This document provides definitions for various natural disasters and weather phenomena including drought, mudslides, floods, famines, blizzards, tsunamis, avalanches, cyclones, heat waves, hail, tornadoes, hurricanes, monsoons, volcanoes, fog, hailstorms, wind, rainbows, and forest fires. Emergency shelters, dams, evacuations, and aftershocks are also defined.

1. PRESENTATION
OF NATURAL
DISASTERS

2. DROUGHT
A disaster when there is no rain
for a long time

3. MUDSLIDE
A disaster in which hills become
too wet and the soil moves

4. EMERGENCY SHELTER
A place where people can sleep in an
emergency

5. FLOOD
A lot of water

6. DAM
It is a barrier that improunds
water or underground streams

7. FAMINE
A disaster when there is no food

8. EVACUATION
The act of making people leave place
because of danger

9. BLIZZARD
A very bad snowstorm

10. TSUNAMI
A big wave that can destroy towns
near the sea

11. AFTERSHOCK
A small earthquake after a larger one

12. AVALANCHE
A disaster in which snow and ice
move quickly down a mountain

13. RAIN
A liquid precipitation

14. CYCLONE
It is an area of closed, circular fluid
motion rotating in the same direction
as the Earth

15. HEAT WAVE
It is a prolonged period of
excessively hot weather

16. HAIL
It is a form of solid precipitation
which consists of balls of ice

17. TORNADO
It is a violent, dangerous rotating
column of air

18. SNOW
It is a type of precipitation in the
form of water ice

19. HURRICANE
It is a storm system that
produce strong winds and heavy
rain

20. MONSOON
It is a seasonal reversing wind
accompanied by seasonal changes
in precipitation

21. VOLCANO
It is an opening in the surface
which allows hot magma and
volcanic ash

22. TWISTER
It’s like a tornado

23. FOG
It is a collection of water
droplets or ice crystals
suspended in the air at or near
the Earth's surface

24. HAILSTORM
They are rain drops that have
formed together into ice

25. WIND
wind consists of the bulk
movement of air

26. RAINBOW
is an optical and meteorological
phenomenon that causes a spectrum
of light to appear in the sky when the
Sun shines on to droplets of moisture
in the Earth's atmosphere

27. FOREST FIRE
is any uncontrolled fire in
combustible vegetation that
occurs in the countryside