Natural Disasters Vocabulary and Definitions Spider Map
Kuvakäsikirjoitus Kuvaus
Natural Disasters Vocabulary
Kuvakäsikirjoitus Teksti
- RICHTER SCALE
- BEAUFORT SCALE
- EPICENTER
- The Richter Scale is a logarithmic scale used to express the magnitude of an earthquake. It ranges from 1 to 10, where 1 can barely be felt, and 10 is near total destruction.
- The Beaufort Scale relates wind speed with observable effects of wind. It was developed in 1805 by Francis Beaufort.
- The epicenter is the point on the surface of the Earth that is directly above the focus of an earthquake.
- PYROCLASTIC FLOW
- Natural Disasters Vocabulary
- FAULT LINE
- The pyroclastic flow is the fast moving mass of hot gas, lava, and rock fragments when a volcano erupts.
- A fault line is the boundary between two tectonic plates.
Kuva Tekijän
- Gale Force Winds - ahisgett - (Lisenssi Attribution )
- haiti_postearthquake13 - newbeatphoto - (Lisenssi Attribution )
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