Hurricane
This is the middle of the hurricane and often has calm weather.
What is the eye?
This region of the United States is prone to some of the worst tornadoes and has been given this nickname.
What is Tornado Alley?
A tsunami is a series of sea waves caused by an underwater earthquake, landslide, or this other natural disaster.
What is a volcano or volcanic eruption?
This boundary causes the most powerful earthquakes
What is a transform boundary?
Volcanoes have magma that turns to this once it is erupted.
What is magma?
The Saffir Simpson Scale measures hurricanes based off wind speed and storm surge and uses this number of categories.
What is 5?
Tornadoes are measured using the EF Scale. In addition to wind speed, it also takes this factor into consideration.
What is damage?
Tsunami waves can travel as fast as this many mph.
What is 500 mph?
Scientists use this magnitude scale to measure earthquakes.
What is the Richter scale?
When magma cools and crystalizes it turns into this type of rock.
What is intrusive igneous rock?
What are rain bands?
This state experiences the least tornadoes in the United States.
What is Alaska?
A characteristic of tsunamis is that their speed decreases as it approaches the shore, but this happens to its height.
What is increases?
The point of the earthquake below the surface is the hypocenter, while this term describes the point directly above the earthquake at the surface.
What is the epicenter?
This US State is a volcanic chain of islands created over a hot spot in the Pacific Ocean.
What is Hawaii?
This 2005 Hurricane first made landfall on Florida, strengthened in the Gulf of Mexico, and made a second, far more devastating landfall on Louisiana.
What is Hurricane Katrina?
To be an EF5 tornado, wind speeds must reach at least this many mph.
What is 200 mph?
This country experienced a natural disaster in 2011 that began as an earthquake but ended with a disastrous tsnunami.
This state is prone to many earthquakes due to its location near the San Andreas Fault.
What is California?
Mount Vesuvius erupted in Italy thousands of years ago cementing this historic city in ash for centuries.
What is Pompeii?
Hurricanes are also called these two other terms in other parts of the world.
People are told to hide here when a tornado is coming.
This ocean experienced a tsunami that affected Indonesia in 2004, known as the Sumatra Tsunami.
What is the Indian Ocean?
In early 2023, there was a devastating magnitude 7 earthquake that severely affected these two countries.
What is Turkey and Syria?
This nickname was given to describe the belt of volcanoes that surrounds the Pacific Plate which is also home to 75 percent of the world's eruptions and earthquakes.
What is the Ring of Fire?