NATURAL

DISASTERS
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DISASTERS
CYCLONE
ARSON BAROMETER
an atmospheric system in which air
malicious burning to destroy property ¡an instrument that measures atmospheric
circulates rapidly
pressure

ASTEROID
BLACKOUT CRASH
one of many large rocks that circle the sun
darkness resulting from the extinction of an accident in which
lights a vehicle hits something

AVALANCHE DISASTER
BLIZZARD
a slide of large masses of snow, ice and an event resulting in great loss and
a storm with strong winds and snow
mud down a mountain misfortune
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FLOOD
DAM EARTHQUAKE
the rising of a body of water and its
a barrier constructed to contain the flow of vibration from underground movement
overflowing onto land
water along a fault plane

DROUGHT
EROSION FOG
a shortage of rainfall
the process of wearing or grinding droplets of water vapor suspended in the
something down air near the ground
DUST STORM
FIRE
FOREST FIRE
a windstorm that lifts up clouds of dust or
the process of combustion of inflammable
sand an uncontrolled fire in a wooded area
materials
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TORNADO
HAIL LIGHTNING
an extremely strong wind that blows in
precipitation of ice pellets flash of light from an electric discharge in
a circle
the atmosphere

HAILSTORM LANDSLIDE TSUNAMI

a storm during which hail falls a mass of rock and earth moving suddenly a cataclysm resulting from a destructive
and quickly down a steep slope sea wave

HURRICANE TWISTER
METEORITE STRIKE
a severe tropical cyclone usually with a localized and violently destructive
Meteorite impacts happen when rocks from
heavy rains and winds windstorm occurring over land
space crash into Earth's surface.
characterized by a funnel-shaped cloud
extending toward the ground
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THUNDERSTORM
WHIRLPOOL HEATWAVE
a storm resulting from strong rising air
a powerful circular current of water a wave of unusually hot weather
currents

WHIRLWIND TREMOR VOLCANO

a column of air spinning around itself an involuntary vibration, as if from illness a fissure in the earth's crust through which
or fear gases erupt

WIND STORM SEISMIC

a storm consisting of violent winds subject to or caused by an earthquake or
earth vibration