Volcanoes
The name for a volcano that is erupting or will erupt in the future.
What is an active volcano?
The name for the place where an earthquake begins.
What is the epicenter?
This is the name of the pulling force that acts on all objects.
What is gravity?
This is the very first step in the formation of a tornado.
What is a thunderstorm?
Tsunamis can be triggered by these other events. Name two.
What are earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and landslides?
The name for lava before it reaches the surface of the earth.
What is magma?
Earthquakes can trigger these two other natural disasters?
What are tsunamis and landslides?
Name two events that can trigger a landslide.
Earthquakes, volcanic activity, heavy rain, flooding, snowmelt, erosion
Tornadoes are measured using this scale.
What is the Fujita Scale or the F-scale?
Hurricanes start here.
What is over the ocean?
This is the name of a major volcanic belt that circles the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Ring of Fire?
Earthquake activity is more likely to happen at these places.
What are fault lines or plate boundaries?
A landslide causes quick changes to the landscape by doing these things. (Three items)
What is changing the shape of the land, uprooting vegetation and destroying property?
Most of the world's tornados occur in a stretch of the United States know as this?
This is the safest place to be if a tsunami strikes.
What is uphill or at high elevation?
The name for a hug hole left by the collapse of a volcanic mountain.
What is a caldera?
Yellowstone National Park
Landslides are more likely to occur on slopes of this angle or steeper.
What is 35 degrees or greater?
Tornadoes have been reported on every continent except this one.
What is Antartica?
These two things cause flooding during a hurricane?
What are heaving rains and waves (storm surges)?
The name for a broad, domed volcano with sloping sides.
What is a shield volcano?
This is the name of the numerical scale for expressing the magnitude of an earthquake.
What is the Richter scale?
Engineers have already discovered these three ways of preventing destruction from landslides.
What are terraces, nets to catch boulders, ramps to funnel rocks into oceans and floating, soccer ball shaped houses?
These are the two most common months for tornadoes to occur in the U.S.
May and June
These four things can help prevent damage from a hurricane.
What are seawalls, wetlands, levees and stilts?