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Human Tic Tac Toe: Question and Answers

Question #1

What are the three

types of magma?

 

Answer:

Andesitic, Rhyolitic,

and Basaltic 

 

Question #2:

What is the point within the earth

where faulting begins?

 

Answer:

 The focus

 

Question #3:

What are large fractures in

The earth’s crust called? 

 

Answer:

Faults

 

Question #4:

Give a location of where

sinkholes occur. 

 

Answer: 

Guatemala

 

Question #5:

What are the three

types of volcanic cones?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Answer:

Shield cones,

Cinder cones,

and Stratovolcanoes

(or composite volcanoes).

 

Question #6: 

What is a seamount?

 

Answer: 

Underwater mountains

that are submerged islands.

 

Question #7: 

What two factors about magma

 control how big an eruption is?

 

Answer:

1.SiO2 content

2.Gas content

 

Question #8:

What method of getting rid of

radioactive waste did we

focus on the most? 

 

Answer:

Dumping it into

Deep ocean trenches

 

Question #9:

How fast can an avalanche travel? 

 

Answer:

They can reach 80 miles per hour

(130 kilometers per hour)

In about five seconds. 

 

Question #10:

What is the name of the

smaller earthquakes following

a major earthquake? 

 

Answer:

Aftershocks

 

Question #11:

What is an earthquake, anyway?

 

Answer:

The shaking/ vibrating caused by the sudden

release of energy within the earth. 

 

Question #12:

What are the two types of

body waves? 

 

Answer:

Primary waves and

Secondary waves 

 

 

Question #13:

What are a couple of ways to

prevent an avalanche from

becoming a natural disaster?

 

Answer:

1.To make smaller avalanches with

explosives.

2. To prepare and predict (study

the snow). 

 

Question #14:

How many earthquakes

happen in a year? 

 

Answer:

More than 150,000

 

Question #15:

What is the point

Directly above the focus on the surface

of the earth?

(think EQ’s) 

 

Answer:

Epicenter

 

Question #16:

What is the zone where

volcanic plates are moving

away from each other? 

 

Answer:

Divergent boundary

 

 

Question #17:

What is an avalanche?

 

Answer:

When a heavy layer of new snow

is on top of a weak layer. It

causes the weak layer to fracture, causing

large quantities of snow to break

loose as a single slab. 

 

Question #18:

What are the three

major causes of wildfires?

 

Answer:

1.Humans

2.Lightning

3.Volcanoes

 

Question #19:

What do you do if you

Were caught in an avalanche?

 

Answer:

Try to get off of the slab

 

Question #20:

Name three effects

of earthquakes. 

 

Answer:

1.Building collapse

2.Fires

3.Tsunamis

4.Ground failure

5.Landslides 

 

Question #21:

Which type of magma

is the most explosive?

 

Answer:

Rhyolitic magma

 

Question #22:

What scale are

earthquakes measured in?

 

Answer:

The Richter Scale

 

Question #23:

What are the four factors that

Must come together to produce a tsunami?

 

Answer: 

 

A tsunami is triggered by an earthquake

And occurs when a slab of the ocean floor

breaks vertically along a fault.

Can also occur by a landslide. 

 

Question #24:

Where do most earthquakes happen?

 

Answer:

The Circum Pacific Belt

 

Question #25:

Describe basaltic magma.

 

Answer:

Low SiO2,

Low gas content,

High temp.,

Low viscosity,

Shield cones,

Hawaiian Islands

 

Question #26:

What is the origin/meaning

Of the word tsunami? 

 

 

Answer:

Japanese.

Means “seismic sea wave”.

 

Question #27:

What are the names of the three

Types of lava? 

 

Answer:

Pahoehoe (ropelike)

Aa (Blocky)

Pillow (closed lava tube)

 

 Question #28:

What are some negative effects of volcanoes?

 

Answer:

Pyroclastics,

Wildfires,

Mudsildes,

Earthquakes,

Tsunamis,

Landslides

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Volcanic eruptions in Kamchatka bury town in ash

http://rt.com/news/kamchatka-volcano-eruption-ashes/

Hawaii Magma Chamber is pretty awesome

http://www.ouramazingplanet.com/hawaiis-shallow-magma-chamber-0848/

Who's excited for "Volcano" and "Dante's Peak"?

Coming soon to NATURAL DISASTERS, 6TH HOUR!

