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Earthquakes and Volcanoes
1. Ground structure and Building reinforcement
http://tlc.discovery.com/convergence/quakes/interactives/makeaquake.html
Create your own experiment to investigate the following.
Investigate the importance of ground structure and building reinforcement.
Answer the following questions:
What ground is the safest and which one is the most unsafe?
What simulation did you do to find that out? Remember to only change one thing , the
ground, to get a reliable result. Explain in detail.
Create a data table to record your investigation.
Table: Results for different ground types
ground
Earth quake
construction
result
What kind of building reinforcement can be done? Describe:
2.Volcanoes
What kind of condition favors the building of strato-, cone- or shield volcanoes?
Explore here: http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/pompeii/interactive/interactive.html
Write a short report in your science notebook.
Extra earth quake activity- find the epicenter.
To receive extra credit print the certificate at the end.
Work with the travel time, magnitude and epicenter
http://nemo.sciencecourseware.org/eec/Earthquake/