Spotlight 8 Module 5

1. NATURAL DISASTERS IN
RUSSIA
BAKIEVA ELVIRA

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

3. DIFFERENT REGIONS OF RUSSIA
REGULARLY SUFFER FROM HURRICANES
07/06/2010
20/06/2013

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

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

6. HEAT WAVE IN THE SUMMER OF
2012 AND 2013 LED TO AN
EXTENSIVE DROUGHT
Drought – is
a period with
no rains.

7. AGRICULTURAL PRODUCERS SUFFER BIG
LOSSES DURING DROUGHTS AND AS A RESULT
WE SEE PRICE INCREASE

8. DAMAGE FROM THE DROUGHTS IN 2012
AND 2013 IN RUSSIA WAS 25,6 BILLION
RUBLES

9. FOREST FIRES START AS A RESULT
OF EXTREMELY HIGH
TEMPERATURES

10. IN RECENT THREE YEARS THERE WERE A
LOT OF FOREST FIRES IN MANY REGIONS
OF RUSSIA

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

12. TYPHOONS COME TO THE SHORES OF THE
RUSSIAN FAR EAST, AS A RULE, AFTER
KOREA TAKES THEIR MAIN BLOW

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

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

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

16. TORNADOES HAVE BECOME
INCREASINGLY OBSERVED IN RUSSIA IN
RECENT YEARS
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17. AVALANCHE- IS A LARGE MASS OF SNOW
FALLING DOWN THE SIDE OF A
MOUNTAIN

18. A FAMOUS RUSSIAN FILM DIRECTOR SERGEY BODROV
WAS KILLED ALONG WITH HIS CREW FINDING
THEMSELVES UNDER AN AVALANCHE IN 2002