An earthquake (also

known as a quake, tremor

or temblor) is the shaking
of the surface of the Earth
resulting from a sudden
release of energy in the
Earth's lithosphere that
creates seismic waves.

A volcano is a rupture in
A wildfire, forest fire,
the crust of a planetary- A tsunami is a series of
bushfire, wildland fire or
mass object, such as Earth, waves in a water body
rural fire is an unplanned,
that allows hot lava, caused by the
uncontrolled and
volcanic ash, and gases to displacement of a large
unpredictable fire in an
escape from a magma volume of water, generally
area of combustible
chamber below the in an ocean or a large lake.
vegetation.
surface.

A tornado is a violently
A snow storm is a storm in rotating column of air that
A flood is an overflow of
is in contact with both the
water (or rarely other the winter, which produces
surface of the Earth and a
fluids) that submerges land precipitation that occurs in
below-zero temperatures. cumulonimbus cloud or, in
that is usually dry.
rare cases, the base of a
cumulus cloud.

A sandstorm consists ofthe Hail storm is a form of

massivedisplacement of
Dust storms arise when a
sandby the action of the
gust front or other strong
wind. This phenomenon
wind blows loose sand and
usually occurs in different
dirt from a dry surface.
regions of America, Asia
and Africa.
solid precipitation. It is
distinct from ice pellets
(American English "sleet"),
though the two are often
confused. It consists of
balls or irregular lumps of
ice, each of which is called
a hailstone.

Windstorms form when

An avalanche is a rapid
flow of snow down a slope,
such as a hill or mountain.
A sinkhole is a depression
opposing weather events
or hole in the ground
cause a center of low air
caused by some form of
pressure to develop with a
collapse of the surface
surrounding high air
layer.
pressure system.

A hurricane is a storm
Drought is a transitory
system characterized by a
climatic anomaly in which
closed circulation around a
the availability of water is
center of low pressure that
below what is usual for a
produces strong winds and
geographical area.
abundant rainfall.
A thunderstorm, also
known as an electrical
storm or a lightning storm,
is a storm characterized by
the presence of
lightning[1] and its acoustic
effect on the Earth's
atmosphere, known as
thunder.

A heat wave is a sustained

extremely high
temperature event for a
given region.