Vocab
What is Permafrost?
a thick subsurface layer of soil that remains frozen throughout the year, occurring chiefly in polar regions.
a strong and powerful wind that can uproot trees
What is a tornado
Early in the morning on August 29, 2005, Hurricane ______ struck the Gulf Coast of the United States. When the storm made landfall, it had a Category 3 rating
What is Hurricane Katrina?
What is the Richter Scale?
a scale used to measure earthquakes
What causes a tornado?
the combination of a cold front wind mixing with a warm wind and causing a circular motion.
What is a Cataclysm?
a large-scale and violent event in the natural world.
fine particles float in the wind and make it extremely difficult to breath and can cause erosion
sandstorm
Hurrican _______was a Category 4 storm that hit Texas on August 25, 2017. It caused $125 billion in damage according to the National Hurricane Center.
What is Hurricane Harvey?
What is beaut-fort scale?
a scale to measure wind speeds?
what causes an avalanche?
The overload of snow and the gravity of falling down the mountain?
what is seismic waves?
an elastic wave in the earth produced by an earthquake or other means
a long high sea wave caused by an earthquake, submarine landslide, or other disturbance
What is a tsunami?
One of the most devastating hurricanes
What is Hurricane Galveston?
how do we measure avalanche?
By using radar technology
What causes a mudslide?
Landslides are caused by disturbances in the natural stability of a slope. They can accompany heavy rains or follow droughts, earthquakes, or volcanic eruptions.Mudslides develop when water rapidly accumulates in the ground and results in a surge of water-saturated rock, earth, and debris.
What is magma versus lava
magma is below the surface and lava is the same but above the surface.
tech tonic plates will collide and cause tremendous shaking of the ground
What is a tech tonic earthquake?
one of the most deadly hurricanes
What is Hurricane Monterrey?
How do we measure tsunamis?
We measure in meters by tracking the buoys movement
what causes a hailstorm?
Hail is large, layered ice particles, often spherical in shape, which are produced by thunderstorms having strong, tilted updrafts. Hailstorms form within a unusually unstable air mass, that is, an air mass in which the temperature falloff with height is much greater than normal.
What is Cumulonimbus?
Clouds that form at a low altitude
an unstable mountain will release a certain substance and cause a large cloud of debris. This cloud can reach hundreds of miles and cause winter.
What is a volcano eruption?
hurricane _____ hit is Arizona and was a category 2 hurricane
What is Hurricane Alex?
what is VEI
volcanic explosivity index , how we measure volcanos
what causes a cyclone?
It is caused by a combination of strong winds driving water onshore and the lower atmospheric pressure in a tropical cyclone. In the southern hemisphere, the onshore winds occur to the left of the tropical cyclone's path.