Earthquakes
the area where tectonic plates meet
What are faults?
The word "Tsunami" comes from this language.
What is Japanese?
The most destructive hurricane in 2005.
What is Hurricane Katrina?
90% of all natural disasters in the U.S. involve THIS other natural disaster
What are floods?
Snow falling down the side of a mountain
What is an avalanche?
the shaking of the surface of the Earth resulting from a sudden release of energy in the Earth's lithosphere that creates seismic waves
What is an earthquake?
About 80% of tsunamis happen HERE, within the Pacific Ocean
What is the "Ring of Fire"?
The name "hurricane" is used to describe storms in these continents...
What are the America(s)?
A natural disaster that causes a tsunami.
What is an earthquake?
The name "Typhoon" is used to describe storms in this continent...
What is Asia?
In 2004, 200,000 people died because of the tsunami HERE.
What is the Indian Ocean? What is Indonesia?
The number 3 cause of floods.
What is a broken dam?
The force that causes a tsunami to get higher and higher as it comes closer to the beach.
What is friction?
Hurricanes, Typhoons, and Cyclones happen above...
What is the ocean/sea?
A car can be carried away in as little as THIS MANY feet of water
What is 2 feet?
This animal is often blamed for starting the 1871 fire that engulfed Chicago.
What is a cow?