Natural Disasters
Vocabulary
How Do People Respond to Natural Disasters?
Africa
Our Class
100

A natural fire is started by something in the sky.

What is lightning?

100

A disaster is

Something that is bad or negative and effects/affects many people.

100

This type of aircraft can hover to deliver food, fire retardants or pick up people from the ground.

What is a helicopter?

100

How many countries does Africa have?

54

100

This student with the colored hair talks ALL THE TIME, but we love him anyway!

Who is Angel!

200

This forms around openings in the Earth's crust.  If pressure builds magma is forced upwards.

What is a volcano?

200

This is the top or outside of something.

What is a surface?

200

Rubber boots and plastic bags would come in handy for this natural disaster.

What is a flood?

200

Is Africa the 1st, 2nd or 3rd largest continent?

It is the 2nd largest continent.

200

This girl in our class giggles too much, but we love her anyway.

Who is Kayla?

300

An unnatural disaster happened in Paradise, CA in November 2018.  What was it? Name the company responsible.

A fire caused by PG&E lines falling on trees.

300
A word that means harm or injury to someone or something is called...

damage

300

It is good to have this if someone is injured during a natural disaster.

First aid kit; medicine

300

Anansi the Spider folktale is from this African country.

Ghana

300

This student's birthday was on the same day as Thanksgiving...

Kenneth

400

This is when weathered pieces of rock are carried away by a natural force like a river.

Erosion

400
A word that means to let someone know that something bad may happen is to

warn

400

If you do not have a home any longer due to a natural disaster, you could be provided....

shelter or tent

400

Your friendly computer teacher is named

Ms. Claxton  ; D

500

A synonym (same meaning) for "happens" is

occurs