Introduction to the Year 8 Earthquake Project

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Introduction to the Year 8 Earthquake Project
CW
12th January 2007

• Lesson Aims
• To review the theory of Plate Tectonics
• To produce a glossary of important terms.

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Key Terms
The place where the earthquake starts (under the
ground, in the crust)

• Focus
• Epicentre
• Seismologist
• Seismogram
• Richter Scale
• Tsunami

Directly above the Focus, on the earths surface
A scientist who studies earthquakes
The reading printed by the seismograph showing
the earthquake shockwaves
The scale that we measure the intensity of
earthquakes with
A wave in the sea caused by an earthquake
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Where and why do earthquakes occur?What effects
do earthquakes have?
Use the 2 textbooks to do some research to help
you answer the above question
Homework is to prepare to write this up next
lesson (under test conditions)