NATURAL DISASTERSVocabulary activities

1-Choose two words for this picture:

• Drought / tornado / tsunami / dry / wet

2-Change the words in bold for the correct ones:

• Tornado Katrina hit southern United States in 2004. The effects in New York (Louisiana) were devastating.

3-Find the word that doesn’t belong

• Hot / forest fire / flood / deforestation / burn

4-Choose two correct words for this picture:

Australia, December 2010, state of Queensland

• Windy / rainy / flood / dry / drought / earthquake

5-Match a disaster with a description below:

• The ground was moving under our feet.Drought, earthquake, flood, fire, snowstorm ?

Chile, February 2010

6-Change the words in bold for the correct ones:

• Hot snow was coming down the building. This volcanic eruption took place in Ireland in April 2011. The ash cloud stopped the European Air Traffic and many flights were cancelled.

7-Match

• Volcanic• Forest• Ocean • Thunder• Burning• Devastating • Snow• Cold

• Fire• Storm• Trees• Consequences• Weather• Storm• Eruption• Tsunami

• Windy / sunny / earthquake / hurricane / dry

8-Choose two words for this picture:

9-Choose the correct word:• A __________ (often

referred to as a twister) is a powerful column of winds spiraling around a center of low atmospheric pressure.

• thunderstorm• earthquake• flood• Snowstorm• tornado• tsunami• drought

10-Choose the correct word:• The earthquake that generated

the great Indian Ocean _________ of 2004 is estimated to have released the energy of 23,000 Hiroshima-type atomic bombs, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

• thunderstorm• earthquake• flood• tornado• tsunami• drought