This presentation highlights the challenges of establishing a consistent application of the two terms, "threats" and "hazards," in academic courses and professional training, designed for emergency, disaster, and humanitarian management programs offered by public and private higher education, government agencies, and nonprofits. A new approach for viewing threats and hazards, named Energetic Disrupter Models, is presented, based on their ambient sources of energy, specifically potential or kinetic. Examples of threats and their collateral hazards for naturally occurring events are also offered for discussion and discernment. Such examples can provide the ingredients to created dynamic case studies that reimagine threats and hazards and simultaneously incorporate their respective sources of energy, which can create impactful events.