Shaking the Earth
Pulling one end of a string and releasing it is an excellent model of this.
What is a P-wave?
Hurricanes are more likely to form over this type of water.
What is warm water as a result of climate change?
Ensuring that you do not leave cooking fires unattended while camping is the simplest way to prevent this.
What are accidental wildfires?
When a tropical depression gains strength, it becomes this.
What is a tropical storm?
Some agencies use this to respond to a fictional hurricane in preparation for real hurricane.
What is a simulation?
This location has a high hazard level for seismic activity.
What is California?
This tool is used to find out more about the movement of air in a hurricane.
What is a Doppler radar?
When reservoirs and lake levels continue to drop significantly, scientists may choose to do this.
What is issue a drought warning?
This is the difference between climate and weather.
What is climate being the long-term weather conditions of a given area?
People should remain inside and close all the doors if this order is put into effect.
What is a shelter-in-place order?
Seismologists locate the epicenter of an earthquake by doing this.
What is calculating the difference in times between the arrival of different waves to determine the distance to the epicenter?
This level of structural damage should be expected if a Category 3 Hurricane is predicted to hit an area.
What is major damage or the removal roof decking and gable ends for well-built, framed homes?
This is a preventative way the National Park Service limits the spread of wildfires.
What is a controlled burn, which removes dead vegetation that could otherwise cause a wildfire?
These are more likely to occur as climate change continues.
What are natural disasters?
Items include personal protective equipment (PPE) people would likely use to minimize the effects of a natural hazard.
What are respirators and face shields?
This was the last volcanic eruption to occur in the United States.
What is Mount St. Helen in the 1980's?
What is providing as early of a warning as possible to people living in the path of the hurricane?
These 3 data points allow scientists to predict a drought or wildfire.
What are temperature, humidity, and wind?
Should climate change melt glaciers and large chunks of ice around the world, this will happen.
What is an increase in sea level?
This is an earth wall designed to control water levels.
What is levee?
An earthquake occurs at a convergent boundary, having a high magnitude despite having low intensity. This is how that could be described.
What are the plates moving together, releasing a lot of energy, but not causing much damage?
Hurricanes with maximum sustained winds of 101 mph fall into this category.
What is Category 2?
When windy conditions combine with warmer than usual temperatures, this type of natural disaster is more likely to occur.
What is a wildfire?
These will become stronger and more dangerous as the planetary climate increases.
What are hurricanes?
This is the activity used to test equipment functionality and the effectiveness of a response.
What is a drill?