GEOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Flooding is a type of extreme weather. Flooding happens when there is heavy rainfall in a short amount of time. A flood happens when water overflows or soaks land that is normally dry. There are few places on Earth where people don’t need to be concerned about flooding.

Detailed explanation-2: -Floods are the most frequent type of natural disaster and occur when an overflow of water submerges land that is usually dry. Floods are often caused by heavy rainfall, rapid snowmelt or a storm surge from a tropical cyclone or tsunami in coastal areas.

Detailed explanation-3: -Flood flows in a channel result from the off-site flows of water from hundreds of ecosystems in its drainage basin during rapid snow melting or a summer rainstorm.

Detailed explanation-4: -: a rising and overflowing of a body of water especially onto normally dry land. The flood inundated the whole area. also : a condition of overflowing. rivers in flood.