Introduction
Theme: Place
Place includes a location's physical and human features.
Physical Characteristics Human Characteristics
Landforms Political systems architecture
Climate land use population density
Plant communities language religion
Animal Population lifestyle
Task
The task is to analyze, categorize, classify, compare, find relationships, and draw conclusions using data on earthquakes and volcanoes.
Process
1. There are three different types of earthquakes
2. Read through the material showing how earthquakes form and write a short summary on what you learned.
www.eschooltoday.com/natural-disasters/earthquakes/how-do-earthquakes-o…
3. Look up earthquakes that have occurred around the world in the last 7 days and create a graph of the data.
earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquake/map
Create a graph showing the information and remember to include lines of longitude and latitude.
4. Plot each earthquake on your map of the world.
In what area of the world did most of the earthquakes occur?
Can you identify any patterns?
5. Research one Earthquake from the following site:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_21st-century_earthquakes
Write down the location, information on the area, and information on the earthquake.
Create a tree map on the earthquake with the following categories.
Place earthquake occurred
Location/date Damage History Geography Environment
Evaluation