PRESENTATION OF NATURAL DISASTERS

DROUGHT A disaster when there is no rain for a long time

MUDSLIDE A disaster in which hills become too wet and the soil moves

EMERGENCY SHELTER A place where people can sleep in an emergency

FLOOD A lot of water

DAM It is a barrier that improunds water or underground streams

FAMINE A disaster when there is no food

EVACUATION The act of making people leave place because of danger

BLIZZARD A very bad snowstorm

TSUNAMI A big wave that can destroy towns near the sea

AFTERSHOCK A small earthquake after a larger one

AVALANCHE A disaster in which snow and ice move quickly down a mountain

RAIN A liquid precipitation

CYCLONE It is an area of closed, circular fluid motion rotating in the same direction as the Earth

HEAT WAVE It is a prolonged period of excessively hot weather

HAIL It is a form of solid precipitation which consists of balls of ice

TORNADO It is a violent, dangerous rotating column of air

SNOW It is a type of precipitation in the form of water ice

HURRICANE It is a storm system that produce strong winds and heavy rain

MONSOON It is a seasonal reversing wind accompanied by seasonal changes in precipitation

VOLCANO It is an opening in the surface which allows hot magma and volcanic ash

TWISTER It’s like a tornado

FOG It is a collection of water droplets or ice crystals suspended in the air at or near the Earth's surface

HAILSTORM They are rain drops that have formed together into ice

WIND wind consists of the bulk movement of air

RAINBOW is an optical and meteorological phenomenon that causes a spectrum of light to appear in the sky when the Sun shines on to droplets of moisture in the Earth's atmosphere

FOREST FIRE is any uncontrolled fire in combustible vegetation that occurs in the countryside