C7.2 Japan - Lesson 6: The Great East Japan Disaster

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Kōhī      

Natural disasters in

JAPAN

C7.2: The Great East Japan Disaster

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What's the plan for today?

FINISH C7.2: The Great East Japan Disaster

Start C7.3: Talas rages of Japan

You need to be able to answer the following goals in your notebook:

1. You can explain the words epicentre, hypocentre, Richter scale and seismologist (GG 73 + GG 74).
   
2. You can explain how the Richter scale is calculated (GG 74).
   
3. You can explain in 4 steps how a tsunami works (GG 76 + §2, question 2).
   
4. You can name the 5 scale levels and know their meaning (GG 7).
   
5. You can name 4 consequences of the tsunami in Japan in 2011.

THE RICHTER SCALE

Scale to measure the force of an earthquake.

But how does it work?

You can explain in 4 steps how a tsunami works.

MAKE THE FOLLOWING

QUESTIONS:

6, 7 & 8

FUKUSHIMA

ENERGY

The rest of the lesson...

Read C7.3: Talas rages over Japan

• Open Google Classroom and the list of knowledge and skills
• Make 19 to 27 of the list
• Read the belonging GeoGuidenumbers as well

HOMEWORK

C7.3: Work out 19 to 27