General Knowledge
An event in nature that causes a lot of damage and often leads to death
What is a natural disaster?
Happening soon
What is imminent?
A volcano that is no longer active
What is extinct?
The point on Earth's surface that is directly above where an earthquake occurs
What is the epicenter?
The natural disaster that we are most likely to experience here
What is a hurricane?
The famous volcano that caused people to go deaf from it's explosion
What is Krakatoa?
The air that surrounds Earth
What is atmosphere?
A volcano that isn't active but could be
What is dormant?
Large sections of the Earth's surface that can move and cause earthquakes
What are plates?
This disaster is considered the world's worst natural disaster
What is a hurricane?
The amount of categories that scientist have for hurricanes
What is 5?
To soak up
What is absorb?
Hurricane damage that is average in size
What is moderate?
The measurable strength of an earthquake
What is magnitude?
A lack of food that leads to starvation
What is famine?
The tool that is used to measure earthquakes
What is a seismograph?
Rises in water levels caused by a storm
What is a storm surge?
Hurricane damage that causes horrible life changing damage
What is catastrophic?
How people measure the magnitude of earthquakes
What is the Richter Scale?
The natural disaster that Ms. Deinlein is afraid of
The name for where most volcanoes are
What is the Ring of Fire?
A long period of time without rain or snow
What is a drought?
The name of the hurricane that destroyed the town on New Orleans
What is Hurricane Katrina?
This causes an earthquake to occur
What is the movement of two plates?
A disease that is spread over a large area
What is an epidemic?