Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Waves of Destruction
Relief + Recovery
Miscellaneous
100
Exactly correct.
What is accurate?
100
A big problem or emergency.
What is crisis?
100
On what date did the tsunami occur?
December 26, 2004
100
How soon did relief efforts begin after the tsunami?
Within 24 hours.
100
An incomplete sentence.
What is a sentence fragment?
200
A part or stage of something.
What is phase?
200
To make something more difficult.
What is complicate?
200
True or False? A tsunami is not likely to strike in South Asia.
False.
200
How much monetary aid was pledged by other countries one year after the tsunami?
$13.6 billion.
200
Name two reasons you would use a capital letter in a sentence.
To begin a sentence and when using a proper noun.
300
A series of actions that produce a result.
What is process?
300
To give things out.
What is distribute?
300
How was the tsunami formed?
During the quake, a large chunk of the earth's crust shifted upward - displacing a huge volume of water in the process.
300
What two former U.S. presidents joined forces to raise money for the relief effort?
Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush
300
A letter or a group of letters added to the beginning of a word.
What is a prefix?
400
To give time, effort, or money to make something succeed.
What is invest?
400
Put to use; put forth.
What is exert?
400
How tall were some of the waves and how far did they travel?
Waves as tall as three-story buildings swept everything away and seven hours later, the waves had traveled 3,000 miles to the coast of East Africa.
400
Name two organizations that provided help after the tsunami.
The Red Cross and Habitat for Humanity
400
A letter or group of letters added to the end of a word.
What is a suffix?
500
Size or importance.
What is magnitude?
500
One of the halves of the earth, especially the northern or southern parts above and below the equator.
What is hemisphere?
500
How fast can the waves of a tsunami travel?
Waves move rapidly in deep ocean, reaching speeds of up to 400 mph.
500
How many people died in the tsunami?
220,000
500
Signal words for finding a sequence of events. (Name at least 3)
What are first, then, next, soon, before, after, and later?
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