02 The Great East Japan Disaster

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The Great East Japan

Disaster

Aim of the lesson:

• To explore the events during the Great East Japan Disaster.
• To know the essential keywords for earthquakes.
  
• To be able to describe the causes of the events.

What is this?

1. volcanic eruption
2. thunderstorm
3. atomic bomb explosion
4. meteorite strike on the moon

Hiroshima, Japan

Complete Ass. 1 from section 2

• Read G106 and G107 in the GeoGuide.
• If you finish also complete exercise #4.
  

What is 'A' in the diagram?

1. hypocentre
2. epicentre
3. seismic waves
4. moving plates

What is 'D' in the diagram?

1. hypocentre
2. epicentre
3. seismic waves
4. moving plates

What is 'C' in the diagram?

1. hypocentre
2. epicentre
3. seismic waves
4. moving plates

By what name is the 'hypocentre' also known?

00:16

What disaster is being described?

00:37

Tsunami is a Japanese word that means 'wave in the...'

1. morning
2. ocean
3. bay
4. harbour

01:09

Tsunamis in the open ocean are...

1. high and short length
2. low and short length
3. high and long length
4. low and long length

01:51

Which of these was not mentioned as a cause of tsunamis?

1. asteroid
2. avalanche
3. landslide
4. volcano

02:19

What type of plate boundary is this?

1. convergent
2. subduction
3. divergent
4. transform

03:18

How does a tsunami's speed compare to the fastest plane?

1. 0.03x as fast
2. 0.3x as fast
3. 3x as fast
4. 33x as fast

03:30

What do you think the water sometimes does before a tsunami strikes?

04:55

How fast does a tsunami travel when it hits land?
As fast as...

1. a racing bike
2. a cheetah
3. a high-speed train
4. an asteroid

05:53

Complete exercises #2 & #3 on page 121

(and #9 on page 123 if you finish).

05:53

Tsunamis come in groups but the first wave is always the biggest.

1. True
2. False

04:55

The water sometimes recedes, but what is another word for that?

1. retreat
2. surrender
3. decline
4. progress

03:30

If you are 'transfixed' by something, you can't stop...

1. staring at it
2. talking about it
3. walking towards it
4. trying to get in it

How could you best warn people about an incoming tsunami?

warning methods

How much warning can you realistically expect?

1. seconds
2. minutes
3. hours
4. days

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10:23

Number of people who died in 2004 tsunami.

1. 200,000
2. 14
3. 10
4. 20,000

10:23

2004 tsunami equal to this many Hiroshima bombs.

1. 200,000
2. 14
3. 10
4. 20,000

10:23

How often (in years) a tsunami of 10m height occurs on the planet.

1. 200,000
2. 14
3. 10
4. 20,000

Aim of the lesson:

• To explore the events during the Great East Japan Disaster.
• To know the essential keywords for earthquakes.
  
• To be able to describe the causes of the events.

What would you ask next?

Homework:

Read pages 106-107

Complete Ex. #5 #7