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Nature’s Fury: Disaster Showdown

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This board helps players review Natural Disasters through a Jeopardy-style game format on Kleveroo. It includes categories such as Storms & Cyclones, Quakes & Volcanoes, Measuring the Mayhem, Historic Catastrophes, Ready & Resilient. It is useful for classroom review, team trivia, family game night, test prep, and group play.

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  • Storms & Cyclones

    The calm, clear center of a hurricane is this.

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    the eye

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  • Quakes & Volcanoes

    The point on Earth’s surface directly above an earthquake’s focus.

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    epicenter

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  • Measuring the Mayhem

    Hurricanes are ranked Category 1 to 5 on this wind-based scale.

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    Saffir–Simpson scale

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  • Historic Catastrophes

    This Cascade Range peak’s 1980 eruption blasted a lateral crater.

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    Mount St. Helens

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  • Ready & Resilient

    Recommended action in a quake: drop, take cover, and do this.

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    hold on

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Storms & Cyclones

$100 — The calm, clear center of a hurricane is this.
the eye
$200 — In the western Pacific, a hurricane by another name becomes this.
typhoon
$300 — A violently rotating column of air from a thunderstorm that reaches the ground.
tornado
$400 — The coastal inundation driven by a tropical cyclone’s winds.
storm surge
$500 — This cold-season Atlantic coastal storm pelts New England with wind and snow.
nor'easter

Quakes & Volcanoes

$100 — The point on Earth’s surface directly above an earthquake’s focus.
epicenter
$200 — California’s famed transform boundary fault running hundreds of miles.
San Andreas Fault
$300 — Underground molten rock, before it erupts at the surface.
magma
$400 — A long-period sea wave often triggered by an undersea quake.
tsunami
$500 — A searing avalanche of gas and ash racing down a volcano’s flank.
pyroclastic flow

Measuring the Mayhem

$100 — Hurricanes are ranked Category 1 to 5 on this wind-based scale.
Saffir–Simpson scale
$200 — Tornado damage is rated EF0 to EF5 on this scale.
Enhanced Fujita scale
$300 — Modern quake magnitudes use this scale rather than Richter.
moment magnitude
$400 — Volcanoes’ explosiveness is compared on this logarithmic index.
Volcanic Explosivity Index
$500 — Shaking intensity felt at a location is scored on this Roman-numeral scale.
Modified Mercalli scale

Historic Catastrophes

$100 — This Cascade Range peak’s 1980 eruption blasted a lateral crater.
Mount St. Helens
$200 — A massive undersea quake on Dec. 26, 2004 unleashed this deadly wave across the Indian Ocean.
Indian Ocean tsunami
$300 — The 2011 quake and tsunami that struck Japan’s Tōhoku region is commonly named this.
Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
$400 — Fires raged after this 1906 disaster that devastated a Bay Area city.
San Francisco earthquake
$500 — In 79 CE, this volcano buried Pompeii under ash and pumice.
Mount Vesuvius

Ready & Resilient

$100 — Recommended action in a quake: drop, take cover, and do this.
hold on
$200 — A portable emergency kit kept for evacuations is called this.
go bag
$300 — Flood-safety slogan urging drivers to avoid water-covered roads.
Turn Around, Don't Drown
$400 — The safest spot during a tornado is this kind of room on the lowest level.
interior room
$500 — Clearing brush to create a buffer around homes in wildfire country creates this.
defensible space

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