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Face2Face Unit 8A vocab: Weather and natural dis ...

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    8A vocab plus general weather words
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  • What's this?
    a storm
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  • The noise you hear during a storm is...
    thunder
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  • In an electrical storm you'll hear thunder and see...
    lightning
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  • What's the name for a very strong wind?
    a gale
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  • a violent wind that has a circular movement, especially in the West Atlantic Ocean
    a hurricane
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  • a strong, dangerous wind that forms itself into an upside-down spinning cone and is able to destroy buildings as it moves across the ground
    a tornado
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  • a period of days during which the weather is much hotter than usual
    a heat wave
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  • What's a blizzard?
    a severe snow storm with strong winds
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  • What's a flood?
    a large amount of water covering an area that is usually dry
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  • What do you call an extremely large wave caused by a violent movement of the earth under the sea?
    a tsunami
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  • What could it be?
    an earthquake
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  • Define: drought
    a long period when there is little or no rain
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  • a mass of rock and earth moving suddenly and quickly down a steep slope
    a landslide
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  • Put these in temperature order, from lowest to highest: cold - hot - boiling - fresh - freezing - mild - warm
    freezing - cold - fresh - mild - warm - hot - boiling
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