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The purpose of this research is to reveal the cognitive structures of teachers candidates for natural disasters through the Word Relationship Test (KIT). The study group of 115 social information teachers who studied at the University of Gazi (1. 2nd and 3. The fourth class is created. In order to create the test, seven key concepts, consisting of the most observed natural disasters in Turkey, have been selected (deep, forest fires, floods, heyelans, floods, erosion, drought). According to the study, students found that the concept of earthquake was most destroyed; the concept of snow; the concept of erosion of soil; the concept of heyelan of soil; the concept of drought of thirst; the concept of forest fire of tree; the concept of flood with rain. The study found that a significant portion of students were able to build phrases that contain scientific knowledge about the concepts of natural disasters (cremes, forest fires, floods, heilings, dirt, erosion, drought) and that they had no error in the concepts of heilings and dirt. In very few students related to the concepts of earthquake, forest fires, floods, erosion, drought, the concept errors have been identified.

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