Tsunamis
The most common cause of tsunamis
Earthquake
A device that floats in the ocean and helps detect tsunami waves in the open sea
The criteria for a condition a solution absolutely must meet to be considered successful
Primary Criteria
What type of resource is oil?
What are the three states of matter?
Solid, liquid, gas
Tsunamis almost always occur along this type of plate boundary
Colliding plate boundaries/convergent plate boundaries
This is used in space to help track and communicate tsunami warning information across long distances
A satellite
This layer of the atmosphere contains the ozone layer.
What is the stratosphere?
Population density
What part of the eye is the colored part?
What are 2 other natural disasters that cause tsunamis (not earthquakes)?
Volcanoes, landslides
Communities far from a tsunami's origin point have more of this than communities close to the epicenter
Warning time
What layer of the atmosphere is furthest from the surface of the Earth without being in outerspace?
Expospehre
Name three examples of natural resources
Water, soil, forests, oil, coal, sunlight, wind, minerals
What happens to your pupil in a dark room?
It gets bigger to let light in
They get closer together, taller in height, and move slower
What village in Japan did we do a case study on?
Ryoshi
What did the egg represent in your tsunami pod project?
Passenger
Layers of the atmosphere
Troposphere
Stratosphere
Mesosphere
Thermosphere
Exosphere
We attempted to measure the temperature of air higher up by doing what in school?
Flying a drone.
Name of the scientist that studies volcanoes
Volcanologist.
How much warning time did Japan have before the 2011 tsunami?
3-8 minutes
What do engineers build before making a final product to test their ideas?
Prototype
What ocean are most active volcanoes on?
Pacific
How many earrings in Ms. Cuttitta's left ear? How many in Mr. Smith's?
8, 0