Natural Hazards/Floods
One way that we can predict floods
What is...monitoring amounts of precipitation or paths of storms or water levels in bodies of water?
Definition of fault-line
What is...where two tectonic plates meet?
Rating scale for tornadoes
What is the EF scale (Enhanced Fujita) scale?
Cause of volcanic eruptions
What is when magma and gases are released from underground?
How a tsunami forms
What are underwater earthquakes?
One other hazard caused by floodwaters knocking down power lines.
What is...fires?
Earthquake rating scale
What is the Richter scale?
seismic waves
What are the waves of energy that travel outwards from an earthquake?
Classification system for volcanoes
What is the VEI (Volcanic Eruption Index)?
Classification system for hurricanes, indicating wind speed
What is the Saffir-Simpson scale or category 1-5?
The difference between natural hazards and natural disasters.
What is... disasters impact humans?
Causes earthquakes
What is movement of tectonic plates?
the number range of the EF scale
What is EF-0 to EF-5?
Two of the threats created by only volcanoes and no other natural hazard
What are lava, poisonous gas, pyroclastic flows, and lahar? (Choose 2)
Classification system for tsunamis
What is ... there isn't one?
The cause of flooding
What is...excess water from storms/rain or snowmelt?
Definition of epicenter
What is... the location on the surface directly above an earthquake?
Two sources of human-caused fires
What are arson, campfires, burning debris, equipment use, fireworks, smoking? (choose 2)
2 features that are indicated by the level of the VEI index
What are volume and height of lava/eruption?
What is drowning or death?
These are 2 examples of Geologic hazards
What are...landslides, earthquakes, tsunamis, or volcanic eruptions? (list 2)
Two other hazards caused by an earthquake
What are tsunamis, fires, landslides? (choose 2)
The area of the United States with the most tornadoes
One way that volcanologists monitor the area around volcanoes in order to predict eruptions
What are...earthquake frequency, gas emissions, magma movements, or changes to shape of land at the rim? (choose 1)
One component of a tsunami detection device in the ocean
What is...an anchor, a pressure recorder, a buoy on the surface, a transmitter? (choose 1)