An avalanche is a large mass of snow that falls and moves rapidly down a mountainside, sometimes killing people. They can be triggered by earthquakes creating a weak layer of snow or heavy snowfall. A minor avalanche has killed over 900 people. Landslides are also ground movements that occur when the soil or rock fails, but they are caused by earthquakes damaging the earth's surface rather than snow, and major landslides have killed over 1,000 people.

1. Avalanches & landslides By brett, jared and jackson

2. What is a avalanche? How does it form? What makes it? Major avalanches. How much has a minor one killed? CONtents Page

3. WHAT IS AN AVALANCHE An avalanche is not the same as a land slide it is less murderous and is made of snow.

4. What are avalanches? Avalanches are thick loose layers of snow that fall and make clouds of snow. How does it form? A avalanche forms from snow to big clouds of snow and then destruction. Avalanches

5. DANGERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Helicopters and planes can’t fly over some avalanches. People get killed.

6. How many has a minor avalanche killed over 900

7. What makes it? A layer of weak snow that was made after earthquakes.

8. Major avalanches. In America and Mexican border.

9. Military and authority help. The military help with police and other authority.

10. A debris avalanche is a type of slide characterized by the chaotic movement of rocks soil and debris mixed with water or ice (or both). They are usually triggered by the saturation of thickly vegetated slopes which results in an incoherent mixture of broken timber, smaller vegetation and other debris. Debris avalanches differ from debris slides because their movement is much more rapid. This is usually a result of lower cohesion or higher water content and commonly steeper slopes. LANDSLIDES

11. Contents page What is a landslide? What makes one? How much has a major one killed

12. A landslide is not the same as a avalanche. what is a landslide

13. What makes a landslide An earthquake, because it damages the earths surface and it falls from place.

14. How many has a major one killed. over 1,000