a presentation for Spotlight 8. Module 5

1. NATURAL DISASTERS
BAKIEVA ELVIRA

2. TSUNAMI- IS A HUGE WAVE
CAUSED BY AN EARTHQUAKE

3. 26 DECEMBER 2004 WILL BE REMEMBERED IN HISTORY
AS THE DATE OF THE MOST DEVASTATING NATURAL
DISASTERS OF MODERN TIMES.
Thailand.
26 December
2004

4. HURRICANE – IS AN EXTREMELY
VIOLENT WIND OR STORM.

5. ONE OF THE MOST DESTRUCTIVE
HURRICANES IN U.S HISTORY
WAS HURRICANE KATRINA IN 2005

6. FLOOD – IS A LARGE AMOUNT OF WATER
THAT COVERS AN AREA WHICH IS
USUALLY DRY

7. LAST YEAR THERE WAS THE BIGGEST
FLOOD IN THE FAR EAST OF OUR
COUNTRY. IT LASTED FOUR MONTHS.

8. Drought – is
a period with
no rains

9. AGRICULTURAL PRODUCES SUFFER BIG LOSSES
DURING DROUGHTS AND AS A RESULT WE SEE
PRICE INCREASE

10. TYPHOON – IS A KIND OF TROPICAL
CYCLONE WHICH IS TYPICAL FOR THE
NORTH-WEST PACIFIC

11. TYPHOON HAIYAN IS ONE OF THE MOST
DEVASTATING TYPHOONS OF THE RECENT
PERIOD. IT CLAIMED THE LIVES OF
THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE

12. EARTHQUAKE – IS A SHAKING OF
GROUND. IT IS ONE OF THE MOST
DEVASTATING DISASTERS

13. ONE OF THE LARGEST EARTHQUAKES IN OUR
COUNTRY WAS ON 25 MAY IN 1995 ON
SAKHALIN ISLAND.

14. TORNADO – IS A VIOLENT WIND STORM
WHICH CONSISTS OF A TALL COLUMN OF
AIR SPINNING AROUND VERY FAST

15. EVERY YEAR PEOPLE IN THE NORTH
AMERICA SUFFER FROM VARIOUS
TORNADOES IN SPRING AND SUMMER

16. AVALANCHE- IS A LARGE MASS OF SNOW
FALLING DOWN THE SIDE OF A
MOUNTAIN

17. AVALANCHES ARE DANGEROUS FOR
SKIERS AND CLIMBERS