Natural+Disasters+Glossary

Day to day changing conditions, ||
 * < **Key words** ||= **Image** ||= **Definition** ||
 * < Natural disaster ||= [[image:113.jpg width="219" height="153"]] ||= A **natural disaster** is the effect of a natural hazard (e.g. flood, tornado, volcano eruption, earthquake, or landslide) that affects the environment, and leads to financial, environmental and/or human losses. ||
 * < Fire fighter ||=  ||= A person from a team who fights fires. ||
 * < Fire brigade ||=  ||= A team of people organised to fight fires. ||
 * < Burnt ||=  ||= The state of something after it has been burning. ||
 * < Arson ||= [[image:Arson.jpg width="88" height="71"]] ||= A crime of delibratly burning property ||
 * < Extingusted ||=  ||= Putting out a fire or small light ||
 * < Fuel ||=  ||= A flamable liquid that is used to light a fire or make heat ||
 * < Ash ||= [[image:VolcanicAsh.jpg width="153" height="129"]] ||= The fine dust that is left after something has been burnt, the powdery remains of something that has been burnt,the powder that has been after a fire, a black powder. ||
 * < Burn-Off ||=  ||= When someone burns- off it is a controled fire to try and prevent a major fire ||
 * < Lava ||=  ||= After magma cools down it then turns into a hot liquid rock called Lava, a red and yellow liquid that comes out of a volcano and flows all over the land melting anythig in its path. ||
 * < Active ||=  ||= A functioning Volcano ||
 * < Survivors ||=  ||= Live creatures that have endured somthing and survived ||
 * < Raidiant heat ||=  ||= Radaint heat is the heat that comes from the fire ||
 * < Richter scale ||=  ||= Scale used to mesure earthquakes ||
 * < Immence ||=  ||= Huge, massive, big, large, giant, gigantic, extremly large. ||
 * < Seismograph ||=  ||= A device used to measure the primary, secondry and surface waves of an earthquake. ||
 * < Epicentre ||=  ||= The surface of the earth above where the earthquake forms. ||
 * < Hypocentre ||=  ||= Under the earth where the eathquake starts to form. ||
 * < Faultlines ||=  ||= A joint under the surface of the Earth that joins the plates together. ||
 * < Geysers ||=  ||= Geysers are hot springs that spit out water vapour witch is also known as steam. ||
 * < refugees ||=  ||= someone who's looking for shelter and protection because they have been in a natrual disaster, humans who escape from foreign countries because of war or natural disasters ||
 * < summer ||=  ||= the warm season between spring and autumn, the warmest season of the year, One of the four seasons of the year also being the hottest ||
 * < weather ||=  ||= Everyday changes in temperatures, rainfall, snowfall etc.
 * < weather ||=  ||= Everyday changes in temperatures, rainfall, snowfall etc.
 * < suruival ||=  ||= to survive with out many supplies, to stay alive, Something that has lived through something harsh ||
 * < dry ||=  ||= not wet, Lacking water. Little or no rain ||
 * < Eruption ||= Chloe, ||= Edject (steam or water) violently. is when both the lava and the ash come out of the volcano. ||
 * < core samples ||=  ||= samples from the core. ||
 * < vents ||=  ||= Holes in the ground. ||
 * ground water ||  || water from the ground. ||
 * Severe ||  || Very unpleasent or bad, intense or unpleasent, ||
 * Crater pipe ||  || a tube or pipe that the lava flows through before coming out of the volcano. ||
 * Cracks ||  || A line on the surface of something where it has broken but not complety apart. ||
 * Pressure ||  || The force with which something pushes against or sqeezes something. ||
 * Shockwaves ||  || Moving region of high air pressure caused by an explosion or by a super sonic body. ||
 * Aftershock ||  || Lesser quake or shock following an earthquake. ||
 * Intensity ||  || The stregth, greatness of something. ||
 * Mantle ||  || Semi molten rock, a part of the earth made up of the solid and molten rock. ||
 * hot ||  || Hot is to do with the temperature, a temperature that can be 25 degrees plus, hotness can give you burns or give you sunburn. ||
 * magma ||  || molten rock under the earths crust from which igneous rock is formed by cooling ||
 * craters ||  || mouth of a volcano or hollow on the suface of a planet or moon ||
 * flows ||  || glide along a stream of liquid or blood ||
 * Fire ||  || A source of flame that can be used as a light, but it can burn you. ||
 * Ground ||  || ground is on the earths top layer, ground is what we run and walk on. ||
 * Water ||  || water is are see through liquid that humans survive on. ||