Hurricanes
Tornadoes
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Miscellaneous
100
The number of categories that hurricanes are measured in.
What is 5?
100
The highest tornado rating/
What is F5?
100
The lines along which earthquakes occur.
What is fault lines?
100
The opening at the top of a volcano.
What is the crater?
100
The direction in which a hurricane rotates.
What is counter clockwise?
200
This is the center of a hurricane.
What is eye?
200
The area of the US where most tornadoes occur.
What is Tornado Alley?
200
The scale we use to rate an earthquake's intensity.
What is Richter Scale?
200
The molten material that erupts from a volcano.
What is lava?
200
The number of earthquakes that occur every day in southern California.
What is 30?
300
The last major hurricane to do damage in Houston/Galveston.
What is Hurricane Ike?
300
The five states that are in Tornado Alley.
What is Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado, Kansas, South Dakota?
300
The machine used to measure to force of an earthquake.
What is a seismograph?
300
The name of the area of a volcano where molten material or lava is formed.
What is the magma chamber?
300
The word used to describe people leaving an area during a natural disaster.
What is evacuating?
400
The months of hurricane season
What is June to October?
400
The name for scientists who track, follow, and stidy tornadoes.
What is storm chasers?
400
The part of land along the fault line that moves up during an earthquake.
What is the footwall?
400
The place where lava breaks through the side of a volcano.
What is secondary cone?
400
The type of radar that shows us wind, rain, and hail and allows us to identify a tornado before it has formed.
What is Doppler Radar?
500
The miles per hour needed for a hurricane to be classified as a category 5.
What is 281mph?
500
This level of tornado causes extreme devastation but does not remove all debris from the damaged area.
What is F4?
500
The name of the fault line in California along which most US earthquakes occur.
What is the San Andreas Fault?
500
Paracutin in Mexico is an example of this type of volcano.
What is ash and cinder?
500
The person who created the rating scale for tornadoes.
Who is Ted Fujita?
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