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