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Disastrous Consequences of Plates Moving! WEBQUEST

(Short, but thoughtful, answers are fine)

• Go to http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_all.php

1) How many earthquakes occurred so far today? List five of them along with their locations and magnitudes.

• Go to, “Did You Feel It?” listed on the left side of the page.

2) Follow the directions on the page and explore! Which earthquake, most recently, is the one that you might have felt here in CT?

• Go to http://www2.nature.nps.gov/geology/usgsnps/animate/A48.gif.

3) What situation is happening in this picture? __________________________

• Go to http://www2.wwnorton.com/college/geo/egeo/animations/ch2.htm#5

4) Watch animation (click “animations”) 2.10. Based on what you watched and read, draw and label the steps of a hotspot volcano below.

• Go to http://www.weatherwizkids.com/earthquake1.htm

5) In your own words, what causes an earthquake?

6) In your own words, what is a “fault?”

• Click on “Click here to see an animation of an earthquake.” READ THROUGH AND WATCH THE ANIMATIONS!

7) Where and what is the focus of the earthquake?

• Go to http://www.iris.edu/gifs/animations/faults.htm WATCH THE ANIMATIONS!

8) What are the 4 types of faults that cause earthquakes called?

• Go to http://www.pbs.org/wnet/savageearth/animations/tsunami/ READ THROUGH AND WATCH THE ANIMATIONS!

9) Based on what you learned, draw 2 pictures: 1, how a smaller tsunami might occur and 2, how a larger tsunami might occur. Use the animation on-line to help you with your drawing.

• Go to http://www.nationalgeographic.com/forcesofnature/interactive/index.html?section=e Read the information about earthquakes in the gray box.

Click on frame #2.

10) Where do most of the earthquakes tend to occur on this map?

Click on frame #3. Read and then hit “Next.”

11) What type of plate boundary do you see here?________________________

Click on frame #4. Animate the different faults.

Click on frame #5. Read and then hit “Next.” Watch the animation of the earthquake!

Click on frame #6. Read and then “Trigger the Earthquake!”

Click on frame #7. Try out the different scenarios.

12) Which ground type(s) and magnitude(s) had the some of the LEAST amount of damage? Why?

13) Which ground type(s) and magnitude(s) had the some of the MOST amount of damage? Why?

Click on the “Case Studies.” Read through each one and check out the films and pictures to the bottom right of the stories!

14) Which countries had the most deaths? Which had the least? Why do you think this is the case?

**Done already? See the EMS library link list for games and activities!**

Games and activities!

http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/SciTech/Earthquake-109836.html

http://www.quia.com/jg/262313.html

http://kids.earth.nasa.gov/games/

http://www.tki.org.nz/r/wick_ed/quizit/?id=50

http://projects.crustal.ucsb.edu/understanding/quiz/