Tsunamis
the highest point of a wave
What is the crest?
When a huge mass of soil falls down a slope
What is a landslide or a mudslide?
Weather scientists
What are meteorologists?
Hot, melted rock that comes out of a volcano
What is lava?
A scientist who studies how water behaves
What are hydrologists?
the lowest point of a wave
What is the trough
When two things rub together this slows and eventually stops motion
What is friction?
The centre of a hurricane
What is the eye?
How volcanoes cause floods
How does lava melt ice and snow from mountainous regions?
A disease that toxic floodwaters can cause
What is cholera?
What is malaria?
What is dysentery?
two causes of tsunamis
What are volcanoes?
What are landslides?
What are earthquakes?
two methods to prevent avalanches
What are trees?
What are snow fences
The shape of a tornado
What is a funnel?
Two ways volcanoes can be beneficial
What is rock to make jewellery?
What is good soil for growing crops?
Three causes of flooding
What is heavy rain?
What is melting snow and ice?
What are hurricanes, landslides, earthquakes, dam failures and volcanic activity?
A tsunami wave can reach this speed
How fast is 800-1000 km/h
Two methods of preventing landsldes
What is planting trees?
What are large rods inserted in the soil?
The common months for hurricanes over the Atlantic
When are August through October?
The three types of volcano
What are extinct, dormant and active?
This natural disaster occurred in the US in 2005
What was Hurricane Katrina
What the word Tsunami means in Japanese
What are harbour and wave?
The name of the scale used to measure tornadoes
What is the Enhanced Fujita Scale?
The year and place of Hurricane Hazel
Where is southern Ontario?
When is 1954?
Mudslides set off by volcanoes
What are lahars?
The name of the scale to measure hurricanes
What is the Saffir-Simpson Scale?