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A tsunami is known as a
What is a Tidal Wave?
Tsunamis start in the
What is the ocean?
The speed of a Tsunami wave.
What is 500 miles per hour?
This country was hit by a tsunami in 2004
What is India?
The structure that can stop water from entering a city.
What is a water wall?
What is harbor wave?
True or False. Tsunamis are caused by wind.
What is False?
Water is moved because of an underwater earthquake. This causes water to be pushed up. The term for this is....
What is displacement?
These large heavy items that people use for transportation can be carried to the sea/ocean by a tsunami?
What are cars/trains/buses?
A way of finding out if a tsunami is coming.
What is a warning system? (Satellites or seismic)
This country was hit by a major tsunami in 2009 which destroyed a nuclear power plant.
What is Japan?
True or False. Hurricanes can cause Tsunamis.
What is False?
Tsunami waves can travel ________ miles into land if it is powerful enough.
What is 4/5/6 miles?
Tsunamis have been known to destroy these roads which are built over water.
What are bridges?
A way to prevent large amount of people who live close to the shore from dying in a coastal city because of a tsunami.
What is house building limits?
The American state that was hit by the largest tsunami ever recorded.
What is Alaska?
True or False: Tsunamis can travel across any major ocean hitting all coasts thousands of miles apart.
What is True?
This is recommended in order to safely survive a tsunami wave entering a city.
What is find higher land/tall building?
The after effects of a tsunami that makes areas unlivable.
What are floods?
The sure way to stop a tsunami.
What is nothing?
A tsunami may cause more damage in the future because of the melting of the ice caps caused by this.
What is climate change?
True or False: The largest waves recorded for a tsunami was over 1700 feet in Alaska.
What is True?
True or False: A tsunami wave can be as tall as a mountain.
What is false?
The name of the city in India that lost over 100,000 people.
What is Sri Lanka?
Tsunamis occur mostly because of earthquakes. Most of these occur in the Pacific Ocean along the
What is the Ring of Fire?