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What is a flash flood?
Natural events that negatively impact humans caused by severe weather processes such as flooding, hurricanes, and tornadoes
What are atmospheric hazards?
Name some Natural hazards that are predictable?
What are thunderstorms, blizzards, flooding, volcanic eruptions
The most common natural hazard
What are floods?
A rising body of water that submerges normally dry land
What is a flood?
A prediction or estimate of future events
What is a forecast?
Name a natural hazard that are not predictable
What is an earthquake?
Tornadoes are categorized by....
What are wind speed and damage?
The temperature, wind, clouds, and precipitation in the atmosphere.
What is atmospheric conditions?
An event that may have a negative effect
What is a natural hazzard?
Spinning columns of air that are smaller than hurricanes and may be violent
What are tornadoes?
Majority of occurrence of earthquakes and volcanoes
What is where tectonic plates move together at convergent plate boundaries?
Extreme weather events such as floods, hurricanes, and tornadoes
What are catastrophic events?
An event in which molten rock spews out from the mantle to the surface of Earth as ash, lava, and gases
What is a volcanic eruption?
Hurricanes generally do most damage
What are tropical areas where the storm forms?
The center of a spinning storm
What is the eye?
Natural events that negatively impact humans, cause by either interior processes, such as earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, or by surface processes such as tsunamis
What are geologic hazards?
Conditions that must be present for a hurricane to form
What is a thunderstorm that forms over warm ocean water?
The greatest occurrence of earthquakes and volcanoes
What is the Ring of Fire?
Can result in damage to homes
What are floods, tornadoes, and hurricanes?