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9/4 LT—DESCRIBE HOW A TSUNAMI WORKS AND WHY THEY ARE SO DESTRUCTIVE.

9/4 LT—DESCRIBE HOW A TSUNAMI WORKS AND WHY THEY ARE SO DESTRUCTIVE. What to do while waiting?????. Finish QUIK NOTES FOR THIS CLASS PAGES 44-51 ***If you are done with that, read an English “free reading” book, sit quietly and think, organize your notebook…

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9/4 LT—DESCRIBE HOW A TSUNAMI WORKS AND WHY THEY ARE SO DESTRUCTIVE.

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  1. 9/4 LT—DESCRIBE HOW A TSUNAMI WORKS AND WHY THEY ARE SO DESTRUCTIVE.

  2. What to do while waiting????? • Finish QUIK NOTES FOR THIS CLASS PAGES 44-51 ***If you are done with that, read an English “free reading” book, sit quietly and think, organize your notebook… CLASS RULE—DO NOT DISTRUPT OTHERS FROM LEARNING!

  3. 9/4 BBC WORLD NEWS • Russian President Putin needs evidence of chemical weapon use by Syrian government. • US—Ohio kidnapper dead 3. Caracus, Venezuala—Power outage blamed on right wing extremist group.

  4. March 21, 2011 Sendai, Japan---- 9.0 TSUNAMI

  5. Go to CLASS NOTES section of your notebook and write the following: 2 Important Tsunamis in recent years: 1)Sendai, Japan Tsunami---2011---23 foot wave Lives lost: 15,849 Injured: 5,950 Power plant: Fukushima Daiichai http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTeQt3KmpNA Sendai airport 2)Phuket, Thailand Tsunami-- Lives lost: 230,000 Millions homeless http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gbq412haY1c=good http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHAZTI7Ohrg

  6. RING OF FIRE • horseshoe shaped series of underwater fault lines. 450 volcanoes and a Pacific plate which is moving.

  7. RICHER SCALE • Magnitude means__________________ • On the Richter scale the bottom is _____ and upper is____ • ***6.5 and above can cause damage but • ***8 and above can damage cities.

  8. FILMS WE ARE WATCHING TODAY: “Secrets of the Earth”—Tsunamis OR “CBS Evening News”—Coverage of the Japanese Tsunami in Sendai, Japan on March 11, 2011 OR Youtube videos of Phuket, Thailand or Sendai, Japan

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