Hurricanes
The center of the storm is known as this
The most dangerous element of a tornado is ______ which can rip through buildings and displace trees
wind
A volcano is an opening in the earth's _______
crust
Earthquakes are a release of _______ that happens when two faults slip past one another
Energy
True or false: a tsunami is a wave that has a massive wavelength as well as a wave height
False, a tsunami does not have to be tall, but they always have a massive waveLENGTH
Hurricanes form over water or land?
Water
A tornado has to be in contact with both the cloud and the _______
Land/earth
The liquid, burning, rock that can explode from the top of a volcano is known as
lava
These are the tremors that can come before the main earthquake
Foreshocks
Tsunamis can be triggered by many different things, name 2 main things that can trigger a tsunami
Earthquake, volcano
Hurricanes can pose this threat to coastal areas where the water levels rise well above the normal tide due to onshore winds
Storm surge
A tornado that has a particularly narrow funnel is known as a _______ tornado. These can cause just as much damage as a tornado with a wide funnel due to its increased wind speeds
Rope tornado
The most dangerous aspect of a volcano for people in relatively close perimeter is _______ ________. People can joke on this substance and die of asphyxiation
Volcanic ash
These are the tremors that can come after the main earthquake.
Aftershocks
The ________ system is what we use as a warning system if a tsunami were to form
DART
What is the name of the system we use to categorize hurricanes. This system categorizes hurricanes based on wind speeds only
Saffir-Simpson Scale
This is strip of the united states in which tornadoes occur most frequently. This strip of land goes from Oklahoma all the way up to Minnesota
Tornado Alley
Volcanos typically form at this type of plate boundary
Diverging or converging
One of the most famous _____ ______ is the San Andreas which is where most of the earthquakes in California occur
Fault line
True or false: a tsunami is typically one large wave
False: it is typically a series of waves
If a hurricane has maximum sustained winds of 165 MPH it is considered what category hurricane?
Category 5
One of the most dangerous aspects of a tornado is that it can pick up _______ as it moves across land which is mainly composed of trash and rocks
debris
This chain of volcanoes accounts for the majority of earth's volcanos and 75% of them are submarine.
The ring of fire
The _______ ________ is what we use to measure the severity of earth quakes
Richter Scale
What is the first warning sign of a tsunami
The ocean recedes very far out into the horizon, then all of the water comes rushing back in