One City - Two Earthquakes

Reading Activity for “One City- Two Earthquakes” pages 8-15

1. What caused the earthquake to happen in New Zealand?

Answer: Earth’s rocky outer layer is divided into huge segments, called plates. These plates move across the Earth’s surface very slowly, travelling only a few centimetres.

2. Define the following words: aftershock, epicentre, fault, magnitude, tremors

Answer:

Aftershock-a smaller earthquake that comes after the main one and is in the same area

Epicentre-the point on the earth’s surface directly above where an earthquake starts

Fault-a line where the Earth’s crust has cracked before

Magnitude-the energy released by an earthquake at it’s point of origin

Tremors-the shaking caused by an earthquake

3. What are the precautions we should take in an earthquake?

Answer: Drop, Cover, Hold

4. How many people died in the earthquake on February 5, 2011?

Answer: 182

5.Why was the February earthquake so much worse than the earthquake in September?

Answer: Because the September one struck in the morning

6. What is liquefaction, and why is it dangerous?

Answer: Its so bad because when it gets shaken it loses its liquefaction

7.What causes an earthquake?

Answer: Earth’s rocky outer layer is divided into huge segments, called plates

8.  Which text do you prefer and tell why?

Answer: I prefer One City - Two Earthquake because it tell us information about how does earthquake starts and what happens when earthquake is happening.