Patterns on Surface
Volcanoes and Earthquakes occur in ______ on the earth's surface.
What are patterns?
A danger or risk associated with an event is called a...
What is a hazard?
A repeating and periodic disturbance that travels through a substance from one location to another
What is a wave?
The location where an earthquake starts
What is the focus?
A person who studies problems and comes up with goals for a solution is called
What is an engineer?
Anything that you see when you look around an area is called
What is the landscape?
These two natural disasters sometimes have similar hazards.
What are volcanoes and earthquakes?
The highest part of a wave
What is the peak?
The strength of an earthquake
What is magnitude?
The goals that engineers come up with for solutions to problems are called
What are criteria?
True or false: sometimes volcano and earthquake locations are the same
True
The _______ of a hazard is what it does to humans and the environment.
What is effect?
The lowest point of a wave
What is the trough
The length of time an earthquake lasts
What is the duration
The limits put on solutions are called
What are constraints?
The ring around the Pacific ocean where earthquakes and volcanoes occur often.
What is the Ring of Fire?
What is an earthquake?
The distance between two identical parts of a wave
What is the wavelength?
A building far away form an earthquake's focus will get _____ damage than a building that is close.
What is less?
"Our building will not fall down during the earthquake" is an example of a
What is criteria?
A three dimensional model of earth is called a....
What is a globe?
Lava flow is a hazard associated with...
What is a volcano?
The distance from peak to trough of a wave
What is wave height?
The longer an earthquake lasts, the ______ damage will be done to buildings
What is more?
"You only have thirty minutes to build your building" is an example of a
What is a constraint?