Disasters of Nature
Swirling winds and warm water may result in this storm.
What is a hurricane?
What is Pangea?
What air mass is Ottawa located in (mostly)?
What is a continental air mass?
Climate is commonly misunderstood as being synonymous with what?
What is weather?
In 1906 a deadly earthquake hit this North American city.
What is San Francisco?
California is subject to many of these.
What is an earthquake?
The East Coast of Canada would have bordered this continent during the time of Pangea?
What is Europe?
What major Canadian city is subject to constant rain & drizzle, but mild winters?
What is Vancouver?
There may be a rainy cold day in July, but July in Canada is incredibly warm. This is an example of Canada's ________?
What is climate?
How many categories are Hurricanes classified into?
What is 5?
Measuring the size of an earthquake, is also known as measuring _______ activity?
What is seismic?
This ridge was one of the major contributors to the continents moving?
What is the Mid-Atlantic Ridge?
What is the hydrosphere?
The Abbreviation for factors affecting climate.
What is Lower?
Mount St. Helen's was this type of Volcano.
What is a Stratovolcano
This natural disaster is usually the hardest to predict and hardest to prepare for.
What is an earthquake?
This scientist was the first to hypothesize the existence of Pangea?
The earth is considered to be part of the ___sphere?
What is the Lithosphere?
The East African Mountains caused the jungles or Africa to dry up and create a dry desert climate. Forcing our ancestors to______
Pompeii was a ancient Roman city destroyed by what natural disaster?
What is a volcano?
Most common volcano, incredibly dangerous when it erupts
What is Stratovolcano?
The movements of the continent is described by scientist as continental _______?
What is drift?
Human activity is specialized into this sphere.
What is the Anthrosphere ?
The L in the abbreviation for factors affecting climate stands for _________
What is latitude?
The fault line stretching across Mexico and California is known as what?
What is the San Andreas Fault Line?