Ww Lesson 15

Front 1

Somethhing that causes great damage or harm

Back 1

Disaster

Front 2

Causing much damage or harm

Back 2

Disaster

Front 3

To run away from danger or from something frightening

Back 3

Flee

Front 4

Flee in past tense...We ____ from the house when we awoke and smelled gas

Back 4

Fled

Front 5

A crack or break, as in metal or bone

Back 5

Fracture

Front 6

To crack or break

Back 6

Fracture

Front 7

Great in size or extent

Back 7

Immense

Front 8

Great in degree

Back 8

Immense

Front 9

Very strong; very great

Back 9

Intense

Front 10

Showing great depth of feeling

Back 10

Intense

Front 11

Great strength or force

Back 11

Intense

Front 12

To look into closely; to study in great detail

Back 12

Investigate

Front 13

To move forward or to one side suddenly and unexpectedly

Back 13

Lurch

Front 14

A jerking or swaying movement

Back 14

Lurch

Front 15

Great in size, number, or importance

Back 15

Major

Front 16

A military officer just above a captain in rank

Back 16

Major

Front 17

The main subject a student is studying

Back 17

Major

Front 18

To study as one's most important subject

Back 18

Major

Front 19

Small; unimportant

Back 19

Minor

Front 20

A person who is not yet an adult; a child

Back 20

Minor

Front 21

To make rigid with terror; to terrify

Back 21

Petrify

Front 22

To change into a stonelike substance

Back 22

Petrify

Front 23

To say what will happen before it takes place

Back 23

Predict

Front 24

Something that is predicted

Back 24

Prediction

Front 25

Likely to have or do

Back 25

Prone

Front 26

Lying face downward

Back 26

Prone

Front 27

Thinly grown or spread

Back 27

Sparse

Front 28

Not crowded

Back 28

Sparse

Front 29

To fall or push over

Back 29

Topple

Front 30

To overthrow

Back 30

Topple

Front 31

Having to do with cities

Back 31

Urban

Front 32

When one strikes, often without warning, people are usually too _________ to move

Back 32

Petrified

Front 33

The ground, which a few moments before seemed so solid, suddenly_______beneath our feet.

Back 33

Lurches

Front 34

If the earthquake is severe enough, the walls themselves may_______.

Back 34

Topple

Front 35

The ________ of an earthquake, is determined by a measure called the Richter scale.

Back 35

Intensity

Front 36

An earthquake measuring 4.0 is considered ________, causing little, if any, harm.

Back 36

Minor

Front 37

One measuring 8.0 is more than one thousand times as powerful and can do ______ damage.

Back 37

Immense

Front 38

One of the greatest natural________ in history was the earthquake that struck China in 1556.

Back 38

Disasters

Front 39

Earthquakes do the most damage in ______areas where people are concentrated

Back 39

Urban

Front 40

The San Francisco earthquake of 1906 measured 8.3 and killed 450 people; in 1964, Alaska which is more _______ settled also had one.

Back 40

Sparsely

Front 41

Scientists who ________ the causes of earthquakes are called seismologists.

Back 41

Investigate

Front 42

The earth's crust or surface is made of rock five to twenty miles thick, which is ________ in many places.

Back 42

Fractured

Front 43

Areas that lie along faults in the earth's crust are especially _______ to earthquakes.

Back 43

Prone

Front 44

Unfortunately, we still do not know enough about earthquakes to be able to _______ accurately when one will occur.

Back 44

Predict

Front 45

If you should have the misfortune to get caught in one, your first thought might be to _________to the nearest open space.

Back 45

Flee