Earthquake
Tsunami
Hurricane
Vocabulary
Random Facts
100
Where did the earthquake occur within our first story?
What is China?
100
The word "Tsunami" comes from what language?
What is Japanese?
100
What hurricane took place in New Orleans?
What is Hurricane Katrina?
100

What vocabulary word means: A thick flat piece of hard material such as rock.

What is Slab?

100
What is the main cause of flooding?
What is rain?
200

What is the definition of displaced?

What is to force people to leave where they live?

200
What causes a tsunami?
What is an earthquake?
200
What is the center of a hurricane called?
What is an eye?
200

What vocabulary word means: Avoided

What is Dodged?

200

What is a long period of time called without rain?

What is a drought?

300

What did the principal do at Sangzao Middle School?

What is reinforce older school buildings?

300

In 2004, 200,000 people died in what country because of the tsunami that occurred here... (According to our text)

What is Indonesia?

300
What city was built in bowl?
What is New Orleans?
300

What vocabulary word means: Likely to happen very soon

What is Loom?

300

What are the two main causes of a blizzard?

What is snow and wind?

400

What scale measures the strength of an earthquake?

What is the Richter Scale?

400
What ocean did the 2004 tsunami occur in?
What is the Indian Ocean?
400

What was one of the proposal for New Orleans to prevent hurricanes from happening again?

What is bringing sediment into the marshes, building higher levees, moving the entire city, and/or building double levees.

400

What vocabulary word means: Certain to happen; unavoidable

What is Inevitable?

400
What is the independent clause in the following sentence?: Because the tsunami was unexpected, it killed a lot of people.
"It killed a lot of people."
500

What is the name of a person who studies earthquakes?

What is seismologist?

500

How fast can a tsunami travel?

What is up to 600 mph?

500

How many categories of hurricanes are there?

5
500

What vocabulary word means: Large in size or amount: very full or complete

What is Extensive?

500

What was the name of the boat lost at sea during the perfect storm? 

What is the Andrea Gail?