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    Natural disasters are extreme events caused by environmental factors that can damage property and injure people. Some examples of natural disasters include earthquakes, floods, volcanoes, droughts, typhoons, and hurricanes. The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake triggered a devastating tsunami that crossed the Indian Ocean, destroying coastlines and communities and killing thousands. While hurricanes cause high winds and flooding, tornadoes produce very strong, localized spinning winds that can blow buildings down. The most dangerous natural disaster is asteroid impacts, which have occurred about once every million years and have been large enough to cause widespread earthquakes, volcanoes, and wildfires while sometimes wiping out entire species, such as the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.

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    Natural disasters are extreme events caused by environmental factors that can damage property and injure people. Some examples of natural disasters include earthquakes, floods, volcanoes, droughts, typhoons, and hurricanes. The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake triggered a devastating tsunami that crossed the Indian Ocean, destroying coastlines and communities and killing thousands. While hurricanes cause high winds and flooding, tornadoes produce very strong, localized spinning winds that can blow buildings down. The most dangerous natural disaster is asteroid impacts, which have occurred about once every million years and have been large enough to cause widespread earthquakes, volcanoes, and wildfires while sometimes wiping out entire species, such as the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.

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    Natural disasters are extreme events caused by environmental factors that can damage property and injure people. Some examples of natural disasters include earthquakes, floods, volcanoes, droughts, typhoons, and hurricanes. The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake triggered a devastating tsunami that crossed the Indian Ocean, destroying coastlines and communities and killing thousands. While hurricanes cause high winds and flooding, tornadoes produce very strong, localized spinning winds that can blow buildings down. The most dangerous natural disaster is asteroid impacts, which have occurred about once every million years and have been large enough to cause widespread earthquakes, volcanoes, and wildfires while sometimes wiping out entire species, such as the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.

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    Natural Disasters 1

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    Natural disasters are extreme events caused by environmental factors that can damage property and injure people. Some examples of natural disasters include earthquakes, floods, volcanoes, droughts, typhoons, and hurricanes. The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake triggered a devastating tsunami that crossed the Indian Ocean, destroying coastlines and communities and killing thousands. While hurricanes cause high winds and flooding, tornadoes produce very strong, localized spinning winds that can blow buildings down. The most dangerous natural disaster is asteroid impacts, which have occurred about once every million years and have been large enough to cause widespread earthquakes, volcanoes, and wildfires while sometimes wiping out entire species, such as the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.

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    NATURAL

    DISASTERS

    January 2021
    Natural disasters are extreme, sudden
    events caused by environmental
    factors that injure people and damage
    property.
    ACTIVITY 1

    Watch the video and listen the pronunciation, then


    copy the vocabulary in your notebook.
    Take a picture and send it to me.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOILWiH0plk
    ACTIVITY 2
    Copy in your notebook the following information
    ACTIVITY 3
    Copy or paste in your notebook and answer the poster
    ACTIVITY 4
    ACTIVITY 5
    READING
    Read the text and choose the correct word

    ASTEROID IMPACTS – DINOSAURS – HIGH WINDS –


    ICE AGES – LAVA SHELTER – STARVE – SURFACE –
    TECTONIC PLATE – TSUNAMI – UNDER WATER

    Natural Disasters

    Natural disasters take many different forms and


    can happen without warning. Earthquakes,
    floods, volcanoes, drought, typhoons and
    hurricanes are all natural disasters.

    The earthquake of 26 December 2004 resulted in one


    of the worst natural disasters in living memory. It was
    a massive___________________ quake and occurred
    in
    the Indian Ocean. This caused a huge tidal-wave
    ____________________to cross the Indian Ocean.
    It destroyed coastlines, communities and brought
    death and destruction to many people. Thousands
    of people were killed as the wave travelled miles
    across the ocean to distant beaches. Whole families
    were swept out to sea or drowned as the sea
    invaded the land. The survivors need fresh water,
    food and___________________as well as medical.
    People from all over the world are giving lots of
    money so that towns and villages can be
    rebuilt.

    What is the difference between a Hurricane and a


    Tornado? Hurricanes are extremely strong storms
    and often happen in the Caribbean. They cause
    _________________ huge waves, and heavy flooding
    and can be hundreds of miles across. In 1998,
    Hurricane Gilbert produced 160 mile an hour
    winds. It killed 318 people, and destroyed much of
    Jamaica. Tornadoes or ‘twisters’ are very strong
    spinning winds. They can move objects as big as a
    car and can blow buildings down. These
    are very common in West Africa and certain areas
    of the USA.
    Which is the most dangerous natural disaster?
    All the disasters mentioned above are very
    dangerous and continue to kill thousands of
    people each year, but they are nowhere near the
    most dangerous disaster to ever happen on earth.
    One type of event in earth’s history has regularly
    killed millions of beings;_________________.
    About once every million years the earth is hit by a
    piece of rock and ice from space large enough to
    cause massive destruction (including earthquakes,
    volcanoes and_________________and sometimes to
    kill entire spices. 65 millions years ago mre than half
    The earth’s species were killed by such an impact
    (including all the ____________________).

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