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Flood Disaster Belgium - Summary

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1ZMljjEjlo


Thanks Frank the Tank

Caribbean Warning System Debate

Caribbean Warning System Debate

Directions: You are to go to the following site and answer the factual questions. These questions are meant to give you a background on the debate. Look over the questions then read the article. Afterwards, go back and fill in the answers. Anything on the article is fair game for the debate. It may be in your best interest to print the article. (This means printing the article is a good idea but not a must) Each team is expected to address the Critical Thinking issues and bring their own thoughts. Good Luck!

The sites are:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsunami_warning_system

Factual questions

1. What are the two types of tsunami warning systems?
2. T/F Animals cannot since tsunamis.
3. When was the last major tsunami for the Caribbean?
4. How many people died in the last major tsunami that hit the Caribbean?
5. T/F there was a tsunami warning system in the Indian Ocean before the 2004 tsunami.
6. Why was the Hokkaido 1993 tsunami not detected?
7. How soon did the tsunami arrive after the 1993 Hokkaido quake?
8. What is one example of a tsunami warning?
9. How fast can tsunamis travel?
10. How fast do seismic waves travel?
Critical thinking
1. Who will pay for the system to be built?
2. How will it be maintained?
3. What types of faults lie near the Caribbean?
4. What are the possible consequences if it is not built?
5. What are some of the burdens of the system?
6. How efficient is the system?

Tsunami warning system

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsunami_warning_system

A link to our latest assignment

Below this text is a link to the Haiti earthquake article. Now you can read the first paragraph.

You're welcome

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=haiti-earthquake-prediction

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New earthquake in Kraljevo

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Midterm Grades Online!

The grades for the midterm are online.
To view your grade, click the link below.

https://zangleweb.resa.net/LivoniaSchools/StudentConnect/

Use your student ID number and your usual password for the school computers.

Answers and Questions from the Jeopardy Review

Here is the review we did today in class.

good luck

Natural Freakin’ Disasters Jeopardy

Hurricanes:

Tropical storms that exceed 74 mi/hr and circulate counter- clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere
Answer: hurricane

This indicates that a hurricane is possible in the area within the next 36 hours
Answer: hurricane watch

 This indicates that a hurricane is expected to occur in the area within the next 24 hours or less
 Answer: hurricane warning

A high flood of water caused by wind and low pressure
Answer: storm surge

The three stages of a hurricane’s development
Answer: tropical depression, tropical storm, hurricane

 

Floods:

These types of floods cause the most deaths/damage
Answer: flash floods

An area of relatively flat land alongside a river
Answer: floodplain

This is why wetlands are important to flood control
Answer: They can absorb large amounts of water

The three main causes of floods
Answer: flat land, located near a body of water, rain

Some reasons that floodwater may be more dangerous than it looks
Answer: floodwaters can hide broken glass, snakes, and debris. It causes waste disposal systems to break 

down, an contaminates drinking water

 

Meteorites/Solar storms:

This is what protects Earth from being hit by more asteroids and comets
Answer: the earth’s atmosphere

Where the asteroid belt is located in our solar system
Answer: between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter

What un-melted meteorites are made of
Answer: glass, metal, and rock

The sub-categories of melted meteorites
Answer: rocky, stony-iron, iron

What would happen to land on Earth if it were hit by a meteorite
Answer: There would be a blast wave (shock wave), particles launched into the atmosphere, and atomspheric dust would block out sunlight

 

Tornadoes:

Where Tornado Alley is located
Answer: the Texas Panhandle, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, eastern South Dakota, and the Colorado Eastern Plains

The scale used to determine the destruction of a tornado
Answer: the Fujita scale

The four main stages of tornadoes
Answer: beginning stage, early stage, mature stage, decay stage

Highly organized storms that have updrafts which can reach 100 mph. Can produce strong tornadoes
Answer: Supercells

Downbursts from thunderstorms consisting of narrow columns of cool air. Damage is similar to weak tornadoes
Answer: microbursts

 

Lightning:

The two most common types of lightning
Answer: cloud-to-cloud and cloud-to-ground

The approximate temperature of lightning
Answer: 54,000° F (about 5 times hotter than the sun)

How often lightning strikes the earth
Answer: 100 times/second

When this series of negative charges meets this climbing surge of positive charges, electricity is transferred as lightning.
Answer: stepped leader, streamer

Why hiding underneath a tree during a lightning storm is unsafe
Answer: lightning's extreme heat vaporizes the water inside a tree, which may blow the tree apart 

 

Final Jeopardy:

Was 5th in college football and now is 18th since they lost to Iowa last weekend
Answer: Michigan State


 

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New helpful site

Check out the "Lightning Talks" link in the "Helpful Sites" list. It helped us a lot with finding the lightning truths/myths for the last couple of assignments!