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Making a Disaster Supplies Kit
During a disaster, you may have to evacuate quickly. You might not have time to gather all the supplies you need. That is why it is important to make a disaster supplies kit. Remember to pack enough food, water and supplies to last for three days for each person in your family. Place the supplies into a duffel bag or a backpack. Ask your parents to keep kits at home, at work and in their cars. Below is a list of sample list of items you need to have in your kit! • Canned or dried foods that won’t spoil • Can opener that turns by hand • Water (one gallon for each person each day) • Flashlight • Radio • Extra batteries for the flashlight and radio • First aid kit and handbook • Soap, toilet paper, toothbrush and other items to keep you clean • Extra clothing and blankets • Forks, spoons, knives and paper plates • Eyeglasses and medicine • Whistle • Copies of IDs and credit cards • Cash and coins • A map of the area • Baby food, bottles and diapers • Pet food if you have a pet If you live in a cold area, you and your family have to think about staying warm! Include these other items in your kit: • Jackets and coats • Long pants and long-sleeve shirts • Sturdy shoes or boots • Hats, mittens and scarves • Sleeping bags and warm blankets Remember to update your disaster supplies kit at least once a year!
Watch the video how to make an Emergency Kit and write down the items that you need: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6Xl-jUzTrI
Vocabulary from the video: unpredictable, to make a quick decision, flood, authorities, to take care, supplies, to keep safe, per person, can food, energy bars, dry food, flash lighter, to stay informed
Match the parts to know what to do, find out and take in the case of emergency: It is important:
You should find out:
You should take (if you have enough time):
UNIT 2 NATURAL HAZARDS Words to know:
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Use the words from the crossword to complete the sentences: 1. Last night volcano Maui ___________ and the hot ___________ poured downhill. Since there are two villages located at the foot of the volcano, the local population was ___________. 2. The devastation caused by superstorm Sandy, particularly in New York and New Jersey, is tragic, but the ___________ has at least put climate change back on the map. 3. After the harshest winter in decades, the Balkans region in the southeast of Europe is now facing its hottest summer and the worst _________ across the area in nearly 40 years. 4. A powerful ____________ off the coast of Indonesia sparked a three-metre-high ______________that killed at least 113 people. 5. A landslide caused by rains in southern China left 21 people missing today, adding to a growing death toll from China's worst _________ season in a decade. 6. This summer a dozen ____________, which are more common in the US, have hit Europe. The twister which swept through Poland yesterday flattened more than 400 hectares of woodland in the area. 7. The US navy has been deployed to help avert a looming environmental __________ in the Gulf of Mexico. Read and translate the Text A: NATURAL DISASTERS Words to know: adverse, eruption, property, to recover, severe, vulnerable population, consequence, to last, to require, weather-related, loss, event
A natural disaster is a major adverse event resulting from natural processes of the Earth; examples include floods, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis, and other geologic processes. A natural disaster can cause loss of life or property damage, and typically leaves some economic damage in its wake, the severity of which depends on the affected population's resilience, or ability to recover. An adverse event will not rise to the level of a disaster if it occurs in an area without vulnerable population. In a vulnerable area, however, such as San Francisco, an earthquake can have disastrous consequences and leave lasting damage, requiring years to repair. In 2012, there were 905 natural disasters worldwide, 93% of which were weather-related disasters. Overall costs were US$170 billion and insured losses $70 billion. 2012 was a moderate year. 45% were meteorological (storms), 36% were hydrological (floods), 12% were climatological (heat waves, cold waves, droughts, wildfires) and 7% were geophysical events (earthquakes and volcanic eruptions). Between 1980 and 2011 geophysical events accounted for 14% of all natural catastrophes.
