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Natural Disasters
Can you name the natural disasters
shown in the coming slides?
purrfectcatshelter.org:8080/james/ideas/idea014.html
It’s an avalanche!
What’s happening?
http://nsidc.org/snow/gallery/avalanche.html
See how the snow tumbles down the
mountain!
http://www.rsiphotos.com/gallery_detail.php?PhotoID=119
A volcanic eruption!
What’s going to happen?
http://www.visualparadox.com/wallpapers/eruption.htm
http://gohawaii.about.com/cs/photogalleries/l/blvolcano15.htm
See how the plantation is scorched by the overflowing lava!
http://gohawaii.about.com/cs/photogalleries/l/blvolcano16.htm
This house has been set ablaze by lava!
http://msa.monash.edu.au/representation/enviro/MCCG?D=A
All the plants will die if the drought continues!
http://www.shakirafanz.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=5985
A tornado is approaching!
http://www.bryce.pl/tornado.html
Do you see why a tornado is also called a twister?
http://www.boldering.com/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t10506.html
Imagine what will happen to the buildings
along the path of a tornado!
http://english.pravda.ru/accidents/21/97/385/16421_tornado.html
The buildings are all debris now!!!
http://www.ideers.bris.ac.uk/shaken/img/landslide.jpg
What’s going on here?
There has been a landslide!
http://i.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/salvadorquake/landslide.jpg
http://www.planning.org/landslides/docs/main.html
See how the road is damaged!
http://agrolink.moa.my/did/hydro/album/banjir/pages/landslide_Kdipang1.htm
A landslide is often caused by massive flooding
http://www.thestandard.com.hk/stdn/std/China/images/flood0625.jpg
Look at the mess caused by the flood!
Is this Venice?
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/images/050624chinaflood.jpg
No. It’s Chinaon June 24, 2005
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/forcesofnature/flooding.html
Are these cars or boats?
http://www.bc-enschede.nl/wgrassroots/vakken/aardrijkskunde
A tsunami is coming!
Are these boats going out surfing?
NO !
http://www.awitness.org/journal/dragon_tsunami.html
The waves are coming inland!
http://tw.knowledge.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=1405110610408
Run for your lives!
http://community.webshots.com/photo/yahoo
It’s not smog or fog. It’s a heavy snow
storm!
The visibility is really low today!
http://spine.cx/modules.php?name=Forums&viewtopic=974&9
http://spine.cx/modules.php?name=Forums&viewtopic=974&9
How deep, do you estimate, is the snow?
http://www.fxtech.com/gallery/hail/hail_4
What’s on the ground?
Rain?
Snow?
http://www.earthchangestv.com/breaking/June2002/0607hail.htm
It’s a hail storm!
Imagine hail stones of this size hitting you on the head!
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?