Earthquakes
Hurricanes
Volcanoes
Tornadoes
Floods
Random
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True or False: Earthquakes are unpredictable
True
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Hurricanes form over what?
Oceans
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What causes a Tsunami?
Earthquake and Underwater Landslides
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True or False: Tornadoes are the most violent storms?
True
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True or False: Floods are the least often natural hazard to occur?
False - they are the most often to occur
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What is the difference between a natural hazard and disaster?
People
100
What causes an earthquake?
The plates shift and causes the ground to shake
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What can cause damage during a hurricane?
Wind and Rain
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Where do Tsunamis typically occur?
In coastal cities
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How fast can wind blow in a tornado?
Over 200 miles per hour
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When there is a flood, where should you go to safety?
Higher ground
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What word is used to describe the size of a natural hazard?
Magnitude
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What ___________ scale do we use to determine how strong an earthquake is?
Richter scale
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Name one of the best places to hide when a hurricane occurs
- Basement
- Closet
- Bathroom with no windows
- under solid piece of furniture
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The three types of volcanoes are . . .
Stratovolcano/Composite
Cinder Cone
Shield
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What is the best location when a Tornado occurs?
- basement or lowest ground level and in the middle of the room
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What is something that can cause floods?
Heavy rain
Overflowing rivers
Melting snow
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What are some ways forest fires can start?
Lightning
Dry Forests
Deforestation
Unattended campfires or cigarettes
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What is the most geologically active area of the world called?
Ring of Fire
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Where do hurricanes form?
Over warm oceans
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What makes lava runny (low explosive) or thick (high explosive)?
The presence or absence of silica
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What scale ranks tornado magnitude?
Enhanced Fujita (EF)
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True or False: Flash Floods occur in mountainous areas
True - flash floods rush down mountainsides following gravity and do not have to wait for the ground to become oversaturated.
200
What is this picture telling us?
Turn your head to the right...
Never gonna give you up...never gonna let you down - Rick Astley (rickroll)
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When you feel an Earthquake occuring, what should you do?
Get as low as you can or drop to the floor and get under an object
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True or False:
If you are driving when a hurricane happens, you should keep driving
False - you should leave it and try to find shelter
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What is one way scientists can predict eruptions/earthquakes?
seismometers
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True or False:
You can outrun a tornado
FALSE
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True or False: Floods occur when there is more water on land than the land can absorb
True
250
The movement of a mass of rock, debris, or earth down a slope.
Landslide
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_______ _________ move along the fault causing violent shaking of the ground.
Plate Tectonics.
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What are the damages caused by a hurricane?
Wind damage, flood, death of organisms.
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What does a seismograph measure?
Shaking within the earth.
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What can detect a tornado?
Doppler radar.
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What is the equation for river discharge?
Discharge = Area x Velocity
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What is storm with lots of snowfall and little visibility?
Blizzard