Read the definitions of some natural disasters from the National Geographic site (http://environment.nationalgeographic.com): Words to know: spiraling, to unleash Hurricanes are giant, spiraling tropical storms that can pack wind speeds of over 160 miles (257 kilometers) an hour and unleash more than 2.4 trillion gallons (9 trillion liters) of rain a day. These same tropical storms are known as cyclones in the northern Indian Ocean and Bay of Bengal, and as typhoons in the western Pacific Ocean.
Words to know: to inundate, excessive rain, a ruptured dam, levee, rapid ice melting, beaver dam, to overwhelm, adjacent, floodplain, coastal flooding A flood occurs when water overflows or inundates land that's normally dry. This can happen in a multitude of ways. Most common is when rivers or streams overflow their banks. Excessive rain, a ruptured dam or levee, rapid ice melting in the mountains, or even an unfortunately placed beaver dam can overwhelm a river and send it spreading over the adjacent land, called a floodplain. Coastal flooding occurs when a large storm or tsunami causes the sea to surge inland.
Words to know: dry powdery snow, wrought, slab, to shatter, per hour within about five second
Many avalanches are small slides of dry powdery snow that move as a formless mass. These "sluffs" account for a tiny fraction of the death and destruction wrought by their bigger, more organized cousins. Disastrous avalanches occur when massive slabs of snow break loose from a mountainside and shatter like broken glass as they race downhill. These moving masses can reach speeds of 80 miles (130 kilometers) per hour within about five seconds.
Words to know: unnoticeable, to stretch, to squeeze Earthquakes, also called temblors, can be so tremendously destructive, it’s hard to imagine they occur by the thousands every day around the world, usually in the form of small tremors. Most earthquakes occur at fault zones, where tectonic plates—giant rock slabs that make up the Earth's upper layer—collide or slide against each other. These impacts are usually gradual and unnoticeable on the surface; however, immense stress can build up between plates. When this stress is released quickly, it sends massive vibrations, called seismic waves, often hundreds of miles through the rock and up to the surface. Other quakes can occur far from faults zones when plates are stretched or squeezed.
Words to know: to bolt, strike, discharge
Cloud-to-ground lightning bolts are a common phenomenon—about 100 strike Earth’s surface every single second—yet their power is extraordinary. Each bolt can contain up to one billion volts of electricity. This enormous electrical discharge is caused by an imbalance between positive and negative charges. During a storm, colliding particles of rain, ice, or snow increase this imbalance and often negatively charge the lower reaches of storm clouds. Objects on the ground, like steeples, trees, and the Earth itself, become positively charged—creating an imbalance that nature seeks to remedy by passing current between the two charges.
Words to know: wave, surge, to reach, height, widespread, ashore
A tsunami is a series of ocean waves that sends surges of water, sometimes reaching heights of over 100 feet (30.5 meters), onto land. These walls of water can cause widespread destruction when they crash ashore.
Words to know: awesome, vent, Earth's surface, molten rock, debris, to emit
Volcanoes are awesome manifestations of the fiery power contained deep within the Earth. These formations are essentially vents on the Earth's surface where molten rock, debris, and gases from the planet's interior are emitted.
Words to know: underbrush, wildfire, to burn. to consume, path, mere Uncontrolled blazes fueled by weather, wind, and dry underbrush, wildfires can burn acres of land—and consume everything in their paths—in mere minutes.
Add natural disasters which are not mentioned in the text and give them definitions:   Система охраняемых территорий в США Изучение особо охраняемых природных территорий(ООПТ) США представляет особый интерес по многим причинам...  Что способствует осуществлению желаний? Стопроцентная, непоколебимая уверенность в своем...  Что делает отдел по эксплуатации и сопровождению ИС? Отвечает за сохранность данных (расписания копирования, копирование и пр.)...  ЧТО И КАК ПИСАЛИ О МОДЕ В ЖУРНАЛАХ НАЧАЛА XX ВЕКА Первый номер журнала «Аполлон» за 1909 г. начинался, по сути, с программного заявления редакции журнала... Не нашли то, что искали? Воспользуйтесь поиском гугл на сайте:
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