Droughts
Floods
Flash Floods
Preparing and Predicting Droughts
Flood Safety
200

What happens during a drought?

What is water dries up?

200

Floods are most commonly caused by what?

What are hurricanes?

200

What is a flash flood?

What is a very rapid flood?

200

What can you do if dry conditions occur?

What is conserve water

200

Flood waters can also cause what?

What are landslides and mudslides?

400

Droughts cause this to fail.

What are crops

400

What is another way floods are caused?

What is a lot of rain.

400

Where do the most dangerous flash floods occur?

Deserts

400

How much can be done to prevent a flood?

What is not a lot?

400

Sometimes less than this number of centimeters of fast water can sweep away a car.

What is 60?

600

How do droughts happen?

What is Scarce rainfall?

600

How many people died in the floods of Hurricane Katrina

What is 1000

600

A flash flood can be caused by what breaking?

What is a dam?

600

Farmers can grow drought resistant plants that have been bred to withstand what?

What are dry conditions

600

What is the first rule of flood safety?

What is get to high ground?

800

How many acres were burned in 1998 in Florida due to drought related fires

What is 475,000 acres

800

When were the floods of Katrina?

2005

800

Flash floods are a sudden and this flood.

What is violent?

800

How can you make a drought as mild as possible?

What is conserving soil and water

800

Besides water what is another danger of floods?

What is knocking down electricity poles?

1000

When did governments start monitoring soil for droughts?

When are the 1980s

1000

How many feet of water were in the floods of Katrina?

What is 10 feet

1000

How many hikers survived in the flash flood in Arizona in 1997?

What is 1.

1000

How can you tell when a drought is going to happen?

What is monitoring soil and water conditions?

1000

When should you evacuate a flood?

When is when the water gets too high?