Floods are a common natural disaster, and can be caused by excessive rain, a break in the wall of a dam or levee, or by a change in sea level such as a tsunami.
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- Hot Science: The River's Gift Questions and photographs show how flooding rivers can be a benefit to the surrounding land.
- Flooding on the Red River of the North This area of North Dakota and Minnesota in the United States has experienced a lot of floods. Photographs and diagrams explain why, and show the damage caused over the years.
- Guardian: Floods in Europe Pictures and stories of the floods which damaged large areas of Central and Eastern Europe in 2002.
- Flood! A downloadable instruction sheet for making a classroom model of a floodplain, using levees to control the water.
- Dealing with the Deluge Shows how efforts to control the flooding of the major rivers of the world is not always successful. Includes photographs and diagrams of what happens.