Goal 8 - Earthquakes
Activity #1
Go to USGS: Earthquakes for Kids http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learning/kids/
Click on the “Science of Earthquakes button”. Use the website to answer the questions in DCN STyle.
1. What is an earthquake?
2. What causes earthquakes and where do they happen?
3. Why does the earth shake when there is an earthquake?
4. How are earthquakes recorded?
5. How do scientists measure the size of earthquakes?
6. How can scientists tell where the earthquake happened?
7. Can scientists predict earthquakes?
8. Is there such a thing as earthquake weather? Can some animals or people tell when an earthquake is about to hit?
Activity #2
Go to the web address below and follow the prompts.
http://www.iknowthat.com/mhscience/Earthquakes/Fixed.htm
After the Earthquake happens locate with the cursor each of the following and use the info to write a description or definition DCN style:
1)Plate:
2)Seismograph:
3)Seismic wave:
4)Focus:
5)Epicenter:
Activity #3
Go To the web address below and follow the prompts.
http://www.iknowthat.com/mhscience/Earthquakes/earthquake_movie.html
Set the magnitude to 5 different settings and begin the Earthquake. Record the magnitude you chose and the damage that resulted after about 20 seconds.
Activity #4
Go to USGS: Earthquakes for Kids http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learning/kids/
1) Click on Learning Links & Earthquake Activities.
2) Find Kid’s Earthquake Questions & Answers
3) Kid’s questions answered by a scientist
4) Click on the Link and answer the following questions IN DCN format.
1. If an earthquake's strength was 9.9 what would happen?
2. If there was an earthquake in your house what should you do?
3. If 3 tectonic plates met in the same place what would happen?
4. Why do so many of the earthquakes happen 33 Km down?
5. Is there a reason why so few earthquakes happened between midnight and 04.00 UTC?
6. If you fell into a crack caused by an earthquake where would you land?
7. Are there more earthquakes under the sea than land?
8. We were looking at earthquakes above 5.0 on the Richter and found most were between 5.5 and 5.8, is there a reason for this?
Go to USGS: Earthquakes for Kids http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learning/kids/
Click on the “Science of Earthquakes button”. Use the website to answer the questions in DCN STyle.
1. What is an earthquake?
2. What causes earthquakes and where do they happen?
3. Why does the earth shake when there is an earthquake?
4. How are earthquakes recorded?
5. How do scientists measure the size of earthquakes?
6. How can scientists tell where the earthquake happened?
7. Can scientists predict earthquakes?
8. Is there such a thing as earthquake weather? Can some animals or people tell when an earthquake is about to hit?
Activity #2
Go to the web address below and follow the prompts.
http://www.iknowthat.com/mhscience/Earthquakes/Fixed.htm
After the Earthquake happens locate with the cursor each of the following and use the info to write a description or definition DCN style:
1)Plate:
2)Seismograph:
3)Seismic wave:
4)Focus:
5)Epicenter:
Activity #3
Go To the web address below and follow the prompts.
http://www.iknowthat.com/mhscience/Earthquakes/earthquake_movie.html
Set the magnitude to 5 different settings and begin the Earthquake. Record the magnitude you chose and the damage that resulted after about 20 seconds.
Activity #4
Go to USGS: Earthquakes for Kids http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learning/kids/
1) Click on Learning Links & Earthquake Activities.
2) Find Kid’s Earthquake Questions & Answers
3) Kid’s questions answered by a scientist
4) Click on the Link and answer the following questions IN DCN format.
1. If an earthquake's strength was 9.9 what would happen?
2. If there was an earthquake in your house what should you do?
3. If 3 tectonic plates met in the same place what would happen?
4. Why do so many of the earthquakes happen 33 Km down?
5. Is there a reason why so few earthquakes happened between midnight and 04.00 UTC?
6. If you fell into a crack caused by an earthquake where would you land?
7. Are there more earthquakes under the sea than land?
8. We were looking at earthquakes above 5.0 on the Richter and found most were between 5.5 and 5.8, is there a reason for this?