Vocabulary
Found in water pumps, this disease is known to have symptoms including vomiting and diarrhea
What is cholera?
Poor sanitation and the drinking of contaminated water
What is contracting cholera?
This region of the U.S. is known for natural disasters measured on the Enhanced Fujita scale.
What is Tornado Alley?
Pieces of the earth that shape the landscape include rivers, trees, and mountains.
What are physical features?
Trading moved these items across states, countries, and continents.
This immigration factor causes people to move to a country.
What is a pull factor?
Wind conditions were too dangerous to fly Cal Fire's air support so Cal Fire didn't know this about the wildfire
What is the direction or path?
Hurricane Katrina devastated this coastline in August 2005.
What is the Gulf Coast?
Without controlled burns, the physical features of places like California are at risk of these kinds of disasters.
What are wildfires?
Unkempt physical features can worsen the destruction of this type of disaster.
What are natural disasters?
This factor of immigration causes people to leave their home.
What is a push factor?
Because of frequent "false" alarms, residents in Tornado Alley are likely to ignore these alerts.
What are Tornado Warnings?
The Camp Fire occurred in November 2018 and severely devastated Pulga and this town.
What is Paradise?
Warm water and warm air combine to create this natural disaster; the eye is not the most dangerous part
What is a hurricane?
Because of the large number of people moving, the United States introduced these, which had negative consequences for the population.
What are diseases?
Regardless of the natural disaster, this type of alert should signal to people that they should prepare for a potential disaster.
What is a watch?
The city of New Orleans was flooded after Hurricane Katrina, and people required extreme rescue efforts.
What is because the levees failed?
In cities like New York and St. Louis, Cholera spread through these waterways that were important for trade and immigration.
What is a port?
If you hear the roar of a train and hear hail hitting your roof, you might be experiencing an EF 3 of this disaster.
What is a tornado?
This type of movement is known as relocation to other countries.
What is immigration?
An event that has caused a disruption or significant damage to a person's life or belongings.
What is a disaster?
The most important step toward a Chinese person's desire to build railroads in the 1850s.
What is immigrating to the United States?
In May 2011, this town faced an EF5 tornado for 38 minutes.
What is Joplin?
This practice could prevent future wildfires from becoming extremely devastating or even from happening.
What are controlled burns?
John Snow's discovery of how cholera spread is an example of this spreading across society.
What are ideas?