Natural Hazards and Catastrophes
Read Chapter 1 [by Tuesday of Week 1] and be prepared to discuss it and the questions at the end of the chapter.
Read Chapter 2 [by Monday of Week 2]. be prepared to answer the questions at the end of the chapter. WEEK 1 LAB (see Lab Assignments below)
Read Chapter 3, p. 35-63: *[by Monday of Week 3]: questions on p. 63: 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15
Read Chapter 4, p. 64-98: *[by Tuesday of Week 4]: Chapter 4 questions: 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10
NEW Week 4 Read Chapters 6 and 7 on Volcanism by Monday April 26 Answer all questions. at the end of the chapters and hand them in by next Tuesday. Please type them up if you can. If you do write them out, please write neatly and remember to remove any perforations from sheets torn out of spiral notebooks. Note the terms in the key points and key terms as you read the chapter.
a) Video assignment due April 26 Either by going to the Kirk Library at Centralia College and checking out a video or online, watch the Annenberg Earth Revealed video #13, Volcanism. Either write an informative two paragraphs on the video, or you may use this link to video review form. Directions for watching the videos online appears at the Annenberg link above. It’s easy to do. You just have to provide an email address and password that you use every time you log in.
b) Go to the PNSN (Pacific NW Seismic Network) website. 1) Under "Latest PNW Quakes" link, find out how many quakes have occurred during the past 2 weeks (there is a link to a list of quakes under the map). 2) Record the time and date you looked. 3) What was the deepest earthquake? 4) What was the shallowest earthquake 5) Describe the distribution of earthquakes in your own words--are there any patterns or trends? 6) Go the link on Pacific NW hazards to see an "executive summary" of Pacific NW earthquake hazards. This may be a useful link to mark for future reference.
c) Considering what you just read, take a few minutes to read Brian Atwater et al's Surviving a tsunami.... 1) Does this information apply to Washington and Oregon? Why 2) What should you do if you are in Westport and you feel the shaking of a very large earthquake?
Week 5. Read Chapter 8 on Landslides and other downslope movements ("mass wasting"). Do all the questions at the end of the chapter and turn in by May 10. Either by going to the Kirk Library at Centralia College and checking out a video or online, watch the Annenberg Earth Revealed video #14 on Mass Wasting Either write an informative two paragraphs on the video, or you may use this link to video review form. Turn in video review of video 14 by May 6.
Week 6. Read Chapter 10 Climate change and weather-related hazards . Do all the questions at the end of the chapter.
When using the AGI Laboratory Manual in Physical Geology (version 7), two can share a lab book. Please do not write in the book. Write all answers on a separate piece of paper.
First, second, and third weeks: Lab 1B, question 6 (p. 22), conversions
Lab 2A, p. 31: on a separate piece of paper, fill in the blank blocks of Fig. 2.4 and do 1 & 3 (p. 33-35)
Lab 2D. p. 42.
Week 4 lab: We will do lab 4 in the AGI Lab Manual, Rock-forming Processes and the Rock Cycle. Lab 4 on rocks and rock cycle NOTE: I have put some of the AGI lab manuals on reserve in the library until Monday May 10.
Week 5 --Field trip on May 8 to US Geological Survey Cascades Volcano Observatory.
Earth Sciences at Centralia College
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