THE EARTH DRAGON AWAKES

The San Francisco Earthquake of 1906

LindaC/Callison/2012

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1. Read the definition2. Look at the picture3. Try to guess the word4. Click to see the word

rubble or broken pieces left after something is destroyed

debris

This is debris from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

something that falls down or caves in

collapsed

This building collapsed in the earthquake.

when something moves from one position to another

shiftsThe earthquake has caused the street to shift.

shakes

tremblesA building trembles during an earthquake.

an amount of space or section

area

The earth-quake damage covered a wide area.

people who save other people from dangerous situations

rescuersMany lives were saved by rescuers after the earthquake.

High Interest Words

These are words in the story you may not have seen before.

a large building in a city where many people live

tenement

a line of people formed to pass buckets of water from hand to hand to put out a fire

bucketbrigade

shiftstremblesareacollapseddebrisrescuers

High InterestWordstenementbucket brigade