What word beginning with 'F' means 'a person with specialized training that arrives at the scene of an emergency to provide immediate medical or evacuation help'?
First responder
Name three natural disasters that can happen in Hong Kong.
Typhoons, hill fires, floods, and landslides.
Name 6 types of natural disasters
typhoons, hurricanes, tornados, floods, tsunami, drought, wildfire, avalanche, blizzard
What are volcanoes that haven't erupted in a long time but might erupt in the future called? A) Active B) Dormant C) Extinct D) Ready
B) Dormant
What kind of words are although, because, nevertheless, and but?
Connectives
What natural disasters can you see in the picture?
Flood, blizzard, tsunami, tornado, earthquake, drought
What is this and why do we use it?
A mind map. To help us plan our work.
What is the 'Ring of Fire'?
A ring around the Pacific Ocean with many active volcanoes and frequent earthquakes
What does 'assess' mean? (As in: 'After the storm passed, we assessed the damage')
To check the amount of damage and suffering caused by a natural disaster (or an accident).
What word beginning with 'E' means to 'move someone from a place of danger (e.g. because of a natural disaster or war) to somewhere safer'?
Evacuate
What does 'debris' mean?
Scattered pieces of rubbish and/or remains.
Which natural disaster is this? An unplanned fire that burns in areas of forest or grassland.
Wildfire / Forest Fire
Seismology is the study of what type of natural disaster?
Earthquakes
Tsunamis are NOT caused by which of the following? A) Earthquakes B) Volcanoes C) Hurricanes D) Underwater landslides
C) Hurricanes
Which natural disaster is this? Extreme dryness in an area due to unusually low levels of precipitation.
Drought
__________ occur because of scarcity or irregular distribution of rainfall.
Drought
What is the difference between a typhoon and a hurricane?
They are both tropical cyclones but typhoons are found in Asia and hurricanes are found in the Caribbean.
Which natural disaster is this? A funnel cloud that forms from a storm over land.
Tornado
What kind of words are powerful, scary, serious and crowded?
Adjectives
Which word/words isn't/aren't spelt correctly? draught, blizard, sunami, avalanch
All of them (DROUGHT, BLIZZARD, TSUNAMI, AVALANCHE)
What word beginning with 'M' means the 'the size of something, such as an earthquake or other natural disaster'?
Magnitude
The Richter scale is used to measure what?
The magnitude/size of an earthquake
What does 'catastrophic' mean?
Involving or causing great damage or suffering.
What word beginning with 'A' means the 'period immediately after a destructive event such as a natural disaster'?
Aftermath
Epicentre and aftershock are words used associated with which natural disaster?
Earthquakes