Natural Disasters
A tropical storm with winds of at least 74 mph; they have an eye at the center
What is a hurricane?
This firing device is usually found on the sides of pirate ships
What is a cannon?
The difference in ________ between oceans indicates their borders, despite being grouped as one ocean
What is salinity?
This fittingly-named great lake is the largest freshwater lake in the world
What is Lake Superior?
This man is why we call Native Americans "Indians"
Who was Christopher Columbus?
A funnel of wind that forms inland, particularly in the Midwest in the U.S.
What is a tornado?
These land vehicles are usually used in the military; the term can also mean something that stores fuel or water
What are tanks?
Ocean ________ are responsible for the motion of tropical storms
What are currents?
This largest lake in the world located in the Middle East is made of salt, hinting it as once being a part of the ocean
What is the Caspian Sea?
He completed the first circumnavigation of the world, but didn't live to return to Europe
Who was Ferdinand Magellan?
A branch of science known as seismology is dedicated to studying these disasters that can cause fires and other major threats
What are earthquakes?
The Chinese discovered this alloy after the Qin rule, which gave them the ability to make special containers
What is steel?
In the deep ocean, where there is no sunlight at all, hydrothermal _____ create the major biomes
What are vents?
A lake is water completely surrounded by land; this is land completely surrounded by water
What is an island?
This driving force of colonization uses the mindset that land is proportional to a country's wealth
What is mercantilism?
Often caused by earthquakes in the ocean, it is a wave of unbelievable proportions to a beachgoer's point of view and is shown in one of Hokusai's paintings of Mount Fuji
What is a tsunami?
This type of siege engine uses a counterweight to rotate a handle to shoot a projectile with massive force
What is a trebuchet?
The hydrologic cycle lists two main paths for precipitation: surface runoff and ____________
What is infiltration?
The Erie Canal connected Lake Erie and this river
What is the Hudson River?
Originally, the ___ _____, or America, was not on the map; only Europe, Asia, and Africa were shown
What was the New World?
This event in the Midwest during the Great Depression appears as a weaker tornado, but the economic effect actually contributed to worsening the Depression
What is the Dust Bowl?
A knight defends with plate armor; this word for a piece of armor near the shoulders is also used in many fantasy novels
What is a gauntlet?
A meander is seen in the Grand Canyon; once the cut is carved through it, the meander no longer gets water from the stream, forming an _____ lake
What is an oxbow lake?
Besides Lake Superior, the only lake not to be named after a state/province in North America or be associated with a manmade structure, but rather based on the people who lived beside it
What is Lake Huron?
As colonies were built, slave ships across the brutal conditions of this middle leg of the triangular trade were under more demand, and slaves started being forced to the job
What is the Middle Passage?