1. EXTREME WEATHER AND NATURAL DISASTERS: How do we cause and how do we respond to natural disasters?
WG.8.B Describe the interaction between humans and the physical environment and analyze the consequences of extreme weather and other natural disasters SUCH AS El Niño floods, tsunamis, and volcanoes
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2. This is nature…

3. Can you describe what’s happening?
This is nature…
Can you describe what’s happening?
GONE WILD!

4. Which words are you familiar with, and which do you need help knowing?
Human Impact
Natural Disaster
Consequences
Tectonic Activity
Drought
Volcano
Hurricane
Tornado
Earthquake
Population
Overgrazing
Deforestation
Monsoon
Flood
Tsunami

5. Human Impact or Natural Disaster
Human Impact or Natural Disaster? Use the word wall words to describe what you see
“Deforestation”, this is a human impact on the environment.

6. Human Impact or Natural Disaster
Human Impact or Natural Disaster? Use the word wall words to describe what you see

7. Human Impact or Natural Disaster
Human Impact or Natural Disaster? Use the word wall words to describe what you see

8. Human Impact or Natural Disaster
Human Impact or Natural Disaster? Use the word wall words to describe what you see

9. Human Impact or Natural Disaster
Human Impact or Natural Disaster? Use the word wall words to describe what you see

10. Human Impact or Natural Disaster
Human Impact or Natural Disaster? Use the word wall words to describe what you see

11. What’s the connection among these disasters?
Volcano, earth quake, fault line, tsunami
They happen when the earth is active

12. What’s the connection among these disasters?
Volcano, earth quake, fault line, tsunami
They happen because of air or water

13. What’s the connection among these disasters?
They happened because of human impact

14. What’s the relationship?
If “volcanoes erupt” than “tsunamis occur” because it creates disturbances on the ocean floor where whirlpools swirl an/
Where are we? JAPAN
If _____________ than _______________
Because ____________________________.

15. Let’s see what we know… Which can you answer now, and which do you need a hint?
Japan sits along a subduction zone which makes it a hotbed of volcanic and tectonic activity. What can these activities create in an ocean environment?
F monsoons
G tsunamis
H El Ninas
J typhoons
Because the island regions of Southeast Asia were formed by tectonic forces, all of the following are hazards that they face except —
F tsunamis
G volcanoes
H hurricanes
J earthquakes

16. What is El Nino?
Ocean winds change yearly, causing “lethal heatwaves in India and Texas, rainfall in Texas, late monsoons, fires in the Indonesian rainforests, floods in Bangladesh and China, mudslides in California, drought in Australia and harvest failures in Africa.”
NORMAL
EL NINO

17. Let’s see what we know… Can you answer now, or do you need a hint?
How does an El Niño affect Texas?
A increased rainfall
B less rainfall
C more tornadoes
D fewer tornadoes

18. Talk to each other, and then talk to me…
WG.8.B Describe the interaction between humans and the physical environment and analyze the consequences of extreme weather and other natural disasters SUCH AS El Niño floods, tsunamis, and volcanoes.
How do we cause and how do we respond to natural disasters?
Use the word wall words to answer.

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