Natural Hazards
Natural processes that can be dangerous/harmful to humans and other living things.
What is a natural hazard?
This causes an earthquake.
What is movement along fault lines?
True or False
A tsunami is one giant wave.
False - it is a a series of ocean waves
Besides lava, what is another hazard of a volcanic eruptions?
What is ash and/or poisonous gases?
This country sits on top of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (underwater mountain chain)
What is Iceland?
True or False.
Natural hazards can be prevented.
What is false.
Give an impact of an earthquake.
What is buildings to collapse, roads and bridges to buckle, power lines and water pipes to break.
Three things can cause a tsunami, name one.
What is an earthquake, underwater volcanic eruption, or underwater landslide?
The best solution to avoid a volcanic eruption.
What is don't live too close to one?
True or False
Sedimentary rock is formed from sediment from the weathering and erosion of rock on Earth’s surface.
What is true?
Natural hazards cannot be prevented but the impact can be ____________.
What is reduced?
One way engineers reduce the impact of an earthquake.
What is design buildings and bridges to withstand violent shaking.
Where should people go to reduce the impact of a tsunami?
What is inland or go to higher ground?
Lava inside the Earth is called...
What is magma?
A trace of plants or animals that lived long ago.
What is a fossil?
Where should people go during an earthquake?
What is under a table/desk.
After information is collected on the ocean floor, where is the information sent next?
What is to buoys on the ocean's surface?
Name one thing scientists measure near a volcano detect volcanic activity?
What is scientists measure earthquake activity (using a seismometer) and gases in the air near a volcano to detect volcanic activity?
Sediment is deposited in layers. Where are the newer layers found?
What is on top?