Earthquakes+Assignment

Part 1 - Look at the powerpoint presentation on Earthquakes and answer the following questions on your assignment sheet.




Part 2 - Watch these two clips and answer the following question on the back of your assignment sheet. - How could you construct a building that could survive an earthquake?
media type="file" key="EQ2.avi" media type="file" key="EQ3.avi"

Part 3 - After you finish these questions, watch the following clips:
How a seismogram works animation Create a quake animation Seismogram video clip

Part 4 - If there is time left, check out these earthquake websites:
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngkids/0403/ http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learning/kids/ http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learning/kids/eqscience.php http://www.fema.gov/kids/quake.htm