Hazards
Blizzards, Hurricanes, and Tornados are examples of what kind of hazard?
What is a Weather Hazard?
What is the name of the layer of Earth that we live on?
What is the crust?
Loosens and transports sediment by gravity, wind, water, or ice.
What is erosion?
Minerals can be sorted into what two categories?
Gems and Metals
What does that legend (key) on a map help with?
What is describe what the symbols mean?
Which natural hazard makes the ground shake and sometimes splits open, damaging buildings and roadways?
What is an earthquake?
What are the names of the four layers of the earth?
What is inner core, outer core, mantle and crust?
What type of erosion creates sand dunes and rock arches
What is wind erosion?
Magma heats up below or inside Earth’s crust. Under heat and pressure, it can break through to Earth’s surface as lava. When lava or magma cools, what kind of rock is formed?
What is Igneous Rock?
How can a tornado affect people?
What is destroying houses, damaging roadways, hurting people, etc.
Snow rushing downhill and carrying rocks and debris with it is an example of what hazard?
What is an avalanche?
Both earthquakes and volcanoes are the result of?
What is moving plates?
What kind of erosion creates landforms such as valleys, canyons, caverns or floodplains.
What is soil made of?
What is rock particles, air, water, and decomposing matter?
The molten rock inside a volcano is called?
What is Magma?
What is one natural hazards that leaves a long-term effect on the Earth's surface?
What is a volcano?
Tsunamis can be caused by earthquakes on the ocean floor. What is a Tsunami?
What is a giant wave?
The breakdown of rock into smaller pieces is known as?
What is Weathering?
What kind of rock forms from particles in the environment that settle to form layers?
What is Sedimentary Rock?
What does the compass rose do on a map?
What is shows the directions North, South, East, West?
Natural hazards cannot be stopped by humans, but there are things people can do to be better prepared for them. What is one thing you can do to prepare for an Earthquake?
What is attach bookshelves to walls, check and reinforce the foundation of buildings, make sure there is something for you to get under in case of an Earthquake, etc.
Describe what you might see if you visited a town near an erupting volcano.
What is ash, smoke and steam, and a giant cloud in the air. You might also see lava.
___________ ____________ can happen when rain mixes with chemicals in the air and interacts with the rock.
What is Chemical Weathering?
Rocks that can be changed by heat, pressure, or both are called?
What is Metamorphic Rock?
What is one reason why maps need to be updated?