Vocabulary I Mind Map Unit 10

Definition: Large mass of snow that slides down the side of a violent mountain and loudly, dragging with it everything in its path.

Definition: common meteorological phenomenon in the Sahara desert of northern Africa, in the Great Plains of North America, in Arabia, in the Gobi desert of Mongolia, in the Taklamakan desert of northwest China, in Argentina, in the Pampa area dry and in other arid and semi-arid regions. Severe dust storms can reduce visibility to zero, making travel impossible, and flying the top layer of the soil, depositing it elsewhere.

Definition: occupation by water of areas that are usually free of this, by overflowing rivers, torrents or ramblas, torrential rains, thaw, rising tides above the usual level, by tsunamis, hurricanes, among others .

Definition: is a suspension in the air of small solid particles that result from the incomplete combustion of a fuel.

Definition: giant funnel of air, which blows in a cyclonic spiral upwards, turning like a whirlwind, produced by the interaction of a violent storm with winds in the troposphere.

Definition: is a violent emission on the Earth's surface of materials from the interior of the volcano.

Definition: set of atmospheric conditions typical of a place, constituted by the amount and frequency of rainfall, humidity, temperature, winds, etc., and whose complex action influences the existence of the beings subjected to it.

Definition: when we want to realize that we have been extremely surprised, or hallucinated by the succession of a certain event that was not expected to happen or due to an unusual situation.

Definition: feeling of anguish caused by the presence of a real or imaginary danger.

Definition: who cares or tends to worry.

Definition: action of observing or looking at something or someone with much attention and care to acquire some knowledge about their behavior or their characteristics.

Definition: very intense feeling of joy or sadness produced by a fact, an idea, a memory.

Definition: announce a future event by intuition, supposition, divination.

Definition: Hydrometeor consisting of a visible mass made of snow crystals or microscopic water droplets suspended in the atmosphere.

Definition: a sudden and violent shaking of the ground, sometimes causing great destruction, as a result of movements within the earth's crust or volcanic action.

Definition: stormy system characterized by a closed circulation around a center of low pressure and that produces strong winds and abundant rain.

Definition: very loud noise that follows the lightning during a storm, produced by the expansion of the air to the passage of the electric discharge.

Definition: Large wave originated near the coast by an earthquake or submarine volcanic eruption, which can travel at a speed of up to 50 km/h in any direction.

Definition: Wave of great amplitude that forms on the surface of water due to wind or currents.

Definition: air current that occurs in the atmosphere when the pressure varies.

Definition: Lighten a problem, difficulty or discomfort; make a conflict less serious, less painful a penalty or less a burden. He was relieved with the medicines that the doctor sent him.

Definition: that is shown with terror or intense fear, for something that happened.

Definition: care and reservation of a person to speak or act to prevent harm or danger, or stealth with which proceeds to prevent its presence is warned.

Definition: person who is dedicated to pursue or capture storms.

Definition: act of a person or a thing producing a certain effect.

Definition: the risk of electrocution for people can be an electric current through the human body.