Southeast Landmarks
Is this statement true or false?
The sunny climate of the Southeast attracts tourists from all over the world?
True
Is this statement true or false? If false name 5 foods served in the Southeast.
There are not many types of food served in the South.
False. Grits, Fried Chicken, Collard Greens, Gumbo, Hushpuppies, Barbecue, Fried Catfish, Corn on the Cob, Jambalaya, and Crawfish boils.
Write the page number and paragraph you used as evidence to support your answer.
Where do most earthquakes happen?
Evidence Location: Page 23, paragraph 2 or Page 30, paragraph 1.
Answer: At plate boundaries
What is a tsunami and how fast do they travel?
A tsunami is a gigantic wave of seawater that can travel as fast as 500 miles per hour.
What causes earthquakes?
1) Powerful natural forces in the earths crust and mantle cause faults and then earthquakes.
2) Tectonic plate movements; there are 3 ways they can move. They can slide past each other, collide with each other, or separate from each other.
Is this statement true or false?
People travel to South Carolina to visit the Kennedy Space Center?
False
What drinks were listed in the text that go along with the wonderful types of food we eat?
Sweet Tea and Coca Cola.
Write the page number and paragraph you used as evidence to support your answer.
How much energy is released when blocks of rock, stuck at a fault, break and slip past each other?
Evidence Location: Page 24, paragraph 2
Answer: All the energy accumulated in the rocks during the time they were stuck together.
What causes a tsunami to happen?
Earthquakes occurring in the oceanic crust cause tsunamis.
How do scientists measure an earthquake's intensity?
With seismographs, Mercalli Scales, and the Ritcher scales.
Landmarks: What paragraph can the evidence for T/F question number 1 be found? Read the evidence from that paragraph that supported your answer.
Paragraph 1.
Evidence: The sunny climate of the Southeast region makes it a popular vacation spot for tourists each year.
What are four kinds of music the South is known for?
Bluegrass, Jazz, Blues, and Country music.
Write the page number and paragraph you used as evidence to support your answer.
Surface waves cause what two things?
Evidence Location: Page 26, paragraph 2
Answer: Surface waves cause the ground to heave, shake, sway, and lurch. Surface waves cause the most earthquake damage.
How do earthquakes cause tsunamis?
Earthquakes make the seafloor shift, which causes seawater from the ocean bottom to move suddenly, and rise to the surface. The result is a gigantic wave called a tsunami.
What is the relationship between tectonic plates and earthquake?
Use context clues on page 23 to make an inference using prior knowledge of tectonic plates and changes to the earth's surface.
1) A lot happens at plate boundaries including earthquakes.
2) One of the easiest ways to locate plate boundaries is to determine where earthquakes are occurring.
Landmarks: Where do people travel to visit the Kennedy space Center? What paragraph did you find evidence to support your answer? Read the sentence that supports your answer.
People travel to Florida to visit the Kennedy Space Center. Paragraph 2.
Evidence: People also love to visit the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
How many ways do Southerners use the oceans and rivers? What are they?
4 ways. Swimming, Fishing, Boating, and Transportation.
List one way the seismograph and Ritcher scale are similar.
Both a seismograph and Ritcher scale are used by scientists to determine an earthquakes magnitude.
Make an inference: Can we stop a tsunami from happening? How can we prepare and protect ourselves from them?
No. We can prepare and protect ourselves by staying up to date on the weather in areas along the coast.
How are faults and tsunamis related to earthquakes?
Use context clues on page 26 to help you answer this question. Then make an inference using prior knowledge of what you already know about faults, earthquakes and tsunamis.
Faults are a crack is the earth's crust where huge blocks of rock are trying to move past each other. Faults are also where all earthquakes begin. So, if earthquakes on the ocean bottom cause tsunamis, that means a fault happened in the oceanic crust and is where the earthquake began.
I would like to visit_________________ because____________.
3 questions:
1) Who was the greatest jazz musician and trumpet player?
2) Where can you see NASCAR racing?
3) Why is Miami, Florida known as the cruise capital of the world?
1) Louis Armstrong
2) Talledega, Alabama and Daytona Beach, Florida
3) Each year, 3 million people leave Miami on cruise ships, for vacation.
List one way the seismograph and Ritcher scale are different.
A seismograph produces wiggly lines to show the energy of seismic waves.
The Ritcher scale applies numbers to measure the magnitude of an earthquake based on the largest seismic wave recorded.
Write two sentences that include one fact about tsunamis and at least 2 descriptive words from the text.
Tsunamis are a natural disaster formed by gigantic waves of seawater. As the tsunami approaches the coastline it becomes a towering wall of water that can be as tall as a three- or four-story building.