Natural disasters

Which of the following words are natural disasters ?

Terrible accident concerned with nature ---                  [deforestation, famine, global warming, flooding, natural disaster]

Nowadays scientists can...           [prevent, prepare, predict, determine]some disasters.

What is a natural disaster?

What natural disasters are becoming more frequent in Ukraine?

Hurricanes are very strong winds that come from the ...

If an earthquake (to occur) when you are in school, you should not leave the building.

If Tom paid more attention in class, he ... (to learn) more.

Put the most frequent natural disasters in Ukraine from most to least frequent

Make up a sentence

Match natural disasters with their descriptions

On 27th February 2008, something very unusual 1)          [happened, happy, harden, harmed] in the UK: there was a rather large earthquake.

It was the biggest earthquake for 25 years in the UK. There have been very small 2)          [tremors, motions, acts, twitches]in the past but they pale into insignificance compared to this one. It was felt in a large area across the country 3)     [two, too, to, toe], from as far north as Edinburgh in Scotland to as far south as Plymouth on the south 4)       [cost, coat, coast, cast]of England.

The epicentre of the earthquake was in a small town in Lincolnshire, which is an area about two and a half to three hours north of London 5)    [on, by, in, at] car. A magnitude of 5.2 was registered on the Richter scale.

There were lots of 6)         [remarks, replace, reports, revise]in the news from people who felt the earth move. One man said, «We had loads of vibrating and wall shaking and stuff, noise coming off the roof. I came outside — the chimney’s on the floor!» A 7)           [fainted, collapsed, failed, discarded]chimney was the cause of what was probably the worst injury from the earthquake; a man broke his leg when the chimney fell on him.

Another man who spoke to the BBC described the moment the earthquake occurred, «Everything was shaking. As 8)       [well, quick, early, soon]as it happened, we all went outside and saw everyone else down the street, coming out and just 9)             [appreciated, realized, conscious, recognize]it was an earthquake».

The huge rumble that was felt by a lot of people, surprisingly caused very little structural 10)           [damage, injury, vandalism, wreckage]to property.

Most British people would be 11)           [surpassed, surprised, surplice, surplus] to learn that there are 200—300 earthquakes in Britain every year — but most of them are so small, they go 12)           [organic, unnoticed, natural, pure].

The act of cutting down large area of forest is ....

A serious situation in when there is very little food...