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Web Quest Exploring Earthquakes

Web Quest Exploring Earthquakes. By: Sydney Pederson and Brea Schorn. Pangea was the only supercontinent in Wegener’s theory. How many supercontinents did Alfred Wegener’s theory of Continental Drift assume?. The major plates that affect are Gorda and the North American plates.

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Web Quest Exploring Earthquakes

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  1. Web Quest Exploring Earthquakes By: Sydney Pederson and Brea Schorn

  2. Pangea was the only supercontinent in Wegener’s theory. How many supercontinents did Alfred Wegener’s theory of Continental Drift assume?

  3. The major plates that affect are Gorda and the North American plates. What are the major plates that affect the United States?

  4. California has a higher hazard zone than Florida because California’s hazard zone is 32+ and Florida’s hazard zone is only 0-2. Why does California have more earthquakes than Florida?

  5. Our hazard zone is located in the 0-16 area. What hazard zone are we located in?

  6. The magnitude was 9.1. There were 227,898 deaths in this earthquake. The earthquake Sumatra. It occurred on December 26,2004. It happened in South East Indonesia. -The most destructive earthquake?When did it occur, where was it, what was its magnitude, and how many people died?

  7. What are the three types of plate boundaries? • Convergent plate boundary • Transform plate boundary • Divergent plate boundary

  8. A convergent plate boundary is when two plates come together or converge. What is a Convergent plate boundary?

  9. A divergent plate boundary is when two plates move away from each other. What is a Divergent plate boundary?

  10. A transform plate boundary is when two plates slip past each other, moving in opposite directions. What is a Transform plate boundary?

  11. Tsunamis are gigantic ocean waves. They are normally set off by undersea earthquakes. Tsunamis travel at about 500 mph. What are tsunamis, what causes them, and how fast do they travel?

  12. Tsunami in Japan

  13. The two types of waves are primary waves and secondary waves. They are different because primary waves move in a compressional motion and secondary waves move in a shear motion. Primary waves travel faster. What are the two types of energy waves, how do they differ, which wave travels faster?

  14. A 7.2 earthquake creates 10 times more motion in the ground than a 6.2 earthquake, the 7.2 earthquake releases about 32 times more energy. How much more energy is released in a 7.2 earthquake than by a 6.2 earthquake?

  15. Other applications would be that seismology provides means to monitor for nuclear used to test and build weapons. What applications does seismology have besides measuring magnitude and location of earthquakes?

  16. Many of the earthquakes were in different areas of the United States. Where did most of the earthquakes happen last week?

  17. Can Scientists Predict Earthquakes? • No! • Scientists cannot predict earthquakes and they may never be able to. • Scientist have tried to predict many earthquakes but never have succeeded.

  18. How do scientists know where an earthquake actually occurred? • They know where earthquakes occurred based on how the plates move in the earth and the fault zone locations.

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