To use this natural disasters lesson on earthquakes and tsunamis:

Just share the PDF webquest file to student computers and print the accompanying worksheets. The clickable links in the webquest bring students to the information they need to complete the worksheet.

In this lesson, students will encounter the following concepts and vocabulary connected to earthquakes and tsunamis:

· Earthquakes and tsunami triggers

· Plate tectonics

· Plate boundaries

· Earth’s layers

· Subduction

· Faults

· Seismic waves

· Body waves (including P waves and S waves)

· Surface waves

· Seismographs

· Seismograms

· Triangulation

· Epicenter

· Hypocenter

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