Disaster Science/Formation
The three things needed for an avalanche to form
*What is Snow, a slope, and a trigger*
The location with the most deadly avalanches is
*What is Colorado, Alaska, and Utah.*
The most recent blizzard was in what state
*What’s Colorada*
An avalanche can destroy an entire city true or false
*What is false*
The basic tool to help you get out of a blizzard
*What is a Shovel or Transceiver*
The two types of avalanches
*What is sluff and slab*
The countries with the most amount of avalanches
*what is France, Austria, Switzerland, and Italy*
The recent avalanche killed
*What is 2 people*
The slab avalanche is characterized by
*What is by the fall of a large block of ice down the slopes*
Name two websites that could inform you about a chance of an avalanche
*What is NWS and NOAA*
The sluff or slab avalanche is more dangerous
*What is slab*
The mountain range that has the most avalanches on it
*What is the Alpines*
The exact date of the avalanche
*What is February 15, 2020*
Avalanches can completely destroy
*what is houses, cabins, and shacks*
The mountain has to be over what angle to start an avalanche
*What is 30°*
The shape of a sluff
*What is an inverted V shape*
The last two places with the most common avalanches are
*what is Montana and Washington*
The number of snow bike-riders caught in it
*What is 3*
Avalanches also can cause roads and railroad lines to close true or false
*what is true*
The two ways of knowing an avalanche is going to happen before it happens by only walking on it.
What is cracks in the floor and the ground feels hollow
The slab avalanche is made by
*What is when the weak layer of snow is deep in the snowpack*
The Alps are located
*What is Europe*
The exact location of the avalanche
*what is South Fork of Dickson Creek, east of Red and White Mountain*
what can happen to the power supplies?
*what is it can be cut off*
The changes in weather that could cause an avalanche
*What is rapid warmings or 24 hours of rain or snowfall*