Each year thousands of avalanches occur in the United States. Those avalanches are very powerful and destroy mostly every thing in their way, sometimes taking human victims with them. Avalanches are not just a pile of snow sliding down a hill. What are avalanches? Avalanches are a large mass of snow, ice, soil or rock, which detaches from a mountain slope and slides or falls suddenly downward. Avalanches are one of the most awesome natural …showed first 75 words of 1575 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1575 total…want the explosion to go off fast and get deep in to the snow so that it will take a large portion out and make the slopes safer. When the explosion is set off real fast it creates stress waves. The waves are what really cause the snow to get moving. The wave move through the snow, which then creates cracks in the snow and sends it on its way down the mountain. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**