Natural Disasters Multiple Choice and Response Assessment

Follow up a unit on Natural Disasters with this assessment. The assessment includes 11 multiple choice questions about hurricanes, tsunamis, tornadoes, earthquakes, and volcanoes. In addition to the multiple choice questions, students have 3 written response questions.

Multiple Choice Questions include:

What is the best description of an earthquake?
A. The ground vibrating
B. The plates beneath the earth’s surface colliding
C. The ground opening up

What does the word ‘tsunami’ mean?
A. Flood
B. Disaster
C. Huge wave

What could tell you that a tsunami may be coming?
A. A flooded beach
B. Water along the shoreline unexpectedly recedes
C. There are a lot of waves

Written Responses include:

Explain in complete sentences what a natural disaster is.

In what ways can a natural disaster affect the people and city that it occurs around?

Explain the difference between a hurricane and a tornado.



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