Natural Disasters
Student Hotlist and Work Assignment:
Weather Wiz
Kids is a great site for information about all natural
disasters.Use the Hotlist of Natural Disaster Thinkquest
Sites and answer the questions about a disaster that you and/or your group
choose to study. Present the information in an informational poster
or brochure. Write your answers in sentence form on paper.
Questions:
1. Describe the season that the
natural disaster might be most apt to occur (unless volcano or earthquake)
2. Make a timeline to explain how
the disaster "builds up" or happens, from beginning to final event.
3. Describe how people can be warned
of an impending natural disaster (forecasting).
4. Describe how people can be prepared
for a possible disaster.
5. Name any agencies that can help
in forecasting or aiding victims of such disasters. How can they do
what they do in forecasting and helping?
6. List things people should
have in a safe place in their home in case a disaster would hit.
THESE GREAT THINKQUEST SITES
WILL PROVIDE ANSWERS:
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