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Hurricanes
Floods
Wildfires
Earthquakes
100
A strong storm that starts over the ocean.
What is a hurricane?
100
A natural disaster that can be caused by rain or melting snow.
What is a flood?
100
A natural disaster that burns large areas of land.
What is a wildfire?
100
This happens when the Earth's plates rub together.
What is an earthquake?
200
The calm area inside a hurricane.
What is the eye?
200
A type of flood that comes very quickly.
What is a flash flood?
200
A person who puts out fires.
What is a firefighter?
200
A smaller earthquake that happens after the main quake.
What is an aftershock?
300
This type of hurricane has the strongest winds.
What is a Category 5?
300
This is what overflows as a result of too much rain.
What is a river?
300
This can drop water over a fire from the air.
What is a helicopter?
300
A scale that measures an earthquake.
What is the Richter Scale?
400
A hurricane that struck the Gulf Coast in 2005.
What is Hurricane Katrina?
400
Something people use to stop water.
What is a sandbag?
400
This can start a wildfire if people don't put it out.
What is a campfire?
400
The safest place to be during an earthquake is under this.
What is a table?