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What is true?
True or false- Damage paths can be one mile wide and 50 miles long
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What are cyclone, typhoon, and tropical storm?
Other names for Hurricanes
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What is December-April?
The months that avalanches most occur in?
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What is a fault line?
An existing weakness or crack in the Earth’s Crust.
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What is a tornado warning?
A tornado has been sighted or indicated by weather radar. If this is issued for your area and the sky becomes threatening, move to your predesignated place of safety
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What are Costal regions?
Region that is in most danger from hurricanes
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What is Canada?
This country gets the most avalanches
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What is the Richter Scale?
Scale used to measure the magnitude of earthquakes.
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What is spring and summer?
Tornados are more common during which seasons.
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What is the “eye”?
The most calm part of a storm
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What is 60-80 mph?
The average speed of an avalanche
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What is Pangaea?
Super continent that existed during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras, assembled 335 million years ago.
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What is true?
A tornado that travels or forms over water is referred to as a waterspout
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What happens when hurricanes go over land?
Hurricanes loses strength
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What is 100-150 people each year?
This many people, on average, get killed by avalanches each year
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What is a tectonic plate?
A piece of the Earth’s crust and uppermost mantle that moves slowly for millions of years.
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What is the fujita scale?
This is used to measure the strength of a tornado
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What is warm moisture in the atmosphere?
Air that hurricanes are formed in
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What is 250 mph?
Fastest speed of avalanche ever recorded
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What is Japan?
This country is the most prone to earthquakes.
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