Question

Disasters: forest fire, earthquake, volcanic eruption, flooding, tornado Task 2. Fill in the gaps

1Last 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.

Answer 1

1. erupted; lava; evacuated

2. hurricane

3. drought

4. earthquake; tsunami

5. flood

6. tornadoes

7. disaster