1. NATURAL DISASTERS
CLASS V
EVS

2. EARTHQUAKE IS A SUDDEN TREMOR FELT ON THE SURFACE OF THE EARTH
THE HAITI EARTHQUAKE

3. BUILDINGS COLLAPSE TRAPPING PEOPLE AND ALL VALUABLE THINGS

4. TRANSPORTATION AND COMMUNICATION GETS DISRUPTED

5. SUNFLOWER PLANTS DRYING OUT DUE TO LACK OF RAINS
DROUGHT – WHEN THERE IS NO RAIN FOR A LONG PERIOD OF TIME A DROUGH T OCCURS
SUNFLOWER PLANTS DRYING OUT DUE TO LACK OF RAINS

6. SEVERE DROUGHT IN PARTS OF CHINA

7. CRACKED SURFACE OF THE EARTH

8. DESTRUCTION OF FOOD CROPS IN DROUGHT HIT REGIONS

9. KATHINE DROUGHT IN ETHIOPIA

10. TSUNAMI IS A WAVE TRAIN GENERATED IN THE WATER BODY BY SOME DISTURBANCES THAT CAUSES WATER TO GET DISPLACED

11. TIDAL WAVES CALLED TSUNAMI

12. EARTHQUAKES ,LANDSLIDES, VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS ETC CAN CREATE TSUNAMI

13. FLOOD IS AN OVERFLOW OF WATER THAT SUBMERGES LAND

14. THE 1931 CHINA FLOODS CLAIMED THE LIVES OF OVER 30 LAKH PEOPLE

15. FLOODS IN AUSTRALIA

16. HURRICANE IS A HUGE STORM THAT FORMS MAINLY OVER OCEAN WATERS

17. HURRICANE KATRINA

18. IKE HURRICANE IN 2008

19. TORNADO IS A VIOLENTLY ROTATING COLUMN OF AIR THAT IS IN CONTACT WITH BOTH THE EARTH’S SURFACE AND A CLOUD

20. TORNADO IS GENERALLY FUNNEL SHAPED AND ITS WIND SPEED MAY REACH 110KM PER HOUR

21. FIRE TORNADO

22. VOLCANO: IT IS AN OPENING IN THE PLANET’S CRUST THAT ALLOWS HOT GASES TO ESCAPE FROM BELOW THE SURFACE

23. BIG ISLAND VOLCANO

24. CLEVELAND VOLCANO – A VOLCANO ON THE OCEAN FLOOR

25. THE TERM VOLCANO ORIGINATES FROM ‘VULCAN’ MEANING THE GOD OF FIRE

26. THE HOT MOLTEN LAVA TAKES A LONG TIME TO COOL DOWN

27. ASH PLUMES REACHED A HEIGHT OF 19KM DURING A VOLCANIC ERUPTION AT MOUNT PINATUBO IN PHILLIPINES IN 1991

28. VOLCANO HAWAII KILAUEA

29. A CROSS SECTION OF A VOLCANO

30. A LANDSLIDE IS THE MOVEMENT OF ROCKS, DEBRIS OR EARTH DOWN A SLOPE

31. LANDSLIDE BRINGING DOWN ROCKS

32. LANDSLIDES CAN BE TRIGGERED BY HUMAN ACTIVITY OR BY NATURAL CAUSES

33. EXTREMELY SLOW LANDSLIDES MOVE ONLY MILLIMETRES OR CENTIMETRES A YEAR

34. LANDSLIDE AT KOZHIKODE