Eagle 1/Trumpeting Elephants, Skittering Crabs, and the Power of Story
Eagle 2/ Swamped & Scared
Eagle 3/ Rebuilding
Eagle 4/ Tree Zones and Warnings
Whole Informational Text
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This is considered a natural disaster because they destroy everything in it's path.
What is a tsunami...or a tornado..really any natural disaster?
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Words and phrases like "after", "on the third day", and "Finally on the fifth day" indicate what type of text structure?
What is sequencing or chronological order?
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Explain how religion got in the way of providing relief to the tsunami survivors.
What is some people came to take survivors to churches and was confusing.
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Places that have sensors to detect ground motion, a clock, and a recorder for collecting data.
What are seismic stations?
100
This is a feature in a text that gives a meaning of a word.
What is a footnote?
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How tall a tsunami can form.
What is taller than a 20 story skyscraper?
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Many countries supplied systems for purifying water.
What is what had to happen as a result of the problems with water after the tsunami?
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The area begins to rebuild, how did countries come together and help?
What is they came together to provide donations and resources for relief efforts. They also showed kindness.
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Explain a possible way nature helps to predict earthquakes.
What is changes on fault lines are evident by foraminifera moving. (Animals finding higher ground is also correct, but for another section)
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The central idea of the whole text.
What is the effects of a natural disaster in 12 countries and how they begin to rebuild.
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Underwater earthquakes in the ocean cause large waves form. What is it?
How a tsunami is formed?
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What effects did the tsunami have on water supplies?
What is freshwater supplies became contaminated, and / or saltwater mixed with sewer systems, and / or plantations were ruined?
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When rebuilding began, what did they do differently to the houses?
What is made the structures stronger and designed to hold up better in another earthquake.
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These reduce the maximum flow of waves by more than 90%.
What are trees?
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A scale ranging from 1 to 10 that expresses the amount of energy released by an earthquake.
What is the Richter Scale?
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They will show you something is different and sense to find higher ground.
What is how animals act before a tsunami and can save human lives?
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The main idea of Swamped and Scared.
What is the areas affected by the tsunami were devastated?
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"It reminded her that there were still good people in this world-people whose hearts were large enough to care about the people of Laem Pom." Why did the author include this quote?
This quote shows the readers that when terrible things happen, good things can come out in the end?
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Cause: people noticed some shorelines were more damaged than others.
Effect related to mangroves:
What is the mangroves forests were replanted to help serves as a barrier. It also was helpful for sea creatures to find homes and food.
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The point of the Earth's surface directly above the focus of an earthquake.
What is an epicenter?
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Name one effect of a tsunami from this section. It has to do with something living and breathing.
What is...ANY of these:
dolphins run out to sea and boats/divers followed, animals acting diff and zoo keepers followed, and elephant found higher ground and people followed?
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Water became contaminated as a result of the tsunami.
Why other countries delivered water purifying machines and military ships made freshwater from the sea?
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After the disaster, why were relief workers afraid to go into and help victims?
What is yes, war zones made relief efforts more complicated?
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Did a tsunami ever affect North America?
Yes, Alaska and Hawaii, Oregon, and California in 1964.
This is a fun fact, not on the test :)
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"The quake, the longest ever recorded, lasted 10 minutes. some islands rose up and others sank."
What is the cause in the above quote?