Read the following passage and answer the question given after it. Floods are second only to fire as the meat common of all natural disasters. Scientists recognized a number of conditions, from anew on the ground to human error that canoe flooding. When deep snow melts it creates a large amount of water. Although deep snow alone rarely canoes floods when it occurs together with heavy rain and sudden warmer weather it can lead to serious flooding. Rivera that are coveted in ice can aloe lead to flooding. When ice begins to melt the surface of the ice cracks and breaks into large pieces. These pieces of ice move and form a dam in the river, causing the water behind the dam to rise and flood the land upstream. If the dam breaks suddenly the large amount of water hold behind the dam can flood the areas downstream too. Broken ice dams are not the only dam problems that can canoe flooding, when a large human-made dam breaks or fails to hold the water collected behind it, the result can be devastating. Dams contain ouch huge amount of water behind them that sudden breaks occurring with destructive force of the water is like a great tidal wave unleashed. Dam waters can travel tens of kilometres, drown and crush every thing and creature in their path. 1. What is the most common natural disaster? (1) Flood (2) Fire (3) Wind damage (4) Rain 2. How does deep snow cause flooding? (1) Melting snow causes flooding. (2) Too much rain causes flooding (3) Sudden warm temperatures contained with heavy rain causes flooding. (4) Freezing water causes flooding. 3. A broken human made dam compared to……. (1) a tsunami (2) a tidal wave (3) a broken ice dam (4) overflowing 4. Which of the following best describes how a frozen river can cause a flood? (1) The ice in the river melts quickly and causes a flood. (2) The ice in the river cracks into pieces that eventually creates a dam causing the water to overflow. (3) The ice in the water cracks causing the water to overflow. (4) The water behind the dam collects and when the dam breaks it causes flooding upstream. 5. How far can dam water travel when it is unleashed from a broken dam? (1) Less then ten kilometres (2) Tens of kilometres (3) Thousands of kilometres (4) Tens of thousands of kilometres downstream