The document describes and shows images of various natural disasters including avalanches, volcanic eruptions, droughts, tornadoes, landslides, floods, tsunamis, snow storms, and hail storms. The images demonstrate the destructive power of these events and their ability to damage property, landscapes, and threaten human lives. Some natural disasters are caused by climatic changes occurring suddenly in unexpected times or locations, though many are typical weather phenomena.

1. Natural Disasters
Can you name
the natural disasters
shown in the coming slides?

2. What’s happening?
It’s an avalanche!
purrfectcatshelter.org:8080/james/ideas/idea014.html

3. See how the snow
tumbles down the
mountain!
http://nsidc.org/snow/gallery/avalanche.html

4. What’s going to happen?
A volcanic
eruption!
http://www.rsiphotos.com/gallery_detail.php?PhotoID=119

5. http://www.visualparadox.com/wallpapers/eruption.htm

6. See how the p
lantation is sc
by the overflo orched
wing lava!
http://gohawaii.about.com/cs/photogalleries/l/blvolcano15.htm

7. This house has been set ablaze by lava!
http://gohawaii.about.com/cs/photogalleries/l/blvolcano16.htm

8. What has happened to the land?
http://www.iaca.it/the_times.htm

9. All the plants will die if the drought continues!
http://msa.monash.edu.au/representation/enviro/MCCG?D=A

10. Beware if the sky is overcast like this!
http://www.kstwisters.com/

11. roaching!
A tornado is app
http://www.shakirafanz.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=5985

12. Do you see why a tornado is also called a twister?
http://www.bryce.pl/tornado.html

13. Imagine what
will happen to
the buildings
along the path
of a tornado!
http://www.boldering.com/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t10506.html

14. The buildings are all debris now!!!
http://english.pravda.ru/accidents/21/97/385/16421_tornado.html

15. What’s going on here?
http://www.ideers.bris.ac.uk/shaken/img/landslide.jpg

16. re has been
a landslide!
The
http://i.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/salvadorquake/landslide.jpg

17. See how the road is damaged!
http://www.planning.org/landslides/docs/main.html

18. A landslide is often
caused by massive flooding
http://agrolink.moa.my/did/hydro/album/banjir/pages/landslide_Kdipang1.htm

19. Look at the mess
caused by the flood!
http://www.thestandard.com.hk/stdn/std/China/images/flood0625.jpg

20. Is this Venice? No. It’s China
on June 24, 2005
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/images/050624chinaflood.jpg

21. o r boats?
se cars
Are the
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/forcesofnature/flooding.html

22. Are these boats going out surfing?
NO !
A tsunami is coming!
http://www.bc-enschede.nl/wgrassroots/vakken/aardrijkskunde

23. The waves are coming inland!
http://www.awitness.org/journal/dragon_tsunami.html

24. Run for your lives!
http://tw.knowledge.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=1405110610408

25. The visibility is really low today!
It’s not smog or fog.
It’s a heavy snow
storm!
http://community.webshots.com/photo/yahoo

26. http://spine.cx/modules.php?name=Forums&viewtopic=974&9

27. How deep, do you estimate, is the snow?
http://spine.cx/modules.php?name=Forums&viewtopic=974&9

28. What’s on the
ground?
Rain?
Snow?
http://www.fxtech.com/gallery/hail/hail_4

29. It’s a hail storm!
http://www.earthchangestv.com/breaking/June2002/0607hail.htm

30. Imagine hail stones of this
size hitting you on the head!

31. Many of the climatic changes you saw
above are natural phenomena.
But sometimes they happen suddenly
at unlikely times
in unlikely places.
Can you think of the causes?