Natural Disasters

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Play Jeopardy to review facts about natural disasters. Choose three categories (earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes,

tsunamis, volcanoes, wildfires, landslides, floods) and place the category cards on the game board. Each category is color-coded and matches the color of the question cards. Select four

facts at random for each category and place them face down on the game board. Players take turns selecting questions and

answering. The player with the most correct answers wins!

Earthquakes

Tsunamis Volcanoes Wildfires

Floods

Tornadoes

Hurricanes/Typhoons/ Cyclones

Landslides

What is an earthquake?

Where do earthquakes

occur?

How long do earthquakes

last?

What is the center of an earthquake

called?

What are fault lines?

Where is a safe spot to go during an earthquake?

How is an earthquake measured?

What is the Richter Scale?

What is a hurricane?

How strong are hurricane winds?

Where do hurricanes

form?

What is the “eye” of a hurricane?

What kind of damage can a

hurricane cause?

When is hurricane season?

What is another name

for a hurricane?

What is a tropical storm?

What is a tornado?

How are tornadoes measured?

When a tornado doesn’t reach

the ground, what is it called?

What is “Tornado Alley?”

Where is the safest place

to go during a tornado?

What is the shape of a tornado?

What is a tsunami?

What usually happens before a tsunami hits

the shore?

What causes a tsunami?

How big can tsunami waves

be?

Can people be warned that a

tsunami is coming?

Where is the safest place to be if a tsunami

is coming?

What does a tornado sound

like?

What is a volcano?

What is magma?

What is lava?

Why does a volcano erupt?

What is a dormant volcano?

What is an extinct volcano?

What is the

“Ring of Fire?”

What is a wildfire?

How do firefighters

put out wildfires?

Where do wildfires

usually occur?

What does a wildfire damage?

What is a landslide/

debris flow?

How is a landslide caused?

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What are some warning signs of a landslide?

How are wildfires started?

What is a mud flow?

What damages

occur from a landslide?

What is a

flood?

When do

floods occur?

What is a

flash flood?

What damages can floods cause?

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Name ________________________________________ Directions: Choose a natural disaster and write about it.

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