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Types of Mechanical Weathering

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Earthquake Activity Using Real-Time Data

1/20/10

Click on the following links and use the information on that webpage to answer the questions that follow.

Worldwide Earthquake Activity in the Last Seven Days

  Go to http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_all.php

Scroll through the list of the most recent earthquakes.

Today's date: _________________

Magnitude is a measure of earthquake size.   Each number on the Richter Scale indicates an increase in the amount of shaking by 10x.

1. Where was the most recent earthquake? _________ when? (EST)______  

2. What was the magnitude of the most recent earthquake? ________________

3. Look through the data and observe the number of earthquakes of magnitude between 2 and 5.

(Circle the correct answer) Few    Some    or    Most of the earthquakes are between magnitude 2 and 5.

4. What is the highest magnitude number you see on this page? ________ What is the location? ________________

5. Where have the most earthquakes occurred today? ___________________

6. Scroll down to January 13. Count how many aftershocks occurred in Haiti that day. _________________

GO TO: http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/qed/

7. What do you notice about the earthquakes that occurred in Haiti

on January 12?____________________________________________________

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GO TO: World Map of Recent Earthquake Activity - Animation

Go to http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsanim/world.php

Click on Start Animation and notice where the most earthquakes are occurring.

8. How many earthquakes have occurred in the past seven days? _________

9.   Name three countries or geographic areas that look like they have had the most earthquake activity in the past week.

_______________________    ____________________    _________________

Significant Worldwide Earthquakes in 2004

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/eqinthenews/2004/

•  Based on the data on this page, what is highest magnitude earthquake in 2004?   _____________

•  Where was that earthquake? _________________   Date it occurred: ______

•  Click on the link for that date and read the "Summary" tab. What catastrophic event occurred as a result of that earthquake? ______________________

Recent Earthquake Activity in the USA

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/

Study the map and the use the key on this page.

•  Use the key to estimate how many earthquakes with a magnitude greater than 5 have occurred in the past 7 days in the US. ?   (you can click on the map to zoom in)     __________

•  Use the key to estimate how many earthquakes have occurred in the last hour ?   ___________


Go to http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/world/historical.php

15. Write down three interesting facts you learned from this page or from links on this page.

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Your Conclusion

1. Do the earthquakes occur across the earth's surface or only in isolated regions?   _____________________________________________

LOOK AT: Tectonic Plate Map (in binder) and http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/qed/

and answer the following.

2. a) What is the correlation between the location of earthquakes and the location of tectonic plates?

b) Support your answer with at least one example from the online data.  

c) Where do most earthquakes occur?


Tell me something from this website that surprised you.

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Tell me something from this website that you are still curious about.

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Extra Time?

Explore the USGS Earthquake website more http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/ and try to find the answer to what you were still curious about.

Or

Explore Earth's Active Volcanoes

http://www.geo.mtu.edu/volcanoes/world.html

© J. Rodrigues 2010

 



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Element Sampling Activity

11/5/08

Use the links below to complete the "Element Sampling" sheet.

http://www.periodic.lanl.gov/default.htm

http://www.rsc.org/chemsoc/visualelements/pages/pertable_j.htm



If you finish, you can use the following link to play some periodic table games. Scroll down to the bottom of the page for the game links.

http://education.jlab.org/itselemental/index.html