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Earthquakes
Tsunamis
Cyclones
Floods
Mystery Question
100

the area where tectonic plates meet

What are faults?

100

The word "Tsunami" comes from this language.

What is Japanese?

100

The most destructive hurricane in 2005.

What is Hurricane Katrina?

100

90% of all natural disasters in the U.S. involve THIS other natural disaster

What are floods?

100

Snow falling down the side of a mountain

What is an avalanche?

200

the shaking of the surface of the Earth resulting from a sudden release of energy in the Earth's lithosphere that creates seismic waves

What is an earthquake?

200

About 80% of tsunamis happen HERE, within the Pacific Ocean

What is the "Ring of Fire"?

200

The name "hurricane" is used to describe storms in these continents...

What are the America(s)?

200
The number one cause of floods.
What is rain?
200
The opposite of global warming.
What is an ice age?
300
The machine that measures earthquakes.
What is a seismograph?
300

A natural disaster that causes a tsunami.

What is an earthquake?

300

The name "Typhoon" is used to describe storms in this continent...

What is Asia?

300
The number two cause of floods.
What is tsunami?
300
Balls of ice falling from the sky.
What is hail?
400
A person who studies earthquakes.
What is a seismologist?
400

In 2004, 200,000 people died because of the tsunami HERE.

What is the Indian Ocean? What is Indonesia?

400
It is the center of the hurricane or typhoon.
What is the "eye"?
400

The number 3 cause of floods.

What is a broken dam?

400
No rain.
What is a drought?
500
The "scale" used to measure earthquakes.
What is a Richter Scale?
500

The force that causes a tsunami to get higher and higher as it comes closer to the beach.

What is friction?

500

Hurricanes, Typhoons, and Cyclones happen above...

What is the ocean/sea?

500

A car can be carried away in as little as THIS MANY feet of water

What is 2 feet?

500

This animal is often blamed for starting the 1871 fire that engulfed Chicago.

What is a cow?