Download Dynamic Earth, Earthquakes and Volcanoes Webquest

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Earthquake Webquest
http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/natural-disasters/forces-of-nature.html?section=v
Directions:
* Open the website in a NEW WINDOW
* Choose the icon at the top that represents earthquakes.
* Click on the slides #1-7 to read about earthquakes and answer the questions below.
1. True or False Earthquakes are one of nature’s mildest occurrences.
2. How many earthquakes are detected each year by instruments?
3. What magnitude happens every year at some point around the world?
4. What can great quakes destroy? List at least 3 things
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5. Name the country where the deadliest earthquake hit.
6. How many people were killed in the earthquake for #5.
7. How many people are killed each year because of an earthquake?
8. Where do earthquakes occur?
9. What part of the earth includes the crust and the mantle, which make up the plates?
10. Where do 80 % of the earthquakes happen?
11. Which states in the US are in the most active zone? (three)
12. What is the term for when plates are moving past each other?
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13. Click on NEXT and fly over California. What fault line is California on?
14. Describe the divergent boundary (normal fault)
15. Describe the convergent boundary (reverse fault)
16. Describe the transform fault (strike-slip fault)
17. What is the hypocenter?
18. What is the epicenter?
19. Click on NEXT. What is the first wave that hits? Second? Third?
20. Click on NEXT. How are the waves measured?
21. Trigger the earthquake. Then click on the colored triangles to find the distance, then find the epicenter. Describe
the location of the earthquake
22. What was the magnitude of the earthquake?
25. Click on Case Studies. Pick one of the six, examine the pictures and tell me 3 things you learned from the case
study. (FROM ONLY 1 earthquake)
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