“Learning Some Interesting Facts About Floods”
Scavenger Hunt-Internet Research

 (Note you will leave the CCSD website)

1. Floods are the most common and widespread of all natural disasters--except fire. Most communities in the United States can experience some kind of flooding after   __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Answer can be found http://www.fema.gov/hazards/floods/flood.shtm

2. What is a Flash Flood?

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Answer can be found at: http://www.fema.gov/hazards/floods/flood.shtm

3. The icons on the map show the locations of floods observed by NASA satellites. Click on one of the icons :

What part of the world did this flooding occur?

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Answer can be found at: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?topic=flood

4. How do trees and plants help prevent flooding?

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Answer can be found at: http://www.yahooligans.com/content/ask_earl/20020204.html

5. Check out the latest flood conditions. What information is listed there for today? Are there any flood warnings? If so, for what state? (choose one)

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Answer can be found at: http://www.nws.noaa.gov/oh/hic/current/fln/fln_sum.shtml

6. What causes a flood? A number of factors can contribute to a flood including:  (list three causes)

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2.__________________________________________________________________
3.__________________________________________________________________
Answers can be found at http://www.pbs.org/newshour/infocus/floods/science.html

7. What is a 500-year flood?

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Answer can be found at http://www.pbs.org/newshour/infocus/floods/science.html

Read the story The River Rises at http://www.fema.gov/kids/twins/flood/flood.htm  Answer questions 8-10.

8. What is sandbagging?________________________________________

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9. Why was Julia and Robbie scared?

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10.  What items did Grandma pack for the emergency?_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

By Miss Rabinowitz-K-12 Instructional Technology Coordinator
Updated 2004-2005

Prepared for a Study of Natural Disasters-Third Grade Science Curriculum