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Elements for the Assignment Wheel
l. Describe this disaster and explain how this could happen.
2. How does it interconnect to other natural disasters? Make a concept map.
3. Where does it occur? Include a map and show exact location, latitude and longitude.
4. What are the short term effects on land, people & animals?
5. Describe the long term effects?
6. How would you prepare for a disaster like this?
7.Download a picture or make a hand drawing of the disaster for the center of your wheel.
*Remember to include name and date of the disaster.
Disaster Sites to Use
Topics
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Asteroid, meteorite, comet collisions
Blizzards
Cyclones
Droughts
El Nino & La Nina
Famine
Floods
Hurricanes
Ice Storms
Tornadoes
Wild Fires
Epidemics – Influenza, Smallpox, Polio, Bubonic Plague, Yellow Fever, Typhoid, Cholera, AIDS
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Pompeii
Black Plague in Europe
Sleeping Sickness in Uganda
Krakatoa eruption
1755 Lisbon Earthquake
1816 The Year without a summer
1840’s famine in Ireland
1870’s famine in China
1888 Blizzard
1889 The Johnstowns Flood
1896 Japanese Tsunami
l906 San Francisco earthquake
1989 San Francisco earthquake
1900 Galveston Hurricane
1902 Mt. Pelee Volcano
1903 Frank Landslide
1908 Siberian Fireball
1918 Influenza Epidemic
1923 Kanto earthquake
1923 Tokyo Earthquake
1930’s USA dustbowl
1939 Chile earthquake
1946 Hawaiian Tsunami
1959 Typhoon Vera
1964 Good Friday Earthquake
1984 Famine in Africa
1985 Earthquake in Mexico
1986 Lake Nyos poison gas
1988 Armenian earthquake
Hurricane Anderew
1993 Okushiri Tsunami
2005 Asian tsunami
2005 Hurricane Katrina
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