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TSUNAMI/WAVE WEBQUEST
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DUE Friday (any time before 10 pm) Copy and paste the questions into your word doc and fully answer each. When you finish send it to me as an attachment. Make sure the subject is titled with your hour followed by your last then first name. Example, if I was in first hour.... 1 Raupp, Jason. You do not need to put anything in the body of the email unless you want to tell me something about the assignment. December 26, 2004: Tsunami! The Indian Ocean tsunami killed nearly 200,000 people, injured over 500,000, and left some five million homeless. The tsunami resulted from a 9.0 magnitude earthquake that occurred underwater near the island of Sumatra in Indonesia. The earthquake itself was the result of a shift in the position of the India tectonic plate beneath the Burma plate. The tsunami traveled quickly, spreading throughout the Indian Ocean and wreaking havoc in twelve countries in south Asia and Africa, including nearby Indonesia and Thailand. Other countries as far-away as India, Sri Lanka, and Somalia were also affected. As many of the coastal areas in these countries are so beautiful they were full of tourists from the rest of the world, making this event a truly global disaster. Tsunamis are frequently called tidal waves. This is an incorrect name (a misnomer) since they are not at all related to tides. Instead, a tsunami is actually a series of waves generated by a specific underwater disturbance, for example a landslide, a volcanic eruption, a meteorite, or, as in this case, an earthquake. Tsunamis can travel very rapidly across the open sea - four or five hundred miles an hour (almost 1,000 km/hr) - and slow down in the shallower water near land. An hour or more may elapse between surges. Oddly, people on a ship at sea will not notice a tsunami, but the coastal areas the wave ultimately reaches will be devastated. Follow the links and answer the following questions. Go to http://www.frontiernet.net/~docbob/waves.htm and SUMMERIZE the information given to answer the following 5 questions. 1. How do tsunamis form?2. How big do they get?3. How fast do they move?4. How much destruction do they cause?5. Can we detect them before they hit?Go to
The
Basics: Life of a Tsunami and look at and understand the 4 stages (Panels 1-4) in the “life” of a tsunami.
Go to http://www.forgefx.com/casestudies/prenticehall/ph/waves/waves.htm and play with the wave simulator. Pay special attention to the movement of the water 7. IN YOUR OWN WORDS, fully explain why a ship would not know a tsunami went buy in the open ocean. 8. IN YOUR OWN WORDS, fully explain the movement of the red sphere at different depths and wave strength. Go to The New Scientist. Find the box titled “Expert Guide.” (it's directly to the right of "top story") DO NOT CLICK YET! You are going to need two of the links in that box. 9. Insert a 2x10 table in your word doc. Title it Indian Ocean Tsunami Statistics. Now click on “Facts and Figures.” Pick 10 categories and the corresponding stats and fill in the table. 10. Go back to the "Expert Guide" and click on "interactive graphics" (if you are at school quicktime will work. From home you may have to use avi) IN YOUR OWN WORDS, fully explain the movement of the wave. Use terms from the vocabulary to help explain the movement.
Now it is time to take your time!!!
Go to
Tsunami: Kalutara Beach and spend some time LOOKING AND THINKING. Click on the gray shaded bar to see the “After”
picture of each of 20 satellite photos. Click on NEXT to get the next
“Before” photograph and then alternate between the gray shaded bar for the
“After” photo and NEXT for the “Before” photos. All of these pictures are
satellite photos of Banda Aceh, Indonesia, this was the area that was hardest hit by
the tsunami. 12. What are you most surprised about in these pictures? 13. Where do you think all of the "stuff" went? How did the wave destroy so much? It's only water, right? Go to http://www.asiantsunamivideos.com/ look at the videos. 14. Pick one video and tell me about it. 15. Is that what you thought a tsunami was like? Explain. Find another website on this topic. Start a new page in word and write a 2 page type 3 paper on the website you chose. Topic: Finding an
interesting and useful website on tsunami's?
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