood.
What are waterborne diseases and injury?
This country faced deadly wildfires in 2019-2020 that destroyed millions of acres.
What is Australia?
Name three things you should include in an emergency kit.
What is water/food/flashlight/first aid kit?, etc.
A long period of time with little or no rain.
What is a drought?
This slow natural disaster occurs when land becomes very dry over time.
What is desertification?
This term describes when people must leave their homes for a long time.
What is displacement?
This Asian country experienced a major earthquake and tsunami in 2011?
What is Japan?
This kind of map shows which areas are most at risk for certain disasters.
What is a hazard map?