Types of Disasters
A natural disaster that is marked by drier-than-normal weather than can last weeks, months, or years.
What is a drought?
CAUTION! This naturally occurring event could pose risks to humans and society.
What is a natural hazard?
The process of restoring quality of life and community services to pre-disaster levels.
What is recovery?
Primary, or immediate, effects of natural disasters tend to include this.
Power outages, fallen trees, danger to health, damage to buildings and roads, and intense weather.
Earthquakes and volcanoes tend to happen in this region, or Ring.
What is the Ring of Fire?
A sudden shaking of the ground that occurs when rocks slip along a fault line in the Earth's crust.
What is an earthquake?
Communities can prepare this, which typically includes a safe location and emergency bag with supplies, before a natural disaster happens.
This is one way communities can respond to droughts.
What is reducing water usage, or staying informed and prepared about droughts?
Droughts can cause this natural disaster to happen.
What is a wildfire?
Some of this type of natural disaster are active, including those in Hawaii and Iceland.
What is a volcano?
A natural disaster involving uncontrolled fire that burns in wildland vegetation, often in rural areas.
What is a wildfire?
Communities may _______, or move people and items temporarily to safer places before, during or after a hazardous event occurs in order to protect them.
What is to evacuate?
Sometimes relief efforts include other countries offering supplies and support personnel, called this.
What is international aid?
Volcanic eruptions can cause damage to...
What is air quality, health, water supply, roads, buildings, or air travel?
Another name for a hurricane.
What is a typhoon or cyclone?
This natural disaster is caused by an opening in the Earth's crust that allows lava, ash, and gases to erupt.
What are volcanoes?
Using technology to predict the likelihood (including time and location) of a natural hazard occurring.
What is forecasting?
Immediate support provided to reduce suffering and fulfill basic human needs.
What is disaster relief?
In the NOVA film about Hurricane Katrina, we learned that 90% of hurricane-related deaths are caused by this massive rise of water levels.
What is a storm surge?
This is one natural disaster that can be set off by movement between tectonic plates (seismic activity).
What are volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis?
An intense storm involving strong winds, rain, and sometimes thunderstorms, that forms over warm ocean waters.
What is a hurricane?
Instruments used to record the motion of the ground during an earthquake are called this.
What are seismometers?
Two ways communities can recover after an earthquake.
What are creating buildings that sway rather than crumble during an earthquake, educating the public on how to stay safe in case of future quakes, rebuilding damaged buildings and roads, and working to restore access to water and electricity?
Wildfires can cause this negative effect on communities.
What is air pollution, injuries, loss of life, property damage, and water pollution.
This is a naturally occurring vegetation near the ocean that absorbs stormwaters, as mentioned during the NOVA film about Hurricane Katrina.
What are wetlands?