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NATURAL DISASTERS
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NATURALDISASTERS
Vanessa García Álvarez
Index
Natural Disasters
01. Plate tectonics
06. Flood
02. Volcanic eruption
07. Landslide
08. Wildfire
03. Earthquake
Matching exercise
09. Drought
04. Tsunami
Video: The Earth and the plate tectonics
05. Tropical storm
Plate tectonics
Volcaniceruption
Earthquake
Tsunami
Tropicalstorm
Flood
Landslide
Wildfire
Drought
Definitions
Natural disasters
a. the movement downslope of a mass of rock, debris, earth or soil that occurs due to gravitational and shear stresses.
b. organised centre of low pressure that originates over warm tropical oceans.
- Volcanic eruption
- Earthquake
- Tsunami
- Tropical storm
- Flood
- Landslide
- Wildfire
- Drought
c. an eruption of molten rock, hot rock fragments and hot gases through a volcano.
d. lack or insufficiency of rain that occurs when evaporation and transpiration exceed precipitation for a considerable period.
e. high-water stage in which water overflows its natural or artificial banks onto normally dry land, such as a river inundating its floodplain.
f. any sudden shaking of the ground caused by the passage of seismic waves through Earth's rocks.
g. catastrophic ocean wave, usually caused by a submarine earthquake, an underwater or coastal landslide or a volcanic eruption.
h. uncontrolled fire in a forest, grassland, brushland or land sown to crops.
The Earth and the plate tectonics