Chernobyl vocab
Define altered.
What is changed?
What country did the Chernobyl explosion happen?
What is the Soviet Union (accept Ukraine)?
Define region
What is an area?
True or false: Earthquakes are among the most powerful natural events on earth.
What is true?
Define dwindled.
What is made smaller?
Why is it likely more than 31 deaths are attributable to the Chernobyl explosion?
What is radiation can have many delayed effects including a weakened immune system and cancer?
Define devastated
What is destroyed?
Why did the Japanese government spend so much money on trying to predict the next quake?
What is Japan has been surprised by powerful earthquakes that cause much destruction?
Define contaminated
What is dirty or infected from having been mixed with something harmful?
Which decade did the Chernobyl radiation leak happen?
1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s
What is 1980s (1986)
Define proportions.
What is size?
More than _______ small earthquakes occur every day.
300, 3000, 30,000 or 300,000
What is 3,000?
Define initially
What is first?
Name something people could have done differently to minimize the damage caused by Chernobyl.
What is relocation efforts could have begun immediately, people should have communicated the risks, people could have stayed indoors more, and iodine pills could have been distributed earlier?
Define occur.
What is happen?
What did the 2011 earthquake in Tohoku, Japan register on the Richter scale?
What is 9.0?
Define controversial
What is causing disagreements because of opposing viewpoints?
Name a problem that resulted from Chernobyl unrelated to people's health.
What is animals and plants lived in contaminated water, contaminated soil resulted in contaminated plants and trees, economic problems in the farming and forestry industries, the workforce dwindled and national debt soared.
Define seismograph
What is an instrument that detects and records the force of earthquakes and how long they last?
In North America, most earthquakes occur along the _________(name the ocean) coastline.
What is Pacific?