Seminoles
Hawks
Rattlers
Bulls
Canes
100
An overflowing of water in a normally dry area
What are Floods?
100
A violently rotating column of air extending from a thunderstorm to the ground.
What is a Tornado?
100
Lightning, arson, or debris burning, especially when the ground and vegetation are dry
What are Wildfires?
100
A long period of scarce rainfall or dry weather.
What are Droughts?
100
An intense area of tropical, low pressure
What is a Hurricane?
200
Flooded in 1928 and killed over 2000 people.
What is Lake Okeechobee?
200
An area where the tornadoes hit the most
What is Tornado Alley?
200
November or December to April or May
What is Dry season?
200
A hole formed in soluble rock by the action of water, serving to conduct surface water to an underground passage
What is Sinkholes?
200
Has few clouds, sometimes you can see blue sky or stars and is usually 15 to 50 km in diameter
What is the eye of a hurricane?
300
The clearing of trees, transforming a forest into cleared land.
What is Deforestation?
300
Twisters, Funnel cloud and Waterspout
What are nicknames for Tornado?
300
A natural event such as a flood, earthquake, or hurricane that causes great damage or loss of life.
What is Natural Disasters?
300
Four factors needed to create limestone caves.
What is source of rain water, limestone, fractures, and relief change in elevation?
300
Water gets piled up by the storm, along the shore and then, the storm blows the water inland
What is a storm surge?
400
A mound of earth that is build to prevent flooding.
What are Leevees?
400
Ditch, shower, center of room, basement and inner hallway
What is the Safest Places During a Tornado
400
Mr. Washington's favorite color is ?
What is green?
400
Circular pattern of ground cracks outlining the sinking area, Doors and windows fail to close properly, Cracks in a foundation and Vegetation stress due to a lowered water table
What are some warning signs of naturally occurring sinkhole?
400
Hurricane conditions are likely in the watch area within 36 hours
What is Hurricane Watch?
500
Water flowing over agricultural land, whether from the rain, irrigation or flooding, carriers pollutants to the nearest water body
What is Poor Agricultural Practices?
500
What are the steps needed for a tornado to occur
What are Intense or seasonal heat Ground temperature increases, moist air heat start to rise Warm air moist meets the cold dry air Thunder cloud may begin Quick storm develops - rain, thundering and lightening Winds from different directions cause it to rotate Visible cone or funnel cloud drops out towards the ground
500
Saffir and Sampson Scale
What is Hurricane?
500
Over withdrawal of groundwater, artificially creating ponds of surface water, drilling new water wells, diverting surface water from a large area and concentrating it in a single point
What is triggered by human activities to cause a sinkhole?
500
The National Hurricane Center has two lists of names - list them
What are the Atlantic storms and the Pacific storms
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